Thanks so much for your wonderful compliments - so kind! I think you'll find there are plenty of FANTASTIC Disney photographers out there (I follow and get inspiration from a lot of them) and so I'm not sure Disney need our pictures, but it would be a dream come true if they contacted us one day to ask to buy one of our shots for that purpose!
RE Frequent Flyer Points: Not sure if we are experts, but we have managed to make significant flight savings using points on past trips. This is because my husband is really good at working out how to do it, and because he travels a lot for work so we do accumulate a lot of points that way. I am not the expert but I will give you some info that hopefully should be helpful! And if you have more questions shoot them my way and I will ask him!
We usually get most of our points for trips from signing up for credit card deals where we get a lot of points to simply sign up for the card. This is usually your best way to make points fast. I've found two links on Finder.com - one with a list of credit cards that give you bonus Velocity (Virgin) points and another with a list of credit cards that give you bonus Qantas points, depending on what airline you want to go with. You can get cards that give you around 100000 - 120000 points which should cover one return leg of your trip at minimum.
Qantas Cards
Virgin / Velocity Cards
You do sometimes have to earn a certain amount to be eligible but hopefully you can find the right bonus credit card for you on that list. We don't use credit cards all that much either. Just note the amount you have to spend on the card to get the points (sometimes there is an amount) or the period the card has to be active in order for you to get the points, and then if you don't need it cancel it after that time/amount.
We did mostly fly Virgin/Singapore Airlines on our last trip - from what I recall we did Perth - Singapore and then Tokyo - Singapore - Perth in Business Class and it cost approx. 230000 Virgin Velocity points. So economy would be a lot less than that. We flew Qantas for the internal Asian flights and used points for these I recall it was about 70000 Qantas Flights for all of these. All of these amounts were for 2 people. However if you want to be sure how many points you’ll need you can use the points calculator on either Virgin or Qantas website. The link to Qantas’ points website I’ve included
here and Virgin’s I’ve included
here. If you are flying economy you may still need to pay around $250 - $500 in taxes per flight. FYI Carthay Pacific is in with Qantas and One World, so if you are thinking of flying with them you can use Qantas points to book those flights, so that may be the way to go (we flew Carthay Dragon, their more budget airline, using Qantas points on our last trip).
I don't know if you've seen it or it will be helpful but we do have a trip report on our full 4 week Asian Disney Trip that we took in 2017. You can read our full report of our time at Hong Kong and Shangai Disney there. If your interested in reading it you can find it
here. You may also wish to check out my pre-trip report
here.
Hopefully some of this info is helpful. Good luck with your planning and getting flights sorted.