{"id":79100,"date":"2007-01-29T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T12:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2022-05-04T21:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T01:20:55","slug":"freebies-at-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/freebies-at-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Freebies at Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Carol Garcia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best  things in life are free.\u201d\u00a0 Well, as  followers of  \u201cTheMouseForLess,\u201d we all agree with this statement to some  degree.\u00a0  But can anything be free when it  comes to a Disney vacation?\u00a0 Well,   surprisingly, yes!\u00a0 There are many things  that can be collected for  free (or at least included as part of admission to  the theme parks).<\/p>\n<p>So, whether  you are going to create a scrapbook of your  memories, or are just looking for  something to stash away as a momento  of your trip, here are some freebies to  consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Park  Maps.\u00a0 Each park has maps at the entrance  just for the taking.\u00a0 There are even maps  in foreign languages.<\/li>\n<li>Fast  Pass Tickets.\u00a0 Although the ticket will  be collected if  you use them, any unused tickets make great mementos.\u00a0 Also, if you put  your ticket into the  FastPass machine\u00a0 second time, you will  get a  blank ticket with the ride\u2019s name on it.<\/li>\n<li>Park  Tickets and Room Keys.\u00a0 These are meant  to be taken  home.\u00a0 They have fun designs,  especially those for hard ticket events,  and even if you don\u2019t want to put them  in a scrapbook, the kids will  love playing with them.<\/li>\n<li>Photopass  Cards.\u00a0 Bring them home, order your  pictures and keep them for fun!<\/li>\n<li>Monorail  Co-Pilot cards. We\u2019ve collected lots of these over  the years.\u00a0 We\u2019ve heard that they may no longer be available,  in favor  of collector\u2019s cards available from drivers throughout the property.\u00a0  Either way, ask if you get to sit up front on  the monorail.<a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>All  of that information you receive upon check in.\u00a0  It\u2019s fun  to look back at what was happening at the resort in years  past.\u00a0 There  are also great bits of  information and graphics on these items.<\/li>\n<li>Stickers<\/li>\n<li>Swizzle  sticks or other decorations.\u00a0 My kids  love the paper  umbrellas, and fun shaped swizzle sticks available at some   restaurants.\u00a0 These things are subject to  change, so be on the lookout  for them.<\/li>\n<li>Pressed  pennies.\u00a0 Yes, they aren\u2019t free, but they  are very  inexpensive.\u00a0 A penny costs 51  cents (50 cents plus the penny being  pressed).<\/li>\n<li>Cups,  plates, napkins and popcorn buckets.\u00a0  Yes, you pay for  the food or drink inside of them, but you can take them  home and have a  great memento.\u00a0 We have  even used the popcorn buckets to store small  toys such as Legos.\u00a0 The Mickey shaped plastic plates that kids  meals  come in are great fun and a fun way to remember the trip after you get   home, too. If you have any leftover (unused) paper napkins from your  meal, just  tuck them away.\u00a0 You never know when a  couple of extra  napkins will come in handy as you are traveling through the  parks.<\/li>\n<li>Bags!\u00a0 There are bags everywhere at Disney. If you  are  already making a purchase, you can ask for a couple of extra.\u00a0 They make  fun wrapping paper or lunch sacks  when you get home.<\/li>\n<li>Birthday  buttons.\u00a0 The person celebrating can pick  up a free  button at the front of each park.\u00a0  It can not only be worn during your  trip, but by other family members  when you are at home and celebrating  there.<\/li>\n<li>Some  resorts offer freebies.\u00a0 The Wilderness  Lodge allows  one family staying at that resort to raise the flags each day (you can  read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_ms_news\/2006\/05\/08\/flag-family-on-top-of-the-world-or-at-least-the-lodge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>).\u00a0  There  are also tours in the Wilderness Lodge and Animal Kingdom, pool  games for the  kids and lots of fun places to explore at Fort  Wilderness.\u00a0 Ask the front desk at check-in for  suggestions at your  resort.\u00a0 If you have  a special meal planned at another resort, check if  there are any free  activities available at that resort, especially if  it is a Deluxe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Finally we  have a few tips from some readers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Max Lyman wrote &#8220;We love to go  to Innoventions: East at Epcot and play the         game where you get to build a robot at the end. I forget what it is called,         but you start out learning about different plastics, then play this computer         race against the other people in your group, and then at the end, you get to         assemble your own robot to take home. It&#8217;s fun- and it&#8217;s free!&#8221; (editor&#8217;s         note: This sounds like Fantastic Plastics Works.)<\/li>\n<li>Alexandra Caldwell wrote: &#8220;Last  time we were at Magic   Kingdom, our daughter         was able to wake Tinkerbell! Right when the park opened, we ran-walked to         Tinkerbell&#8217;s Shop in Fantasyland, and dd was the first child in the store,         so she asked if she could wake Tink. She was given a wand and, well, maybe I         won&#8217;t give the details, as I don&#8217;t want to spoil the surprise. Afterward,         she got a certificate and some stickers- it&#8217;s one of her favorite things         about our last trip.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Megan Sloan reminded us that  character autographs come with the price of         admission: &#8220;Our two kids are autograph collectors. We&#8217;re so pleased, because         it&#8217;s so much cheaper than collecting pins! We&#8217;ve gotten all the classics,         and are now tracking down some of the harder-to-find characters. There&#8217;s a         great pocket guide to characters on theMouseforLess- the kids use that to         see who they are missing. And don&#8217;t forget to ask Cast Members for         autographs. They love it, and sometimes you can get a very special         autograph. Our waiter in Norway  wrote a whole paragraph in Norwegian, and         our son had to find another Norwegian CM to translate it for him.         https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/downloads\/WDWCharacters.pdf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow!\u00a0 All that for the price of admission (and in  some cases,  not even that)!\u00a0 Do you have  a favorite freebie to collect?\u00a0 Drop us a   line at magicallyspeaking@themouseforless.com and we would be happy to share it with our readers!<\/p>\n<p><em>For a printable copy of this list from Mousefest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/downloads\/DisneyFreebies.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit our website.<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carol Garcia \u201cThe best things in life are free.\u201d\u00a0 Well, as followers of \u201cTheMouseForLess,\u201d we all agree with this statement to some degree.\u00a0 But can anything be free when it comes to a Disney vacation?\u00a0 Well, surprisingly, yes!\u00a0 There are many things that can be collected for free (or at least included as part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79329,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79100\/revisions\/79329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}