1994 ticket used...

[BrianV]

I assume some here have seen this article making its way around the news--about someone using a ticket from 1994 to gain admission to WDW. I'm not totally sure why it is news. And I'm not totally sure why anyone was surprised the ticket was still valid. I'd be really mad if my tickets without an expiration simply stopped working. For that matter, we have many unused no-expiration days remaining and I expect them to be valid until I use them up.

http://www.fox35orlando.com/news/local-news/143201532-story

 

[rsoxguy]

I believe that this was reported because it remains unusual that a ticket purchased so long ago was redeemed and accepted in a world as greedy and uncharitable as ours. Yes, it should have been a valid ticket, but in a world that takes selfish advantage of others so often it made for a nifty fluff piece for the media.

 

[alphac2005]

It's almost like the Disney PR department fed this story. I remember Jack Wagner years ago on the WDW radio station making a very noted point that the tickets never expire. Now they're supposed to get credit for honoring what people purchased.

 

[jencor]

We are taking my mom with us this Spring and she has 3 separate tickets that are quite a bit older. I know one is over 20 years ago, not sure on the others yet, but will be checking them next week. We were and are planning on using them. They do say no expiration.

 

[Bairstow]

I forgot that the old multiday hoppers didn't have time expiration rules from first use.

It's just too bad that the 1994 ticket didn't allow her to visit Disney World as it existed in 1994.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Yes, this was posted several times already. Thanks for searching

 

[JustInTime]

Post literally right below yours

http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/disney-world-honors-22-year-old-day-pass-ticket.913276/

 

[marni1971]

You're right. It isn't news.

 

[BrianV]

I forgot that the old multiday hoppers didn't have time expiration rules from first use.

It's just too bad that the 1994 ticket didn't allow her to visit Disney World as it existed in 1994.

Too bad they won't have 1994 hotel prices.

 

[jme]

Theoretically they shouldn't have honored it, as she had a child ticket purchased at a lower price point for a 3-9 year old.
That 4 day pass was $122, by the way, under the price of a "Peak Time" surge pricing single day ticket to the MK today...

 

[asianway]

Theoretically they shouldn't have honored it, as she had a child ticket purchased at a lower price point for a 3-9 year old.
That 4 day pass was $122, by the way, under the price of a "Peak Time" surge pricing single day ticket to the MK today...

That is incorrect. She was a child at time of purchase, but non expiring means just that.

 

[BrianV]

That is incorrect. She was a child at time of purchase, but non expiring means just that.

Agreed. As long as she started using it then. If however the whole pass was unused, I think she would have had to pay to upgrade to an adult. At current prices. Though I'm not sure.

 

[JIMINYCR]

Its news because anyone that gets away with a bargain in Disney is news. No one expects to find a ticket from anything in 1994 thats still usable. One day in the distant future, someone will find a suitcase stashed in an attic, chock filled with Disney dollars and those dollars will still be usable... that will be news. I have a couple of tickets that still have a day on them that I'll use some day.
Old gift certificates in some states never expire either. So check your kitchen junk drawers, you may find a treasure buried under all that junk.

 

[RScottyL]

I believe that this was reported because it remains unusual that a ticket purchased so long ago was redeemed and accepted in a world as greedy and uncharitable as ours. Yes, it should have been a valid ticket, but in a world that takes selfish advantage of others so often it made for a nifty fluff piece for the media.

I agree that this is not news to those of us that are in the know!

It is cool though, that this was an option back then!

I am glad to see that they still honored the tickets!

 

[Walt Disney1955]

I was at Disney a lot in the 1990s. I remember the mid 1990s era. Good times. I also remember how surprised I was at how expensive a ticket was for the Magic Kingdom in the mid 1990s. I distinctly remember $40 being a one-day ticket price in 1997 for some reason. Now that would be a good bargain if you bought a slew of those tickets back then that don't expire and go on a few trips and use them. What a money saver!

 

[Simba's Mom]

I guess I don't understand why it's news either. A few years ago, my now adult son used the last day on a ticket he'd still had from 1992 when he was a child. At the turnstiles they just waved us through. Perhaps I should have alerted the media! What surprised me was that no one asked for any proof that the ticket was his. We were ready with the hotel print out from 1992. Maybe not everyone keeps everything but we do!

 

[Chef Mickey]

Too bad they won't have 1994 hotel prices.

Where can you go where anything is 1994 prices?

LOL at people thinking Disney should charge what they did 20 years ago. Like SO many companies are giving you a great deal and not trying to take your money.

 

[BrianV]

Where can you go where anything is 1994 prices?

LOL at people thinking Disney should charge what they did 20 years ago. Like SO many companies are giving you a great deal and not trying to take your money.

Inflation. Sigh. Disney however experiences hyper-inflation.

 

[WDWVolFan]

If I buy tickets in a package with my stay on property, won't my tickets expire 30 days after the last day of my stay?
Or what if I don't use them and by the time I try to, my Magic Band is dead? Will the tickets die with it?
What if I don't have a MB but have the ticket on the card and I rubbed it together with my Amex and a computer hard drive magnet and the card no longer works? Will my ticket be gone thanks to Magneto?

 

[BrianV]

If I buy tickets in a package with my stay on property, won't my tickets expire 30 days after the last day of my stay?
Or what if I don't use them and by the time I try to, my Magic Band is dead? Will the tickets die with it?
What if I don't have a MB but have the ticket on the card and I rubbed it together with my Amex and a computer hard drive magnet and the card no longer works? Will my ticket be gone thanks to Magneto?

With the exception of 1 day tickets, UNUSED tickets never expire. (One day tickets have clearly marked expiration dates.)

Once started, most if not all tickets expire 14 days after first use, even if you didn't use all the admissions. The old no expiration option is no longer available.

Demagentized cards and bands are no problem. The codes on your ticket can be manually read and replaced. Magic bands just point to your ticket.

Think of it this way, once you buy a ticket and put on MDE, the bands and cards just point to the ticket. Even if the bands and cards are lost, the ticket still exists in cyberspace.

Until you put it in MDE, if you lose it you could be in trouble unless you thought to take a photocopy of the back of then ticket. Then they can replace it too.