Disney Cruise Line Money Saving Tips
Any Disney Vacation is expensive. Let’s be honest ANY vacation is expensive! But the memories you make on a vacation are PRICELESS!! Still, you must make sure your vacation fits into your budget!
This next tip will
work for ANY Disney Destination or anyplace you can pay using a Disney Gift
Card. Target, Sam’s Club, some Ebates stores online, and some CostCo Stores
sell discounted Disney Gift Cards! With Target you must use your Target Red
Card (Debit or Credit) to receive a 5% discount! Ebates also does a 5%. Sam’s
Club is usually 6%. Take them along to pay for drinks, merchandise, port
excursions, tips, anything you can pay for with a Disney Gift Card! Just add
them to your onboard folio!
Go to
DisneyGiftCard.com and combine the cards into larger $1,000 cards and use them
to pay for your Disney reservations. It is important to combine your Disney
Gift Cards into larger cards. If you purchase 20 $50 cards to pay for your
shipboard account, you are putting $1,000 on your account. By the way you only
spent $950 for that $1,000! Let’s say you only spent $975. Disney will put the
$25 back onto your cards! They may not put the $25 back on ONE card. They may
split it up between several cards with a few cents on one, a few dollars on
another. It makes it easier to get any refund if you reduce the number of cards
used.
Disney Gift Cards
are also a great way to give kids (or yourself) a spending limit! They must
keep track of what they spend so they know how much is left on the card! Once
gone it is gone unless a parent wishes to add to the card. You can take the
card to any cashier and ask what the balance is.
Now you are on a
Disney ship! Take a Disney Gift Card with $250 on it with you!! Book a
Placeholder Cruise! By the way that $250 card cost $237.50 to buy if you got it
Discounted at 5%! On the Navigator App or by going to the Booking Desk book
another cruise or booking Placeholder!! If you book a cruise or Placeholder while
on the ship you get 10% off the next cruise! Don’t know when or where you will
sail next? Book that Placeholder! A Placeholder gives you up to 2 years to sail
on DCL again! It gives you a 10% discount on that future cruise! The $250 is
part of your deposit! You just need to sail again within 24 months! If you
don’t use the Placeholder the funds are returned to the Cred/Debit or Gift Card.
If you book a future cruise or a Placeholder and pay them off with Discounted
Disney Gift Cards, you can save 15%!! In my opinion every penny saved is worth
the effort!
Do you love
popcorn, candy, and soda while watching a movie or a show?? DCL charges for
popcorn, candy, and soda from Preludes! Don’t want to pay full price?? Bring
packages of candy in your carryon bags. Bring a popcorn bucket, ANY popcorn
bucket from ANY Disney Park! You can get a refill at a greatly reduced price,
$1.50 the last time I did it! Bring a Travel Mug/Cup for soda!! Go to the soda
fountain on the pool deck and fill your cup before heading to the theater,
lounge or any entertainment.
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