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Whilst it is a fantastic experience to visit Orlando and its’ famous attractions, picking the best tickets can be a bit daunting. The various tickets available to just visit Disney seem to go on and on! To start deciding what is your best choice you need to begin by asking yourself some questions. What parks do we want to visit? Plan what you want to do first of all (there is a free planning guide on our website - link above) Most people visit for 14 days and fitting everything is impossible in one visit. Disney alone has four major parks, an interactive theme park, water parks and evening entertainment. Are you willing to stay in one park all day or would you prefer to ‘hop’ from one park to another? ‘Hopping’ between parks is a good way to see as much as possible but, if it’s your first visit you will find plenty to keep you occupied for a whole day at each of the major venues. However it is a useful ticket if you plan to visit, say Animal Kingdom during the day and then watch Fantasmic at MGM in the evening. Do you intend to come back to Orlando in the future? Some tickets will expire within 14 days of your starting to use them but if you pay a little more for your tickets they will never expire. So with the former you have to ‘use them or lose them’. How much can you afford to spend? Purchasing more days works out cheaper per visit, so buying a ticket which gives you 7 or 10 days in the parks can cost less (per day) than a 3 or 4 day ticket. Do you plan to do just the major parks or visit the water parks, Pleasure Island etc as well? Disneys’ ‘base’ tickets will just get you into the major parks but their ‘water park fun and more’ tickets will also get you entrance into the likes of Blizzard Beach, Disney Quest and Pleasure Island. As an example (correct as at 30th December 2007):- A 4 day ‘water park fun and more’ pass would give you four extra visits to the smaller attractions for just $49 more than the cost of the base ticket. By the way Disney are currently throwing in a 5th day at a major park with their 4 day tickets. A ticket to one water park alone is $39. Tickets for Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure can be bought separately. However, if you are planning to visit both check out the 7 day pass which is cheaper than two one day passes and you can move between the parks during the day. By upgrading to a 4 or 5 day flex ticket you can use the ticket to visit Busch Gardens, Wet n Wild and Sea World as well. If swimming with dolphins is your thing then book into Discovery Cove. A ticket here will get you into Sea World later in your stay. Bear in mind that in most of the parks you will be charged to park your car ($12 in October 2007). However, you can leave the park and return later in the same day without paying again.