Question about no expiration tickets

[DisneyBliss7]

Not sure which board to post this in....When I look into making reservations online it gives us the option for the 8day magic your way tickets. I know I change it if I want to but I was wondering if I keep all 8 days and if we only use 6days can I add the no expiration on the ones we don't use for our next trip? I wasn't sure if I can add them at the end of our trip w/ only the tickets left over.

 

[Allison]

You can but the cost is based on the original 8 days. It is probably not cost effective unless your next trip is exactly the 2 remaining days and probably not even then. I have not looked at ticket prices.

 

[Claire&TheBoys]

You can add the no-expiration option, but you don't pay just for the remaining days to be non-expiring, you pay for the entire ticket to be so. In other words, even if you only have 2 days left on an 8-day ticket, you pay the 8-day no-expiration cost, not the 2-day.

It very rarely makes sense to add the no-expiration option to tickets. The only way that it makes sense is if you are buying a 10-day-no-expiration ticket and using it over several trips, a day or two or three at a time.

When you book a package, you can have a ticket of any length, from 1-10 days. You don't have to take the option that the website defaults to. If you only plan to spend 6 days in the parks, just get a 6-day ticket. You can add more days if you need them for only $10+tax per day. If you get an 8-day ticket and only use 6 days, realize those extra 2 days only cost you $20 -- don't feel too badly about not using them and don't add the no-expiration option just to keep from "losing" them. It is not a bargain.

 

[danceintherain]

If you want to do this, it would probably be better to upgrade it to 10 days and add the Water Parks & More option. Then you would be able to use the remaining water park entries for trips in the future for a long time. If you only ever go to the Water Parks once during a trip, then this can be a better option than adding the WP&M option to every set of tickets for every trip, or paying for the individual water park entries.

10-Day Magic Your Way Ticket w/Water Park Fun & More & No Expiration 10+ = $608.12 (includes 10 water park & more entries)
Water Park x 10 = $553.80

Keep in mind that you can also purchase 6 day tickets and add extra days when you know you're going to need them (within 14 days of first use) instead of going with the 8 day from the beginning.

Adding no expiration almost doubles the cost of your tickets.
8 day base ticket = $292.88
8 day base ticket + No expiration = $500.55

6 day base ticket = $275.84 (adding an extra day only costs $9 or less)
6 day base ticket + 2 day base ticket (on a later trip) = $454.76

Even if you consider the fact that Disney prices go up every year, you would have to plan to spend only 2 days in the parks on a future trip and you'll probably end up spending more to add the no expiration option now. You would also have to hold onto the tickets until you finished using them.

Once you get outside your 14 day window, you can't add anymore entitlements to tickets, even if you added the No Expiration option previously. So if you do choose to add it to the 8 day ticket after you've already used 6 days, you will not be able to add days during a future trip.

(If your tickets will include Park Hoppers, the above calculations will be wrong - information gotten from http://www.mousesavers.com/mywpricechart061211.html)

 

[rt2dz]

I just want to add that Mary Waring (of MouseSavers) had done some initial calculations and posted on the theme parks board with the new ticket prices, to make adding no expiration worth it anymore, pretty much said (completely summarized) that it would need to be a 10-day ticket that you can get 3 complete trips out of.

 

[nadira36]

we purchased a no expiration ticket once - not worth it, however Dh and I still have water park days left - and 2 park days left. We'll have them with us this trip - just in case we decide to use a ticket, but when we go to WDW now - it costs almost nothing to have 10 days vs 8 days so we rarely run into not having tickets.

However if you rarely purchase packages, then upgrading to the WP&M, No expiration 10 day ticket could be worth while.

 

[seashoreCM]

As of June 2012 the chances of making a non-expiring ticket worthwhile have become smaller. Some of the cases under the previous "rule" that one non-expiring ticket should last for two complete vacations can now be done better with separate tickets bought for each vacation.

 

[Alesia]

A better idea is to just get the minimum number of days you think you'll need and then add days as you need them.