1991 park passes

[mitchinson]

I have a friend who will be visiting WDW in Spring. She has come across some old passes from 1991 that still have 2 days unused. They are called 5 Day Plus Super Passes that had to be stamped at the turnstile. It's a two-part pass that has to be detached if you use it for the "Plus" attractions. Only the "Plus" attraction part had an expiration date on it of Feb 1992. Does anyone know if the other part of the pass is still good? I'm wondering if the Length of Stay Pass or the Ultimate Park Hopper has replaced it and that it is no longer "usable" after the initial visit or is it the same as a regular Hopper Pass that can be used indefinetly. Anyone know?

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by mitchinson
I have a friend who will be visiting WDW in Spring. She has come across some old passes from 1991 that still have 2 days unused. They are called 5 Day Plus Super Passes that had to be stamped at the turnstile. It's a two-part pass that has to be detached if you use it for the "Plus" attractions. Only the "Plus" attraction part had an expiration date on it of Feb 1992. Does anyone know if the other part of the pass is still good? I'm wondering if the Length of Stay Pass or the Ultimate Park Hopper has replaced it and that it is no longer "usable" after the initial visit or is it the same as a regular Hopper Pass that can be used indefinetly. Anyone know?

The park hopper park does not expire.

 

[GoldenOldie]

The remaining days are still usable. What your friend should do is upon arrival at WDW, take the tickets to any Guest Relations window and have them exchanged for the current magnetic strip ticket media. They will give you back a current ticket, good at all 4 theme parks, with exactly the same number of admissions as the old ticket had. There is no charge for having this done.

 

[tiberius]

I believe it is still true that Disney will not allow use of this old ticket for any park that was not open in the time period during which the ticket was bought--such as Animal Kingdom.

 

[Lori-n-NY]

My parents had 5 day tickets from 1990 with only 1 day used on each and switched them into new passes that had 4 days to use and we walked into Animal Kingdom with no problems. We also used them at Studios. Both of these parks were not built back in 1990. It was an even exchange 1 day for 1 day no money envolved.

Hope that helps.

Lori

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Originally posted by tiberius
I believe it is still true that Disney will not allow use of this old ticket for any park that was not open in the time period during which the ticket was bought--such as Animal Kingdom.

That is no longer true. If it were, Golden Oldie would have told us.

 

[mitchinson]

Thanks for all your help. I will pass the info along to my friend.

 

[tiberius]

Originally posted by GAIL HAYDEN
That is no longer true. If it were, Golden Oldie would have told us.

Thanks, Gail

I am glad they have updated this concept.

 

[GoldenOldie]

Originally posted by tiberius
Thanks, Gail

I am glad they have updated this concept.

It was officially changed in 1996 when they went to the magnetic strip tickets although MGM was allowing admission with old hand-stamped tickets informally for a few years prior to that. After trying to figure out a way to get the old tickets into the ATS database, Disney decided the enormous effort involved wasn't worth the reward. So starting in 1996, all those old pre-1989 tickets that said they were only good for MK and EC were suddenly good for MGM, too.

In 1998, same thing happened following the initial nine month opening period of AK. During the opening months, everyone (even AP holders) was charged an "upgrade fee" to include AK admission on tickets purchased prior to April '98. After December of 1998, that restriction went away and all tickets that use the magnetic strip technology were allowed admittance to AK with no further charge.

And that brings us to today where all magnetic strip park tickets allow admission to any of the four major theme parks regardless of what was open when the ticket was originally purchased.

 

[Simba's Mom]

Back in 1992, my 2 DS's called them "Super Dooper Booper Passes". We also found 2 with a couple days left and used them in May 2003. As an added "problem", they were children's passes, and our now college-aged sons had no problem using them.

 

[seashoreCM]

To summarize, the correct way of upgrading old passes is to do an even exchange, no money involved. This is the only way to make the slogan "unused days never expire" remain true.

The "plusses" on old non-magnetic hopper plus passes did expire, typically seven days after first use of the pass itself. Therefore the even exchange will result in a pass with no plusses remaining.

A small number of folks may have a compelling reason to apply the remaining value of an old pass towards a new pass with more days or privileges, but there is a severe penalty, cost wise. The remaining yesteryear's dollar value of an old pass will not buy the same number of days' worth of a new pass at today's prices.