roundabout hopper?

[mrd7896]

if i have 4 days of park tickets and 4 park reservations, am i able to buy another 1 day park ticket and add Epcot to my AK day?
I know that is silly to spend money doing it that way, but i think it would be sillier if i bought the tickets only to realize that the system won't allow me to do so...

 

[yulilin3]

You'll have to create another mde account with a separate email

 

[gatorlisa]

If that ticket is assigned to a person in your MDE account that already has a park pass reservation for that day, then no, it will not allow you to do that.

 

[Trackmaster]

I think that the best way is to beat them at their own game:

Arrive to your park before ropedrop. Get a good position. Get on the rides that you want. Have a great time throughout the day. Get on rides, see the sights, grab some great food, etc. Then close the park down and don't go until they're kicking you out. You'll see all of the awesome stuff that you were able to do when you had a whole day to focus on one awesome park, and you'll be in awe that you were ever stupid enough to park hop in the past while wasting valuable time transitionally, and snickering at the people who park hop when Disney adds it eventually.

 

[Befferk]

if i have 4 days of park tickets and 4 park reservations, am i able to buy another 1 day park ticket and add Epcot to my AK day?
I know that is silly to spend money doing it that way, but i think it would be sillier if i bought the tickets only to realize that the system won't allow me to do so...

Don't really see why it wouldn't work.

 

[DSLRuser]

I think that the best way is to beat them at their own game:

Arrive to your park before ropedrop. Get a good position. Get on the rides that you want. Have a great time throughout the day. Get on rides, see the sights, grab some great food, etc. Then close the park down and don't go until they're kicking you out. You'll see all of the awesome stuff that you were able to do when you had a whole day to focus on one awesome park, and you'll be in awe that you were ever stupid enough to park hop in the past while wasting valuable time transitionally, and snickering at the people who park hop when Disney adds it eventually.

tend to agree. We arrived at HS 60 mins prior to opening on Sept 4. We rode Run Away Rail, Rockin Rc, and Tower OT, all before official park opening. Got an early boarding group for rise. Long story short....we road everything and were able to leaver the park by 4.

 

[Befferk]

tend to agree. We arrived at HS 60 mins prior to opening on Sept 4. We rode Run Away Rail, Rockin Rc, and Tower OT, all before official park opening. Got an early boarding group for rise. Long story short....we road everything and were able to leaver the park by 4.

Thanks for that report. I'm trying to plan our morning at HS, and most plans I see have people doing MMRR first, but then doing more rides in either Star Wars land or Toy Story land, and the teenagers with us definitely want to do RRC and TOT without long waits, as those are priority, and the other rides are an "if we miss them, no big deal" situation. Did you do them in that order?

 

[Tormania]

I think that the best way is to beat them at their own game:

Arrive to your park before ropedrop. Get a good position. Get on the rides that you want. Have a great time throughout the day. Get on rides, see the sights, grab some great food, etc. Then close the park down and don't go until they're kicking you out. You'll see all of the awesome stuff that you were able to do when you had a whole day to focus on one awesome park, and you'll be in awe that you were ever stupid enough to park hop in the past while wasting valuable time transitionally, and snickering at the people who park hop when Disney adds it eventually.

Or......do what yulilin3 suggested to the OP and set up a separate MDE account for their alter ego for the other park ticket. Cause then the OP can do rope drop to park close at AK and STILL go over to Epcot that is open later and get a few hours in there. That's beating Disney at their own game twice, it's a win/win. (Technically Disney is still winning cause an additional park ticket is a lot more than a park hopping option, but it's the only way to get around the restriction at the moment)

 

[subtchr]

Or......do what yulilin3 suggested to the OP and set up a separate MDE account for their alter ego for the other park ticket. Cause then the OP can do rope drop to park close at AK and STILL go over to Epcot that is open later and get a few hours in there. That's beating Disney at their own game twice, it's a win/win. (Technically Disney is still winning cause an additional park ticket is a lot more than a park hopping option, but it's the only way to get around the restriction at the moment)

Hah, that's funny. As you noted in the last line, Disney would be absolutely winning in this situation. The guest would be paying twice for park time that day, and even more than twice if you consider how much more (relatively) a 1-day ticket costs.

 

[Trackmaster]

Or......do what yulilin3 suggested to the OP and set up a separate MDE account for their alter ego for the other park ticket. Cause then the OP can do rope drop to park close at AK and STILL go over to Epcot that is open later and get a few hours in there. That's beating Disney at their own game twice, it's a win/win. (Technically Disney is still winning cause an additional park ticket is a lot more than a park hopping option, but it's the only way to get around the restriction at the moment)

I mean to really make use of your plan would require the parks to have varying opening times in normal times. This idea of parks opening at different hours is a Covid thing. Pre-Covid, they all opened at 9 AM regularly and the closedowns weren't really that much different, so park hopping was never that logical... when you consider the time that you forfeit to get from what to another. I could see it if you had only allocated three days or less at Disney and you won't be back for a year or more, but if you have four days or more, I think its logical to give every park its own day. As a local, I see Disney as something I do for a few hours here and there. Even I was all day kind of a visitors: since there's only four parks, if I hop, I'm basically using up 50% or more of the parks available. Not really that useful. Maybe if there were 10-15 parks, hopping would be a little more logical.

 

[yulilin3]

I think that the best way is to beat them at their own game:

Arrive to your park before ropedrop. Get a good position. Get on the rides that you want. Have a great time throughout the day. Get on rides, see the sights, grab some great food, etc. Then close the park down and don't go until they're kicking you out. You'll see all of the awesome stuff that you were able to do when you had a whole day to focus on one awesome park, and you'll be in awe that you were ever stupid enough to park hop in the past while wasting valuable time transitionally, and snickering at the people who park hop when Disney adds it eventually.

Park hopping is part of many people's touring style, I don't do it but i wouldn't call anyone that likes to do it stupid. If someone has the means and wants to do this more power to them (and more gain ro Disney)

 

[yulilin3]

I mean to really make use of your plan would require the parks to have varying opening times in normal times. This idea of parks opening at different hours is a Covid thing. Pre-Covid, they all opened at 9 AM regularly and the closedowns weren't really that much different, so park hopping was never that logical... when you consider the time that you forfeit to get from what to another. I could see it if you had only allocated three days or less at Disney and you won't be back for a year or more, but if you have four days or more, I think its logical to give every park its own day. As a local, I see Disney as something I do for a few hours here and there. Even I was all day kind of a visitors: since there's only four parks, if I hop, I'm basically using up 50% or more of the parks available. Not really that useful. Maybe if there were 10-15 parks, hopping would be a little more logical.

Logical for you. The OP is not asking if they should park hop or not, they're asking how to park hop with the current park reservation system

 

[Trackmaster]

Park hopping is part of many people's touring style, I don't do it but i wouldn't call anyone that likes to do it stupid. If someone has the means and wants to do this more power to them (and more gain ro Disney)

I didn't mean to call it stupid, maybe I went a little far. I apologize if it came off that way. I was just making the argument that staying at a park all day wasn't the worst thing either.

 

[Trackmaster]

So I guess in the interest of staying on topic and giving my input on the topic of post-Covid park hopping:

Don't forget that Disney uses fingerprint recognition use one of the factors behind the multi-factor identity verification to enter the park. Its possible that you may be able to successfully pull off two different accounts that would allow you to park hop, but there's a possibility that their computers would set off red flags when they saw that two guests had the same fingerprints in their system, or that fingerprints were used twice in the same day.

Ultimately, I'd just put a call into the guest services and plead your case. Its possible that they might be OK with getting the twice profit and that two profiles are A OK in their books. But its possible that they might shut the idea down. Its better to err on the side of playing by the rules and hoping they'll work with you then risking you wasting some money or getting disciplinary action from the park.

 

[yulilin3]

So I guess in the interest of staying on topic and giving my input on the topic of post-Covid park hopping:

Don't forget that Disney uses fingerprint recognition use one of the factors behind the multi-factor identity verification to enter the park. Its possible that you may be able to successfully pull off two different accounts that would allow you to park hop, but there's a possibility that their computers would set off red flags when they saw that two guests had the same fingerprints in their system, or that fingerprints were used twice in the same day.

Ultimately, I'd just put a call into the guest services and plead your case. Its possible that they might be OK with getting the twice profit and that two profiles are A OK in their books. But its possible that they might shut the idea down. Its better to err on the side of playing by the rules and hoping they'll work with you then risking you wasting some money or getting disciplinary action from the park.

Disney is not using finger scans at the moment. Once park hopping comes back I'm sure they will start using them again and there are no rules with having multiple MDE, it doesn't really affect Disney whatsoever, ultimately it'll be more money for them anyways

 

[gatorlisa]

Would the OP need an entirely separate account? Or would it be enough to just add another "person" to their existing account and assign the 1 day ticket to that person? That's what I have done in a situation where I needed to split up tickets for the same person managed in my account and so far it's worked just fine.

 

[yulilin3]

Would the OP need an entirely separate account? Or would it be enough to just add another "person" to their existing account and assign the 1 day ticket to that person? That's what I have done in a situation where I needed to split up tickets for the same person managed in my account and so far it's worked just fine.

that's an interesting point. Your name can be Mary Kate Smith and you can have a Mary Smith and a Mary Kate Smith on the same MDE with 2 different ticket media. Definitely possible
My daughter has her AP and has her Main Entrance Pass since she's a CM and she has them named separately on MDE and they both work fine depending on the reservation
It's smart to use your actual name since at any point you have a problem with the ticket they will ask for an I.D.

 

[Trackmaster]

Disney is not using finger scans at the moment. Once park hopping comes back I'm sure they will start using them again and there are no rules with having multiple MDE, it doesn't really affect Disney whatsoever, ultimately it'll be more money for them anyways

I guess I was thinking of Universal, they brought back the annoying finger scans. Disney still have 100 ways to verify your identity throughout the park. The magic band technology is pretty amazing and uses many factors.

 

[Tormania]

I mean to really make use of your plan would require the parks to have varying opening times in normal times. This idea of parks opening at different hours is a Covid thing. Pre-Covid, they all opened at 9 AM regularly and the closedowns weren't really that much different, so park hopping was never that logical... when you consider the time that you forfeit to get from what to another. I could see it if you had only allocated three days or less at Disney and you won't be back for a year or more, but if you have four days or more, I think its logical to give every park its own day. As a local, I see Disney as something I do for a few hours here and there. Even I was all day kind of a visitors: since there's only four parks, if I hop, I'm basically using up 50% or more of the parks available. Not really that useful. Maybe if there were 10-15 parks, hopping would be a little more logical.

I don't entirely disagree, but as you say you are a local so your touring plans differ from folks that come once every 4 years. And the example the OP gave I have seen days where AK closes at 5pm but Epcot stays open to 8pm so there is time to enjoy the other park for some time. In an ideal world one would use normal PH for a nominal cost difference and it's less a burden. But if someone is determined to work around the current Disney restrictions there is a path for them to do so.

We purchased PH tickets back in Feb for our trip and I'll be getting with Guest Services to get those refunded when we arrive as we will not be able to bounce around this trip, and we will not be going to extreme measures to do so. We'll be doing Rope Drop to park close everyday, which is pretty typical for us anyway. And even for us our park hopping was usually limited to utilizing the EPCOT monorail to go from MK to EPCOT, or for leaving DHS to grab dinner at EPCOT, but I do know some people enjoy hitting multiple parks per day as they are focused on only a handful of attractions and each place. More power to them.

 

[Trackmaster]

I don't entirely disagree, but as you say you are a local so your touring plans differ from folks that come once every 4 years. And the example the OP gave I have seen days where AK closes at 5pm but Epcot stays open to 8pm so there is time to enjoy the other park for some time. In an ideal world one would use normal PH for a nominal cost difference and it's less a burden. But if someone is determined to work around the current Disney restrictions there is a path for them to do so.

We purchased PH tickets back in Feb for our trip and I'll be getting with Guest Services to get those refunded when we arrive as we will not be able to bounce around this trip, and we will not be going to extreme measures to do so. We'll be doing Rope Drop to park close everyday, which is pretty typical for us anyway. And even for us our park hopping was usually limited to utilizing the EPCOT monorail to go from MK to EPCOT, or for leaving DHS to grab dinner at EPCOT, but I do know some people enjoy hitting multiple parks per day as they are focused on only a handful of attractions and each place. More power to them.

Right, I shouldn't have been so judgmental on other people's plans. Whatever works for them is great. But one of my points is that its no coincidence that Disney is playing around with the hours, making them wildly different at each park, and banning park hopping in the same year.