Should we buy longer non-expiring WDW passes to save for future visits?

[disneysteve]

We will not be buying the 10 day base non-expire and here is the reasoning why:

If you know you will not be returning within the year or two, why would you want to want to tie-up your cash? There are more better returns elsewhere. At least this is my logic.

I don't agree. Currently, a 10-day non-expiring hopper is $112 more than a 5-day expiring hopper. For my family of 3, that means putting out $336 extra on our next trip. But that buys us 5 more days for each of us that are good forever. Next trip, whenever that may be, we would have to buy another 5-day non-expiring hopper and you can be certain that prices will have gone up by then. Today, it would cost us $684 but it would be even more then. So we will have saved at least $348 and probably more.

If we could invest the $336 at 10% a year (wouldn't that be nice), it would take nearly 9 years before the interest earned would make up for the savings. Assuming a lower interest rate, which is more realistic, it would take far longer.

I'll stick with spending $336 this year to avoid spending close to $700 or more next trip.

 

[swilphil]

If the weather turns bad for more than a two days, you can save the unused days for just $50 and it would still be cheaper per day. At least this is my logic.

If you buy a 7 day ticket, you will be paying $70 PER TICKET to change it to a non-expire, even if you only have 2 days left. If there's 4 in your family, that's $280 (plus tax). To me, buying the 10 day non-expire is like buying in bulk, especially since the Disney ticket prices will surely go up.

 

[seashoreCM]

Adding non-expiration to a 7 day ticket is $59. including tax. You may find it not worthwhile to preserve just one day and one plus. For the 10 day it is $107 including tax.

 

[vettechick99]

I would! We bought the 7-day PHP last year and only used 4 days. Now we have 3 days and most of the pluses left....

(I did this so I could get DH down there easier. One less thing to buy!)