Ticket panic

[londonpenguin]

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa! I feel stupid for even having to ask this. So if all this has been asked and answered before, all I can say is: I apologize, and where's my sign?

I booked my package on DisneyWorld.com, and I read everything carefully (I thought) before putting in my credit card number and making the purchase. But recently I've been reading other stuff that leads me to believe that I didn't buy what I thought I bought.

What I bought for BF and myself are two 7-Day Magic Your Way with Magic Plus Pack Option tickets. I was under the impression that these would allow us to (a) go to multiple parks in a single day, (b) visit the same park each and every day, and also (c) visit the water parks as often as we wanted during our stay at POFQ. Is this, indeed, the case? Could we, for example, do the following:

Day 1: AK in the morning. Resort for lunch. FW in the afternoon. MGM for an early dinner. Then to MK for EMH.

Day 2: MGM in the morning. BB for lunch, early afternoon. Back to MGM for dinner.

Day 3: TL in the morning. WS for lunch. BB in the afternoon. MGM for EMH.

Day 4: WS in the morning. Lunch at AK. TL in the afternoon. MK for EMH.

Etc. through Day 7.

Can we do this? Or do I need to switch to a different ticket that will allow us to do, basically, whatever we want on whichever day we want?

Also, if we've got 7-day tickets (regardless of what kind), do we really need to get our hands stamped when leaving a park? Won't our ticket just let us back in?

Again, I feel like a complete dolt for asking this, but I'm really confused.

 

[MrShiny]

You only get a limited number of "plusses," 4 I think with the 7 day. So you can only visit water parks or Pleasure Island a maximum of 4 times. You can spend 7 days in any or all of the major parks IF you bought the park hopping option. If not, you can go in and out of any one park each day.

If you bought the wrong one, you can I believe upgrade on site.

Yes, I think you still need to get a hand stamp, but not sure if that is still true with the biometric scans. The purpose is to prevent you sharing a pass with another - each spending a half day in the park, for example.

 

[NCombs]

Do you have your tickets yet so you could tell us exactly what they say on the back?

When we were there last year, we had to get the hand stamp. As far as I know, this is still happening, even with the new tickets. Someone else who has used the new tickets may be able to answer this better.

 

[seashoreCM]

Technically you need a hand stamp for re-entry to a park or for park hopping. By getting a hand stamp when leaving TL or BB you don't have to worry about a previous hand stamp having washed off.

A totally unused MYW ticket can be traded towards any other kind of MYW ticket.

On Day 1 when you got to Future World (Epcot) for lunch, without hopping you would be denied admission, you could go to Guest Relations outside and add hopping right there and then go into the park.

A MYW pass allows a finite number of plus visits, five plusses for a 7 day pass. So for your Day 3 (TL in the morning. WS for lunch. BB in the afternoon. MGM for EMH) you would consume two plusses, for TL and BB respectively, as well as one park day (for both World Showcase and MGM). If you did not go to WS in the afternoon nor MGM that evening you would consume zero park days on that day.

There are no current standard tickets (other than premium or waterpark annual passes) that allow unlimited water park visits but from time to time some travel agencies have promotional tickets that do.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/dispass.htm

 

[londonpenguin]

Thanks for the responses. I went back to the DisneyWorld site and figured out where I went wrong. When deciding which ticket to buy, I thought it was a "you can have this kind OR this kind OR that kind" of ticket. Turns out, it's a "you can have this kind WITH this option AND/OR WITH that option." I apparently have yet to learn the difference between checkboxes and radio buttons. My bad!