Can I do this with tickets? New thought: can I cram all of this into 5 days?

[penguinande]

I bought a 4 day park hopper ticket for my friend for Xmas, and we are leaving on May 14, but I still haven't purchased my own ticket. We will be there 5 full days, and were planning on doing 4 park days + 1 waterpark. I was just looking at the ticket prices online, and I see that a 5 day MYW with hopping is only $1 more than a 4 day! So, if I get the 5 day for myself, how much would it cost to upgrade my friend's ticket to a 5 day (or can I even do that?) I think I paid about $200 for her ticket, and the 5 day hopper is now $221. Thanks for your help.

 

[tbelfonti]

You can update your friend's ticket by paying the difference either at Guest Services at any park or at any Disney hotel

 

[penguinande]

Oh good, I was worried that I might have to get the no expiration option because her ticket has that. So I can just pay the monetary difference between what I paid for hers and the MYW price?

 

[GoldenOldie]

You cannot mix non expiration days and expiration days on a ticket. Everything on a single ticket must have the same options. You will indeed have to add the non expiration option onto it but the total to do it all should be about $30.

 

[penguinande]

Thanks. That sounds like a pretty good deal.

 

[seashoreCM]

Since you bought your friend a ticket (before 1/2/05) for a Christmas present, it is the old style park hopper that cannot have days added. You may trade it towards a MYW ticket, its gate price versus the new ticket's get price and you pay the difference. Provided you make the exchange within 13 days after first usage you don't need to add non-expiration to the new ticket.

Since you need just 4 park days and one waterpark day you do not even need the fifth day on your friend's ticket or your own.

If you are going to just one waterpark, you should buy a separate admission for it. If you are visiting both waterparks on that one waterpark day, you should add the plus pack to your ticket and, if your firend trades up his ticket add the plus pack to that.

If you are thinking of non-expiration, it is suggested that you get a 7 or 10 day MYW ticket.

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

 

[penguinande]

Ok, so I see that I can pretty easily upgrade to 5 day hoppers, and it sounds like a pretty good deal, but I still want to do a waterpark. For those of you who do the waterparks, do you split the day between the waterpark and a theme park or do you just do one or the other. It's our first trip and I want to enjoy it, so I want to do as much as I can, but I also want to have time to relax and go to the boardwalk, DTD and maybe some of the resorts (especially want to eat as many places as possible). This is what my itinerary looks like right now:
Sat, May 14: arrive at 7:30, go to DTD, dinner at PH
Sun, May 15: Breakfast at DB, AK until 4 or 5; MK until closing
Mon, May 16: MK all day
Tues, May 17: TL, undecided evening
Wed, May 18: Epcot all day, dinner at San Angel
Thurs, May 19: MGM dinner at Mama Melrose, possibly another park for the evening
Fri, May 20: departure
So if I try to squeeze some more theme park time into Tuesday, will I lose all my leisure time? Would it even be worth it to spring for the extra day when I already have a pretty good plan worked out?

 

[seashoreCM]

Just my opinion, visit resorts, Boardwalk, etc. on your waterpark day, Tuesday.

If you decide to squeeze some theme park time on the day you set aside for the waterpark you will have the urge to stay in the theme park and then you have to plan another Disney visit to do the outside stuff like Boardwalk.