Unexpired Hopper Passes

[della]

I came across Hopper Passes from a previous trip. I think they have 1 day each still left on them. Is there somewhere at WDW I can check without using them? We already have annual passes for this trip.

Also, my dd and friends will be going later this year. I am sure one of these hopper passes belonged to her, but can her friends (unofficially ) use the others? Do you have to show ID or anything to use the unexpired passes? Thanks!

 

[jarestel]

The guest services desk at your resort or guest relations at any park can check your park hoppers for any unexpired days. Guest relations at the parks seems to be more reliable though, as I've had the hotel tell me the tickets were good, only to have them rejected at the parks as expired.

Also, the old park hoppers weren't tied to any specific person, so if you say Person X was the one who originally used it, I don't think anyone can dispute that. Not that anyone will ask that anyway since as long as there is a valid admission on the ticket, they'll just buzz you through.

 

[seashoreCM]

Every once in awhile guests may be asked when they last visited. The question can be posed at the time you are having the tickets scanned for how many days remaining as well as at the turnstiles entering the park. Disney can tell when a ticket was last used. This may catch guests trying to use somebody else's ticket which is technically not allowed.

How many do you have?

As far as letting your friends use them on a multi-day trip you will probably do better (cost wise) if one person uses all of the old tickets (carrying only one of them on any given day) and everybody else buys new tickets. This can get tricky if plus options (waterpark admissions) are involved.

If you are visiting for five or more days, the difference between using one old pass per person with one or two days remaining versus buying all new passes (and saving the old passes for a later weekend only trip) might be less than ten dollars. Then on a weekend only trip the old passes are worth more than sixty dollars per day each.

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

 

[della]

Thanks! I see what your saying about one person using them. I am not sure when or for how long my daughter and her friends will go but she usually goes at least once a summer.

I am not even sure if these are from my last trip or a previous one (or one of my daughter's trips).

 

[jarestel]

Every once in awhile guests may be asked when they last visited. The question can be posed at the time you are having the tickets scanned for how many days remaining as well as at the turnstiles entering the park. Disney can tell when a ticket was last used. This may catch guests trying to use somebody else's ticket which is technically not allowed.

Or it could be that the ticket being scanned wasn't purchased or used at the time of the last visit. At one point I had amassed 15 - 20 old hoppers with varying days left on each, ( and many expired ones mixed in as well ) purchased at different times over a period of years. When I finally got around to having them scanned, there's no way I would have been able to guess which trip I originally bought and used them on. And no way I could have distinguished my wife's tickets from mine. I guess it's lucky for me they didn't ask me any trick questions, LOL!

 

[seashoreCM]

At one point I had amassed 15 - 20 old hoppers with varying days left on each, (and many expired ones mixed in as well) purchased at different times over a period of years. When I finally got around to having them scanned, there's no way I would have been able to guess which trip I originally bought and used them on.

If those were hopper plus passes some (perhaps the ones you assumed were exhausted) may have had more days remaining than you thought. If on a particular day you visited only water parks or Pleasure Island, that did not count as a "day" off of your pass.

Actually I do not think Disney will get too sticky about date of last use especially if you tell them (if and after they ask) you purchased them over the years. It would help if you could name the dates of several different past trips.

Using old tickets as-is during a vacation when you have enough of them accumulated so you don't need to buy any new tickets is one of the better strategies.

 

[marcbelt]

Actually, this has happened to me as well. Guest services at Animal Kingdom asked me who bought the tickets and the mailing address they were sent to.

 

[jarestel]

If those were hopper plus passes some (perhaps the ones you assumed were exhausted) may have had more days remaining than you thought. If on a particular day you visited only water parks or Pleasure Island, that did not count as a "day" off of your pass.

You're right, some them did have unexpired plus options on them. We got them all mixed up, so one trip I just gathered them all up and had them scanned to find out what was left. We actually had quite a few park days ( one day here, 2 days there ) when all was added up, so I'm glad I did it.

Come to think of it, these were all KTTK tickets ( hotel key and park tickets all on the same card ) , so my name was printed on the front of all of the tickets. No need to ask any questions in that case, I guess.

 

[cobbler]

I have some tickets from 2000 with 2 plusses on each of them. Going to have to use them someday.