Nine, ten, and often eight day vacations should be done with expiring passes.
It becomes a tossup or you can even lose with your 10 day non-expiring if on your second vacation you need to buy a new ticket to finish up with.
BUt you will almost alwasy win if you buy an all new ticket for the second vacation if the first leftovers are not enough, and use both the first leftovers and second leftovers to completely cover a third vacation.
If you buy the water park fun option and set aside one (or 2) day(s) for Disney Quest, water parks,
MNSSHP, etc. only there will be one (or 2) more park day(s) left on the ticket for the next trip.
Math Masters degree needed for this, suggestion only: The cost per day of the first vacation is based on the cost of the minimum expiring pass you would have needed. The cost per day of the second vacation is based on the remaining amount you paid for the non-expiring ticket which includes the entire cost of non-expiration. Example: 10 day pass, 6 days used. A 6 day expiring pass with hopping instead costs $246. or $41. per day (for the first vacation). A 10 day non-expiring pass with hopping costs $367. or $121. more (or $30. per day for 4 days) for the second vacation. Great for a 4 day vacation where an all new pass costs $234.. But if your second vacation was 6 days, a new 2 day pass with hopping costs $164. Adding in the $121. investment in the leftover 10 day pass, the total ticket budget is more than a new 6 day expiring pass ($285. vs. $246.). Want to go to Universal for the fifth day and Sea World for the sixth?
Math Ph.D. needed for this, suggestion only. If you bought Water Parks Fun & More, exclude the $48. costs when computing the cost per (theme park) day. (revised) If you used one WPF&M admission (plus) on your first vacation, $24. is absorbed on your first vacation. If you used two or more on your first vacation, the entire $48. is so absorbed. The part of the $48. cost of WPF&M not absorbed on the first vacation is divided among the WPF&MA's left over. Also split the non-expiration this way: two points per leftover day, one point per leftover WPF&MA. Say you have four days and two WPF&MA's left over. The $107. non-expiration becomes ten points or $11. per point. Since you paid $121. more for 10 day non-expiring versus 6 day expiring, the cost over and above the $107. non-expiration is $14. or $4. per day. Adding in the two points makes your investment in leftover days $26. apiece. Your investment in the leftover WPF&MA's is just the point apiece or $11. apiece.
Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/dispass.htm
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