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Can you use an extra day of your ticket to park hop?
I was just checking out ticket prices, regular versus Park Hopper, and With our plans the way they are right now, I only see us going to more than one park on one day.....or a slight chance of 2 days of our 6 day trip.
I noticed it is a bunch cheaper to just buy an extra day on our tickets than to get park hoppers.
Is this allowed? Or will they only let you use one day for one park?
Confusing? Or are you following me.
Because if we could do that, it looks like I could save over $500!!!!
It's too good to be true isn't it.....?
Anyone have the rules and regs about this?
Done it?
Tried and failed?
Just trying to make plans B and C in case they don't do any kind of Military Salute type thing for late 2012....
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: Sorry, but it is one park par day. You can not use extra days to park hop. The turnstiles will not allow you through into any park but the one you used that ticket at on that day already. :
If you try this, I am told you will be sent over to guest services and required to upgrade your tix to hoppers. The options are to add the hopper (around $55 per ticket, regardless of how many days you will use it), or change your plans to one park a day.
We almost always do single park tix. The only time I sprang for hoppers, we made darn sure we hopped. If it will save you that much $$, I would definitely go with the single pak ticket option.
Happy planning!
Look at it this way. As you said, it's a lot cheaper to buy extra days than to buy a park hopper. If it was possible to do what you're asking, then that would mean that Disney missed a huge loophole, because who would buy the hopper option if they could buy extra days for less?
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Thanks all!
I must have miscalculated something because when I looked at the pricing list, it looked like a little over $100 per person to upgrade to park hoppers. (I think I came up with $117 for us and $112 for my little one)
I dunno....I obviously calculated something totally wrong.
If it's just $55 a person for the whole trip then that would be worth it for the one day, plus the day of "just in case".
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I gotta admit, I was wondering where you were coming up with a savings of over $500 by not buying park hoppers.
Actually, I see where you came up with $117 per adult. That would be the cost to add on both the park hopper and the water park fun & more options, including tax. (Although it's the same for both adult and child tickets.)
If you aren't sure if you are going to park hop, you can always add it to your ticket at guest relations on the day you decide to park hop instead of buying it in advance.
Just make sure you do it before you leave the park you are already in.
That way if you decide to do something else rather than hop to another park, you won't have already paid for the park hopping feature that you didn't use.
If you aren't sure if you are going to park hop, you can always add it to your ticket at guest relations on the day you decide to park hop instead of buying it in advance.
That way if you decide to do something else rather than hop to another park, you won't have already paid for the park hopping feature that you didn't use.
Agree. DH and I had AP's and DD had a park hopper so I upgraded my granddaughter's ticket to a parkhopper on our second day. Ended up only park hopping one day toward the end of our stay. I thought it was a waste of money for us. Next time I will purchase MYW tickets and add the park hopper at WDW only if we think we might really need it.
We always hop. We go to one park in the morning, take a mid day break, then go to another park at night, maybe an EMH park. Or sometimes just nip into a park to eat.
If we're at DHS but want to eat at Epcot, not a problem.
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: Sorry, but it is one park par day. You can not use extra days to park hop. The turnstiles will not allow you through into any park but the one you used that ticket at on that day already. 
. If it will save you that much $$, I would definitely go with the single pak ticket option.
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