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Themig

Themig

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Looking at a 14 day pass, villa and car hire. Others saying that you can get good deals by keep moving hotels etc. What's the best way to do it?
 


We did it the way you're suggesting: Villa, car and passes. We had a brilliant time. 2 days at the parks then a day at the villa in the pool and repeat. We upgraded the car to some massive thing. It was fantastic.
 
Fumf said:
We did it the way you're suggesting: Villa, car and passes. We had a brilliant time. 2 days at the parks then a day at the villa in the pool and repeat. We upgraded the car to some massive thing. It was fantastic.
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Who did you book the villa and car with? Been looking at owners direct but feel a bit uneasy about it
 
Themig said:
What's the best way to do it?
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been twice, first in a hotel on international drive and second in a villa. and the best way is absolutely to have a villa. So nice to have a day chilling round your own private pool to break up the busy days at the parks.

Themig said:
Who did you book the villa and car with? Been looking at owners direct but feel a bit uneasy about it
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We just used a hire car comparison site and ended up with sixt. Got a A3 saloon for about £300 for 2 weeks. For the villa we actually found it via ebay. Owner was english and lovely to deal with.
 
Themig said:
Who did you book the villa and car with? Been looking at owners direct but feel a bit uneasy about it
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The villa was through Ocean Florida and the car was a national rental company. It might have been Alamo or something like that.

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We had one of these and there was stacks of room even with 8 of us in it.
 
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Plenty of owners that you can deal with direct to rent from and loads of advice.

Personally I think a 14 day Disney Pass is too much. 7 days at most would do then also the universal passes.
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You get 14 days for the price of 7 anyway plus it is means you can go on day 1 of the holiday and day 13, not just for a week period.

Ticket prices have rocketed lately and if you're only doing 2 weeks you'll never fit everything in so it probably isn't worth getting tickets for everything.

By best way of doing it do you mean cheapest? Or least expensive to be more accurate?

Themig said:
It's an Orlando pass so it covers Busch Gardens, Epcot, Universal etc
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Too many tickets for effectively 13 days imho.
 
Brexit said:
Ticket prices have rocketed lately and if you're only doing 2 weeks you'll never fit everything in so it probably isn't worth getting tickets for everything.
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The strength of the pound probably has something to do with that ;) We worked out for our honeymoon in May 2016 there last may would have cost us an extra £500 purely on the difference of exchange rate.

It depends what you want to do to whether you'll fit it all in. We managed to go to all the disney parks, both universals, sea world, discovery cove, busch gardens twice. If you wanted to do downtown orlando, the space centre and some waterparks then you will struggle to do everything so you have to prioritise.
 
Brexit said:
You get 14 days for the price of 7 anyway plus it is means you can go on day 1 of the holiday and day 13, not just for a week period.

Ticket prices have rocketed lately and if you're only doing 2 weeks you'll never fit everything in so it probably isn't worth getting tickets for everything.

By best way of doing it do you mean cheapest? Or least expensive to be more accurate?



Too many tickets for effectively 13 days imho.
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if this is a once in a lifetime trip I would look at doing 3 weeks. The flight is by far the biggest single cost, so it makes very little difference if you are there for an extra week.
You can make the tickets stretch over 3 weeks by concentrating on Disney for the first 2 weeks then universal/sea world/Busch over the second half of the holiday.
So the only additional costs for an extra week are villa , eating and a bit more for car hire
 
Nero the dog said:
if this is a once in a lifetime trip I would look at doing 3 weeks. The flight is by far the biggest single cost, so it makes very little difference if you are there for an extra week.
You can make the tickets stretch over 3 weeks by concentrating on Disney for the first 2 weeks then universal/sea world/Busch over the second half of the holiday.
So the only additional costs for an extra week are villa , eating and a bit more for car hire
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Flights are much cheaper than tickets for us this time. Disney free dining is released in April so that's worth considering as well
 
Themig said:
Looking at a 14 day pass, villa and car hire. Others saying that you can get good deals by keep moving hotels etc. What's the best way to do it?
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How many people going?
What do you want to do when you're there
- Do you want a frantic fortnight of fitting everything in, or are you going to want some time to relax?

Do you want to be travelling for about an hour every morning and night, and any time you want to pop home inbetween? Not many villas inside a 20 min drive, and then there's traffic, toll booths (you have to pay to park!) to contend with.


Great youtube channel by the way.
 
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Booked it all ourselves the last time we went, had a villa on a resort in Kissimee, nice hire car & all the passes, pros were it was nice to get away from it all on a night, get back to your villa and jump in the hot tub with a beer, cons were I was obviously driving every day so couldn't have a pint during the day or a decent drink at all for that matter, could have done with a few drinks before some of them rides:lol:
 
Themig said:
It's an Orlando pass so it covers Busch Gardens, Epcot, Universal etc
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Kids are a bit older so we've decided to do universal as our main park's and are going to pay on the day for Animal Kingdom and another Disney park.

Anyone considering going back end of May this year, Universal's new Water theme park Volcano Bay opens.

 
We booked a 7 seater car and when we arrived it turned out to be a Ford E150 passenger van.

I initially was a bit disappointed, but after driving around in it for 2 weeks I'd definitely get the same sort of this again. We had a toddler and so took the pram and I could just chuck that in the back without folding it up, plus 7 cases and 7 rucksacks and thing still wasn't even half full.

Huge space inside.
Comfortable.
Massive boot.
Kids not crawling over each other after a hot day at the park.
Industrial air conditioning.
Automatic.
Spot it a mile away in a car park.
Plus everyone else has got one so you fit right in.

Costs a bit more, but I'd have the same one again.


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