Help with hopping to parks with maingate and self admit

[joxer1014]

Ok need some help here. Hypothetical situation. Say your passes are not blocked out for a particular day for one park only, say Epcot. You make your park res for EC and enter at opening, 11am. At 2 pm you want to hop to another park when ALL three remaining parks are blocked out that day on the calendar for initial entry, can you still hop to the other parks using your maingate or are you stuck at EC all day?

 

[PatMcDuck]

Wow great question.

I was wondering what if I wanted to go to a park on a day, so I got a park reservation with a comp ticket. Then it opens up to self admit. But by the time that day arrives, it is closed again to CMs. How would the system know that you wanted to self admit that day and were eligible? Should you remove all other tickets from your name on MDE, cancel the original park reservation, and make a new one? I am not sure it knows which tickets were used to make a park reservation. You can't specify. Lots of us (out of staters) have lots of types of tickets, the MEP, comps, and paid tickets for other days. I just had trouble with priority on 2 of us last trip. (it grabbed undated or non expiring ticket days instead of dated expiring ones). It used to pull the MEP first no matter what, though. But with park reservations I am not sure what it does.

 

[joyjanet]

I am sure that is was like it was before. You can not park hop to a park that is blocked out using your MGP or MEP. I went to guest relations and had them categorize my tickets starting with MEP/MGP and comp tickets next. I don’t have any tickets I bought.

 

[PatMcDuck]

I moved 5 comps over to a fake person on MDE to protect those from being pulled. But my husband had 2 days dated for our first 2 days, and a comp under his name for day 3. It pulled the comp on day 1 (vs the ticket dated for only that exact day on the first day in parks). So, on Day 3, he had no valid ticket, and a ticket had expired on Day 1. Ugh, so we got blocked entering park until they restored it at guest relations.

The 2nd thing was on my son. I bought a (dated!) 7 day hopper. He also had one day left on a OLD 10 day no expire. On day 1, it grabbed that one day no expire. I had no idea. When I got home, I saw that was gone, and there was 1 day left on his 7 day hopper, that would expire in a few days, too bad we were back in NJ. I called and got that restored as well.

Hard to believe I screwed up twice in one trip, when I know better about prioritizing tickets! I thought it would priotitize dated passes or those expiring first. Better to check once, and check again. And I admit, that my situation was unusual.

 

[joyjanet]

Here is your answer from the Hub:

If block-out dates apply to your pass or ticket, you cannot visit any park on a date that is blocked out for that park.