Old waterpark tickets

[Joan Meier]

I have old waterpark entitlements on an expired 10 day park pass. Is there any way these waterpark tickets can be exchanged or used for miniature golf. We can no longer physically do water parks. Thank you for any info you can supply.

 

[Robo]

I have old waterpark entitlements on an expired 10 day park pass. Is there any way these waterpark tickets can be exchanged or used for miniature golf. We can no longer physically do water parks. Thank you for any info you can supply.

Since MiniGolf is now one of the entitlements of the WPF&M tickets, you should be able to use those assets for MiniGolf.

Below is from the current Undercover Tourist MouseSavers website:

Water Park Fun & More Option
This option adds special “visits” to water parks and smaller attractions to your park tickets. Each visit can be one of the following:

• admission to Blizzard Beach water park
• admission to Typhoon Lagoon water park
• admission to DisneyQuest
• admission to ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex (includes 30 minutes of game play at PlayStation Pavilion)
• round of mini golf at Fantasia Gardens (before 4:00 pm)
• round of mini golf at Winter Summerland (before 4:00 pm)
• round of golf at Oak Trail family walking course (advance reservations required, clubs not included for adults, pull cart not included)

 

[Belle0101]

While it seems like you should be able to, in our experience the answer was no.

This past December (2014) we took our expired park tickets to Guest Services at DTD to ask what WPF&M options were still available to us. I thought each ticket had 5 entitlements/options left but I couldn't recall exactly sure what they could be used on. The gentleman told us each ticket did have 5 passes (I had thought they were called entitlements/options) left on them and the waterparks, DisneyQuest, ESPN, mini golf locations (no time restrictions were mentioned) and golf at Oak Trail (no restrictions were mentioned) were the options available to us.

We caught a bus for Winter Summerland where we were told mini golf was not available to us. I explained that we had just come from GS at DTD and the gentleman there had said it was. He got a 2nd Cast Member who repeated to me that mini golf was not available. I said okay, that I would go back to GS at DTD and see what it was that I misunderstood. He got a 3rd Cast Member and he said he would let us play 1 round for free because of all the problems and gave us back our tickets.

The next day I went back to Guest Services at DTD and explained what had happened the day before. The Cast Member checked our tickets and said that the gentleman from yesterday had misinformed me. When I bought my tickets mini golf was not an option and because of that, there was no way to add mini golf, upgrade them or replace mini golf with an option we couldn't/ wouldn't use. She said the tickets currently being sold do have that option but that doesn't change the old tickets in any way. She ended up giving us a voucher of sorts for 2 rounds of mini golf for each of us as compensation for the confusion, embarrassment at Winter Summerland and the trips to Guest Services

I should mention that I did ask at our hotel first but was told that because the tickets were so old, from 2002, any questions I had regarding the tickets had to be asked at GS in DTD or at GS in of the parks.

YMMV but as I said, our recent experience was no.

 

[Robo]

When I bought my tickets mini golf was not an option and because of that, there was no way to add mini golf, upgrade them or replace mini golf with an option we couldn't/ wouldn't use. She said the tickets currently being sold do have that option but that doesn't change the old tickets in any way.

Sorry that you had that experience.
That has NOT been WDW policy in the past.

In fact, a few years ago they upgraded the WPF&M to offer the same number of assets for the WP options (etc.) as you have
Theme Park days. They immediately began to upgrade those tickets that were bought under the previous rules (which offered fewer
entries at the WP (etc.) to immediately include the full number of WP entries.
Disney has been very good at allowing new options to be accessed by "older" tickets...
including Theme Parks which were not even built when the original tickets were purchased.

I'd advise the OP to try the MiniGolf for themselves. Couldn't hurt.

(And, sadly, there is no place to CALL and get an accurate answer to this.)

 

[Belle0101]

Sorry that you had that experience.
That has NOT been WDW policy in the past.

In fact, a few years ago they upgraded the WPF&M to offer the same number of assets for the WP options (etc.) as you have
Theme Park days. They immediately began to upgrade those tickets that were bought under the previous rules (which offered fewer
entries at the WP (etc.) to immediately include the full number of WP entries.
Disney has been very good at allowing new options to be accessed by "older" tickets...
including Theme Parks which were not even built when the original tickets were purchased.

I'd advise the OP to try the MiniGolf for themselves. Couldn't hurt.

(And, sadly, there is no place to CALL and get an accurate answer to this.)

Definitely if OP has the time they should ask, if they get told they're no worse off than before.

I wish it would have worked out differently for us. Mini golf is the only option all 3 of us (DH, DS15 and myself) agree on anymore.