Park Hopper ticket questions

[SandraLee]

Is there a phone number or website I search to find out how many days have been used on my park-hopper tickets? I have 5-day park hopper purchased in June, 2002. I want to be sure what has been used.

And, will it be warm enough to do the water parks in November?

Thanks.

 

[seashoreCM]

No. You have to do it down there in person.

My experience, including several Thanksgivings, has averaged at least two days per week in November and December suitable for water parks.

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

 

[WillCAD]

Sorry, the only place in teh whole world that you can check those passes is at a ticket window or Guest Relations at one of the WDW theme parks, or Guest Relations at Downtown Disney.

I have been to WDW a few times over Halloween week (early Nov) and it was still plenty warm enough during the day for swimming.

By the beginning of December, it's more of a mix; some days are warm enough to swim, others are not.

 

[SandraLee]

Thanks for the info about the park-hoppers. I did call and got the most un-friendly answer from a very un-friendly CM. I cannot believe the CMs are unable to check on the tickets. It seems like such a simple thing. It is important to know how many days I have left -- and I should know this before I head out for my trip.

I am pretty sure what is on there, but really . . . I think they should offer a way of finding out.

 

[pezpam]

I need to check tickets next time we go as well. From now on, I'm listening to the DISers and keeping track by making marks on the ticket or on a Post-it......

 

[RoyalCanadian]

I am pretty sure what is on there, but really . . . I think they should offer a why of finding out.

The "why" is easy to explain and has been covered on these boards on numerous occasions. Disney's refusal to confirm the days on a ticket places extreme limitations on those who try to sell partially used tickets over the Internet.

 

[SandraLee]

I need to check tickets next time we go as well. From now on, I'm listening to the DISers and keeping track by making marks on the ticket or on a Post-it......

Yup, I think I did write on the tickets the dates they were used. But, of course, the tickets are in the safety deposit at the bank and I didn't want to go over there to check!

What I don't get . . . There was one time the magnetic strip was not functioning when I slid it through the reader. We had to go to guest services and she looked up the ticket manually. She said there was something wrong with the magnetic stripe and she issued me a new ticket. So, it seems they can look up the tickets somehow if they wanted to.

I have not read the boards much on WDW. I usually hang out over on the Disney Cruise Line boards, so I was unaware of the conversations regarding selling unused tickets.

 

[GoldenOldie]

There are three main reasons why Disney will not check the tickets over the phone, none of which has anything to do with their ability to find out what's left on the tickets. In no particular order of importance, they are:

1) To impede the illegal resale of partially used tickets.

2) To avoid the guest misreading the numbers on the ticket (which happens often when an 3 gets misread as an eight or a 6 gets misread as a zero, etc) and then being given the incorrect information about the ticket. That eliminates unhappy guests screaming at a Guest Relations CM at the parks when the ticket is swiped and the guest finds out that what's left on the ticket isn't what they were told on the phone.

3) Staffing issues. You want to check your three or four tickets to see what's left. Now multiply that by the (hundreds of) thousands of other people in your same situation. Then add in the people buying/selling on Ebay and other places who want to verify what they are buying/selling. There wouldn't be enough hours in the day for the ticket research people to handle the volume of calls that they would get.

 

[WillCAD]

There are three main reasons why Disney will not check the tickets over the phone, none of which has anything to do with their ability to find out what's left on the tickets. In no particular order of importance, they are:

1) To impede the illegal resale of partially used tickets.

2) To avoid the guest misreading the numbers on the ticket (which happens often when an 3 gets misread as an eight or a 6 gets misread as a zero, etc) and then being given the incorrect information about the ticket. That eliminates unhappy guests screaming at a Guest Relations CM at the parks when the ticket is swiped and the guest finds out that what's left on the ticket isn't what they were told on the phone.

3) Staffing issues. You want to check your three or four tickets to see what's left. Now multiply that by the (hundreds of) thousands of other people in your same situation. Then add in the people buying/selling on Ebay and other places who want to verify what they are buying/selling. There wouldn't be enough hours in the day for the ticket research people to handle the volume of calls that they would get.

Yup, I'll go along with all of that.