Will Disney care if my son uses and adult ticket?

[AdventurerKat]

I have a friend who has a couple days left on a park hopper she has offered to give me for our May trip but it is an adult ticket. Will WDW care if my 4 yo uses an adult ticket? Obviously, it has been "transferred" if he is using it.

 

[GoldenOldie]

The only question I can answer is whether you will be able to do it. The answer is yes.

 

[WDSearcher]

It will really depend on who you hit at the turnstile. Some folks are more adamant than others.

Technically, he cannot use someone else's pass -- they are non-transferable, as you know. If it was a child's pass, no one would notice and he'd be fine. But because it's a partially used hopper, it's likely to be questioned.

 

[AdventurerKat]

I was worried about that. Maybe we will just give it to my MIL to use if my friend does not mind.

I don't care about the transferable part myself. Some people go to WDW and then don't go back for years and years (or ever...GASP!) and keeping track of the ticket is a hassle which is why she offered it to me. She thought someone should get to use it. I don't need it because i have an AP and we already have DHs ticket.

Thanks for the input. I don't want to risk any trouble.

 

[z28wiz]

I think you should be alright cause they just go through the machine when u walk into the park should be alright.

 

[kbkids]

I don't think they would ever notice either. You just stick the ticket in the machine, and it comes out the other side. The only time they have ever even looked at ours was when my husband's (we've got APs) finger scan didn't work for him.

 

[disney4us2002]

I hope this isn't a stupid question, lol, but is there any difference in appearance between a child and adult pass? We bought park hoppers thru SoG in '97 and they just had characters on them with the 25 anniversary logo and in '02 we had stars and stripes. The back stated adult or child but otherwise I thought all the tickets looked the same. I know I just passed ours out and didn't even check to see who had which but of course we all entered together. I can't see them upset about a child using adult which could've been yours before you purchased an AP anyway although I wouldn't try to send an adult thru with a child's, lol.

 

[kilarney]

Actually, there is a readout that shows the turnstile operator what type of ticket you are using. Next time you go through a turnstile, look back at the turnstile after you pass through it and you can see the small screen.

Therefore, the operator (IF they look....) will see that it is an adult ticket.

 

[mckim]

But if they "never expire", you could be 40 using a childs ticket from when you were little. Right?

 

[WDSearcher]

Right. But in this case, it's a child using a partially used ADULT ticket.

It's kind of hard to be a kid using the ticket you used to use as an adult.

 

[seashoreCM]

About being 40 years old and using a child ticket...

You "should" exchange the partly used ticket for an adult ticket (best using the no-cost even exchange method). At that time the ticket agent might ask some questions about when you were last at WDW in order to get an idea whether the ticket was really yours.

Disney hints:
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[BoyLovesBuzz]

We if my Great Aunt Sophie from Poughkeepsie won the grand prixe at the local Shop-A-Lot that included air fare and 2 adult tickets to WDW. She cashed in the air tickets for a years worth of Botox, and sent the WDW tickets to us. DH and DW got annual passes but jr who just turned 3 needs a pass to get in. What then

 

[kbkids]

I didn't know about the little screen that the CMs can see, BUT before we had annual passes, we used PHP. I never once looked at which ticket I was handing out to everyone. I'm sure that at some point I went through on a child's ticket and my child on an adult's ticket. I still think no one would say anything in this particular situation.

 

[WDSearcher]

Originally posted by BoyLovesBuzz
We if my Great Aunt Sophie from Poughkeepsie won the grand prixe at the local Shop-A-Lot that included air fare and 2 adult tickets to WDW. She cashed in the air tickets for a years worth of Botox, and sent the WDW tickets to us. DH and DW got annual passes but jr who just turned 3 needs a pass to get in. What then

Then you can use them for Jr if you want. Not a problem, because they haven't been used yet.

The OP had partially-used adult tickets that they were going to use for a child. Which would lead most people to believe the ticket once belonged to someone else. I suppose you could always tell Disney that you bought an adult ticket for your child for some reason, but as most people try to SAVE money on their WDW trips instead of spending MORE than necessary, that explanation is likely to ring hollow.

 

[jann1033]

I wonder if it would be different if a family , say 2 adults and 2 kids used 2 adults and 2 kids tickets , even if the family members might not have used their own ticket vs a child using only an adult ticket, without an adult using the kid's. first senario obvious the tickets are mixed up but belong to someone in that group second senario obvious it's not his and is a"second Hand" ticket.

personally I don't see what the sense of making the tickets non-transferable if they are not going to abide by that when it is obvious..

.and every time our ap went through they glanced at it before they handed it back to us. maybe with a park hopper you could grab it yourself as soon as it went through the machine since you don't have to do the finger scan.

 

[Jillpie]

Of course your child can use it. This past trip we had five tickets for my family. Two of them were child tickets. Because my sons liked certain characters on the adult tickets, I always handed them ours. We took the child tickets and we all went in this way every day. Simple. They never questioned it once. Enjoy, life is too short to worry about this.