Has anyone booked Disney through a 3rd party cheaper?

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I’m trying to book Disney for next year. I usually book Disney itself and then flights separately, I think this is the cheapest way.

I was wondering if anyone had booked with an agent cheaper. All the travel firms are thousands more expensive (I don’t know what for).

It would be staying on site, dining plan, flying from Manchester. Thanks

(Before someone tells me it’s cheaper to stay off site I’m not interested in that).

If you’re only looking at Tui/Virgin/Thomas cook etc it’ll be cheaper to go direct (obviously no ATOL so not a direct comparison), but if you go to an independent agent they can try lots of different tour ops to get the price down or package it themselves. Sometimes cheaper sometimes not but worth a try.

I booked through Charter Travel this year.

We've paid £5279 for 2 weeks in November at Saratoga Springs (deluxe) with DDP, disney & universal tickets, virgin flights from Manchester and the $200 disney gift card. This is for 2 of us (although I'm now pregnant so we've got a baby coming with us!)

We've since been upgraded to a villa at Old Key West though due to overbooking

When I was pricing it all up, it was £4300 just for the accommodation and tickets through disney - there was no way I was going to get flights and universal tickets for less than £1000 so decided on package.

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That’s awesome thanks - that’s the kind of price we want to pay as well (and going on Disney hasn’t given me that)

Also check out Ocean Florida and Kenwood Travel - both gave competitive quotes. It's a bit of a pain because you have to complete an enquiry form and then wait for them to come back to you via email but they're often very quick and more personalised to what you've asked for.

I will thanks. DH says we can’t go at the prices I was getting, it’s over £1200 more than last time. I was expecting a bit of a jump but not that.

Yeah it's going up and up every year. It's our first time on site this year so looking forward to seeing how it differs, not sure we'll be able to afford to do it again though!

Just been reading that everywhere has been taken off sale for Oct/Nov next year, presuming because of Star Wars Land - the costs are going to sky rocket after that!

Next October was my other option date, might forget that!
It’s why I want to go again, I think 2020 will be far too expensive to stay on site and we do like the dining plan a lot! I think this is my last chance to go even if it is more expensive.
The price jumped between the first and second times we went but I was able to get cheaper flights so worked out the same.
I’ve filled in quote forms for all those 3 companies so fingers crossed!

We always found Co-op travel will match any holiday deal and then give extra 5% or 10% Manager discounts on top.

We have used this for Explore Family Holidays, First Choice Holidays, Lapland holidays and Disney holidays.

Have a good relationship with the local branch now and so they let us know when good deals are heading our way.

The other one to try is a local Hays Travel Rep - usually self employed mum's, with years of working in the industry and now working from home. They do amazing deals on a consistent basis via Facebook pages