Not allowed to buy single waterpark admission?

[white_cheese]

I have read about the new ticket changes, but I haven't seen anything about the waterpark tickets getting cut. But when I look at the Disneyworld website I can't find any way of booking just a single park admission to a waterpark and nothing more. The only way I can get a ticket for the waterparks is to choose the Parkhopper Plus option, which I don't want (and would cost me a hundred bucks extra, so it's quite expensive for just one day of water park).

Is this a bug in the system, or is this the new way now?

 

[Shanti]

I have read about the new ticket changes, but I haven't seen anything about the waterpark tickets getting cut. But when I look at the Disneyworld website I can't find any way of booking just a single park admission to a waterpark and nothing more. The only way I can get a ticket for the waterparks is to choose the Parkhopper Plus option, which I don't want (and would cost me a hundred bucks extra, so it's quite expensive for just one day of water park).

Is this a bug in the system, or is this the new way now?

Not sure why you're having an issue, but here is the link to buying water park tickets. Of course, anyone can buy a single ticket.

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/tickets/water-parks/

Maybe you're having an issue because you're trying to add a single water park ticket to a vacation package? You can't do that. You'll need to just buy the water park ticket separately. It will show up on MDE as a separate ticket once you've linked it to your account.

 

[denecarter]

We always buy PH. It was only $28 to upgrade to PH+ for our 5 day tix with a ticket broker. I think a single day ticket to a WP is $60. As long as you are a PH person, the PH+ is a better deal.

 

[white_cheese]

Not sure why you're having an issue, but here is the link to buying water park tickets. Of course, anyone can buy a single ticket.

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/tickets/water-parks/

Maybe you're having an issue because you're trying to add a single water park ticket to a vacation package? You can't do that. You'll need to just buy the water park ticket separately. It will show up on MDE as a separate ticket once you've linked it to your account.

I'm guessing it's a bug then. When I use your link I still only get the option of buying regular park tickets or with park hopper plus, but I'm getting the european version of the site (I'm in Sweden), so maybe that's the problem.
As long as they still offer the single day water park I can always figure it out later. I'm not actually shopping tickets right now, only planning and dreaming...

Thank you!

 

[white_cheese]

We always buy PH. It was only $28 to upgrade to PH+ for our 5 day tix with a ticket broker. I think a single day ticket to a WP is $60. As long as you are a PH person, the PH+ is a better deal.

We usually stay for quite some time (3-4 weeks), so we rather buy more days than use PH. I think it's a little bit of a hassle getting from one park to another, and since we drive a car we also have to get back to the original park/parking at the end of the night. For us it's more value to skip PH and go more days instead. For us the difference is about 100 dollar for PH+ vs nonPH+, and since we usually go in January it's not certain that we will be visiting water parks at all - if the weather is too cold it's just wasted money.

 

[bumbershoot]

I think it's a little bit of a hassle getting from one park to another, and since we drive a car we also have to get back to the original park/parking at the end of the night.

If you’re driving, just drive to the next park.

If not driving to the next park, there are park to park buses.

Many many people don’t know that, and your mention of it being a hassle makes me think that you don’t. I found the park to park transportation to be the easiest transportation they have onsite. No hassle.

Not telling you to hop. Just not sure of the reasoning.

 

[Robo]

You can certainly buy your single-day WP admission at any ticket booth after you arrive, if you decide that you want to swim.
A one-day WP admission includes the right to visit BOTH WPs on that same day (if both are open.)

 

[denecarter]

We usually stay for quite some time (3-4 weeks), so we rather buy more days than use PH. I think it's a little bit of a hassle getting from one park to another, and since we drive a car we also have to get back to the original park/parking at the end of the night. For us it's more value to skip PH and go more days instead. For us the difference is about 100 dollar for PH+ vs nonPH+, and since we usually go in January it's not certain that we will be visiting water parks at all - if the weather is too cold it's just wasted money.

Yep. I totally understand when people like to just do one park a day. We like to go early, take a break, and go back out until late and the hopper gives us a chance to mix things up.

And waiting to buy a January WP ticket is a good idea. It was too cool for us to swim last March during our Spring Break.

Hopping or not, swimming or not, a day at Disney is a good day!

 

[10CJ]

We usually stay for quite some time (3-4 weeks), so we rather buy more days than use PH. I think it's a little bit of a hassle getting from one park to another, and since we drive a car we also have to get back to the original park/parking at the end of the night. For us it's more value to skip PH and go more days instead. For us the difference is about 100 dollar for PH+ vs nonPH+, and since we usually go in January it's not certain that we will be visiting water parks at all - if the weather is too cold it's just wasted money.

Why don’t you just drive to the other park?

If you there for 3-4 weeks why not just get Annual Passes?

 

[Tomh]

We visit for 10 park days every summer, and have for the past 10 years (did 6 park days the year before that) and have never felt the need, or desire to pay extra for Park Hopper tickets. We have always felt that the time spent travelling from one park to another was just a waste, and we much prefer to just pick a park, and spend our day there.

 

[randumb0]

Why don’t you just drive to the other park?

Leaving MK can be a real pain sometimes

 

[white_cheese]

If you’re driving, just drive to the next park.

If not driving to the next park, there are park to park buses.

Many many people don’t know that, and your mention of it being a hassle makes me think that you don’t. I found the park to park transportation to be the easiest transportation they have onsite. No hassle.

Not telling you to hop. Just not sure of the reasoning.

I don't feel like it's "just" driving to the next park. Definitely not if you are going to/from MK, but at every park there is still the trams or the walk, and then getting the car and getting out of the parking lot, and into the new park and parking lot, and taking the tram... Sure you can do it, but for us it's more relaxing to either stay in the park or make a half day of it and do something else for the rest of the day.

The buses is a good tip! You still have to go back to the original park to get the car though, and that's not the most tempting idea at night when you're tired after a full day in the parks.

 

[white_cheese]

You can certainly buy your single-day WP admission at any ticket booth after you arrive, if you decide that you want to swim.
A one-day WP admission includes the right to visit BOTH WPs on that same day (if both are open.)

I didn't know that! (that it includes both parks) Good to know - thanks!
(usually it's just one water park open when we visit, but it might come in handy in future trips)

 

[white_cheese]

Hopping or not, swimming or not, a day at Disney is a good day!

Yes it is!

 

[white_cheese]

If you there for 3-4 weeks why not just get Annual Passes?

We're not always in the parks for 3-4 weeks, there is more to Kissimmee ;-). Sometimes we do the annual pass, sometimes 5-6 day tickets. Either way, we still buy the water park tickets separately.