I don't understand my park tickets

[taborekle]

Hi all,

Well just color me confused for not understanding what I've bought.

Here is what I've bought.

Went to the Disney web site and selected that I needed tickets for 3 adults (me, DW and DS).

Selected for 4 days. Base price came to $675.
Selected non-expiring. Price went to $831
Then selected Water Park option and the price went to $987

My confusion revolves around the "Water Park Fun and More" option. According to one Disney discription of it:

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Water Park Fun and More Add-On Option

For Disney fun beyond the four theme parks, this option provides the choice of admission to Disney's Blizzard Beach water park, Disney's Typhoon Lagoon water park, Disney Quest, a round of golf at Disney's nine hole Oak Trail Golf Course (Tee times required: 407-WDW-GOLF.) , entry to Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex. The Water Park Fun and More add-on visits are equal to the days of your ticket with the exception of the 1-Day which gets 2 Water Park Fun and More visit. Beyond that, a 2-Day gets 2 Water Park Fun and More visits, 3-Days 3 Water Park Fun and More visits, etc.

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So if I'm reading this right, I now have 4 water park tickets IN ADDITION TO my 4 Theme Park tickets, (per person). Is that right?

Which sounds to me like if I do the following with my family on my upcoming trip to Disney,

Visit TL on Monday
Visit MK on Tuesday
Visit BB on Thursday

That I will have ONLY used up 1 Theme Park ticket (3 days remain unused) and 2 Water Park tickets (2 remain unused). All this per person.

At the total price of $987 - $831 = $156 or $52 add on cost per person, which works out to only about $13 per visit to a water park. That just seems to good to believe.

Am I reading this right?

 

[clkelley]

Yep, you are reading it right.

However, if you are planning on using the tickets the way you state, I would drop the park hopping option.

The park hopping option allows you to go to more than 1 theme park per day.

Also, if you are purchasing non-expiring, I would honestly go ahead and jump up to 10-days, then you have lots of days for future trips at a very low price.

 

[suzannecstarr]

I agree. It's important to keep in mind that going from a water or other minor park to one of the four major parks is not considered hopping. You use one entrance each from your two separate banks of tickets.

 

[chartle]

Just make sure that whatever admissions options you have left will cover your next vacation.

On your next trip, if you decide you need more days you will have to buy a new ticket. You can't add days to a ticket more than 14 days after first use.

So if you buy another ticket you will loose any savings you got by adding the NE option.

 

[christinou]

make sure you need the non-expiring option, that is a lot you might be better with a 10 day ticket with non expiring it is a much better deal

 

[taborekle]

Hi all,

Great! thanks and I now have a much better idea of how the tickets work.

And what a deal! Adding the water parks to my 4 day tickets only cost about $50 PP. That means that each of my water park days is going to cost me only about $13. What a great deal!

 

[BrettS]

Like the others have said, definitely make sure you understand and really need the no expiration option before you purchase it, since it's a very expensive option and not needed in a lot of cases.

All Disney tickets (including ones without the no expiration option) will not expire until they are first used. However, once a ticket is used then it will expire in 14 days and any unused days or options will no longer be valid unless you purchase the No Expiration option. In that case any unused days and options will never expire.

So if you're buying your tickets now, but don't plan to use them until you go on vacation in a few weeks or a few months or a few years and then when you do get to Disney you'll use all of the days that you bought, you don't need the no expiration option.

As a PP said, if you take a lot of shorter trips to Disney it can be cheaper in the long run to buy a 10 day No Expiration ticket and then use that ticket over several trips, but this generally only makes sense if you'll be taking several trips of 5 days or less.

Very rarely does it make sense to get a 4 day No Expiration ticket, so that's why we want to make sure you know what you're buying before you waste a lot of money on the NE option.