Use Old Tickets or Buy New Ones?

[LISmama810]

My family and I are going to Disney World in October. (Two adults, two kids, and another kid who Disney considers an adult...) We'll be there for five days and plan on getting 4-day single-park tickets (no hopping).

I have two old no-expiration tickets from a trip back in 2001. I sent the info to Disney ticketing, and one ticket has 2 days left (park hopper) plus some water park admissions. The other has 6 days left (also hopper, also some water park admissions).

I THINK I read that tickets that old can't be upgraded, so I don't think I can add two extra days to that 2-day ticket. Does anyone know? I should have asked when the Guest Relations person called, but I forgot. If I can't add two days to it, it wouldn't make financial sense to use that plus purchase a separate 2-day ticket.

I'm trying to decide what to do about the other ticket, though. It would be more than enough for one of us for this trip, but I'd hate to lose out on the two extra days from the 6-day ticket. (Unless those two days also won't expire. Shoot, I should have asked about that, too.)

So should I use that 6-day ticket now, or save it for some day in the future when I might need a longer ticket? (That's not likely to happen anytime soon, but it's already been 15 years, so what's another 15?)

 

[Robo]

My family and I are going to Disney World in October. (Two adults, two kids, and another kid who Disney considers an adult...) We'll be there for five days and

1. plan on getting 4-day single-park tickets (no hopping).

I have two old no-expiration tickets from a trip back in 2001. I sent the info to Disney ticketing, and one ticket has 2 days left (park hopper) plus some water park admissions. The other has 6 days left (also hopper, also some water park admissions).

2. I THINK I read that tickets that old can't be upgraded, so I don't think I can add two extra days to that 2-day ticket.
3. Does anyone know? I should have asked when the Guest Relations person called, but I forgot.
4. If I can't add two days to it, it wouldn't make financial sense to use that plus purchase a separate 2-day ticket.

I'm trying to decide what to do about the other ticket, though. It would be more than enough for one of us for this trip,
5. but I'd hate to lose out on the two extra days from the 6-day ticket. (Unless those two days also won't expire. Shoot, I should have asked about that, too.)

6. So should I use that 6-day ticket now, or save it for some day in the future when I might need a longer ticket? (That's not likely to happen anytime soon, but it's already been 15 years, so what's another 15?)

1. What you mean is you want "4-day base tickets," for 3 adults and two kids.
2. Correct.
3. You cannot.
4. Moot point.
5. The remaining two days would remain valid, BUT then, you'd end up with a 2-day ticket that you'd need to figure how to use in the future.
6. You could save it for a 6-day trip.

 

[matheke]

You should not use your non expiring tickets on this trip. Look at it this way, you have park hopper tickets that you are not going to use as park hoppers. Why waste the option?

Now if you were planning on a water park day, they could be used that way and you would only have to add the option to 2 of your 4 base tickets.

 

[cedricandsophie]

We have 10 day non expire park hopper tickets that we have had for Many years. We still have days left in them. We only go one day every time we are ther and hit thre or four parks in a day. Or often we don't go at all.It's the best deal we ever got. If I had known they weren't going to sell the non expire tickets, I would have spent the money and bought more ten day park hoppers a couple of years ago. We figure that it now costs us about 50 or 55 a day when we g to the parks. We are just not one park a day people so even the deal Disney had last year for DVC members which was four days for 199 just didn't appeal to us. Or four days and get one free which I think was a recent promotion wasn't realistic.