What Does Date based Ticket Mean?

[Porsche4]

Curious about how the new date based ticket rules work. I posted a comment of Facebook the other day bemoaning the fact that as I will be visiting from Australia and have pre purchased a 5 day pass that I would still have to make reservations. Someone came back and said they had had a 3 day pass and because it had an expiry date on it that counted as a date based ticket and she didn't have to make reservations. Is this correct? Are my tickets, which have an expiry date of January 2025, considered date based or will I still have to make reservations. I thought date based meant that when you purchase your tickets you are buying them for specific days or dates.

 

[sophy1996]

Changes to park reservations are for Disney World, not Disneyland. Disneyland is still requiring park reservations for all tickets.

 

[tlovesdis]

Disneyland still requires reservations regardless of ticket type.

 

[Porsche4]

Oh thanks for the clarification. Really wish we didn't have to but I guess being able to Park Hop earlier does help.

 

[soniam]

Oh thanks for the clarification. Really wish we didn't have to but I guess being able to Park Hop earlier does help.

No limitations on park hopping as of yesterday at Disney World. I guess DL is staying the same with a hopping time limit?

 

[MonocularVision]

No limitations on park hopping as of yesterday at Disney World. I guess DL is staying the same with a hopping time limit?

It is for now.

 

[brightlined]

WDW just has a ridiculous amount of available capacity right now. That's why they can make those changes. DLR is going to fill up a lot of future capacity today.

(And, honestly, WDW is using day tickets as de-facto park reservations - it's slightly looser, but basically the same thing - they know what days you'll be there. Days will simply "sell out" if they have to.)

 

[wench]

As everyone above said, the no reservations only applies to WDW. But, to answer your question, a date based ticket is basically a 1-5 day ticket, as opposed to a Magic Key/Annual Pass.

 

[brightlined]

As everyone above said, the no reservations only applies to WDW. But, to answer your question, a date based ticket is basically a 1-5 day ticket, as opposed to a Magic Key/Annual Pass.

At WDW, "date-based ticket" means something further than that: it's a single- or multi-day ticket that you can only use during a certain set of days, and you have to choose the first day that it's valid. Whatever day you choose determines the price of the ticket.

If you want to change the days, you have to "edit" the ticket, pick the new days, and (potentially) pay the difference, since the prices can vary from week-to-week, if not day-to-day. (There's a whole tool in the WDW app for editing a ticket after it's been purchased.)

On the bright side, you don't have to choose a specific park to start each day - you can just go wherever during the days it's valid. I think for most folks, it's easier - they can just choose the days of their trip and they're done. But it's still a little bit convoluted.

But that was the big change that allowed WDW to able to do this. As long as DLR sticks with the standard multi-day tickets, they'll have to keep park reservations.

(WDW's convention arm still sells the old-school single- and multi-day passes, which still need park reservations.)