My experience using very old hopper passes

[Simba's Mom]

I'm posting my experiences in case this helps anyone. Recently I came across some very old passes from 1987 and some from 1989, with 1 or 2 days left from when my sons, now 20 and 23 yo, were children. Last week we tried to use them, just going through the turnstiles. Here are the results: Epcot-twice OK, once the CM offered to go to guest relations for card to use FP. MK-told DS he had to go back to guest services to trade it in. Since these passes were just found among our old souveniers after I'd bought new tickets, he just took out new ticket and didn't even try. MGM-no problem, stamped pass, "come on in!" Surprisingly, not once did a CM ever question my sons on having childrens' passes. The passes weren't even signed, since DS's had been both too little to write well at that age (4&7 yo). So saving everything has its advantages!

 

[Horizons16]

We never really have many problems when we use our old passes too. Everything runs pretty smoothly.

Now i dont think that they still take E tickets for Space Mountain...... Right? I dont think i could ever get rid of my ticket book. Not worth much, but to the disney collector its a nice item to have.

 

[JudithM]

Good to know Disney lives up to its comment about passes being good for life! Hope you enjoyed your trip!

 

[seashoreCM]

(copied from another post)

The old passes are good for life at full value (in days) only when used as-is or exchanged at no cost for a new magnetic ticket with the same remaining days.

If you try to apply its remaining value to a new pass with more days, you get a bad exchange rate -- the remaining portion of yesteryear's purchase price applied to today's new ticket price.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm