DDP - 16 nights at SSR but 14 day ticket

[catherinen]

We're staying at SSR for 16 nights in August and have the DDP. We booked through Virgin. I assume we have 16 days worth of DDP, even though we only have 14 day tickets? If anyone could clarify this for me I'd be very grateful!

 

[2Tiggies]

Yes, we have done this several times. You need park tickets to be eligible for the DDP but the DDP is linked to the number of nights in your resort, not the number of park days you have.

This year we have 18 nights with 14 day park tickets. We will have DDP for the entire stay but 4 days where we have to amuse ourselves outside of the parks

 

[catherinen]

Thanks so much for your swift reply! I spent ages planning and getting all my ADRs and I was dreading the thought of having to get rid of 2 credits!

 

[chmurf]

remember that your 14 days tickets start the first time you enter a park

so it's up to you to decide when you start.

Perhaps not going on check in day is managable (it's heart wrenching I know) but that saves one full day of parks for later.

but you'll need to leave those 4 days without park before and/or after your 14 days tickets, and not during the 14 days following your first entry, and be careful planning in-park ADRs (I mention, just in case )

 

[catherinen]

Thanks chmurf. To take advantage of Virgin's offer of early entry to WWOHP (which has to win the award for Offer With the Most Caveats Ever) we're sacrificing the first full day to go to the obligatory Virgin meeting, then will do Universal for that day and the next before beginning our Disney tickets the day after. It's our first trip and there's so much to think about!

 

[2Tiggies]

Perhaps not going on check in day is managable (it's heart wrenching I know) but that saves one full day of parks for later.

We never go on check in day. Even the one year when we arrived just after 3 pm at our resort and the parks were open late, we opted for DTD to start off. I am with you on this one: not the best use of a park entry if you have days to spare since you don't get that many hours out of it, especially with the arrival times of most international flights.

Catherine, Obligatory VH meeting? THey can surely not force you to book a holiday with them and then spend one of those days listening to their promotional bumf!

 

[catherinen]

Catherine, Obligatory VH meeting? THey can surely not force you to book a holiday with them and then spend one of those days listening to their promotional bumf! [/QUOTE]

Sadly - yes! To get the early entry to WWOHP you have to go to their meeting! This was one of the main draws for DH, so that's what we're doing. Actually from what I can gather you can just ask for the tickets and make a run for it, and anyway, with it being our first trip there might be something in it that will be vaguely useful. Last, I think (thought cannot get confirmation about this from Virgin) that the meeting's at DTD, which will be just a hop skip and jump from us at SSR, so not too inconvenient.

 

[2Tiggies]

Oh that's ok then. So it's for WOHP. I can see your reasons for going. I just asked because you said this was your first trip and I know that some years back, Thomas Cook told us we HAD to go to their meeting and that's where we would be issued our (can't even remember what silly things they were). It was our first trip too and I really didn't know any better but there was no way I was spending our first vacation day in some sales pitch type meeting so I told them in that case I would book elsewhere. All of a sudden we were told to collect our pack from the rep at MCO and the compulsory meeting was optional

As long as you know you have options

 

[paulh]

i remember them trying to sell us sunscreen as the stuff they were selling was made for the sun and the factor 50 we had got from boots was not made for the Florida sun, yea right. that was in 1992 first and last meeting we have been to
Paul

 

[2Tiggies]

i remember them trying to sell us sunscreen as the stuff they were selling was made for the sun and the factor 50 we had got from boots was not made for the Florida sun, yea right. that was in 1992 first and last meeting we have been to
Paul

I know it must have made you so to have wasted your time, but if that was the way they pitched their sale I don't think I could have stopped myself from right at them! Unreal!

 

[tinkerpea]

We never go on check in day. Even the one year when we arrived just after 3 pm at our resort and the parks were open late, we opted for DTD to start off. I am with you on this one: not the best use of a park entry if you have days to spare since you don't get that many hours out of it, especially with the arrival times of most international flights.

Catherine, Obligatory VH meeting? THey can surely not force you to book a holiday with them and then spend one of those days listening to their promotional bumf!

We never go on arrival day either,My mum usually thinks Im insane along with Dh for wanting to go to DTD they like to swim them sleep so they dont get Jetlagged I er am soooooo excited i like to go to DTD look around the shops then the resort, Im then the one who is shattered the next day though!