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Important News for Military Families Considering an Orlando Vacation

My friend Steve at MilitaryDisneyTips.com has published recently a couple of important news items for military families:

  • He’s broken the story that families can now use the 4 day Disney World Military Salute tickets back to back for a trip longer than 4 days. See this.
  • He’s also recently posted on a new Universal Orlando military deal–the first since Harry Potter opened.  See this.

Thanks, Steve, for writing about these!

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Thanks, Steve!

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12 years ago
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Hi There Lana, Dave asked to to help out… Homestaed and MacDill Air Force Bases are out of your way, so as Dave suggested you can buy your Armed Forces Salute (AFS) tickets at Shades of Green on Disney World property (with no sales tax added). An oddity to the contract between Shades and Disney is that Shades will tell you that if you want 6 AFS tickets you need to buy them all at once. Disney ticket booths (where you can also buy these tickets (plus sales tax) do not have this rule). The AFS tickets are valid until… Read more »
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12 years ago
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Hi Lana! I’m gonna ask an expert to weigh in, so check back here later as well, but you can buy the Salute tickets at Shades of Green in WDW, and Shades also has lower priced “regular” tickets available for the second family.

It may be–I’m not sure, hence the expert–that you have to activate all 6 tickets at once. If so, then they may expire 14 days after you activate them. Is that close enough in time for both visits?

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12 years ago
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Help! My husband is retired military and we are currently in Naples, Fl. We are not here permanently. We have rented a house and are having our two sons and their families come during different times in December. There are no military bases around here. First, I don’t know where to go to purchase the 6 discount tickets alloted. Secondly, once I do find them, would I be able to use one ticket with one family and the second ticket at a different time with the second family? There are a total of nine between the two families. So one… Read more »
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12 years ago
Dave
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Steve…why am I not surprised?

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12 years ago

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