SOG--Stars & Stripes Pass Q

[logan1_2000]

Do Stars & Stripes Passes Have to Be for the Entire Stay?

We will be staying at SOG November 2004 (hopefully finished by then!!) with my DOD sister's family, but we are very interested in spending the first two days at (Gasp!) Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure, then switching for the 2 or 3 remaining days of our trip to WDW parks. For a stay shorter than 4 days with Park Hopping to be part of the routine, the Stars & Stripes passes would work best--if we went ahead and bought them the afternoon before our anticipated first day in the WDW parks, which we expect to be about our 3rd day overall at SOG, will we be able to buy Stars & Stripes passes for the remainder of our stay, even though we had already been at SOG for 2-3 days?

FirstNo or others, any help on this much appreciated.

And for what its worth in response to some other threads, the walk over to Poly during our last SOG stay in 11/2000 to catch the monorail was No Big Deal at all--Love SOG and what a great conveient location relative to the whole property and value it is.

 

[FirstNo]

Originally posted by logan1_2000
Do Stars & Stripes Passes Have to Be for the Entire Stay?

We will be staying at SOG November 2004 (hopefully finished by then!!) with my DOD sister's family, but we are very interested in spending the first two days at (Gasp!) Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure, then switching for the 2 or 3 remaining days of our trip to WDW parks. For a stay shorter than 4 days with Park Hopping to be part of the routine, the Stars & Stripes passes would work best--if we went ahead and bought them the afternoon before our anticipated first day in the WDW parks, which we expect to be about our 3rd day overall at SOG, will we be able to buy Stars & Stripes passes for the remainder of our stay, even though we had already been at SOG for 2-3 days?

FirstNo or others, any help on this much appreciated.

My understanding of the S&S pass was a guest could buy from their length of stay to any date less than the length, down to 2 (I believe a 2 day S&S was the smallest denomination they sold). So, you shouldn't have any problems doing what you want to do. The pass doesn't have to be used on consecutive days, but it will expire at 1159pm on the day you check out. Hope that helped!!!

 

[Sleepy]

Originally posted by FirstNo
My understanding of the S&S pass was a guest could buy from their length of stay to any date less than the length, down to 2 (I believe a 2 day S&S was the smallest denomination they sold). So, you shouldn't have any problems doing what you want to do. The pass doesn't have to be used on consecutive days, but it will expire at 1159pm on the day you check out. Hope that helped!!!

If I understand you correctly, that sounds like the way it was for us back in summer of 1999. We stayed 12 nights and our guests had the option of purchasing as few as a 2 day S&S pass. They got a 9 day S&S so they could take a few days during the stay for shopping and Universal.

However, when we were there in summer 2001, we were notified that the policy for S&S had changed to be more like other Disney resorts. You had to purchase the S&S for ENTIRE stay minus the first and last day if you could not utilize the parks and you MUST use the pass CONSECUTIVELY. This was upseting, because you could not take a day to go shopping or go somewhere else. I guess for Disney, this was a good change in policy since they made more money. We purchase annual passes on years we visit, so it does not matter to us, but for people who stay shorter durations, having it as you stated would be better. Do you have any idea what the policy will be when they reopen? It seems to be changing each year.

 

[mog]

We were there in the summer of 2000 and that is the way I remember being told, too. We had to buy it for the whole length of stay (minus the arrival and departure day if we wanted since we may not be able to use them those days). The reason I remember this is because we were going to Discovery Cove the day before we left and we didn't necessarily want our Disney passes for that day. We had to, though, with the Length of Stay pass. I don't know if things have changed, but that is what we were told in Summer of 2000.