Confused on Base Ticket and Park Hopper

[MelSettle]

We are currently booked for a trip at the end of Sept. I have all of my ADR's booked and will be booking my fastpass stuff soon. We will be staying at the Poly for 7 days but won't be visiting the parks on check in day or check out day. We do have ADR's for check-in day at Downtown Disney. Right now I have the 7 day base tickets. I will only be visiting the parks for 6 days but one of those days I need to park hop. So do I drop one base ticket and add a park hopper to one day? Will this mess up any of my ADR's or anything like that? I can't use that 7th day base ticket to park hop correct? Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Disney_Alli]

Yes you need to change your tickets to a six day park hopper. It will not affect anything else you have booked.

 

[MelSettle]

The six day park hopper will allow me to park hop everyday, correct? I only need top hop one day. Is that the only way to do it? Thanks so much for the help!

 

[scrapquitler]

If you purchase Park Hopper tickets, it means that you can enter multiple parks on EVERY day for the duration of your tickets. You do not have the option of adding it for only one day. You can choose to use it only on one day, but it will cost the same as if you use it all the days.

 

[sassie_kat]

You're right - the only way to add park hopping to ONE day is to add it to ALL days. Bonus is that if you decide to hop on a day that you hadn't planned on it (too crowded, too many rides down, not feeling the vibe) you can do it without any hassle.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

You can't add hopping for just one day. You must add it for all days on the tickets. As noted above, hopping costs the same whether you add it to a one day ticket or a seven day ticket, so you might as well get it for the whole time if you really need it.

If you're on a package, change your seven day ticket to a six day ticket if you will not be using that last day.

 

[MelSettle]

Okay, thanks for the help! I'm off to add it!

 

[Claire&TheBoys]

If you can change around your ADRs so that you don't have to hop, that would be ideal. It would save you approximately $50 per ticket. It's almost $60 each to add the hopper, but dropping one day will only save you about $10 each.

 

[Robo]

As noted above, hopping costs the same whether you add it to a one day ticket or a seven day ticket...

Sorry, but that's no longer true.

There are different (lesser) prices for adding the Hopper to shorter tickets.

Add Hopper option to:
MK 1-day: $50
EP, HS, AK 1-day: $58

2-day: $50
3-day: $50

4-day thru 10-day: $64

SPECIAL NOTE:

If you already have the Water Parks Fun and More option on your tickets,
adding the Hopper is a one-time, one-price fee of just $26 per ticket.



All prices, plus tax.

 

[Jadyreen1282]

Park hopper is the best for those of us that ADR all over, dessert party and dinner show. Makes it so much easier to plan, see fireworks after they're rained out and just be spontaneous.

 

[POOHsie]

Park hopper is very useful for a single day with AK and HS or Epcot and HS (for example). Also, if you encounter a rainstorm and leave a park, you can visit a closer park that evening or fit in a make-up visit to the rained-out park on another day. Once we used PH when we were at Epcot. One of our group never saw MSEP and Wishes before, so we hopped to MK. Then we returned to Epcot for EMH.

 

[nicolej92]

You have to add it to all your days- there is no way to add it to just one. We bought the park hopper option just in case, not thinking we would really use it, and we used it almost everyday. Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios are more half-day parks, so we hopped back over to see different night shows and get a few extra rides in. It is definitely worth the investment!

 

[Ceryssa]

Sorry, but that's no longer true.

There are different (lesser) prices for adding the Hopper to shorter tickets.

Add Hopper option to:
MK 1-day: $50
EP, HS, AK 1-day: $58

2-day: $50
3-day: $50

4-day thru 10-day: $64

SPECIAL NOTE:

If you already have the Water Parks Fun and More option on your tickets,
adding the Hopper is a one-time, one-price fee of just $26 per ticket.



All prices, plus tax.

Wow that's good information, I didn't know they'd changed it. It seems like last year when I looked into it for a one day ticket it was $35 for single tickets and somewhere around $60 for multi-day tickets (I didn't end up adding it so I don't remember exactly). Then I remember seeing they'd changed it to make it the same regardless of number of days. I guess EP/HS/AK hoppers are higher because people are more likely to buy them for tickets for those parks? Or maybe because people are most likely to hop to MK and that's their way of making up the additional ticket charge for MK. Or both?

 

[SirDuff]

I guess EP/HS/AK hoppers are higher because people are more likely to buy them for tickets for those parks? Or maybe because people are most likely to hop to MK and that's their way of making up the additional ticket charge for MK. Or both?

I assumed that it was because the 1-day MK ticket is more expensive than the 1-day "other park" ticket. By making the park hopper option cheaper for the MK ticket, a one-day park hopper is the same price no matter what park your base ticket was for. Which make sense - once you had the park hopper, the one-day tickets are all the same.