Ticket expiration question

[Heather]

Okay, I have an odd question: a friend of ours bought a 3 day hopper pass for his sister, who chose not to go on the trip. He wants us to buy the pass from him (I am pretty sure this is not problematic, since it has not been used at all and we'd be paying him face value for it) because he was told it would expire at the end of January, 2007 (he purchased it on 2/1/06).

Now it looks like a regular 3-day pass, it was purchased from Disney Parks & Resorts, and states on the back that it expires 14 days from the first use. But he is convinced that it will expire before they go back to Disney later that year.

I personally would prefer to just buy our own 7 day passes rather than hassle with buying his from him and then upgrading it to a 7 day, but he insists that his will expire prior to next February and if so, I don't want him to lose his money.

Has anyone heard of this "one year" limitation? Is this something I can check at a local Disney store, or do I have to be at Disney to see what's up with this ticket?

 

[Jamieb]

While I have seen this at Disneyland I have not seen it so much at Disney World unless it's a convention ticket, employee ticket, free ticket or some other special types of tickets. If it does expire it will say it on the ticket itself. If it only says expires 14 days from first use then its 14 days expiration will not start until it is used the first time, whenever that may be.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) Sounds like a special or convention ticket.
2) These have a double expiration
. . . a definite date after which it is void
. . . an expiration date 14 days after first day of use

 

[tjmw2727]

1) Sounds like a special or convention ticket.
2) These have a double expiration
. . . a definite date after which it is void
. . . an expiration date 14 days after first day of use

Yes - dh had a convention in June of 05 and first use had to be by 12/31/05, they then expired 14 days from first use. This was clearly printed on the ticket though.

Be careful though in upgrading as Disney gives you the price paid and the convention may have gotten a significant discount. So if you do decided to help him out you will want to know how much they are worth on your trade in.

If you were going to use the tickets as is and he/she was passing on his discount it would be a good deal, otherwise probably not a good deal.

TJ

 

[Heather]

Thanks for the help! I did not know that about convention tickets, although his was not (my DH asked and we actually have the letter that came with the pass via mail from WD Parks & Resorts, and it appears to be a plain old 3 day park hopper). I will let him know that it REALLY doesn't expire unless it was a convention pass and offer to send it back to him. His son LOVED WDW (of course! who wouldn't?) so I'm sure they will be heading back at some point.

Thanks again for the advice!