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10 Things You Need To Know About Disney’s Water Parks

4. Hours Be mindful of the hours of operation at the water parks during the season that you plan to travel. In the summertime, the water parks are usually open until 6:00 or 7:00, but in the winter months, the hours are cut back to 5:00. Also, each winter the water parks shut down (at different times) for a few weeks of scheduled maintena

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10 Things You Need To Know About Disney’s Water Parks

3. Parking Parking is free at both Disney water parks! (Or you can pay for front row spaces.) Be sure to lock your car for security purposes—if you’re worried about keeping up with your keys, you can always rent a locker. Don't forget to note your row number too. (It’s not quite as well-marked as the main parks, so it’s easy to forget thi

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10 Things You Need To Know About Disney’s Water Parks

2. Security Multi-day tickets for water parks are secured by fingerprint scanning, just like in the main parks. For better or worse, there is no security checkpoint at either water park right now. But you can find a list of security regulations including proper attire and proper packing on the official Disney website.

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10 Things You Need To Know About Disney’s Water Parks

1. Tickets When you purchase a water park ticket, you get two for the price of one! Yep— water park tickets are all hoppers, so you can visit Blizzard Beach in the morning and Typhoon Lagoon in the afternoon, or vice versa. As usual, kids under three do not need a ticket at all. Pricing depends upon the season, or you can add the “Waterpa

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10 Things You Need To Know About Disney’s Water Parks

Disney water parks are a personal favorite of mine. With affordable ticket prices, amazing theming, and LOTS to do, the water parks are fun for the whole family, especially when it’s hot outside. Here are ten things you need to know if you’re considering a trip to Blizzard Beach (the melty ski-slope park) and Typhoon Lagoon (the storm-swe

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Top 8 Reasons to Become an Disney World Annual Passholder

8 – Entertainment Discounts Passholders are eligible for discounts on certain tickets for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party.  Again, the discount may be minimal, but added up with the other discounts, you could save a significant amount of money over the course of a year as a passholder.  You wi

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Top 8 Reasons to Become an Disney World Annual Passholder

7 – Passholder Swag  We love collecting pins from specialty events around Walt Disney World, but we especially love when specialty passholder editions of merchandise are available.  Usually, these items include pins and t-shirts and are available during the special events: Food and Wine, Flower and Garden, Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween

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Top 8 Reasons to Become an Disney World Annual Passholder

6 – FastPasses Even if you aren’t staying on property, passholders are eligible to make FastPass reservations 30 days prior to their trip.  This certainly can be useful if you are in the area, but not making a full vacation of it.  Passholders also get sneak previews of new entertainment options coming to the parks – passholders were amon

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Top 8 Reasons to Become an Disney World Annual Passholder

5 –Dining Discounts Being a passholder also entitles you to a vast array of dining discounts.  First, annual passholders qualify to purchase the Tables in Wonderland membership which entitles guests to 20% off of their dining bill at most restaurant locations throughout the parks and the resorts.  There is a separate cost to the Tables in

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Top 8 Reasons to Become an Disney World Annual Passholder

4 – Merchandise Discounts  Passholders are able to get discounts at most merchandise locations inside of the parks.  Currently, passholders are able to get a 20% discount on souvenirs in Disney-owned merchandise locations, as well as 10-20% off at select shopping locations in Disney Springs.  The line-up of discounts is constantly changin

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