Category — Military Families at Disney World

MilitaryDisneyTips.com has published a series on various armed forces discount programs currently available for Orlando area attractions.

CURRENT DISCOUNTS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES

For the scoop on military discounts for Sea World and Busch Gardens, click here. (Sea World has no additional discounts for Navy Seals…it really should…ditto for the Frontierland Shooting Gallery.)

For details of Universal Orlando military discounts, click here.

For the perennial question of free theme park tickets for the military, click here.  (Spoiler: there ain’t none.)

For  Disney’s 2011 Armed Forces Salute and the little info that’s out so far on its 2012 extension, click here.

LINKS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

• Military Families at Walt Disney World
• Deals and Discounts
  • Military Discounts and Deals
  • Other Walt Disney World Discounts and Deals
• Shades of Green
  • Review of Shades of Green
  • Splitting Your Stay Between Shades of Green and Another Resort
  • Overflow Rates at Shades of Green
  • Shades of Green website
• Other Resources for Military Families
  • DisneyMilitarySales.com
  • Disneyworld.com/military
  • MilitaryDisneyTips.com

DISNEY ARMED FORCES SALUTE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 2012

Update May 24: key details for this Disney military deal are now out!! Click here for more.

Steve at MilitaryDisneyTips.com is reporting here that Disney has extended its Disney Military Salute until September 2012.

As of now, details are sketchy, Disney’s web page has not been updated to show the new dates, and Disney reservationists cannot book beyond the current deal’s expiration.

As specifics emerge and the reservation system gets updated, I’ll post more about this.

LINKS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

• Military Families at Walt Disney World
• Deals and Discounts
  • Military Discounts and Deals
  • Other Walt Disney World Discounts and Deals
• Shades of Green
  • Review of Shades of Green
  • Splitting Your Stay Between Shades of Green and Another Resort
  • Overflow Rates at Shades of Green
  • Shades of Green website
• Other Resources for Military Families
  • DisneyMilitarySales.com
  • Disneyworld.com/military
  • MilitaryDisneyTips.com

OPPORTUNITIES FOR MILITARY FAMILY SAVINGS

My friend Steve at militarydisneytips.com tracks and posts on all kinds of stuff useful to military families considering a Disney trip.

He’s recently posted an update on the 2011 Disney Military Salute and other 2011 Disney Armed Forces discounts. 

Helpfully, Steve includes his answers to the questions he’s most frequently asked about these programs.

You can find his post here.

Update–Steve’s post is part of a series recapping discount oportunities for military families all over central Florida–more on Sea World and Busch Gardens is here.

LINKS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

• Military Families at Walt Disney World
• Deals and Discounts
  • Military Discounts and Deals
  • Other Walt Disney World Discounts and Deals
• Shades of Green
  • Review of Shades of Green
  • Splitting Your Stay Between Shades of Green and Another Resort
  • Overflow Rates at Shades of Green
  • Shades of Green website
• Other Resources for Military Families
  • DisneyMilitarySales.com
  • Disneyworld.com/military
  • MilitaryDisneyTips.com

Steve at MilitaryDisneyTips.com, in a post dated April 1, has some important Shades of Green news here.

On a related topic, I’ve heard rumors that a new Transportation Manager has been named at Shades of Green–a former light infantryman. 

Reportedly he plans to cancel the Shades of Green bus service to the parks and replace it with forced marches with 90 pound packs. 

The exception will be for transport to the Animal Kingdom, which will be via a low crawl.

On the positive side, frequency of departures will go up, and buses will no longer drop people off in the middle of steaming parking lots.

On the negative side, the low crawl to the Animal Kingdom is said to route through the tiger enclosure in the Maharajah Jungle Trek.

Dunno if any of this is true or not–but I do know that no lies were harmed in the creation of this post. 

For more foolery, see this.

The Disney Food Blog has just posted a review of Evergeens at the Shades of Green Resort written by my friend Steve from MilitaryDisneyTips.com. 

Click here to check the review out!

OPPORTUNITIES FOR MILITARY FAMILY SAVINGS

My friend Steve at militarydisneytips.com tracks and posts on all kinds of stuff useful to military families considering a Disney trip.  I asked him to summarize the current state of Shades of Green discounts, and here he goes!

Shades of Green is striving to find the right discount combination to keep their rooms filled in the wake of Disney’s Armed Forces Salute room-only discount of 30 to 40% on Disney owned and operated resort rooms.

Some of Shade’s 2011 discounts are even better than this. This means the opportunity for military members and their families to save quite a lot on their next Walt Disney World vacation. [Read more →]