Forgoing the Park Hopper option

[wvdisneyfamily]

We are hoppers...what I skip is the water and more option.

Agreed!

 

[lilclerk]

I hop all the time, so I always get it if I don't have an AP.
A good rule of thumb is, if you're not sure if you're going to use it, don't get it. When you're there, if you decide you really want to hop, go to any ticket booth and add it on to your tickets.

 

[stratman50th]

Can't live without it, especially since the front end is preloaded for our 7 day stay. By the end of the week the difference is what? $5.00 a day?
As we get older we like to spend more time doing other things around the property. We still like going to the parks for what we like, but our commando days are over. Two parks a day, doing what we like in each is our speed now.

 

[Todd H]

We are hoppers...what I skip is the water and more option.

Same here.

 

[c-one]

How is it the default? When I price tickets on disneyworld.com, no options are chosen, the first thing I am presented with is the base ticket...

When I price a package, they add the park hopper and water parks and more options....

That's what I mean, because I'm usually pricing a package. So it comes up as default for me.

My default move for WDW trips is 6 nights, spending 1 day per park. I can see how if you were there longer, you'd want more flexibility (and the more days you add to a ticket, the cheaper Park Hopper gets). I'm also more apt to do Park Hopper if I'm there for a shorter period of time. But my ideal is 6 nights, 4 days in parks.

 

[Mickey_777]

We only once got park hoppers at WDW when we got 5 day passes. Every other time we stop in for 2 or 3 days with no hopper option.

 

[bgraham34]

We always park hop. I also usually get an annual pass so it does not really affect me.

 

[ddbowdoin]

honestly though, you dont save that much money in the longrun... unless you have a lot of kids

 

[pumpkin7]

i don't think we hopped once during our last trip.... i don't think i've ever hopped on any trip tbh.

 

[wvdisneyfamily]

I hop all the time, so I always get it if I don't have an AP.
A good rule of thumb is, if you're not sure if you're going to use it, don't get it. When you're there, if you decide you really want to hop, go to any ticket booth and add it on to your tickets.

Good advice.

 

[c-one]

honestly though, you dont save that much money in the longrun... unless you have a lot of kids

Well, typically it's about $50/person... small potatoes in the grand scheme of a WDW vacation, but it does buy 1 or 2 more good meals. But it's about both the money and the park experience for me, anyway. No sense in spending more money for a park experience I don't prefer, no matter how much it works out to.

 

[pluto77]

I like to park hop tothe parks that have night extra magic hours. We usually end up spendin the day in one park and going to the park that is open late for EMH at night. I understand saving money though. I thought about not getting it on my last trip but ended up adding it at the end. I like taking things slow too, but, for me, its always been fun to break up the day in the middle.

 

[Epcotdad]

We are going for 8 days in May and this is the first time we will go with out it. With a 18 month and a 5yr old we think it is going to be tough. I did get a Ten day ticket incase we want to try to park hop a couple of times. Much cheaper

 

[Master Yoda]

We are going for 8 days in May and this is the first time we will go with out it. With a 18 month and a 5yr old we think it is going to be tough. I did get a Ten day ticket incase we want to try to park hop a couple of times. Much cheaper

You can not park hop that way. You must have the park hopping option to go to more than one park per day.

 

[DisneyJoe]

We are going for 8 days in May and this is the first time we will go with out it. With a 18 month and a 5yr old we think it is going to be tough. I did get a Ten day ticket in case we want to try to park hop a couple of times. Much cheaper

You still must have the Park Hopper option on the ticket to be able to park hop

 

[Zummi Gummi]

We are going for 8 days in May and this is the first time we will go with out it. With a 18 month and a 5yr old we think it is going to be tough. I did get a Ten day ticket incase we want to try to park hop a couple of times. Much cheaper

You can't do that, for precisely the reason you mentioned.

 

[princessmommy]

I do it all the time... We hardly ever hopped when we did buy them so I just opt for the base ticket now...

 

[MickeyPeace]

I need it. lol. I always like to stay out till as late as I can, and I can't do that without parkhopper!

Exactly, if there is a park still open after the one I'm at closes, I'm there!

That's why I would never be without Park Hopper. I have an AP so no need to think about it.

 

[njDizFan]

Not a hopper. One park per day for me. I guess it's because the times I go(holidays and summer), I find it almost impossible to get to everything I want to within one day. And on DAK days, then I spend my nights having a nice sit down meal, some shopping and perhaps a swim.

Perhaps if I went at slow times I would conisder the hopper but it's not frugality, I just don't need it.

 

[chrissyw14]

I really do like starting at one park and ending at another, with all the dining opportunities its nice to go to downtown disney and the boardwalk and end the night at a park that is open late.

It would also make me sad thinking like oh this is my last/only day at ____ whichever park lol. my last trip we stopped in all four the last day haha.

and we also don't get the water park option so i guess it evens out