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10 day ticket question [must tickets be used consecutively? + are waterparks separate admissions?]
Hello.
We are staying in Disney for a total of 14 days... we are buying a 10 day/hopper/water and more pass.
My question is can we start the pass on day one, and take a few days off in the middle and not go to the parks, and then continue?
Also if you go to TL or BB does that count as one of your 10 days?
The tickets are good for 14 days starting on the first day you use them. You can use those 10 days of admission back to back or break them up however you want.
You get a set number of admissions to the water parks with the water parks an more option so going to TL & BB would count towards those admissions not your 10 days of theme park admission.
Just to provide additional information: With a park hopper ticket, you may visit one, two, three, or four main parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios) each day, and the whole day counts as just one of your 10 admissions. Each Water Park Fun & More location counts as a separate admission. So, if you visit Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach on the same day, that counts as 2 of your 10 WFP&M admissions. The WPF&M admissions can be on the same day as the main park admissions or on different days within the 14-day period after the ticket's first use.
ONE, with a basic ticket purchase, you get X number of .... let's go with red coupons. Each one will let you enter a single park for a single day. You can leave that park and come back to it as often as you like, during that one single day. However, you can only use a single Red coupon on any given day, and the coupon expires at the end of the day it was first used.
TWO, with the Park Hopper option, you instead get orange coupons. You can use the same orange coupon to enter 1, 2, 3, or all 4 parks at various points during a single day. These coupons still expire at the end of the day it was used.
THREE, the "Waterparks Fun and More" option gives you a stack of blue coupons, equal in number to your Red or Orange ones (minimum of three, I think - only matters for 1- or 2-day tickets). Each Blue coupon will let you into one Waterpark, or into DisneyQuest, for one day. You can come and go from that place as often as you like, just as the Red ones do for theme parks. And you can use as many of your Blue coupons in a day as you'd like - indeed, if you go to one waterpark in the morning, and a different waterpark in the afternoon, you will have to use two Blue coupons.
FOUR, the first time you use ANY of these coupons, then ALL of them get stamped with an expiration date precisely two weeks later. If you have any left over at that point, they stop being useful at all.
FIVE ... despite my analogy, you do not get any actual physical coupons. It's just meant to be a way to picture, in your head, how it all works.
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EXAMPLE THE FIRST:
You buy a 5-day ticket, with no options. You receive five red coupons: OOOOO If you use the first coupon on July 1st, then the other four are stamped "Expires: 15 July 2016".
EXAMPLE THE SECOND:
You buy a 5-day ticket, with the Park Hopper option. Your receive five orange coupons: OOOOO If you use the first coupon on July 1st, then the other four are stamped "Expires: 15 July 2016".
EXAMPLE THE THIRD:
You buy a 5-day ticket, with the Waterparks-fun-and-more option. You receive five red coupons, and five blue coupons: OOOOOOOOOO If you use the first coupon (of either color) on July 1st, then the other nine are stamped "Expires: 15 July 2016".
EXAMPLE THE FOURTH:
You buy a 5-day ticket, with both options. You receive five orange coupons, and five blue coupons: OOOOOOOOOO If you use the first coupon (of either color) on July 1st, then the other nine are stamped "Expires: 15 July 2016".
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Just remember, there aren't actual coupons. It's just an image to make how it works a little more plain. At least, I hope it works out that way.
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