what is an E-ticket?

[eric8]

please help me to understand what an e-ticket is. thank you in advance.

 

[teedee]

I'm new here, but I think I know the answer to this one. E Ticket Night was a program they had until recently where for, I think, $12 you could buy a ticket to stay in the Magic Kingdom for 3 hours past official park closing. The more popular rides were kept open and a limited number of tickets were sold so that on a lot of the rides you could just walk on and ride more than once. I believe you had to have a multi day ticket and be staying in a Disney resort to take part in this. They are no longer doing this, it has changed into the extra magic hours. They don't charge for this, but again you have to be staying in a Disney resort to take advantage of it. On certain days of the week different parks will either open an hour early or stay open 3 hours after the parks close for non resort guests. I don't think they do the extra hours at night every day, but I think one is always open an hour earlier.

I believe the name E Ticket came from back in the days when you had to buy a ticket for each ride. The E tickets were for the best, most popular rides.

Terri

 

[TXTink]

Yep! teedee is right!

When Disneyland first opened they had different tickets for different rides. A tickets, B tickets...you get the idea.... The grading system was based on the popularity (or excitement level) of the ride, with the E Ticket rides being the most popular (or better) rides. Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (among others) would be E ticket rides at DL. The term has hung on today even at WDW and are used to describe the "biggie" rides such as Splash Mountain, Big Thunder, Space Mountain and so on....

 

[estnh]

This one make me feel old!

When Walt Disney World first opened, long before Epcot and the other parks, when you paid park admission, you got a book of tickets. Each booklet had so many A tickets, B tickets, and so on. It took an E ticket to go on a major attraction, such as Space Mountain, Its a Small World, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. (I'm trying to remember more, but there weren't that many major attractions in those days!) The lesser rides would be an lesser ticket--for example the carrousel was an A ticket.

When you used all your E tickets, there were booths in the park where you could buy additional tickets. As I recall, we always had a hard time using up the lesser value tickets, and always went home with extras. Somewhere in a scrapbook in the attic, I bet I could find a half a dozen A tickets right now!

It's a better system now for sure, but on the downside, I think park admission back then including the ticket booklet, was around $10.

 

[TXTink]

This one make me feel old!

When Walt Disney World first opened, long before Epcot and the other parks, when you paid park admission, you got a book of tickets. Each booklet had so many A tickets, B tickets, and so on. It took an E ticket to go on a major attraction, such as Space Mountain, Its a Small World, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. (I'm trying to remember more, but there weren't that many major attractions in those days!) The lesser rides would be an lesser ticket--for example the carrousel was an A ticket.

When you used all your E tickets, there were booths in the park where you could buy additional tickets. As I recall, we always had a hard time using up the lesser value tickets, and always went home with extras. Somewhere in a scrapbook in the attic, I bet I could find a half a dozen A tickets right now!

It's a better system now for sure, but on the downside, I think park admission back then including the ticket booklet, was around $10.

I didn't know they had E-Tickets at WDW! Thanks for the info! I thought it was only at DL!

 

[Maridw]

This one make me feel old!

When Walt Disney World first opened, long before Epcot and the other parks, when you paid park admission, you got a book of tickets. Each booklet had so many A tickets, B tickets, and so on. It took an E ticket to go on a major attraction, such as Space Mountain, Its a Small World, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. (I'm trying to remember more, but there weren't that many major attractions in those days!) The lesser rides would be an lesser ticket--for example the carrousel was an A ticket.

I remember before WDW when DL had the book of tickets. I also remember when they went to the Magic Kingdom Pass.

One year we went with my aunt and my two cousins plus another of her nieces to DL. We were out of E tickets and were trying to decide what to do, when a woman came up to us and asked if we were staying in the park. When we said yes, she gave us some tickets. We were trying to figure out how many E tickets we had when an elderly couple came up and asked if someone had just given us some tickets. We told them yes, and they turned and gave us some more tickets. After we checked what we had, there was enough for each of us to do three E ticket rides each. I think there were 6 of us kids so that gave us 18 E tickets plus the rest of the books. The three adults had only used the a couple of the E tickets and 1 or 2 of the others.

Talk about making some kids day!!!

I think that is one thing I will always remember.

 

[fishy_mouse]

I am also old enough to remember the ticket books at WDW. A side effect of the books was that it did tend to spread out the lines at the attractions. E ticket lines were a bit shorter than today, but there were longer lines at the A ticket attractions (Railroad, etc.) I guess that people wanted to use all of their tickets.