With DDP-Any advantage now to buy admission for more than your length of stay?

[stackone]

Background:We usually stay 4-5 days at Disney Parks during our normal vacations.
We are accustomed to purchasing the 10 day no expiration tickets because the price per day is so much cheaper. We use up the extra days on the ticket during our next visit--then buy another 10 day no expiration to replace.

The DDP:
With the Dining Plan you have to buy a package with Rooms and Ticket(s). Even if it's just a single day ticket, you have to buy one when booking your room in order to get the DDP added on.

So here is the dilemma:
If you have an existing no expiration ticket like we do, with 5 days left on it, you have to buy an single day park ticket, even though we don't need the extra day.
With this in mind, if we plan to use the DDP can you see any advantage anymore to buying the extended admission tickets that take you beyond your actual lenght of stay? Seems we will always be purchasing that single day ticket just to get the DDP added on.

 

[saschab]

I rented a reservation from a DVC member. That way you don't have the ticket requirement to add on DDP, and you can really save on your resort $$.

Don't know if this is an option for you...I'm kind of an ala carte girl, myself. And I've found this is the best value for my Disney dollars.

 

[dznymom1]

My gut feeling from the different things I have been reading is that Disney is likely to eliminate the option of purchasing a one day ticket (which I suspect was just a loophole) and requiring everyone to purchase a pass for their entire stay. Obviously this is just my opinion, but if I wanted to use the DDP for all my trips, I would be hesitant to purchase more days than I need.

 

[helenk]

It use to be that you had to buy tickets for your entire stay with the DDP. I think that it was just recently that it changed where you can get the package with just the one day ticket. I think that this was due to the fact that alot of people were buying the 10 day tickets.
If you can not use your one day tickets at the time of your stay and use them to uprade to a multi-day ticket later. You may save money in the long run

 

[bicker]

Since the DDP was introduced in 2005, there has never been a length-of-stay admission purchase requirement. A five day minimum admission purchase requirement was just recently introduced for the free dining promotion for hurricane season 2007, now being offered to UK residents. That's the foundation for the speculation that that requirement will be extended to Americans, and perhaps to non-free DDP purchases, sometime in the future.

 

[Linda 441]

I'm guessing the DDP may not last forever, OR you may not want to buy it on one of your trips. Or, on one trip, one of you might have an AP and the DDE card and that would be better. In any of those cases, you could use your remaining tickets. We have purchased 10 day non-expiring tickets and figure that with the days left from that and what we have left from previous trips, our next trip we won't have to buy park passes at all. So, then what? We will probably have one AP in our party and do the DDE card instead of the DDP.