2012 Anheuser-Busch Here’s to the Heroes Salute – Free Military Theme Park Tickets

Anheuser-Busch's Heres to the Heroes Military Salute 2012Anheuser-Busch  has renewed their Here’s to the Heroes Salute  for 2012

This very popular offer allows Free One-Day admission to Anheuser-Busch’s theme parks for themselves and up to 3 direct dependents.

The parks included in this offer are

  • Sea World Orlando
  • Sea World San Antonio
  • Sea World San Diego
  • Busch Gardens Tampa
  • Busch Gardens Virginia
  • Sesame Place
  • Water Country USA
  • Adventure Island

This fantastic offer has been ongoing since 2005 without any break.

Anheuser-Busch Officials confirmed for me today that the Here’s to the Heroes program has indeed been renewed for 2012.

They apologized that their website herosalute.com has not been updated and said to expect it to reflect the renewal within a few days. As I type this the site says the offer ends 31 December 2011.

The Anheuser-Busch Company also wanted to pass on their thanks for all that the military does for our country and they fully support us and enjoy being able to make this offer available!

For more information on this offer check out the following links:

2012 Anheuser-Busch Here’s to the Heroes Salute

Anheuser-Busch’s Free one-day admission to one of their Theme Parks

herosalute.com

 

 

 

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Beyond Disney: The Unofficial Guide to Universal Orlando, SeaWorld & the Best of Central Florida - Best SeaWorld Planning book in my opinion

After Disney: The Other Orlando - Another very good guide book

Simple Stroller Rentals - Beats Universal's prices, plus they offer a 10% Military Discount

The Vacation Architect - My recommended Travel Agent for SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld - SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment Inc. - Official iPhone App, All Parks (Free)

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The Ultimate Post Deployment Orlando Vacation – Orlando Military Discounts Series

Copyright DisneyTrying to plan the Ultimate Post Deployment Vacation Getaway?

A Disney Vacation is perfect for getting away and forgetting the stress that’s built up during the long separation of a deployment.

If a Disney vacation is good…

How about an Ultimate Military Discounted Orlando Vacation?

There are lots of discounts available to military members in the Orlando area, at all the big theme parks and also at smaller venues.

I get lots of emails with questions and comments from my readers. Many are from wives trying to plan for a Magical Vacation when their husbands return from a deployment.

There’s lots of information on the site about military discounts, but I’ve never wrapped them all into one package. So I thought it would be fun to plan an Ultimate Orlando, Florida Area Military Vacation.

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Military Disney Tips Featured in May’s the Reserve & National Guard Magazine

Military Disney Tips Featured in the Reserve & National Guard MagazineRecently I was contacted by Janine Boldrin for an interview to be used in her upcoming article for AmeriForce the Reserve & National Guard Magazine on “Sizzling Summer Savings: Expert Tips For Your Next Trip.” She wanted to find out what were the best ways for military members to save on Disney vacations.

I gladly accepted the opportunity to get savings info out to a wider audience. Janine asked me lots of great questions. I passed on the information about the current 2011 Disney Armed Forces Salute, unfortunately the 2012 extension of the Disney Military Salute was not announced prior to the article being submitted, so that info wasn’t included. I also passed on information about the great savings available at Shades of Green and the Armed Forces Vacation Club, and that military discounts were available at Anheuser-Busch parks and Universal Studios Orlando.

Janine interviewed three military travel experts with different focuses for the piece. Also interviewed were:

Joy Awe Editor-in-Chief of Buzz Off Base, an events, travel and entertainment guide for U.S. military and civilians living overseas. Joy has a fantastic looking site that everyone stationed in Europe should check out.

And Diane Fish of Twin Fish Interline Travel which specializes in helping service members match up with the best military rates that are available through Club Med and various cruise lines for great vacation packages.

You can download your copy of the article here or go to the AmeriForce website to view it as well as all the other articles in the May issue. Also look for the Reserve & National Guard to show up at your unit. You can subscribe to the magazine for your unit here.

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Military Disney Tips Turns Three

Military-Disney-Tips-Birthday (C) DisneyAt the beginning of this month Military Disney Tips turned three. I wanted to take a moment to say thanks to you my readers. I’m so appreciative of your interest. It’s been my pleasure to try to help you in whatever way that I can to plan for your Disney vacation.

It’s been a big year for MDT, we broke the story on both the extensions of the Disney Armed Forces Salute, both in October 2010 when the offer was renewed for this fiscal year, and again just last month with the extension until September 2012. It’s been a busy year too trying to keep up on the numerous packages and specials offered by Shades of Green throughout the year. Also I was interviewed by AmeriForce Publishing for inclusion in an article about Disney Military discounts. The article is due out later this month in their Reserve & National Guard Magazine.

Over the past year the site has seen fantastic growth. Military Disney Tips now receives nearly 10,000 visitors and 40,000 pageviews per month. Our Newsletter launched last October and has grown to over 390 subscribers. We also started our facebook fan page this past year and now have 220 facebook friends who like it. Just a couple of months ago the Military Disney twitter account was launched too.

The majority of our readers this year have been Stateside, but we also have readers from numerous locations where our military members are stationed: Italy, Germany, Iraq, the UK, Puerto Rico, Japan, South Korea, Kuwait, Qatar, Afghanistan, the UAE, and Bahrain to name some.

Because of the specialized content on this site, many great Disney sites on the net sent visitors our way. I’d like to thank those sites for their support this year. They are:

Yourfirstvisit.net where I’ve been lucky to do quite a few guests posts
disneyfoodblog.com Where AJ has also allowed me to guest post
universal-parks-military-discounts.com our sister site
disboards.com
wdwradio.com
passporterboards.com
mouseowners.com
dismarks.com
usmclife.com
couponingtodisney.com
westoverafrc.org
coastiechicks.net

You also found the site via search engines. Some of the things you were looking for were: Information on Disney’s Military Salute, Universal Studios Military Salute, Sea World Military Discounts, Shades of Green, and the Armed Forces Vacation Club.

Some of your favorite pages were:

Military Discounts
The Disney Military Salute announcement for 2011
Disney’s Armed Forces Salute
Shades of Green
Universal Military Salute
Shades of Green Military Discounted Ticket Overview
and the Military Disney Tips Blog

This year is our third year partnering with Ears of Experience, an authorized Disney vacation planner and Veteran Owned Business. Over 150 of you asked Amy for help making your Disney reservations this past year.

Again I want to say thanks for the Happy Birthday! It’s been my pleasure to provide content that I think you might find helpful and I’m so glad that the site’s growth shows you are enjoying it. I’m looking forward to an even better year coming up. I’ve got several great new projects like my new series of Patriotic Disney posts and several new partners who I’ll be joining with to produce more great content.

Yours, Steve

 

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There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch – At Some Theme Parks

No Free Disney World Tickets For Military
Running this site I see some interesting data on search terms that people have used to find my site.

The variations of Disney Military Discount mixed with other words are endless. But I’ve noticed a small but steady amount of people searching for “Free Disney Military Tickets.”

While there was a time that Disney and Universal Orlando offered a free theme park ticket to military members, unfortunately free tickets are a thing of the past. Only Anheuser-Busch continues to offer free tickets to their theme parks.

Disney offered free military theme park tickets three times in the past.

In 1990 after Desert Storm Disney World gave members a free 1-day park-hopper ticket.

The next time Disney offered a free military ticket was in 2002 after the events of 9/11, this was one free 5-day park-hopper for the military member. You could then purchase up to 5 additional 5-day tickets for friends and family. Either basic tickets for $99 or park-hoppers for $124.

Since 2009 military members have had to purchase their own Armed Forces Salute Tickets as well as those for their guests and the price has risen.

Universal Orlando’s most recent free admission for military members ended on 30 March 2010. The member received a free multi-day multi-park theme park ticket and could purchase the same tickets for their guests for $88.

Our good friends at Anheuser-Busch are still offering free admission to their theme parks for the military member and their guests (up to 3 guests), an offer they have had every year since 2004. My hat’s off the Busch theme parks!

So as you can see currently the Orlando Theme Parks run the full spectrum in their offers for the military. From totally free admission to no special Military Salute tickets.

To see each Theme Parks current offers see the previous posts in this series
1. Disney Military Discount 2011 – Orlando Military Discounts Series
2. Sea World Busch Gardens Military Salute 2011 – Orlando Military Discounts Series
3. Universal Orlando Military Discount 2011 – Orlando Military Discounts Series

Keep tuned, there will be one more installment in this series – The Ultimate Post Deployment Orlando Vacation.

 
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Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World - Best WDW Planning book in my opinion

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Disney World Savings Guide - A great eBook by a former Disney Castmember

Ears or Experience - My recommended Travel Agent, Fee Free, Disney Only, Military Family Owned

YourFirstVisit.net The premier website for first time visitors to Walt Disney World!

Simple Stroller Rentals - Beats WDW's prices, plus they offer a 10% Military Discount

TouringPlans.com - The website of the Unofficial Guides - Crowd Forecasts, Pre-made Touring Plans, plus lots of other detailed info

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