Non-transferable 5 day passes??

[montessori]

Hi everyone,


We are Florida residents and always buy annual passes. Our daughter, age 20, isn't able to go to DWD as often as she used to. I want to purchase a "5 Day Park Hopper Plus 4 Option Days", as a gift for her 21st Bday. I think it's a better deal for her because the days don't expire.
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Actually, I would like to buy her TWO of these passes. So often, I find a great deal at a hotel for her to go with a friend, but all the friends say they can't afford to go! Since this is her big B-day present, I thought I'd buy the extra pass and different friends could go with her on different days.

I seem to remember reading a debate about the ethical side of doing this. I assume the passes say that they are non-transferable. Yet, it is very easy for different people to use the same pass on different days, right?


I think of myself as a very honest person but I don't think it will bother me to use the pass this way.
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Any opinions?
THANKS!

Mary Ann
in SUNNY South Florida (after 30 days of rain) Yippeeee!
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[CarolMN]

What you describe would not bother me, either. I put it in the same category as going 2 or 3 miles over the speed limit or removing that infamous "DO NOT REMOVE" tag from a mattress.

If Disney really cared about the hopper tickets being "shared" among family and friends, it would institute some type of ID system as it has for annual passes, length of stay passes, "Bounce Back" tickets and other tickets such as the 10 Day World Pass. (If the Bounce Back tickets have guest names on the back of them, surely they could do the same thing for hopper tickets).

IMHO, Disney's main objective is to avoid being liable in any way when a partially used hopper ticket is sold. As you probably already know, if someone buys a partially used pass that turns out not to be what the seller said it was, the buyer has no recourse from Disney. The buyer is just out the $$. Again, IMHO, that is the main reason why Disney hopper tickets say that they are "non-transferrable".

If a family member or friend comes home with some "extra" days on their hopper passes, I see nothing wrong with someone else in the family (or in our group of friends) using the days on a future trip. Other may go ahead and flame me if they choose. It won't change my mind.

[WDW2002]

I myself do think the "non transferable" issue is kinda silly. You are buying a ticket for X# of days so only X# of visits are going to be made, regardless of who uses the passes. Disney isn't going to loose any "real" money off it.
The other option is to buy her a 5 day pass and then 5 single day passes for her to use with different friends, at different times.


Originally posted by CarolMN
What you describe would not bother me, either. I put it in the same category as ... removing that infamous "DO NOT REMOVE" tag from a mattress.
But the tags on the matteress saying DO NOT REMOVE, except by consumer, which means once you buy it you can remove it :D

[AdventurerKat]

I do this all the time. Does it make a bad person? I don't think so. :)

My situation is that I usually end up going with different people each trip too. I buy an AP and then get a five or six day pass and my friend might use it on one trip, then my husband on the next, and then maybe another friend on the last. We tend to park hop alot when we go.

[Lewisc]

Although the tickets say they are non-transferrable they don't even have a spot for you to put your name. If Disney had intended to enforce the non-transfer provision they would have used the finger device, picture or at least had you sign your ticket (as with the Universal bonus pass). I agree sharing THESE PASSES (NOT AP OR LOS PASSES) on different days is about the same as driving a few MPH over the posted speed limit.
In fact if a family puts all the passes in one place you may very well be "transferring" the passes each time they are used since there is no easy way to be sure you're using the same pass you used last time.