park tickets & child's age

[heidica]

What would you do? One of my godchildren will turn 10 2 days after arriving at WDW. We will be buying our tickets on the day we arrive at SOG. Would you buy a child's ticket for him, since the day we buy the tickets he will be 9 years old? Or be more honest and buy the adult ticket, since the majority of the time we will be there he will be a 10 year old?

 

[Pkdcoastrs]

I believe "technically" it's his age on the first day he uses them, so if they really wanted to be hard and check him he would be out of luck. But I doubt this happens and plus a kid at 10 wouldn't be carrying any form of ID most likely.

 

[trracers]

You buy the ticket based on how old the child is when you purchase...it is "policy" that if they have a birthday there, they are still allowed on the same ticket that they start on.

Have a great trip!

 

[georgina]

We arrived at Disney a week before DS's 10th birthday, got him a child's AP, which he used for a year, with Disney's blessings. Everything I could find said it was the age of the child at first use that counted. I don't feel at all dishonest, he was 9 when we activated the pass.

 

[heidica]

Thanks!

Good to know and now I won't feel guilty saving a little money.

 

[christinou]

So is it the age when you buy the pass or activate the pass. We will buy APs again this year, I want to buy them in January, my daughter will turn 10 in April we will not activate them until August?

 

[SnoWhiteRabbit]

Originally posted by christinou
So is it the age when you buy the pass or activate the pass. We will buy APs again this year, I want to buy them in January, my daughter will turn 10 in April we will not activate them until August?

It's activate. Think about-- otherwise everyone could buy passes awhile before a trip, and buy cheaper child tickets even though their "child" would be an adult a year down the line, or whatever.
But, if you rbirthdayis during the trip, they allow you to keep the first rate. Also, if you sue afew days on a park hopper pass and then turn a higher age category, they allow you to finish using the pass.

If the cild turns 10, after arriving at WDW, you are in luck! A child's ticket it is....Enjoy!

 

[Geoff_M]

And likewise, if your child has a partly used PH and returns on the next trip as an "adult", they can "upgrade" the remainder of the ticket at guest services to an "adult" ticket for free.