4 day park hopper from 1996 ?

[scooterx]

Just wondering if anyone has any info about using these tickets.
I have 3 passes one with two days left and two of them with one day left. Can we still use fast pass system and at the time there was no animal kindom park will we get in to that park?

 

[erikthewise]

Check out http://allearsnet.com/pl/ticket.htm for more information than you ever wanted to know.

I believe the answer is that you can definitely use the Fastpass system and (less certain here) use them at AK. BUT the ticket system apparently changed in 1996, so if you have the "old" style tickets you will have to exchange them for newer ones first (no charge) before you can do anything. (See "Ticket Media Conversion")

 

[Tinkbell]

Yes, you can use them at AK. However, to use them for fast passes, you will need to "trade" them in at guest services. You won't be charged anything and you will still have your remaining days left credited to your "new" passes. It's really easy.

 

[ralfrick]

Originally posted by Tinkbell
Yes, you can use them at AK. However, to use them for fast passes, you will need to "trade" them in at guest services. You won't be charged anything and you will still have your remaining days left credited to your "new" passes. It's really easy.

Everything I've seen on this topic, the Unofficial Guide is one example (pg 52, 2003 edition), says you would not be able to use these at the AK. When my wife's mom died, she found a bunch of old one day passes for DL from the 80's. When we used them last year, they would tear off the stub, and give us a ticket with a barcode (would be a Mag strip at WDW, yes?) to use for FP and readmission. They were NOT good for admission to DCA. We were able to keep the original, although they stamped the date on it.

However, look carefully at what they give you. The last day of our visit, the gate CM was on his first day back after surgery, and ended up giving us passes good for entry into both parks, so you may get lucky. It was an added thrill to use tickets with a price of $17.95. I used the last day of a 3 day WDW ticket from 1983 ten years later when the one day price had increased to what I'd paid for 3; also one of my favorite memories (esp. since I had paid for that one.)

Presumeably, unless they were hoppers, you would only be able to do one day/one park.

Cheers.

 

[SnackyStacky]

Originally posted by ralfrick
Everything I've seen on this topic, the Unofficial Guide is one example (pg 52, 2003 edition), says you would not be able to use these at the AK. When my wife's mom died, she found a bunch of old one day passes for DL from the 80's. When we used them last year, they would tear off the stub, and give us a ticket with a barcode (would be a Mag strip at WDW, yes?) to use for FP and readmission. They were NOT good for admission to DCA. We were able to keep the original, although they stamped the date on it.

However, look carefully at what they give you. The last day of our visit, the gate CM was on his first day back after surgery, and ended up giving us passes good for entry into both parks, so you may get lucky. It was an added thrill to use tickets with a price of $17.95. I used the last day of a 3 day WDW ticket from 1983 ten years later when the one day price had increased to what I'd paid for 3; also one of my favorite memories (esp. since I had paid for that one.)

Presumeably, unless they were hoppers, you would only be able to do one day/one park.

Cheers.

Disneyland is a completely different ballgame.

As far as Disney World is concerned, Disney now has a disclaimer on their tickets that tickets are not valid for admission to parks commencing operation after May 1, 1998.

Chances are your 1996 tickets don't have such a disclaimer, and Disney World is good about allowing admissions into Animal Kingdom with old passes.

Just make sure you take it to a Guest Relations location and they'll give you a mag stripe pass instead of the older style one.

 

[Geoff_M]

If I'm not mistaken, the "not good for parks opened after issuance" restriction effectively no longer exists. I believe the replacement tickets with the magnetic strips are good for all parks. I don't think the new tickets have a "park lock-out" feature.

 

[GoldenOldie]

Originally posted by Geoff_M
If I'm not mistaken, the "not good for parks opened after issuance" restriction effectively no longer exists.

Newly issued tickets do indeed still carry the disclaimer. All it does is satisfy Disney Legal that they have reserved their option to charge you extra for any new parks that open in the future. Doesn't mean it is etched in stone. They only charged extra for AK for the first 9 months it was open.

And keep in mind that all park hopping tickets since the day Epcot opened have had some kind of disclaimer on them like "valid only for admission to the Magic Kingdom and Epcot" but today, those tickets will get you into all four parks despite what the ticket said.


...I believe the replacement tickets with the magnetic strips are good for all parks. I don't think the new tickets have a "park lock-out" feature.

They are. And it's not that the tickets don't have a lockout feature, it's that the ATS computer system isn't programmed to do it.

 

[liznboys]

All you have to do is go to Guest Relations and trade your old tickets in for new ones...and the new ones will work just like ones you'd buy today.

I know this because we did just that on our last trip! We had 3 tickets with one day left on each. They were from 1991! The CM gave us 3 one-day passes that were good for all 4 parks. Sort of like a one-day park hopper. And then we bought 4 day hoppers for the rest of our trip. It was quick and easy to do, no problems at all. Oh and of course since they were new tickets, they worked for the FastPasses as well.

 

[eeyore0062]

These tics will work at all parks but AK. For them to work at AK, take your tics to a ticket booth, or Guest Relations and have them reissued. This will give you a ticket you can use everywhere, and will work at the fastpass machines, as well!

 

[GoldenOldie]

Originally posted by eeyore0062
These tics will work at all parks but AK. For them to work at AK, take your tics to a ticket booth, or Guest Relations and have them reissued. This will give you a ticket you can use everywhere, and will work at the fastpass machines, as well!

If the 1996 tickets already have the magnetic strip on the back, they can be used as is at all 4 parks with no exchange required. If the 1996 tickets have only a bar code and no magnetic strip, then the tickets need to be exchanged at Guest Relations.