ReneeQ
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I have crunched the numbers all kinds of ways with these new tickets, and this just occurred to me last night.
We have a big family trip coming up in 11 days and my sister has already given me $180 for my nephew's ticket. But with all these changes, I've held off on buying it. All the rest of us already have tickets or annual passes. My nephew is 7 and will need a 4 day ticket for this trip, so I was going to get a 4 day hopper, before these new tickets came out. Advance purchase price is about $172.50. We don't need hopping and pluses.
Well, according to Mousesavers a 10 day child's base ticket is only $177.86, and that's what I've decided to buy with my sister's $180. THEN I am going to kick in an additional $106.50 of my own money, so that the ticket won't expire. Essentially giving him a 6 day ticket (10 days minus the 4 days we'll be using on our trip in 11 days, leaving 6 days left on the pass) for only $106.50!
We have 2 more trips planned in the next 18 months where he will need 3 days of admission for each trip. With the new 3 day kid's ticket being $145.91, two of those would have cost me $291.82! I'm so glad this dawned on me!
Side note - if my whole family goes, my sister pays for her own child (my nephew), but sometimes I take him by myself and then I pay his way, so that's why sometimes she pays and sometimes I pay. So, if someone else is paying for a ticket, see if it will save money in the long run to add the "no expiration" to it, even with your own money, if you'll need the ticket later.
Hope this helps someone!
We have a big family trip coming up in 11 days and my sister has already given me $180 for my nephew's ticket. But with all these changes, I've held off on buying it. All the rest of us already have tickets or annual passes. My nephew is 7 and will need a 4 day ticket for this trip, so I was going to get a 4 day hopper, before these new tickets came out. Advance purchase price is about $172.50. We don't need hopping and pluses.
Well, according to Mousesavers a 10 day child's base ticket is only $177.86, and that's what I've decided to buy with my sister's $180. THEN I am going to kick in an additional $106.50 of my own money, so that the ticket won't expire. Essentially giving him a 6 day ticket (10 days minus the 4 days we'll be using on our trip in 11 days, leaving 6 days left on the pass) for only $106.50!
We have 2 more trips planned in the next 18 months where he will need 3 days of admission for each trip. With the new 3 day kid's ticket being $145.91, two of those would have cost me $291.82! I'm so glad this dawned on me!
Side note - if my whole family goes, my sister pays for her own child (my nephew), but sometimes I take him by myself and then I pay his way, so that's why sometimes she pays and sometimes I pay. So, if someone else is paying for a ticket, see if it will save money in the long run to add the "no expiration" to it, even with your own money, if you'll need the ticket later.
Hope this helps someone!
. We don't hop either so if we get the 10 day base ticket with no expiration, it'll save us $70/person compared to the APs I was planning on buying originally. Then I decided to add the Plus Pack to the base ticket because we were planning on doing a water park, for the first time, in June anyway. Buying a 10 day base ticket with no expiration and the Plus Pack in advance will only cost me $3.14 more per ticket than a single day at a water park would cost and I'll have five visits rather than one. That equals 79 cents a visit for the other 4 and they'll never expire 
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