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8 Scams You Should Avoid When Planning a Walt Disney World Trip

1. Dining “Scalpers” Unfortunately, there are Disney Dining brokers out there who flood Disney’s systems with requests for Disney dining reservations, and then charge you for them.  How do they do it?  Well, they book Disney World dining reservations ahead of time under fake names and then will scalp them for money.  Guests will be charge

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8 Scams You Should Avoid When Planning a Walt Disney World Trip

2. Resale of partially used multi-day tickets This practice is illegal in Florida, so don’t even think about purchasing used tickets.  Also, Disney will know because they use a scanning device that takes your fingerprint whenever you enter a Disney theme park, and it’s connected to your ticket.  Your fingerprint is not going to match the

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8 Scams You Should Avoid When Planning a Walt Disney World Trip

3. Social Media WDW free ticket contests Sometimes friends will share WDW contest posts that state you can win tickets by sharing, liking, or commenting on a post to win Disney World tickets.  If you see these types of posts on Facebook, do not share.  These fake profiles have names like “Walt Disney World.”, or “Walt Disney-World,” and m

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8 Scams You Should Avoid When Planning a Walt Disney World Trip

4. “Free”? Disney World Vacation Whenever you see the word “free” in conjunction with a Walt Disney World Vacation, run, don’t walk to the nearest exit.  There is no such thing as free at Walt Disney World, except cups of water at most quick serve restaurants.  Even if you win a legitimate Disney World vacation in an authorized Disney con

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8 Scams You Should Avoid When Planning a Walt Disney World Trip

5. Pizza Delivery Scam If you find pizza delivery fliers pushed under your Resort Hotel door, be aware that many of these are fakes.  The criminals get your credit card number and never deliver the pizza.  Disney even supported a law banning this type of activity, but in some cases, the fliers still continue.  There are some Disney Resort

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8 Scams You Should Avoid When Planning a Walt Disney World Trip

6. Cast Member Complimentary Tickets These tickets can be easily faked, and fakes won’t work; also, they are not supposed to be sold.  It may seem a cast member is trying to do you a favor, but do the research.  These tickets will most likely be declined.

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8 Scams You Should Avoid When Planning a Walt Disney World Trip

7. Outside Sources There are plenty of shops in the surrounding areas of Walt Disney World, and quite a few souvenir stands in the entire state of Florida.  Many of these outside vendors offer WDW tickets at amazingly low prices, but the problem is they’re not legitimate.  They look authentic, but even if they tell you the tickets are val

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8 Scams You Should Avoid When Planning a Walt Disney World Trip

8. Internet Fraud Avoid purchasing WDW tickets at any other site other than the official Walt Disney World web page, where you can also get Resort and Dining information.  Disney does not allow its authorized ticket dealers to use the word “Disney” in their URLs, so stay away from these sites.  Disney doesn’t allow ticket brokers to sell

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8 Scams You Should Avoid When Planning a Walt Disney World Trip

Walt Disney World, “The Most Magical Place on Earth”, is visited by thousands of people every day.  So many of these guests have saved up for years for this one extra special Disney Vacation.  Unfortunately, there is no shortage of dishonest members of our society who prey on unsuspecting travelers by offering “too good to be true” discou

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7 Ways to Save Big on Dining at Walt Disney World

1. Sit Down at Lunch We have found that it is the best to do you table service meal at lunch time.  This is true for a few reasons – first, guests get out of the oppressive Florida heat for a break inside.  Second, it is somewhat easier to get prime reservations for more popular restaurants at lunch time, as opposed to dinner, and third,

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