Water Park Tickets

[Chipmunk89]

First off, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. Still learning.

We are planning on buying MYW tickets with park hopper and water park options. However while I was reading other posts, I noticed the water park option seems different. What are they talking about? Please explain as if you were talking to an idiot.

 

[Rylee]

I'm not sure what they're talking about, so I'm not sure what you're talking about...

The Park Hopper option will allow you to visit multiple parks on the same day as many times as you like.

The Water Park Fun & More option gives you admission to the water parks, DisneyQuest, clubs at Pleasure Island or the Wide World of Sports complex. The number of admissions depends on how many days you purchase tickets for.

You can purchase your MYW ticket with one or the other options or can include both options.

*I haven't check prices in awhile but a CM once told me... if you plan to visit a water park only once, it is cheaper to purchase a separate admission, 2 or more visits, it is cheaper to add on to your MYW ticket.*

Not sure if I helped.

 

[lovetoscrap]

Let's see. I am not completely sure what you are asking but you might start here: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1452684

Water Park option lets you use one use per admission-- not per day. You can not "hop" .

So with the MYW Park Hopper you can get into the 4 Theme parks: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot and Disney Studios (is that what it is called this week?) as many times as you want each day. You are buying it per day. Go to MK for 2 hours in the morning, then go to Epcot for 3 hours and end the day at Disney Studios. It only uses up 1 day off of your pass.

But there is no "hopping" for the Water Park and More. If you want to go to Blizzard Beach in the morning then go to Typhoon Lagoon and end the night at Disney Quest you would have to use 3 of the "days" from it. They really aren't called days I don't think. I think they say you get X number of "plusses" . So if you got 6 pluses with the ticket you bought you would have only 3 left after the senario I just described.

Does this help at all?

 

[Chipmunk89]

Yes, I think. Thanks Lovestoscrap. But just to be sure. We are planning an 8 night/9 day stay at POP. Let's we buy an 8 day MYW ticket, with park hopper and water park. We couldn't go to the water park in the day, and then a theme park at night. Right? We would need a ten day MYW, with PH & WP. ???? Our original plan was to spend one or two days entirely at the water parks. But then we started thinking we could hit the water parks as a way to beat the midday heat, then go to the theme parks. But that does not look possible now. For $5 more, the ten day would be better for this plan. Right?

 

[lovetoscrap]

Okay, you totally lose me when you start talking dollars--hopefully someone else can answer that but I can answer the basic question.

YES! You CAN use a Theme Park admission AND a Plus option on the same day!! In fact that is common. People often go to the parks and use the Plus for Pleasure Island (the clubs ) So, in simple terms you can go to Magic Kingdom in the morning, go the Blizzard Beach in the afternoon and then to Epcot in the Evening for dinner. You would use ONE day on your MYW park hopper ticket and ONE of your plus options.


Helpful?

 

[CleveRocks]

First off, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. Still learning.

We are planning on buying MYW tickets with park hopper and water park options. However while I was reading other posts, I noticed the water park option seems different. What are they talking about? Please explain as if you were talking to an idiot.

Let's say you're buying an 8-day park hopper with the Water Parks Fun & More option. Try to think of it as 2 totally separate tickets. This might help, and I'll explain.

With the 8-day park hopper, you have tickets to visit any and all of the 4 theme parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom). You can visit the theme parks on 8 separate days. Because your ticket is a park hopper ticket and not a base ticket, you can go to more than one theme park on the same day and still have it count as only one day off your ticket. In other words, if you go to Animal Kingdom in the morning, Magic Kingdom in the afternoon and then Epcot in the evening (NOT that I recommend it!!!), all of that would still only count as 1 day of your 8 days on your park hopper.

Totally separate from all that, you bought 8 admissions to the WPF&M places (2 different water parks, Disney Quest, the nightclubs at Pleasure Island). Notice I said 8 ADMISSIONS and not 8 days. It works differently than it does with the theme parks. If you go to Typhoon Lagoon in the morning and Blizzard Beach in the afternoon, that would count as 2 of your 8 WPF&M admissions. Confused yet???

So as I said, these are like 2 totally separate tickets, one for the theme parks and one for the WPF&M places.

Since they are totally separate entities, you CAN use them on the same day. In other words, YES, you can go to a theme park on the same day as you go to a water park or to Pleasure Island or whatever.

But you don't have to use both "sides" of the ticket on the same day. If you spend a day just going to a water park and don't go to any other place that day, you used up 1 admission from your WPF&M ticket but didn't use one of your theme park days.

I hope this helps.

 

[CleveRocks]

Yes, I think. Thanks Lovestoscrap. But just to be sure. We are planning an 8 night/9 day stay at POP. Let's we buy an 8 day MYW ticket, with park hopper and water park. We couldn't go to the water park in the day, and then a theme park at night. Right? We would need a ten day MYW, with PH & WP. ???? Our original plan was to spend one or two days entirely at the water parks. But then we started thinking we could hit the water parks as a way to beat the midday heat, then go to the theme parks. But that does not look possible now. For $5 more, the ten day would be better for this plan. Right?

Wrong.

First of all, you will be in the area for a maximum of 9 days. Buying a 10-day theme park ticket would be wasteful, since you wouldn't be able to use more than 9 days' worth of theme park days.

Let me try to explain it differently than I did last time (obviously, I know that as I write this you haven't yet read my post above).

Let's say you buy the 8-day park hopper ticket with WPF&M option. All of these entitlements will be invisbly encoded onto one card that looks like a credit card of sorts.

But let's pretend that instead of that, you were given stacks of paper tickets.
One stack would be 8 theme park tickets (the 4 major parks). Another stack would be 8 WPF&M tickets.

Now ... hold on, this could get confusing ... because you are paying extra for the "park hopper" option on your theme park tickets, you are permitted to go to an unlimited number of theme parks in a day. So when you use one of those park hopper tickets, think of it as a sort of magical all-day all-access pass to the theme parks. You would use that same one (imaginary) paper ticket all day for one day. So let's say that it's Tuesday and you know you want to go to Animal Kingdom Tuesday morning and Magic Kingdom late Tuesday night. Remember the dumb example of having paper tickets ... you'll still be using that same one ticket for that day. That one paper theme park park hopper ticket will get you into BOTH of those parks on the same day.

So let's say that on that same Tuesday you ALSO wanted to hit both water parks. After Animal Kingdom you decide to go to Blizzard Beach. To get into Blizzard Beach, you have to give them one of your imaginary WPF&M paper tickets. Picture that they would take this ticket from you. Because it's a WPF&M ticket, it is good for only one admission, period ... that one ticket can't be used to get you into another WPF&M place later that day. Now let's say you're weird and have boundless energy and you want to go to Typhoon Lagoon immediately after Blizzard Beach on Tuesday. When you get to the gate at Typhoon Lagoon, you will have to give them ANOTHER (imaginary) paper WPF&M ticket.

So when you get back to your room on Tuesday night after you've done everything, you look at your stacks of tickets. Remember, you started with 8 theme park park hopper tickets, and 8 WPF&M tickets. You count your remaining tickets. You have 7 park hopper tickets left, and you have 6 WPF&M tickets left. Remember, going to both MK and AK on that day only cost you a total of ONE of your park hopper tickets. But going to 2 different water parks that day cost you a total of 2 of your WPF&M tickets.

I hope I've helped rather than confused ....

 

[torinsmom]

If you are going to be there 9 days, I would buy the 9 day ticket. If you plan to go to more than one of these-MK, Epcot, AK, MGM- on any of your days, add the hopper feature. If you plan to only go to one major park per day, you don't need it.

The WP&M ticket will give you "pluses". Each visit to a water park or Disney Quest(and maybe Pleasure Island?) uses one plus. If you get a 9 day ticket, you will get 9 pluses(8days,8pluses, etc). You can use as many pluses as you want in a day, but each admission takes away one plus(you can go back to the SAME water park on the same day and not use a plus)

I would probably buy the 9 day ticket with both Park Hopper and WP&M. That way you can basically do what you want for the whole time you are there. If you use less than you think this trip, you could always upgrade to 10 day non-expiring at the end of the trip, and save the days for another trip. I still have 5 pluses left from doing that a few years ago, so we don't even need to buy WP&M this time.

Marsha

 

[pepperw23]

Ha ha. This thread is making my brain hurt...and I thought the math thread was bad that day ha ha ha.

 

[Chipmunk89]

Thank you to everyone for explaining. Especially you CleveRocks. I finally get it. (I think ) Now we just gotta figure out what we're doing. Non-expiring is a good option too! Thanks again guys.

 

[alc90]

confusion

Ok, so i am planning on going to the 4 main parks plus the two water parks. So would i just get the water park fun option for 6 days?

 

[CleveRocks]

confusion

Ok, so i am planning on going to the 4 main parks plus the two water parks. So would i just get the water park fun option for 6 days?

How many days do you plan on being inside a theme park?

If you plan to go to Magic Kingdom on Monday, Epcot on Tuesday, Disney's Hollywood Studios on Wednesday and Animal Kingdon on Thursday, then you'd only need a 4-day theme park ticket. If you add the Water Parks Fun & More option to your 4-day theme park ticket, that will get you 4 admissions to any WPF&M park.

The ticket will be valid for 14 days from first use.