Ticket Question: Park Hopping

[Gymbomom]

Background: We have extended family going with us for the first time. This is their first time to go and our family is helping with a lot of their expenses, (lodging and airfare) They are to provide eating $$ and admission to the parks.

They will be there 8 days, 7 nights. Now adding park hopper would be like $180 for their family (2 adults, 2 teenagers), well that could be the Christmas Party for them, so we would rather them not do that.

But, here is my question, if on one day, you decided to go to MK and then that evening go to Epcot, would it let you do that and just take another day off your ticket? As you know, when you get to higher days, it is just a few $$ to add one more, so if they bought a 10 day ticket, could they use those extra 2 days to park hop?

Now in our "world" that would be crazy as those hold more value, but to them, they might never be able to afford to go again.

Is this possible??? TIA!!!

 

[Allison]

No, Disney knows people would try to do this and the tickets will not work that way. Using the ticket at another park doesn't take off another day, the ticket is just rejected.

 

[mill4023]

No.
It will not let you enter a second park on the same day, no matter how many days you have left on your ticket.

 

[Gymbomom]

Sigh, thanks for your help..............

 

[mill4023]

My personal opinion is that for first-timers park hopping is not worth the expense. Once you've been a few times and know what you like and don't like, I can see wanting to hop around more. But for first timers, there is so much to see that it's easy to spend at least a whole day at each park. You can still leave the park for a break if you want and return later, as long as you return to the same park.