What to do with 10-day tickets that I have no idea when will ever get used?

[Robo]

I got a question. How about if I purchased a 10 day ticket and could only use 5.

Can I just use the remaining days later on by changing them for new ones…

Sorry, but no.
The only ticket upgrade possible for use past the original ticket’s normal expiration date would be to an Annual Pass. (If and when they are selling APs.)

 

[goofyernmost]

Sorry, but no.
The only ticket upgrade possible for use past the original ticket’s normal expiration date would be to an Annual Pass. (If and when they are selling APs.)

Thanks... yet another useful thing that somehow Disney thinks they lose something on. So instead of 10 days every two years that I am onsite spending money... it will just be 3 days. How is that good business? Appreciate your answering me, thanks again Robo.

 

[cel_disney]

Thanks for all the replies everyone! I did forget about the fact that kids under 3 are free. That could definitely open up some possibilities. Just out of curiosity to the people who have traveled with kids under 3, when was point you felt comfortable going on a plane with your little one?

a little late to reply - but my oldest made his first plane trip to WDW at 11.5 months old and my youngest was 4 months. She was at Disney via plane 3 times before she was 15 months old.

I have to say - bringing the 4 month old was VERY easy. We usually go in September but I was afraid that would be too hot for her teeny tiny body, so we delayed until December. She was 4.5 months old - still nursing but also took a bottle. She has an easy going temperament and would sleep whenever she needed to wherever she was - not all kids do this.

I would do a combo of nursing and bottle feeding (it was really easy to pack a bottle with water and mix in formula when we needed it, or plan a stop at the baby car center if we needed to warm it up or I wanted to nurse in a private place)…

she was my second kid and was very tiny so she was easy to carry and I was also really well prepared for discretely nursing “in public”..I know that some DONT feel comfortable doing this but I’m sure that I was always discrete enough and never really “in public” - just not locked in the baby care center room…

we always bought our kids airplane seats and we brought car seats on the planes ans in rental cars. I am a firm believer that their airplane behavior was so much better because of that car routine being used. Sitting in their own car seats felt normal to them (they both traveled at least once per year to Disney and had car seats on planes until they were 5 and we could get by with a booster in Disney)

we did buy DVC after our sons 3rd trip at 3 years obut we stayed at Port Orleans French Quarter until then and our first trip as a family of 4 was for work so we were at shades of green. POFQ has a curtained off bathroom area that fit the pack n play perfectly at night and for naps so that there was an easy way for our kids to fall asleep and be in the dark while we still walked around.

My daughter was an early Walker (6.5 months old!) and I assure you that it was much easier when she was not mobile and was happy to look at things and he worn in a good baby carrier or sit in a stroller than when either kid was toddling! It was still very managable at the toddling stage - but not as easy…hardest trip was the first trip out of diapers for both…sounds crazy but it’s so easy when you don’t have to worry about whether you can just ride buzz when you get to the front of the line or have to get out of line for a potty break!

congratulations on your upcoming arrival! Things will be different - and every kid and parent is different - but don’t let that stop you from doing things you want to do! It’s easy to do rider swap during nap time for some of those “thrill” rides and before you know it - you will all be taking your kiddo on them too! My son was 40” tall before his 3rd birthday!!! I did not even have to pay for his ticket and he could ride some of those rides with us!!

 

[supersnoop]

How is that good business?

I'm certain Disney has run the numbers and decided that, in the aggregate, they make more money and have more happier customers the way they've structured it.

 

[goofyernmost]

I'm certain Disney has run the numbers and decided that, in the aggregate, they make more money and have more happier customers the way they've structured it.

I think you are overestimating the ability of Disney Executives to define their butts from their elbows. The accountants and the new system didn't like to have that many prepaid day out there, (they had to be accounted for as debt) and followed for years sometimes. They still have non-expiring tickets out there someplace that they have to accept and they just didn't want to do that. So now you get to pay for something and if it can't be used in time lets Disney keep that money and the family of or the sucker that bought it to begin to be deprived of an actual asset. Before all the new fangled systems they had no way of knowing how much additional income was secured by having us be there for 10 days over two years instead of 3 days over two years. They just didn't want to not think about how much money they were losing based on the continuously price increasing animal that is Disney. I would still be open to non-expiring tickets that need to be adjusted to reflect current prices for the remain days on the pass. But, with Disney it is all or nothing.

They may have more money, but I'm not sure what part of that makes for happier customers.

 

[TinkLoverSam]

Thanks for all the replies everyone! I did forget about the fact that kids under 3 are free. That could definitely open up some possibilities. Just out of curiosity to the people who have traveled with kids under 3, when was point you felt comfortable going on a plane with your little one?

7 weeks with our first… for a two week trip to WDW with 10 day tickets, but this was pre-covid