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I'm planning our first trip to Disney in 25 years and need some advise. At first I thought I would book the park hopper tickets but in doing the MYW package I realized that the Base tickets were much less. A 4-day hopper pass was 220, where as I could get a 6 day base ticket for only 196. We will be in the parks 4-6 days and I really don't think I will do that much park hopping if any unless we go to Epcot to dine. My question is, if we choose the single day base tickets and get a couple extra days can you use more than one of your day passes in a single day? Is there any benefits to the Park Hopper pass other than visiting more than one park in a day?
Also, this will be our first time ever staying on site. We are booked at the POP. If you arrive before check-in time will they go ahead and issue your tickets should you want to go on and visit the parks or do you have to wait until after check-in time.
I'm not exactly sure, but I seem to recall that you cannot use a second ticket on the same day as another. Everybody tours differently, but we always park hop.
I am sure that you can get your tickets early. You can check in quite early in the morning. If your room isn't available then, they will store your luggage, give you your park tickets and off you go!
I don't know of any other benefit of the Park Hopper (PH) pass than to be able to go to all the parks in one day.
Now, if you have a PH and there are Extra Magic Hours (EMH) at MK and you are at MGM, you can leave when MGM closes and go to MK for the rest of the evening/midnight hours. You would not have to pay for that because you have a PH and you are a guest at the resort. That is a perk for Disney Resort guests who have PH's.
I don't know if you can use two-days in one 24hr park day without losing the first day. That is a great question for our experts.
Welcome back to Disney. I am sure that your stay will be magical.
You can only use one entry per day on the passes - if you want to hop - you must add the park hopper option. While we hopped less this past trip - I still highly recommend the hopper option - that way, if a park is crazy busy - you can escape!
also, your tickets are active from the time you check into your resort - and you can check in at any time, even if your room isn't ready - you can hit the parks. One trip we checked in at about 8 a.m. and then head for the parks - (if you don't have a car to keep your luggage in, you can check your bags with bell services).
you can always add the park hopper option later, but for 6 days, you're talking about adding less than $6/day per ticket for the peace of mind of being able to hop, which you probably won't appreciate until you actually do it, but let's say you go to AK one day. start early, start late, whatever. you're done by 2 or 4 pm. what now?
First, welcome to the boards!
Like everyone has said park hopping is a matter of personal taste. We're big park hoppers. We like to start out early at one park, go back to the resort and rest/swim, then head to a different park for the evening.
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Welcome to the boards! We are big park hoppers too, but I'm sure you could do with out if you really planned out your days and set your mind to not do it. As others have said it is a matter of preference. Good luck planning!!
I'm also a big advocate of park hopping, for several reasons.
1) Animal Kingdom. For me, it's a half-day park. I love it, but I am always finished with everything I want to see there by 3pm. nd when I'm done, I sometimes finish my day by going to one of the other parks.
2) dining. If I am in MGM or MK all day, but I want to have dinner at an Epcot restaurant - or vice-versa - I can only do that with a park hopper ticket.
3) Evening Extra Magic Hour. Sometimes I feel like going to one park, but EEMH is at another park. Well, I love the EEMH, so even if I am at MK all day, with a park hopper ticket I can go to EEMH at Epcot or MGM that night.
4) Crowds. I have often gone to a particular park in the morning and discovered that it is the most crowded park of the day. Well, I don't do crowds, so if I get stuck with them I use my park hopper ticket to go to another park in search of thinner crowds.
Your own park hopping habits may vary. Some folks really don't hop; they may have no car and don't want to take the time out to use the busses, or they may have a rigid vacation itinerary planned and don't deviate from it unless there's an earthquake or an alien invasion. But I always have a car at WDW, which makes my hopping much easier, and I never plan my days ahead of time, so I have no trouble going off to another park on a whim (especially if the crowds get too heavy in the park where I start my day).
Having the park hopper ticket is all about flexibility. It's all about having options. You might use the hopping feature a lot or a little, but odds are that if you have it, you will use it, and if you don't have it, you'll wish you did.
I do believe you can have a very successful vacation by not park hopping, that said though we always make sure to have the option because of EMHs and because some parks we don't necessarily want to spend all day at. We may just do the new stuff at MK and then hop somewhere else, or hop to whichever park has the late EMHs on a given day. We hop just because it had been a long time since we'd been on the monorail or we want to take the boat!
Other than EMHs and dining at Epcot on a day we visited another park, we don't actually hop a lot. One year we spent the extra money on the hopper ticket and never hopped at all, but for us knowing we could do it if we wanted to is worth the extra $$. If you really don't care about that, then you can definitely save some money.
As for your question about using 2 tickets in one day, what I understood you to mean is that if you wanted to go to a second park on a particular day and it was important, could you just pay a second admission price and do it? My understanding is that you can do this, but it would be very expensive and would be cheaper to just add on the hopper addition at that point. At least I would think so.
you'd have to buy a separate ticket altogether to do that (which i'm sure you're saying, just wanted to clarify). that is, you can't take a 10 day ticket sans hopper and go to both MK and EP with it in one day. You'd have to have a completely separate ticket to be able to go to both parks, and yes, the hopper option is decidedly less expensive.
Thanks everybody for your responses. I guess I was a bit nieve in thinking that I would be issued 6 individual day passes per person rather than a ticket that would be good for 6 days but only one park per day. I thought I would just be able to through out another ticket at the gate and zip right in. When I called to make my dining arrangements I even mentioned it to the CM but I guess it went over their head or I simply did not explain myself clearly. I just hope that I will be allowed to upgrade to a park hopper when I call back. I knew there had to be something I was missing as my logic just sounded too good to be true.
By the way, I love these boards. I have been active in one of the cruise boards and it was a tremendous help in planning my last vacation. Unfortunatly, I can't offer much here since I've not been to Disney in years but I certainly appreciate everyone helping make my experience memorable.
I'm sure you will be able to add the Hopper option on to your tickets, as I know they allow you to add the No Expiration option onto tickets as long as there is one unused day on them.
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