Originally posted by crisi
It also depends on if you are making a decision based solely off of "price per park day" or if you have other factors in mind.
For instance - I think hoppers would be the best deal for us....but we buy UPHs. Mainly for the following reasons....
1) Only one card to carry around which is our room key, charge card and park pass. That, $50 and a drivers license lets us keep our load VERY light.
2) I'm a disorganized mess. If I had extra days on a park pass at the end of a trip, there is no guarentee I'd ever find the park passes when leaving again. No savings if you can't find the pass.
3) We like the flexibility of being able to hit the park every day. Last trip we completely "blew" a day with our UPH by having a resort character breakfast, spending the day at Blizzard Beach, and only going to the park for dinner. Had we had PHPs, I would have used the water park and booked a resort dinner because I'd never "waste" a day like that. With UPHs, they cost is just part of the vacation. Makes no financial sense, but a lot of emotional sense to us.
4) We don't spend enough days to justify an AP - much less a PAP. And APs have the same issues with "you have to be able to find them - or find the 'safe place' you put the numbers when you loose them."
5) This last trip we brought guests and paid for their park passes. I wanted them to have complete flexibility without understanding the park pass system. Handing them a UPH and saying "this will get you whereever you want to go" made it much easier. They aren't likely to revisit Disney, so buying PHs and having them save days didn't make sense.