Is it still this way?

[sbkline]

I know it used to be that WDW tickets never expired. Period. Then, they changed it such that they expired after so many days once you used the ticket for the first time, unless you purchase the no expiration option. However, until you use that first admission, the tickets would be good indefinitely. I just wanted to make sure that this is still the case. We're hoping to go next year and thought about pre-purchasing at least my wife's and my tickets, knowing that if the trip falls through, we can still use them at some point, without paying that year's prices for the tickets. However, since my son will be almost 4 next April, I would hold off on buying his tickets, on the chance that the trip falls through, and he wouldn't be in that age bracket the next time we would go.

I noticed on Universal tickets, that tickets purchased this year expire at the end of the year, and I think it's similar with Sea World and Busch Gardens. But is it still the case that I can buy WDW tickets now, and they will be good forever until I run it through the turnstiles the first time?

 

[DisneyJoe]

MYW tickets expire 14 days AFTER FIRST USE unless you have the no-expire option.

If you never use them, they never expire.

 

[sbkline]

MYW tickets expire 14 days AFTER FIRST USE unless you have the no-expire option.

If you never use them, they never expire.

Cool, I knew that's how it was at one time, but I just wanted to make sure it was still that way. :wave:

 

[CAPTAIN HOOK]

Don't know so much with MYW tickets - but tickets purchased in the UK have to be used for the first time before Dec 31st of the year of purchase.

 

[ewensell3]

For what it's worth, non-expiring tickets also expire. I recently learned that the "non-expiring" tickets I purchased this year must be used by 2030.

 

[sbkline]

For what it's worth, non-expiring tickets also expire. I recently learned that the "non-expiring" tickets I purchased this year must be used by 2030.

Well, I guess you'd better hurry up and use them, then. :ROFLOL:

 

[ewensell3]

Well, I guess you'd better hurry up and use them, then. :ROFLOL:

Yeah, seriously...

We'll probably have our tickets finished out by 2015, but there's bound to be someone saving the remaining days on their "honeymoon" tickets for their 20th/40th anniversary or some other longterm reason.

 

[sbkline]

Yeah, seriously...

We'll probably have our tickets finished out by 2015, but there's bound to be someone saving the remaining days on their "honeymoon" tickets for their 20th/40th anniversary or some other longterm reason.

Ya, despite my facetious reply, I seriously was not aware that they would ever expire. I thought that they were good until you either use them the first time, or until WDW closes its gates. It's interesting to know that they won't last indefinitely, even if it is 20 years down the road.

So does that date get pushed back each year for tickets purchased that year? In other words, if tickets purchased this year expire in 2030, will tickets purchased next year expire in 2031, and on down the line?

 

[Kobe!!]

OM*G!!! You're from Mattoon? The city in Illinois that does not practically exist on a map? My gf goes to school at EIU!!!:sohappy:

 

[sbkline]

OM*G!!! You're from Mattoon? The city in Illinois that does not practically exist on a map? My gf goes to school at EIU!!!:sohappy:

I'm not sure what you mean about not existing on the map, as it is clearly visible on every map I've seen. But ya, I live in Mattoon, and I attended college at EIU, myself. Well, technically, we don't live IN Mattoon, I guess...a few miles north of town. She doesn't by chance, happen to work at the Mattoon Walmart, does she? That's where I work and we have lots of college students who work there while going to college.

 

[Master Yoda]

Ya, despite my facetious reply, I seriously was not aware that they would ever expire. I thought that they were good until you either use them the first time, or until WDW closes its gates. It's interesting to know that they won't last indefinitely, even if it is 20 years down the road.

So does that date get pushed back each year for tickets purchased that year? In other words, if tickets purchased this year expire in 2030, will tickets purchased next year expire in 2031, and on down the line?

I have a couple of comped tickets that I got a couple of years ago that expire in 2030 so the date does not change. From my understating the arbitrary 2030 date is simply a case of the software needing some sort of expiration date and 2030 was chosen. I'll give you even odds that if you show up to MK in 2031 with a never used ticket that expires in 2030 you will still be let in.