Are 7-for4 tickets transferable?

[Mississippian]

I have a DVC trip planned for March/April but am thinking about switching to the 7-for-4 deal.

It seems to me the best deal possible would be for me to go ahead and buy our annual pass and also get the 7-day ticket with no expiration for use at a future time. I tend to let my APs expire and then buy new ones because that is the most effective for me. It would obviously be convenient to have a no-experation 7-day park hopper for future short trips where it is not worthwhile to buy an AP.

The 7-for-4 ticket is a good value, especially when adding the no-expiration option. For my family of 3 adults, one child a 7-day park hopper costs $1517. With the special deal it costs about $1,000 extra to get the 7-day, no-expire hopper over the cost of the cheapest one-day ticket.

Now for my question. Suppose a year or so goes by and it's obvious I'm not going to really need the 7-day ticket (I think I will, but just suppose). Assuming I've never used a single day, could I give the ticket to Cousin Joe for his use? The ticket will have never been used, and so won't be linked to the size of my finger bones.

Just curious.

 

[su_A_ve]

Tickets are non-transferable.

However you could use those one day base tickets as credit towards future APs... It would be $75 credit AFAIK

 

[rt2dz]

An unused ticket may be given to anyone. Non-transferable really refers to used tickets. Just remember, you can upgrade the 7 day ticket to an AP for full gate value (provided it’s used once first).

 

[snykymom]

Also note that you do not need the "no expiration" option on an unused ticket. The 14 day expiration period does not begin until you actually use the first day of the ticket. A completely unused ticket is good forever, without the no expiration option.

So just buy the 7 day ticket and hold onto it.

 

[Mississippian]

Also note that you do not need the "no expiration" option on an unused ticket. The 14 day expiration period does not begin until you actually use the first day of the ticket. A completely unused ticket is good forever, without the no expiration option.

So just buy the 7 day ticket and hold onto it.

Any time I'm going to be at WDW for 7 days I'm going to be inclined to buy an annual pass, particularly since I get the DVC discount.

My thinking was that having a no-expire ticket would be nice for sometime when the AP is expired and I only want to visit for two or three days. For some reason a 9-day ticket with no expiration, park hopping and water parks prices out very favorably when bought with the 7-4 deal compared to what that ticket would cost standing alone (adding two days is a better deal with the special than it is normally). If used between annual passes such a ticket would be useful for years. Nine days of water parks would be more than I would use in years, either, so I could buy a standard annual pass instead of the premium.

 

[rt2dz]

Also note that you do not need the "no expiration" option on an unused ticket. The 14 day expiration period does not begin until you actually use the first day of the ticket. A completely unused ticket is good forever, without the no expiration option.

So just buy the 7 day ticket and hold onto it.

I think the OP was referring to getting the 7 day no expiration ticket for the cost of a 4 day no expiration ticket. The cost of no expiration goes up by the number of days. So by getting the free days cost factored in, the upgrade (once used) would give her full gate value of the 7 day ticket and cost her a lot less money in the long run.

I considered doing this too, but decided to go with the lowest bottom line now. Mainly because I'm already sitting on so many tickets and we will be doing two trips in 2009 so immediate expenders outweighed the long run benefits.

ETA--OP posted while I was typing. And I was wrong.

 

[JulieEck]

You may want to consider the 10 day instead of the 7 day since it costs so little to add those last few days, especially if you are already doing the no expiration with it anyway.

We booked a 7 night deal in June and did 10 day, park hopper, no expiration tickets to go with it. We have AP's that we'll use, so these will be for future use only. We tend to do shorter trips, hence the no exp on them. I discovered that the ticket increase from 4 days to 7 also stays the same for the no expiration option as well as the base part of it. For park hopping and the water parks, it's a flat rate no matter how many days you do. For us, we are paying $110 instead of $200 for the no expiration option on the 10 day tickets. I was pleasantly surprised to discover this!

 

[Mississippian]

You may want to consider the 10 day instead of the 7 day since it costs so little to add those last few days, especially if you are already doing the no expiration with it anyway.

We booked a 7 night deal in June and did 10 day, park hopper, no expiration tickets to go with it. We have AP's that we'll use, so these will be for future use only. We tend to do shorter trips, hence the no exp on them. I discovered that the ticket increase from 4 days to 7 also stays the same for the no expiration option as well as the base part of it. For park hopping and the water parks, it's a flat rate no matter how many days you do. For us, we are paying $110 instead of $200 for the no expiration option on the 10 day tickets. I was pleasantly surprised to discover this!

I agree with you and that is what I'm thinking about doing.

In tinkering around, I've found that the 9-day has the best price for me. The cost increase from 9 to 10 days is much greater than the cost increase from 7 to 8 or 8 to 9 days.

Some years ago after these tickets first came out I bought my wife a 10-day ticket. As I recall, it was a much better deal back then to buy a 10-day no-expire ticket than it is today. We still have that ticket today, even though I think we've used all the days. There are some waterpark days left on it.

I think using a 7-day ticket is a waste because the cost is so close to the annual pass price. So if we book the 7-4 deal I'll probably get a 9-day no-expre park hopper to use over the next three or four years between annual passes.

 

[su_A_ve]

You may want to consider the 10 day instead of the 7 day since it costs so little to add those last few days, especially if you are already doing the no expiration with it anyway.

This is the case without the no-expire option. Once you add no-expire, the price per day goes up considerably. Going from 7 to 8 is much cheaper than going from 8 to 9 or 9 to 10 days..