Thailand Trip - Why Free Disney Tickets Aren't Worth the Time Spent at a Timeshare Presentation

That's a precious few hours away from your vacation. You have to go to a timeshare presentation. The problem is those free tickets come with strings attached. You can find promotions for free Disney World tickets either online or just by driving up and down International Drive in Orlando.

But you cannot hop between parks, so you can spend the day at Epcot or Magic Kingdom or one of the other two parks. These are special promotional tickets that include two single day admissions to any one of the Walt Disney World theme parks. The most common types of Disney tickets that you can get from a timeshare promotion are called "Touch of Magic" tickets. But if you crunch the numbers you will usually find that it isn't. Disney tickets aren't cheap so you might decide that a few hours listening to a timeshare salesperson is worth the time spent.

It only becomes a disadvantage if you are planning several days at the parks. This isn't a problem, now if you are only looking to spend a day at one of the parks. They cannot be upgraded to multi-day tickets, because Touch of Magic tickets are special promotional admissions media.

Go for five days and your price drops to less than $50 per day. So if you go to Disney World for three days that will cost you almost $75.00 per day. That costs $11 more than going for three days. Want to spend five days in the parks? Going to WDW for four days is only $8 more than going for three days. The reason why is that admission to Disney World gets cheaper as you add more days.

You still need to buy passes for the rest of your trip, once you use up the free ticket the timeshare company gave you. You will probably spend four to five days at the parks, so if you are in Orlando for a week long vacation. Now I'm assuming you don't live in Orlando and so you just can't run off to Disney World whenever you feel like it.

To save that $11 you probably need to spend two to three hours resisting being cajoled into buying a timeshare. Or $11.00 if you go with a four day ticket, your total savings from using that free ticket in this case is $8.00. You decide to buy a three day ticket, since you've already had one day at the park.

Or would you rather spend your entire morning with someone who is trying to get you to buy something you don't actually want, would you rather spend the extra few bucks and get to the park early to ride Space Mountain? What's your time worth, so ask yourself?