Water park and more ticket question...

[WDW4TheGirls]

We have visited several times and always get the Park Hopper. We are thinking of trying a water park this time...and my question is: if we buy a 5 days Water Park and More ticket including Park Hopper, and decide not to go to the water park, can we have the 5 days in the park or do we have to use one day at a water park? And if we do go to a water park, can we go back to the regular parks in the evening for dinner, or did we take up that whole ticket day with the water park? Thanks!

 

[ravenclawtrekkie]

The Water Park Fun & More admissions are separate from the park days.

A 5 day ticket with WPF&M is five calendar days in the theme parks and five separate visits (not necessarily days) to the "Fun" admissions - all within 14 days of the ticket's first use.

You can use a ticket "day" and a Fun "admission" on the same calendar day.

EDIT:
Here's a sample itinerary to maybe make it clearer:
Day 1: Magic Kingdom (First park day used)
Day 2: Epcot (Second park day used)
Day 3: Typhoon Lagoon in the morning, Hollywood Studios in the afternoon/evening (Third park day used, first Fun visit used)
Day 4: Animal Kingdom in the morning, Blizzard Beach in the afternoon (Fourth park day used, second Fun visit used)
Day 5: Resort day, mini-golf in the afternoon (Third Fun visit used)
Day 6: DisneyQuest in the morning, another round of mini-golf in the afternoon (Fourth and fifth Fun visits used)
Day 7: Magic Kingdom (Fifth park day used)

 

[brockash]

The Water Park Fun & More admissions are separate from the park days.

A 5 day ticket with WPF&M is five calendar days in the theme parks and five separate visits (not necessarily days) to the "Fun" admissions - all within 14 days of the ticket's first use.

You can use a ticket "day" and a Fun "admission" on the same calendar day.

EDIT:
Here's a sample itinerary to maybe make it clearer:
Day 1: Magic Kingdom (First park day used)
Day 2: Epcot (Second park day used)
Day 3: Typhoon Lagoon in the morning, Hollywood Studios in the afternoon/evening (Third park day used, first Fun visit used)
Day 4: Animal Kingdom in the morning, Blizzard Beach in the afternoon (Fourth park day used, second Fun visit used)
Day 5: Resort day, mini-golf in the afternoon (Third Fun visit used)
Day 6: DisneyQuest in the morning, another round of mini-golf in the afternoon (Fourth and fifth Fun visits used)
Day 7: Magic Kingdom (Fifth park day used)

This...OP, another way to think of it is you get 10 days (5 "park entrances" to either a water park/golf/DQ and 5 "days" at the regular parks.) - This is actually one of the reasons that it took so long for us to try the waterparks, because for just a weeks stay it kinda seemed like a waste if we were doing 4 or 5 regular park days (you get the same amount of "park entrances" to the waterparks/fun stuff). Our kids are old enough to really enjoy the water parks, so we're doing those and cutting down on the amount of regular park days. -I'd really think about paying for park hoppers in addition to the water park option. - You can do a water park and a regular park in one day (it would take 1 "park entrance" of the waterpark/fun option and 1 regular park day away). We don't do hoppers anymore as we feel it's a waste and we don't really like nor did we really ever use it, but everyone is different.

 

[ravenclawtrekkie]

The thing with having PH and WPF&M together is that getting one cuts the cost of the other one down to about $28-ish per ticket after tax.

With PH already on your tickets, adding WPF&M costs quite a bit less than a separate one-day water park ticket, and you get the additional visits as a "bonus."

Without PH on your tickets, a separate one-day water park ticket is cheaper than the WPF&M option - and that one-day WP ticket is a "Water Park Hopper" so you can do both water parks in one day if you want to (assuming weather and transportation and the rather limited WP hours allow it). But you only get that one day, can't spread them out, and there's no additional "bonus" visits.

I'd consider all of this if I were the OP.