Base/Hopper Ticket question

[robtown29]

Anyone know if you can use an extra day on a base ticket to go to a second park on the same day? Situation is we have 5-day base tickets, only have one day of the trip where we would hop so we didn't spend the extra $120 for hopper option. So if we go to Epocot in the morning could we go to MK at night and have a total of 2 days taken off our base ticket? We onyl need 4 of the 5 days, so it won't be a big deal to "lose" that day.

Thanks!

 

[katgarbars]

The concise answer is "no". The computer scans your ticket and won't let you use it at another park on the same day. To hop you need hopper tix.

 

[Kick Save]

No, the OP is right...with multi-day, non-hopper tickets, the scanners will just take another day off. It's an expensive way to see two parks, but it'll work.

EDIT: Quick math on the WDW site shows that for two adult, 4 day hopper tickets you'll pay $466. For two non-hopper, 5 day tickets you'll pay $398. So, burning two days of your 5-day is actually cheaper for the four day stay.

I think another alternative would be to buy the 4 day non-hopper and upgrade it to a hopper on the last day. Not sure what that would cost, though.

 

[robtown29]

OK everyone, we've got 2 conflicting replies....has anyone ever actually done this?

 

[Kick Save]

I'm 99.98% sure you'll be able to do this...Disney will be perfectly happy with you using two days worth of tickets in only one day in their parks. (If Disney turns down the $$, let me know. )

Think of it another way...if you were holding 5 individual, one-day tickets what's to stop you from using one ticket at the MK in the morning and a different ticket at Epcot in the evening? Nothing...same thing here, ceppin' all the tickets are on the same card.

 

[Diznotyzed]

The concise answer is "no". The computer scans your ticket and won't let you use it at another park on the same day. To hop you need hopper tix.

This is correct. No hopping without a hopper ticket.

 

[Onceler]

This is correct. No hopping without a hopper ticket.

Agreed. You cannot go to a second park without the park hopper option. If you try it, the computer system will deny entrance at the second park.

Of course you can park hop using individual one day tickets. But that would cost much more than adding park hopping to a multi-day ticket.

I think another alternative would be to buy the 4 day non-hopper and upgrade it to a hopper on the last day. Not sure what that would cost, though.

Adding the park hopping option costs the same regardless of the length of the ticket. So adding it for the last day costs the same as adding it for 5 days.

 

[WantToGoNow]

My understanding is that you cannot do this. The park(s) will only accept a non-hopping ticket once in a day.

 

[mapmakerj]

This question was asked before and the answer is no (unfortunately). The only way to hop is with a hopper. If you could use more than one day off of a ticket, everyone would just pay the couple bucks for the extra day instead of paying for the hopper. I wish we could do it that way but it is Disney's way of getting us to pay more for the opportunity to visit more than one park in a day. The computer systems will not allow more than one park day to be taken off the ticket per calendar day and therefor if you went to a second park on the same day the ticket would be rejected.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

To echo others... the answer is "no". You cannot use the extra day's ticket to get into another park on the same day. Disney gives such a break on the extra days that they would hardly get any takers on the hopper option if they did that.

 

[Kick Save]

Ah...didn't think about it the Magic You Way way. I'm an idiot, I even did the math and didn't see the obvious loophole. In the good old days, you'd just burn an extra day.

Sorry for my mis-information...a thousand pardons my fellow DISers.

But, even so, the hopper option will still cost you less than a day's admission for the whole 4 days.

 

[seashoreCM]

In the good old days, you'd just burn an extra day..

I don't ever recall there being non-hopping multi-day tickets where you could burn an extra day to enter a second park on the same calendar day.

You could and still can burn an extra ticket. That is, enter the second park using a different card. Almost always a waste of money. Works with tickets of any vintage or size.

All through the years since Epcot opened, most tickets were hoppers. There was once a 4 day non-hopper allowing one day at MK, one day at Epcot, one day at MGM (any order) and the last day at your choice of the parks. AK wasn't open then.

 

[GoldenOldie]

I don't ever recall there being non-hopping multi-day tickets where you could burn an extra day to enter a second park on the same calendar day.

The tickets originally known as "bounce back" were one day/one park tickets that allowed it. Later those tickets were just called two day and three day tickets before being discontinued in 2005.