Disney hotels without tickets or dining plan?

[Colargol]

We'll be staying in Florida for 3 weeks, one at a Disneyhotel and two at another resort. We will get a 10day pass for the parks.
This leaves us with about a week where we are not going to Disney parks or will be staying at a Disney hotel.

Will it be possible for us to enjoy a (character) meal at one of the Disney hotels during this week? Was about to make a reservation, but then I started worrying we might not be accepted when we are not in the "Disney-loop"....

 

[figment_jii]

You do not have to have a valid park ticket or be staying at a Disney hotel to eat the hotels. Nor do you have to have the DDP to eat at a resort hotel. So, you can eat at any of the hotels during your week when you aren't staying at Disney.

 

[mdsd8700]

Hi Colargol, thought I would chime in with pp and say absolutely!! Disney loves your money and will take it pretty much anyway they can. Feel free to visit any of the hotels while you are vacationing to get a feel for all of them. Values, moderates and deluxes just to see if you would like to stay at any of them when you return. You can even go to one of the monorail resorts, look around, have a drink, shop or have bite to eat and then hop on the monorail and ride the monrail loop. Either stopping at each of the 3 resorts to visit (Grand Floridan, Polynesian and Contemporary) or simply just enjoy the ride. It is a wonderful, fun thing to do and we still do it on every trip because we enjoy it so much. There was a time you could ride in the first car of the monorail, but sadly there was a tragic accident involving a cast member and it is no longer allowed. However riding the monorail is still a complete Disney Experience!

Enjoy your vacation!

 

[Metsoskil]

Don't worry. As long as you're money's green, they'll take it.

Enjoy!

 

[dzorn]

Cape May breakfast at the Beach Club is one of our fav.

Denise in MI

 

[Micca]

Not to open a whole 'nother can of worms, but you might check the difference in price between 10 day passes and the Annual Pass. You may find for a pretty nominal price difference you could return to WDW within a year and have your park admissions covered. Just a thought

 

[dzorn]

Not to open a whole 'nother can of worms, but you might check the difference in price between 10 day passes and the Annual Pass. You may find for a pretty nominal price difference you could return to WDW within a year and have your park admissions covered. Just a thought

About $200 dollars difference.

Denise in MI

 

[Sandi]

Not to open a whole 'nother can of worms, but you might check the difference in price between 10 day passes and the Annual Pass. You may find for a pretty nominal price difference you could return to WDW within a year and have your park admissions covered. Just a thought

And I was going to suggest adding the Water Park and More option to your pass as that will give you 10 more entries to the water parks, etc. to do on your non-park days. (I have an AP with Water Parks and LOVE it.)

 

[bumbershoot]

About $200 dollars difference.

Denise in MI

Which is a lot less than another 10 day ticket if they are coming back inside of the year.

And I was going to suggest adding the Water Park and More option to your pass as that will give you 10 more entries to the water parks, etc. to do on your non-park days. (I have an AP with Water Parks and LOVE it.)

But with a normal ticket, it will all expire at 14 days. They'd have to add the no-expiration option to keep them for their whole trip. Which might be more than they want (I think they could actually get a waterpark AP for less than the no-expire option).

 

[Amy&Dan]

An annual pass will cost around $252 more than a ten day base ticket per person.

I like the idea of adding the waterpark option, we have done that for our long trips. Although as Molly said, it will expire in 14 days after the first use.

Eating at the resorts, looking around the resorts, visiting Downtown Disney, mini golf, riding the monorail around, are all things Disney encourages you to do knowing that you are there, spending money and possibly falling so in love with it you'll come back again.

 

[Sandi]

But with a normal ticket, it will all expire at 14 days. They'd have to add the no-expiration option to keep them for their whole trip. Which might be more than they want (I think they could actually get a waterpark AP for less than the no-expire option).

Right. I forgot about that. Thanks.