Too many water park & fun options ?

[pooh2001]

As of 8/5/07 from WDW

If we buy a 10 day Park Hopper Ticket with Water Park Fun & More Option

Then we get 10 visits to:
Disney’s Blizzard Beach water park
Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon water park
DisneyQuest
Downtown Disney Pleasure Island
or
Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex

Why so many ?
We would only do DQ and maybe one of the water parks.

Is the Water Park Fun & More Option worth the $53.25 per ticket ?

If we have 13 days available - wouldn't it be better to spend 10 days in the WDW Parks, one day at Harry Potter World, one day mini-golf and pool relaxing and the third extra day shopping at DTD and the pool again for a whole afternoon (or swap and do pool in the AM and shop in the PM) ?

 

[Maverick Mike]

If you visit any of those places more than once, it does make sense. But you are right, I doubt anyone would use all of those options!

 

[Chellymouse]

If you look at ticket prices for a single visit to either water park, PI or DisneyQuest and you are planning on doing either 2 of the above, even if it is just once or twice, then yes. If you aren't planning on doing any of the options or only planning for one day, then it is less expensive to pay the one time admission price.

 

[wilde_oscar]

but wouldn't it be fun to try to use all of those pluses? a water park during the day, quest in the afternoon, and PI at night, would burn 3 right there. a couple days of that and bang, you have used them

 

[mommyoftwinfants]

They give you 10 to sweeten the deal of the NoExpiration ticket offer. If you get the NE the first time and make 2 trips out of the 10 day ticket and only use 2 extras each time you will have 6 extras left if you continue to use the same ticket pattern you would not have to buy an 'extra' ticket for 3 more trips.

 

[lpizzuro123]

We purchased a 10 day ticket about 3 years ago. We added the non expire feature. We have been using this ticket for the past 3 years and our days are finally used up (we made at least 4 trip to WDW and went into the park a few days per trip) and we still have at least 3 or 4 water park features left. They never expire so we will be using them when we go down this May and again when we go down in November (if it is not too cold).

Linda

 

[Twitterpated Dad]

If you go when the parks close early, you could go to DQ every night. It's usually open late.

We love to get the last ADR at a WS restaurant and then go to DQ and close it down. There's always time for at least a few games of PotC(BfBG).

Comando all the way!

 

[typhoonlagooner]

If your planning on going to the water parks at least once ($39 plus tax) and DQ ($37 plus tax) the option is going to save you money.

For a 10-day trip, we could use those. We'd most likely hit TL for an afternoon break, BB for a fun moring and some mini golf, some DQ time on one our relaxing days, and PI option at least 1 night of our stay.

I guess it really depends on how you vacation, but we like our "park breaks" including these options as well as trips to the Boardwalk Area, other resorts, etc.

 

[KikiFan]

We really love DisneyQuest and usually go at least twice. So the option really does come out to be a savings.

 

[SusanDK]

I always wished mini-golf would be a Water Park & More option. Does anyone know why it isn't?

Susan

 

[Cheshire Figment]

I always wished mini-golf would be a Water Park & More option. Does anyone know why it isn't?

Susan

I don't think it is the mechanics of accepting tickets, but if they accept park tickets they would also have to be able to sell or do upgrades to park tickets as well as handling tickets which may have become demagnetized.

Often at the mini-golf locations there may be only one person working. They already have the responsibility of all facets of running the operation including selling of refreshments, handling of the clubs and balls, and other things. Accepting tickets would not, in itself, be a problem other than programming the registers and tying them into the Automated Ticketing System, but ticket training involved about 16 hours of classroom as well as OJT and they would probably average only one ticket transaction (sales or upgrade) per day.

 

[seashoreCM]

I don't think it is the mechanics of accepting tickets, but if they accept park tickets they would also have to be able to sell or do upgrades to park tickets as well as handling tickets which may have become demagnetized.

If park ticket logistics were the issue, the mini-golf locations could conceivably accept vouchers. The vouchers would be specially invented for this purpose, and be obtainable at ticket booths elsewhere in advance, where the guest exchanged a water park fun visit for a voucher. No training, no tie-ins, no upgrades, etc. at the mini-golf location.

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

 

[Rock'n Robin]

This is the first time we are using water parks and more. We plan on doing both water parks and DQ. I just hope the mornings are warm enough in 3 weeks to handle it! But again as someone said, even if we only do one water park and DQ we get our money's worth.
Robin M.