Is park hopping worth it?

[NewEnglandDisney]

I'm sure someone will tell me if this will work or not. We've got about eight days coming up in October in WDW. If I buy a 10 day MYW pass, can I, for example, go to MK in the a.m. (burning one day off the pass) and then MGM in the p.m. burning a second day? Or can I only use the pass once a day, period? If I can use it more than once, the 10 day works out cheaper than a 7 day with the park hopping option (which is why I suspect they won't permit it!).

No one has answered yet, but I'm sorry to say NO, it does not work that way, for the very reason you surmised.

Once you enter a park that day, your admission is used up - it will not work to let you into another park even if you want to use an additional day.

Sorry!

N.E.D.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

Wow... I didn't know that. I didn't know they wouldn't let you use another day if you wanted to go to another park and didn't have park hopping. I thought surely another DAY on the ticket was worth more than just adding park hopping privileges- so they'd come out ahead anyway if you used more than one day going to more than one park.
Learn something new everyday... LOL

 

[Goofy's Muse]

We're a family of 5, too, and my choice for our next trip would probably be non-hoppers. I LOVE the concept of park hopping but in reality, we just didn't do it on our last few trips. We would probably plan a different park each day along with lots of downtime at the resort. My dreams tend toward resort hopping rather than park hopping!

 

[Amyality]

We hop almost every day. We go to a park until a little bit after lunch then leave and go to the pool, rest a little then clean up for dinner which is at the World Showcase most of the time except for a Fantasmic Evening and usually a Character Meal somewhere.

 

[dyna]

I'm goin during the free dining and at 1st we did not add on the hopper pass but the more I thought about it without hopping it was not gonna be disney MY WAY. Gotta be able to hop. We are going to eat our way around WS and eat dinner in different country every night of our stay except one.

We enjoy a few things at AK but not enough to spend the entire day there. Sometimes we split MGM up into 2 visits.

OH and isn't Epcot the place to run to when your a park and it decides to rain the rest of the day? Seems I remember that trick from years ago.

 

[aubriee]

I guess I'm in the minority, but seldom hop. I have an AP, but just have a tendency to stay in the same park all day. This past January I bought hopper tickets for my son and GD, but we never hopped until the last day, when my GD wanted to go back and ride a couple of her favorites at two of the parks. In May I went solo and don't think I ever did hop. I'm taking my younger son and D-I-L in Sept and bought 7 day tickets with pluses, but no hopping. They want to do DQ once, PI once, and then the water parks three times. We figure we'd do the water parks 1/2 days and a park 1/2 day and do PI the night we finish AK and then do DQ one evening. With the five pluses I don't see how we'd have time to hop between the parks. If we suddenly remember something we want to buy in another park, I'll be using my AP anyway, so can easly hop over and get it.

 

[sandibeck]

Our family (DH39, DS12, DD6, & me40) are avid hoppers!! Can't imagine not being able to hop.

 

[disneylizzy]

We are trying the "not hopping" passes in August. It's an experiment and an effort to save some cash. My 3 DS want to rent the water mice, so with what we save not getting the hopping option, we can do that. I thought on our AK day we would eat at Spoodles and maybe go to DD or maybe just relax in the pool at POR.