How To Save Money at Dollywood - 11 Must Know Tips - From Half Price Admission to Free Drinks

hey guys it's Melanie and back with another Dollywood video and this one is how to save money at Dollywood or buy your tickets and while you're there if you're new here we'd love to travel and we'd love to do a lot of tips videos about our travels and do a lot of DIYs too so please stay subscribe especially if you like to go to the Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg area because I do a lot of videos on the video down below like just regular tips for Dollywood our like free things to do in Pigeon Forge our evolve things like that but this one is just how we saved money at Pigeon Forge so our octave or jet at Dollywood we went this year inlet last year at their favorite place to go if you think I missed any tips for saving money please let me know in the comments as you have questioned the for sluttiness promise and that is it alright here's the video tip one is to take a trolley ride instead of paying for better parking so trust me a half discount ticket tix tips coming but I wanted to show you guys these first so park anywhere you want to you do not have to walk there's a trolley that comes and picks you up the kids love this they think it's a ride so we just take the trolley the next tip is to buy that reusable cup not all amusement parks offer them but Dollywood does so you pay for the cup and then refills I believe are a dollar for a pop refill all day long so and then you just get a cup to take home and we used it every single time in one in a pod when we ate and it just it worked out really well and we have a souvenir we did this both years speaking of drinks water is free I know a lot of music parks will do free water but they do like the whole kitten caboodle like you get a straw a lid these smaller cups are the the water cups and we got one pop Cup to share and we drink a whole lot of water because I mean it was really hot even in April so anyway free water cups all you do is ask one of my favorite tips is to go mining for gems we did not do that last year we actually didn't do that till this year I love it you pay X amount depending on the bag you're guaranteed some nice gems and you get to you know put the shifter sifter in the water and get all the dirt out and take out your gems and then you get to keep the gems so the price you pay for the gems ended up being cheaper than some of the gems I have purchased at children's museums and then you get the experience to go along with it so I totally think it's worth it so you get a souvenir and an experience for like you know a decent price so why not right the next tip is to play a carnival game $5.00 always wins in a souvenir kind of the same concept as the last tip I don't really have a lot of videos just pictures but you pay $5 my son won two things that they're both pretty sisters you had to have them the whole entire day but anyway $5 it doesn't necessarily say Dollywood on it but it is a you know some sort of souvenir and you got to play a carnival game with it for five bucks so I think it's worth it the next tip is to bring those necessities if you think that you won't need them but you will need them trust me I have had to pay for ponchos at Disney and they were not cheap I've had to pay for sunscreen at the zoo it was not cheap to make sure you stick that in your bag you're not allowed to bring food in with you you are allowed to bring my formula and stuff but bringing extra socks because your feet somehow get wet and bring you know all of the day essentials that you might need because if not you're going to end up purchasing them at a gift shop I've unfortunately had to do this multiple times but you guys know just make a list because even if you think you won't forget something you probably will if you're anything like me the next tip is to consider getting complicates the rest of the tips I promise are about saving money on admission I have quite a few tips for you on that but anyway the one day pass for one adult is $68 but if you get 3-day to Park tickets it's only 99 dollars so that's what 31 dollars more that's like half the price of you know a regular ticket and you get to go to both parks we've been to the water park and that is one of our like top 3 favorite water parks ever I totally recommend it but anyway you could spend an extra $30 per person and go you know like it's $100 per person to go for 3 days instead of paying what $68 almost 70 per person to go for one day so I totally recommend that if you're going to be in town for a few days another option is to arrive after 3 p.m. on day one and then you get free admission on day two which is a really awesome ideal if you're going to be there for like just a weekend you can totally just you know do something the first part of the day or drive in the first part of the day I have a whole video on like free things you could do in Pigeon Forge and Sevierville I'll link that below you could do whatever you want go you know find some food whatever get there at 3:00 p.m. and then go the whole next day I think that's pretty much the best deal if you're only planning on being there for a small amount of time and you want to spend the least amount of money on tickets another option is to consider getting a season pass they talk about this all the time while you're in line for rides if you were to go two separate times and pay full price for your tickets that would actually cost you more than buying a season pass so if you're going to go you know like if you're we are in Cincinnati so we are like four hours away we consider getting a season pass so we can go like two or three times and next year I don't know it's an option for you the next option is to ask for gift certificates some friends of ours whenever they went to Disney the Christmas before they actually said hey if we're exchanging Christmas presents we would love like Disney gift cards I thought that was genius so if you're planning a family vacation it can't hurt to say hey if we're exchanging presents or whatever you know I want Dollywood certificates or maybe if your kids are having a birthday or something like that maybe suggest to like their grandparents or friends or whatever maybe they would like like a ten dollar gift certificate to buy something it's all they would that just kind of you know helps where you don't have to spend as much money there so it's just an option they do have gift certificates the last idea is to join a local museum for discounted admission so we did not know that our CR annual passes to our local aquarium actually gave us a 50% discount on tickets at Dollywood how awesome is that so we actually got our tickets to our local aquarium on Groupon so we saved money there and we got a whole year and then certain other like places you get discounts for you can do this with like children's museums things like that it just depends on if they're connected or anything so just check into that I'm not really sure who all there Dollywood may be connected with may be anywhere local or anything like that but yeah that was super exciting for us because it just happened to be a perk and so you know why not take advantage of it guys so that is it if you have these tips to add please let me know if you have questions let me know you guys know the drill but that isn't I appreciate you guys please stay please subscribe I appreciate you guys watching my videos all right bye Olivia's what bye bye you [Music]

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Length: 7min 32sec (452 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 25 2017