As we get closer to the trip, something that we have never done is purchase the Disney Photopass CD/Package. Sure, we took some pics here and there with their photopass people, but we never bought any of the pics or anything. Here's the deal, you pay $169 and get a CD or immediate download of all of the pics that the photopass people took. Now, like I mentioned we only took a few with their photographers. From what I'm reading there are these pic takers all over the parks, some at popular character meet and greets, some character dining spots, and at front entrances of parks. You get a card, they scan it, and all your pics are in one place. The cards are free and pic taking is too. You have 14 days to look at your pics once the vacay is over and can decide to order CD/download, or can order individual pics at what I think are ridiculous prices. From what I'm also reading from other websites is that if you preorder, it's $169, but once vacay is over the price goes to $199? I can't confirm that quite yet. Either way...as a fam of 6, with 2 squirmy kids...is it worth it? To get us all in a pic, with one of our cameras, we would have to get the pic takers to take pic or two with their stuff, then ask for them to take one with our camera...are the odds in my favor that we'll be good for 2, 3, or maybe 4 clicks? And the CD will hold as many as we take. I'm not sure if my favorite Disney expert, April, has ever done this. I think she mentioned that Brandy did it once, but I've never asked her. Might be sending her a msg soon. But, all things considered....is it a good enough value? We'd still take cameras for parade pic taking and random pics. But would it be worth it just to not have to dig the camera out for every "magical moment" pic? I think D would say no, but as the person who is always out of the pic, I might be leaning more towards yes. As I look back on the trip from 2 years ago, out of the almost 300 pics, I believe I am in 4. Only 2 with the rest of the family, and 2 with D. Maybe there is a few more, maybe not. I'm not going back to counting. I hate Dennis's computer. Let me know what you think! I'm virtually on the fence on this one! And here's another pic just to make me giggle! Most of these photos I have borrowed from disneyparkblog.com. One of my fav reads lately!
I'm loving reading all your Disney posts! I'm jealous! We've never done the photo pass before, but Tricia has done it when she was there with Drew. I think with kids it's probably worth it. You'd get the whole family plus they do some really cool effects with some of the pictures. I think you can also get the ride pics on there...you know, the ones they take while you're on roller coasters and your face looks all crazy. Last time we were there, though, the photo passes weren't free anymore. It's VERY possible that there were enough complaints/people not willing to pay for the cards that they went back to them being free. Y'all are going to have so much fun!! I can't wait to hear all about it!
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