Extra Magic Hours?

[Lynn CC]

I booked AKL for DS and his new wife on 3/22 -3/29. Can they still go to the extra magic hours if they are using hopper passes from previous trip that have no expiration date? We had 3 passes with 3 days left on each in my sons name will they transfer those over to a new pass with room charge on it? Not sure how all that works so I was hoping someone can help me understand what they should expect.

 

[ambgoph]

For morning EMH you need to show your room key at the turnstiles. For evening EMH you need to show your room key at all of the ride entrances. The room key can have charging privileges put onto it.

Not sure if they will be able to add the old tickets to the room key or not. If not, they will just have to carry the room key and the ticket together.

 

[sissy_ib]

EMH have nothing to do with the kind of ticket you have, as long as you have a valid ticket.
As long as you are staying on Disney property and have a valid ticket you can use EMH.

 

[DisneyRah]

When we went back in 2007, they were able to add on our passes that had 6 days left on them from 2004 onto our KTTW card and added the ability to charge to it as well with no problem when we were checking in. Even though it's been a few years, I imagine they would be able to do something similar still.

 

[Marionnette]

I booked AKL for DS and his new wife on 3/22 -3/29. Can they still go to the extra magic hours if they are using hopper passes from previous trip that have no expiration date? We had 3 passes with 3 days left on each in my sons name will they transfer those over to a new pass with room charge on it? Not sure how all that works so I was hoping someone can help me understand what they should expect.

There are two problems that I see here:

• Your son has 3 separate tickets. They are his and only his, so they cannot be transferred to his new wife. She will have to purchase her own ticket for however many days that they will be going into the parks.
• Disney cannot combine tickets onto a single pass, even if they are the property of one person. So, even though they are your son's tickets, he would not be able to put all of them on one KTTW card.

If it were me, I would just leave the tickets separate from the KTTW card. But he can add charging privileges to the KTTW card when he checks in by leaving a credit card or debit card on file or by leaving a deposit (cash or Disney gift card). That would be no problem at all and the CM will probably ask him if that's what he would like to do when he checks in.

 

[Lynn CC]

So if his wife signs the back if a card that has 3 days park hopper left on it from 2001 (none of them are signed) can she use one to enter the parks?
They are all in my son's name because he had the room reservation under his name, my ticket from that stay also has his name on it, but I signed the back of mine otherwise I would have given him that too.

This honeymoon trip I only paid for the resort for 7nights at AKL for them I didn't get the package because I wasn't sure about these tickets. When I called they said they would have to be scanned.
so confusing when trying to make plans.

 

[Marionnette]

So if his wife signs the back if a card that has 3 days park hopper left on it from 2001 (none of them are signed) can she use one to enter the parks?
They are all in my son's name because he had the room reservation under his name, my ticket from that stay also has his name on it, but I signed the back of mine otherwise I would have given him that too.

This honeymoon trip I only paid for the resort for 7nights at AKL for them I didn't get the package because I wasn't sure about these tickets. When I called they said they would have to be scanned.
so confusing when trying to make plans.

Have these tickets been used at all? Disney tickets are non-transferable. If your son used any portion of the ticket, then they cannot be used by anyone else. This is true whether they were signed by him or not. But if they have never been used, then he can give one of the tickets to his wife without a problem.

Of course, the only way that Disney would be able to tell if a pre-2005 ticket belongs to your son would be if he used it to enter the parks at some point after the beginning of 2005 and his finger was scanned at the time.

 

[Lynn CC]

They were 9 day hopper passes and they were last used in Feb. 2001. There are 3 separate tickets with 3 days left on each, all with my sons name on them.

I'm just trying to figure out how much money to give them if I already paid for room and air. I was planning on giving them money so they could make their dining reservations and also spending money for Disney Quest, mini golf etc. Now I'm thinking I'd better budget more for tickets in case they can't use those. I was trying to make this trip easy for them, but it's so complicated with not knowing if the tickets will be accepted.

 

[starry_solo]

Non-expiring? I would be surprised if Disney keeps fingerprint scans for 11 year old tickets, but that's just me (how much data can they keep anyhow?).

Perhaps budget extra for tickets if they need them, just in case, but see if they can use the old tickets.

 

[Marionnette]

They were 9 day hopper passes and they were last used in Feb. 2001. There are 3 separate tickets with 3 days left on each, all with my sons name on them.

I'm just trying to figure out how much money to give them if I already paid for room and air. I was planning on giving them money so they could make their dining reservations and also spending money for Disney Quest, mini golf etc. Now I'm thinking I'd better budget more for tickets in case they can't use those. I was trying to make this trip easy for them, but it's so complicated with not knowing if the tickets will be accepted.

I can't say to you that giving your future daughter-in-law one of those tickets to use will or will not work. But here are my thoughts:
Pre-MYW tickets cannot be upgrade, even if they were never used. So, each of those tickets is only good for 3 days. How long are the kids going to be in Disney? Will they want to visit the parks more than 3 days? If so, you might be better off just buying the correct number of days for your future daughter-in-law and then just have your son use whatever number of days he needs from the 9 days that are on the tickets in his name.

For instance, if the kids are going to be at the parks for 7 days, your son would use 7 of those 9 days and just keep the remaining 2 days for another time. Then purchase a 7-day hopper for his wife at Undercovertourist for around $330.

This would be much less expensive than having your son use two 3-day passes and then paying for a 1-day hopper ($128 at the gate) and giving your daughter-in-law one of your son's 3-day tickets and buying a 4-day hopper ($296 at UCT). Total OOP = $424.

Non-expiring? I would be surprised if Disney keeps fingerprint scans for 11 year old tickets, but that's just me (how much data can they keep anyhow?).

Perhaps budget extra for tickets if they need them, just in case, but see if they can use the old tickets.

Well, when you consider that Disney didn't start doing the fingerscan on regular park tickets until 2005, then the answer would be no, they don't have fingerscans from year-old tickets. But since I've had pre-MYW tickets from back in the 1990's that they have been able to look up in their computers, I would say that they keep that kind of data for quite a while and it would include a fingerscan associated with a ticket used after 2004.