Anyone used an old ticket?

[mmeads4]

WDW says they will honor "old tickets". I have heard of some people who found an unused ticket from WDW and took it to the Guest Relations and they credited it towards a ticket-- that being said, I bought 4 unused "Magic Kingdom Key" tickets off ebay for 0.99c! (The year is unknown, no expiration date, they look 1975ish or around that time) I wonder if I can get a 4 day pass or 4-1 day passes????
I called WDW and they said to bring the tickets with me and they'll take a look but the CM couldn't say yes or no, she did say that Disney does honor ALL tickets......

 

[disneediva]

I have used an older ticket but is was circa 1984 and had no problem with it.

 

[mmeads4]

Disneediva-when did you do the exchange and where-Guest Relations at MK?

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

Back when Disney World opened, there was just the Magic Kingdom. Guests purchased coupon booklets. Each coupon was good for a different activity. One would permit all-day use of the transportation system. Then there would be other coupons with letters A-E. The letter represented a different type of ride. The E-ticket rides were the most popular (hence the name E-Ride Nights). You could purchase additional ride tickets without having to purchase another book. And, of course, there was a general admission coupon included in the booklet.

Sometime in the mid-70's, Disney introduced an Unlimited Passport that allowed admission and unlimited rides for a given number of days (usually 2 or 3 days). They still maintained the individual ticket books as well. Eventually, the ticket books were phased out and the World Passports went in to use shortly after EPCOT opened.

The tickets since then have gone by various names. The Super Pass, the Park Hopper, the Length of Stay Pass, the Unlimited Magic Pass and the Magic Your Way Pass are all names that Disney has used over time to describe their passes.

I'm not sure what kind of value Disney will place on the tickets that you purchased. I doubt that they have much in the way of a dollar credit towards today's admission media. It will be interesting to see how they treat them.

If you'd like to compare them to other tickets from the 70's, there's a pretty good page on Deb Wills' site:
http://allearsnet.com/tix/tixpix70.htm

 

[byoung]

Don,t trade the tickets in use them. If you trade they only give you the value of what they where bought for.

 

[disneediva]

MMEADS4 I did go to guest relations at MK and they exchanged it for a one day pass

 

[Simba's Mom]

We used a couple tickets from the late 80's when we took our DSs in 2003. We just went through the gate using them, didn't exchange them, but this was before they used the finger scan things. At FP machines, we just showed the ticket and the CM would print out a FP. What was cool was that the tickets were childrens' tickets (which they were in the late 80s), but in 2003 they were both college students. Yet, we had no problems.

 

[seashoreCM]

:, I bought 4 unused "Magic Kingdom Key" tickets off ebay for 0.99c! (The year is unknown, no expiration date, they look 1975ish or around that time) I wonder if I can get a 4 day pass or 4-1 day passes????[/url]

If those tickets are from 1975'ish (or are pre-1982) and are single sheets of paper, they could be fragments of a ticket book and as such are worth at best about a dollar each. Only complete ticket books or (I think they existed back then) single cardboard cards that allowed admission and unlimited rides and sold to resort guests can be exchanged for one day or however many day equivalent modern passes.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

 

[OhMari]

My great aunt bought a life-time pass in 1971, I think for around $24.00. I have it in my scrap book, it is non transferrable.













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[Azure]

Just make sure that it's not one that you have to use within 14 days of first use.


*~Azure~*

 

[JForestZ34]

I still have 4 5-day tickets unused that they used to stamp with a date on the ticket whe you would walk it. They didn't have the computerized turn-stiles yet. I think they were bought in the Mid 80's.


James

 

[ccw]

That was the type of ticket we had on our first visit in 1990 so that style may have stayed around for a while. I also remember having our pictures made for tickets, maybe the same "era" but have long since used them up and apparently didn't save them for souvenirs.

 

[Schmeck]

If the ticket is from the 70's or so, wouldn't it only be good at MK? Don't the passes have on them which parks they are good for, and as each new park was opened, the newer tickets allowed entry, but the older ones did not?

Are you even sure the tickets are any good? How do you know that they haven't been used already?

 

[MsDisney23]

I have used old ticket's with no problems! Sure wish I had some now!

 

[mjgruber]

If you bought a ticket back in say 1996 for one day at the MK you would get a ticket today for the MK, you would not just get credit for what you paid in 1996.

 

[GoldenOldie]

mmeads4:

What you bought were part of a pre-1980 Magic Kingdom ticket book. If you have the coupon that says "admit one adult to the Magic Kingdom", then you can exchange that at Guest Relations for a one day ticket at no charge. If you do not have that coupon, then the individual tickets were for rides only and are only worth about 90 cents towards purchasing a current ticket.

 

[StephenKay]

Hi there,

I have coupons for rides that date back to 1971, these are complimentary coupons A,B & C for various rides. Are they any use apart from Ebay?

 

[InstImpres]

If it is like this auction http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Disney-...613246957QQcategoryZ13848QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

it states on it (bottom right corner) good for 1 ride. Sorry, sounds like you will not get a 1 day park pass for it,

 

[GoldenOldie]

I have coupons for rides that date back to 1971, these are complimentary coupons A,B & C for various rides. Are they any use apart from Ebay?

Complimentary tickets are free tickets and thus have zero value for anything but that for which they were intended. Since there are no longer any rides that require the A through E tickets, those ones you have are Ebay (for collectors) or scrapbook (for memories) material only.

 

[mmeads4]

Back when Disney World opened, there was just the Magic Kingdom. Guests purchased coupon booklets. Each coupon was good for a different activity. One would permit all-day use of the transportation system. Then there would be other coupons with letters A-E. The letter represented a different type of ride. The E-ticket rides were the most popular (hence the name E-Ride Nights). You could purchase additional ride tickets without having to purchase another book. And, of course, there was a general admission coupon included in the booklet.

Sometime in the mid-70's, Disney introduced an Unlimited Passport that allowed admission and unlimited rides for a given number of days (usually 2 or 3 days). They still maintained the individual ticket books as well. Eventually, the ticket books were phased out and the World Passports went in to use shortly after EPCOT opened.

The tickets since then have gone by various names. The Super Pass, the Park Hopper, the Length of Stay Pass, the Unlimited Magic Pass and the Magic Your Way Pass are all names that Disney has used over time to describe their passes.

I'm not sure what kind of value Disney will place on the tickets that you purchased. I doubt that they have much in the way of a dollar credit towards today's admission media. It will be interesting to see how they treat them.

If you'd like to compare them to other tickets from the 70's, there's a pretty good page on Deb Wills' site:
http://allearsnet.com/tix/tixpix70.htm

Thanks for the link! Mine is 1977 8 Adventure Magic Kingdom Club Magic Key Book-Adult $7.75