Often those of us in the continental U.S. forget how lucky we are to have Walt Disney World and Disneyland practically in our own backyards. But there are lots of people all over the world who travel thousands of miles to visit the Happiest and Most Magical Places on Earth.
For our friends coming from across the pond in the UK, it can take the better part of a day to get to Orlando. And on top of that, all aspects of the trip can be costly.
The main place to get Disney World tickets if you’re in the UK is through DisneyHoliday.co.uk. Through the site, you can get a variety of different packages, but the main options offered are 7-day, 14-day, and 21-day Ultimate Tickets. This is different from how they market tickets to Americans. On the American site, they sell by the day, and you can get even a single day ticket.
It seems like Disney World wants to entice UK visitors to stay as long as possible — and if they’re traveling all that way, it likely makes that travel worth the effort and expense.
At the time of writing, Disney is offering the 14-day ticket for the same price as the 7-day ticket:
- £399 ($519) for adults (10 years and up)
- £379 ($430) for children (3-9).
You can see how the per day price shakes out in the chart below.
If you decide that two weeks isn’t enough time, they do have a 21-day ticket for £439 ($571) for adults and £419 ($545) for kids. That’s £21 ($27) per day for adults and £20 ($26).
If you compare that to buying a ticket through Disney World’s site in the U.S., depending on the time of year it ranges from around $85 (£66) a day to $109 (£84) a day. And the UK Ultimate tickets include entrance to both water parks, Disney’s Oak Trail Golf Course, Disney’s Miniature Golf course, and ESPN Wide World of Sports — a perk you have to pay for in the U.S. via the Park Hopper Plus ticket upgrade.
You can even book your whole trip through the DisneyHolidays.co.uk site, including flight and a room at a Disney Resort. When you book through their site you get other incentives like Memory Maker for free and 15% off at shopDisney.co.uk. When we went through the full process of trying to book a full trip, the best price we came up with was £2,608.34 ($3,390.12) for flights from London to Orlando, 7 nights in a room at Pop Century, and 14-day Ultimate Tickets for 2 adults.
To our friends across the pond: we hope you have a magical trip!
Would you book a two or three week vacation to Walt Disney World? Let us know in the comments.
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For us in the UK, we seldom have any choice but to come for more than 10 days – otherwise it’s just not an effective use of our annual leave due to flying time. That said, there’s something rather ‘special’ (for me at least) getting up at 4am to get to the airport for 6am, to fly at 10am – then landing at MCO in the afternoon, fast forward a few hours to check-in at the resort, then head to Disney Springs for a bite to eat and soak in the remainder of the evening heat and being in the Disney bubble. By the time we’re back at the resort, it’s 10pm or so. Convert that back to UK time, it’s 3am. So I’d have been awake (I can rarely sleep on a plane!) for 23 hours. And I wouldn’t have it any other way!
One tip that I have taken advantage of for our last few trips is free dining. I couldn’t recommend it enough if you’re staying at Disney for the majority of your stay. Not only that, given that we stay at a Moderate resort, we also upgrade our Quick Service Free Dining to the ‘Regular’ Dining Package. This gives us the perfect gamut of possibilities to visit different resorts, character meals, small bites, full dinners, etc. For us, visiting WDW isn’t just 6 parks, it’s all the resorts and food offerings too.
That said, free dining may not be around forever…but long may it continue!
It’s not everyone’s best way, but it suits our needs and age ranges.