Does he need a ticket or not?

[MonacoDK]

We are planning our first family trip to Disneyland in May. We plan to arrive on May 15 and stay through May 18. The timing of the trip coincides with the birthday of my son. He will be 2 when we arrive on the 15th, but will turn 3 on the 17th. While it sure would be nice to NOT have to buy him park tickets, I don't want to run into any trouble. I wouldn't be too worried if my son looked 'young' but he is a big kid and definitely looks older than his age.

Certainly others have traveled to Disney to celebrate the birthday of a child and can share their experience?

 

[TinkLoverSam]

Disney's policy is that the age he arrives at the resort is his age for the trip. As he's two on arrival he stays two... No ticket needed. No questions asked.

 

[MonacoDK]

Disney's policy is that the age he arrives at the resort is his age for the trip. As he's two on arrival he stays two... No ticket needed. No questions asked.

Thanks!

 

[Indiana Scott]

I wouldn't say "no questions asked".. The OP will be fine but when my brother tried to stuff his 5 y/o daughter into a stroller and claim she was only 2, lots of questions were asked.
Does every family have one of these?

 

[coaches24]

I wouldn't say "no questions asked".. The OP will be fine but when my brother tried to stuff his 5 y/o daughter into a stroller and claim she was only 2, lots of questions were asked.
Does every family have one of these?

That's a different situation. There is a big difference between a 2 year old and a 5 year old and its very easy to see that so of course they will ask questions if you try to pas the 5 year old off as 2. But its much harder to tell a 2 year old from a 3 year old especially when its right at the time of their birthday. CMs wont think twice about it if you tell them the just turned 3 year old is 2.

 

[disneyfirsttimer18]

When we went last year, my youngest was 3. He has always been really small for his age, and more times than not when at the turnstiles, the cm would do a double and triple take at my 3 year old when they scanned his ticket. Four different cms asked why we had a ticket for him and looked genuinely shocked when I said he was in fact 3. I told one, I definitely wouldn't have paid for him if I didn't have to.

DH wished that we would have known how cms would react and saved the money on his ticket.

 

[Epek]

When we brought my ds in a similar situation, we had no problem with getting in the park. However, we did get charged for his birthday breakfast at Surf's Up- even though it wasn't his birthday yet! I know I could have contested it, but I didn't mind paying.