Use an adult ticket for a 6 year old?

[jehma]

We're planning on buying 10 day no-expiration passes for the whole family. Since we don't know how many years it will take us to use them up (can never tell what will happen!), we're concerned that getting a 10-day child pass for our 6.5 year old (at the time of our next visit) will be more days than we can use up before he turns 12. Since buying a 7 day child pass plus a 3 day adult pass is MUCH more money than buying a 10 day adult pass, the adult pass would be our best bet.

Will there be any problems at the gate using an adult pass for a child? How about with the biometrics?

Thanks!

 

[GOOFYFREEK]

I would buy the kid ticket and if for some reason you dont use it before he is 12 you can either sell it off. Or just pay for an upgrade for the last 3 days.

 

[k_k_100]

If your child becomes an adult before they use their ticket you can simply "upgrade" to an adult pass. This used to be at no additional charge.

~K

 

[WDSearcher]

You mentioned possibly not being able to use all the days before your child turns 12. Actually ... "adult" ticket prices go into effect at age 10.

That said -- buy the child ticket. The first trip you take after your child has turned 10, take the ticket to WDW Guest Relations, along with your child, and tell them that you purchased it when he was 6.5 and need to upgrade it to an adult. They will do so at no charge. (If the policy happens to change over the next 3.5 years, the worst that would happen is that you'd have to pay a pro-rated amount to upgrade the remaining days to an adult pass. But either way, there's no reason to spend that extra money now.)

 

[jehma]

Thanks for the info, everyone. It sounds like upgrading them might work better. If we use 2 park days each year, we'll have 2 days left on his child ticket when he's 10.5. (We're thinking 2 days park tickets, 1 water park, and maybe 1 universal day per trip

Why did I think it was 12? I guess because my oldest is 12 and my next is 9, so I was thinking the adult age was 12?

Or maybe we'll get the adult ticket now for $42 extra to avoid any future hassle . . .

 

[SueM in MN]

I would do as the other posters suggest and just get the child ticket.
Disney understands that kids grow up and they have always made allowance for that in the past, so there is no reason to think they would not continue to do that.
And, as others posted, if they stop doing the "age change" for free, the worst that could happen is you would have to pay an additional fee to upgrade the pass to adult.

 

[DVCLiz]

jehma -DON't get the adult ticket. You don't want the hassle of having to explain this every time you try to use an adult ticket for a child. They may not even sell you one or activate it properly if you buy it in advance. Just get the ticket for your child the age he is now!!!

 

[GoldenOldie]

The problem you would run into with getting an adult pass now is that with the arrival of the MYW tickets in January, all adult tickets must be tied to a finger scan. When you insert the ticket into the turnstile, it will not release until a finger scan has been done, either a baseline for the first use or a comparative one for a subsequent admission. And since a child under 10 does not have to do the finger scan, you would set off a red flag for the gate CM who would probably pull you out of line and send you to Guest Relations to get the ticket fixed.

Disney has always allowed for free upgrading on child tickets once the child outgrows the 3-9 age group. They still do.

 

[jehma]

OK, OK, you're all making me think that it might be easier to avoid the hassle and get the child ticket now.

Thanks!