no-expiration tickets -- is it worth the price? - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Welcome! We're happy you've found the PassPorter Community -- the friendliest place to plan your vacation to Walt Disney World, Disney Cruise Line, Disneyland, and the world in general! You are now viewing the PassPorter Message Board Community as a guest, which gives you limited access. As our guest, feel free to browse our messages by selecting the forum you want to visit from the list below.
To post messages and ask questions, join our FREE community today and you'll get access to tools and resources not available to guests, such as our vacation countown timers, "living" avatars, private messaging system, database searches, downloads, and a special PassPorter discount code. Registration is fast, simple, and completely free. Just click the Join Our Community link.
If you think you've already joined, log in below now. If you don't remember your member name or password, please visit our Member Name and Password Recovery page. You are also welcome to contact us.
We will be going to Disney with kids and grandkids in the fall -- we will be buying 6 day tickets and I was thinking that if I (grandparent) go ahead and purchased the most days and bought the non-expiration tickets it would be nice to use them in a few years on a return trip........but -- looking at pricing it seems that is actually a lot more expensive and it'd be best to just purchase what we need now........and possibly a separate set later to prevent paying higher prices in a few years........
What do you pros think?
I do not see the advantage to paying higher cost for having ALL non-expiration tickets for this one trip......... what IS the advantage? Adding on one day is such an inexpensive thing that even if we 'lost' a day of use it does not seem to cost as much as paying for the non-expiration tickets.
There is very little cost to add on an extra day once you get higher up on the scale (our difference for 8 day vs 7 day tickets was around $2 each). This is Disney's way of encouraging you to add that extra day or two to your trip.
As far as buying the no expiration option, I wouldn't do it unless: 1) You know for sure that you will be back within a year or two, and 2) You have a place to keep the ticket that you KNOW you won't misplace it.
Okay, I'll play the other side....it MIGHT be to your benefit to buy no-expiry options for your tickets. Look at how many days you'll be going this trip, and how many you think you'll do next trip, and if you can get a no-expiry ticket for that duration, then you might want to go for it.
nagative point is that you'll be out more cash outlay at first, as they do cost a considerable amount more....but it will still be cheaper to buy a 10 day no expiry than two 5 day expiring tickets. Also, one other thing to think about is that Disney ticket prices go up every year, so each year longer it takes you to go back, you'll be "saving" more money
To be honest though, you dont' save a whole lot of money going no-expiry, and I personally would rather have two smaller cash outlays than one large payment...but if you can afford it, then you might find it will work out cheaper in the long run, more expensive in the short run.
It was worth it for us when we added it to a "deal". We got the PH and water park option added on for free in 2006 with our package deal. We decided to go ahead and buy 10 days worth and no expiration. We got two more trips out of those tickets and we still have 2 or 3 water park visits left. The thing that bothers me is my now 10 year old. He was under ten when we purchased the no expiration, but now he is not. Will the ticket still work even though he is an adult?
__________________
Susan
Our family: Me, DH, DS10, DS7 and DS6 at Chef Mickey's September 2006
We bought the 10 day NON expire park hoppers for our June 2008 trip back in Feb. 2007. We knew that June would be a long trip, 10 nights, however we are not planning to go into the parks more than 6 days. When the prices incresed, with tax, those tickets cost $40 more than what I paid.
We KNOW we'll be back to Disney, it doesn't matter when, and I have a safe place to put my tickets. We'll just be sure to mark how many days were used!
It was very worth the price for us. You just have to look at everything and weigh it all out, and do what YOU feel is best!
He was under ten when we purchased the no expiration, but now he is not. Will the ticket still work even though he is an adult?
Susan,
You shouldn't have any problems getting your 10 year old in on his old ticket. Disney's policy is a "live and let live" type of thing for older child tickets that have not been totally used up. Here's a snippet copied from Deb's Unofficial Walt Disney World Vacation Information Guide - WDW Planning Guide - Walt Disney World to totally answer your question... If you don't want to read the whole thing, in a nutshell don't even worry about a 10 year old trying to use a child's ticket, and even if they're older than that, all you have to do is go to Guest Relations to get the ticket converted.
------
Many people find themselves in the situation of going to WDW with their young children and having unused days left on their tickets when they return home. These tickets are put away, often for many years, until another trip to Disney is planned. But what can you do with these tickets since your then child is now a teenager or even an adult and obviously can't use a child's ticket now?
What you have left will depend on how this transaction is handled. If you have a brand new, completely unused child's ticket that you bought years ago you will only be able to apply a dollar value equal to the price you paid for that ticket towards any new adult ticket that exceeds the price of the old one. This is your only option with an unused child ticket.
But if you have a partially used ticket, you may take that ticket along with your child who is now a teenager or older to a Guest Relations location at the major parks or DTD. If the Guest Relations CM is satisfied that the dates of the original ticket and the current age of your child make sense, you will have the leftover child's admissions exchanged for the identical adult admissions at no further charge to you. The "child" must be with you or you will be unable to do this.
Making sense of the dates means that if you bought and used the child ticket in 1994, then your child in 2004 must now fall in the 13-19 year old range. If you bought and used it in 1984, then the "child" must now be in the 23-29 year old range, etcetera etcetera. If they are not, then Disney reserves the right to offer you nothing more than the dollar value of the unused admissions towards a new adult ticket.
A note on this: if your child is now 11 or 12 years old, you can continue to use the old child's ticket as is and have no problem at the gate. The only time that you may run into a problem is when you have an older teen trying to use it. That is when you should exchange the child's ticket. Don't bother going to Guest Relations for an 11 or 12 year old, just use it as is.
Wow Tim! Thanks for the info! It really did "pay" for us to get the no expiration, especially since the ticket prices keep going up. I'm not sure when we are going back, but I'm glad to know I can still use the waterpark or DQ visits without paying more for my oldest.
Also, if you are holding on to your tickets for another trip, make front and back copies of your keys and take pictures of them. I think Disney can use that info to replace your ticket. My card got bent and unusable. We took it to guest relations at DTD and they replaced it for me. They can also tell you how many days or water park visits you have left on your ticket.
HTH
__________________
Susan
Our family: Me, DH, DS10, DS7 and DS6 at Chef Mickey's September 2006
I'm pretty sure that they will charge no expiry for the days on the original ticket purchase. I asked about this same thing last year and that was my answer.
Can you have a seven-day pass, have two days left then buy the no-expiry on what is left? I can't find the info anywhere.
I'm pretty sure you'll have to pay the seven day rate on the no-expiry.
I have an annual pass but we get 10 day non-expiry for hubby. He prefers to only go for very short visits, maybe 2-3 days each trip and then usually only once or twice a year. There's really not much of a multi-day discount on two or three day tickets so the 10 day n/e works for him.
About This Page: 
Like
Thank
Pixie Dust
Linear Mode
