Old Hopper with 2 days?? What to do?

[mommapea]

My husband and I took our daughter...years ago...and still have a non-exp. hopper with 2 days. The last 2 times we have just bought new 10 day passes, so we still have these old passes. What would you do with these passes? Any time we go, we want to go for more than 2 days. We did think about getting water park passes.

So, we're looking for ideas. I'd like to incorporate these passes into a budget trip for next summer. Any thoughts? What would you do?

 

[Kathi OD]

My husband and I took our daughter...years ago...and still have a non-exp. hopper with 2 days. The last 2 times we have just bought new 10 day passes, so we still have these old passes. What would you do with these passes? Any time we go, we want to go for more than 2 days. We did think about getting water park passes.

So, we're looking for ideas. I'd like to incorporate these passes into a budget trip for next summer. Any thoughts? What would you do?

Why can't you use up the 2 days first and then purchase whatever you need to round it out. There's no need for those tickets to be going to waste.

 

[DisneyCowgirl]

Do you just have one ticket with 2 days left, or three with 2 days each? We had old ones from before the time of identifying whose tickets they were, and last time we went, I used the days on all the remaining tickets and we just bought a new pass for DH (DS was only 2YO then).

That would not work if they aren't that old though (i.e., if they have a fingerprint or other identification linked to them).

Otherwise, I might just keep holding them until we went and would only want 2 days (which does happen for us) as their dollar value is so low if you use them instead of getting 2 more days on an 8-day pass.

 

[mommapea]

Well, everytime we purchase 5 to 7 days, we know it seems more sense to pay a few extra dollars for a couple of days. We upgrades from a 7 to 10 day hopper (3 summers ago) for a $12 for all 4 of us! That was $1/day per person. It made sense to hang on to our non-exp. hopper..at least it did at the time.

 

[mommapea]

Do you just have one ticket with 2 days left, or three with 2 days each? We had old ones from before the time of identifying whose tickets they were, and last time we went, I used the days on all the remaining tickets and we just bought a new pass for DH (DS was only 2YO then).

That would not work if they aren't that old though (i.e., if they have a fingerprint or other identification linked to them).

Otherwise, I might just keep holding them until we went and would only want 2 days (which does happen for us) as their dollar value is so low if you use them instead of getting 2 more days on an 8-day pass.

They are old ones...before finger printing. That is really a good idea! We have 2 adult passes, each with 2 days.

 

[elaine and the boys]

We have 4 pre-finger scan hopper tickets with one day remaining on each.

On our past few trips, we just brought the old tickets along "just in case" we decided to hop on one day (we only buy non-hoppers now). But we've never ended up using them!

We're saving them for when we might take a shorter trip some day...using all 4 days (tickets) for one person, buying new tickets for the rest of us.

 

[HM]

Here's what I'd do-
Plan a trip that includes two days at WDW to use those tickets, a day at a waterpark, and either US/IOA tickets or Seaworld tickets for two day, whatever appeals to you most. If you don't drive to Orlando, then get a rental car and find a place to stay at whatever appeals to you most, be that Disney, onsite at Universal, or some offsite property, maybe even a rental home or timeshare place. Make it a truly unique trip.


One year we did something similar. We had a free week at a Marriott, and not enough money to budget for WDW tickets, so we got a deal on some tickets for IOA/US and spent three days there, discounted tickets to Seaworld which we then turned into 7 day tickets free of charge and used one other day. And we went to Typhoon Lagoon one day. We spent the evenings at our resort and around DTD. It was a very inexpensive vacation compared to what we usually spend for a week at Disney.

 

[Ava]

They are old ones...before finger printing. That is really a good idea! We have 2 adult passes, each with 2 days.

There you go! Have one adult use both of the old tickets, and buy a 4-day ticket for the other adult. I don't know how long you usually go for, but you could easily fill a couple more days with other activities - do a water park one day, hang out at the pool, go to DTD, resort-hop, etc etc. There's lots to do at WDW outside of the 4 major parks. Or you could take a day or two and do Universal or SeaWorld.

 

[cseca]

If you have older tickets before the prefinger scan time, you can go up to guest services and get them updated to a newer tix. (I've done this myself with 2 older tix, 1 day each left back from 1996. Before AKL even opened... ).

And maybe the next time you go you could ask if the amt on that ticket could be applied to purchasing a new ticket.