Hi everyone- I just joined the forums today, although I've been reading them for few weeks now. I'm going to Disney World in October and it will be my 10th time there. I was there most recently last October (the food and wine festival was so much fun I had to go back again), but I'm always looking for new things that other people have experienced that I might have missed before!
Anyway, I'm going with three other friends, one was there most recently in 1992 and the other two have never been there so I really want to show them a great time. Three of us are going from Thursday morning through Sunday night and the other one is leaving Sunday morning. The friend leaving Sunday morning isn't really into Disney (or theme parks in general), he just wanted to go to an away football game and our school plays at UCF and USF this year. Of course I chose UCF since it meant more time at Disney! The game is on Friday night, so we'll have the majority of the day on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, plus all day Saturday, to enjoy the parks.
We're staying at the Dolphin and we also have a rental car. I've been showing my Disney World videos/DVDs to the two friends that are excited about going and they really want to see all four parks. They would like to get four-day park hoppers since we'll be there for the good part of four days, and with the MouseSavers discount it's the same price as the three-day hopper anyway!
The "problem" is with the other friend who isn't into theme parks. He refuses to consider buying anything more than a two-day base ticket. He won't be able to spend Sunday in the park since his plane leaves at 7 am but he could conceivably get a three-day ticket. He also said he would like to use his two days going to the DS and Epcot. The other friends want to spend all day Saturday going to the Magic Kingdom and I tend to agree that I would rather spend our only full day there as opposed to DS (which is more like a half-day place to me). If he bought the two-day pass, then my other friends and I would probably buy three-day hoppers so that we could split Sunday between DS and AK... but with one person that hasn't been to the parks in over a decade and another one that's never been there at all, I'm afraid that just won't be enough time since we'll have to head to the airport around 6 pm. Plus, if the one friend just buys a base ticket, the only time we could use the hopper privilege is after he leaves on Sunday morning... unless we just left him behind somewhere, which he definitely wouldn't be happy about!
I think that convincing the friend who is set on the two-day base ticket to buy a three-day hopper is out of the question since he's already complaining about the price of the two-day base. I've tried explaining that Disney isn't like other theme parks and he'll still have a great time even if he isn't a "thrill rider". He doesn't care to watch the videos I have so I don't think he understands the magnitude of everything, but I feel like once he sees it all for the first time he'll agree and be sorry that he didn't get the three-day pass.
The other issue is, he keeps mentioning that he wants to drive to the beach once our plane gets in on Thursday. We live in PA so we've been to the Atlantic Ocean numerous times, and the other three of us really have no desire to spend a day there when we could be at Disney. We've told him this before and he's still insisting on the two-day base ticket. The other three of us don't want to seem too pushy and jeopardize our friendship with him, but we really want to go see all of the parks. While I go to Disney frequently since my mother works in the travel industry and used to live down there, the other two have no idea when they'll be able to return.
So, any suggestions as to how we can compromise and find something that works for everyone? We're at the point where we're considering paying for the extra day for him since one of his reasons for wanting to go to the beach is that it will be cheaper than Disney, but with tuition bills and all we'd rather not spend the extra cash buying someone else's ticket if we don't have to.
Anyway, I'm going with three other friends, one was there most recently in 1992 and the other two have never been there so I really want to show them a great time. Three of us are going from Thursday morning through Sunday night and the other one is leaving Sunday morning. The friend leaving Sunday morning isn't really into Disney (or theme parks in general), he just wanted to go to an away football game and our school plays at UCF and USF this year. Of course I chose UCF since it meant more time at Disney! The game is on Friday night, so we'll have the majority of the day on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, plus all day Saturday, to enjoy the parks.
We're staying at the Dolphin and we also have a rental car. I've been showing my Disney World videos/DVDs to the two friends that are excited about going and they really want to see all four parks. They would like to get four-day park hoppers since we'll be there for the good part of four days, and with the MouseSavers discount it's the same price as the three-day hopper anyway!
The "problem" is with the other friend who isn't into theme parks. He refuses to consider buying anything more than a two-day base ticket. He won't be able to spend Sunday in the park since his plane leaves at 7 am but he could conceivably get a three-day ticket. He also said he would like to use his two days going to the DS and Epcot. The other friends want to spend all day Saturday going to the Magic Kingdom and I tend to agree that I would rather spend our only full day there as opposed to DS (which is more like a half-day place to me). If he bought the two-day pass, then my other friends and I would probably buy three-day hoppers so that we could split Sunday between DS and AK... but with one person that hasn't been to the parks in over a decade and another one that's never been there at all, I'm afraid that just won't be enough time since we'll have to head to the airport around 6 pm. Plus, if the one friend just buys a base ticket, the only time we could use the hopper privilege is after he leaves on Sunday morning... unless we just left him behind somewhere, which he definitely wouldn't be happy about!
I think that convincing the friend who is set on the two-day base ticket to buy a three-day hopper is out of the question since he's already complaining about the price of the two-day base. I've tried explaining that Disney isn't like other theme parks and he'll still have a great time even if he isn't a "thrill rider". He doesn't care to watch the videos I have so I don't think he understands the magnitude of everything, but I feel like once he sees it all for the first time he'll agree and be sorry that he didn't get the three-day pass.
The other issue is, he keeps mentioning that he wants to drive to the beach once our plane gets in on Thursday. We live in PA so we've been to the Atlantic Ocean numerous times, and the other three of us really have no desire to spend a day there when we could be at Disney. We've told him this before and he's still insisting on the two-day base ticket. The other three of us don't want to seem too pushy and jeopardize our friendship with him, but we really want to go see all of the parks. While I go to Disney frequently since my mother works in the travel industry and used to live down there, the other two have no idea when they'll be able to return.
So, any suggestions as to how we can compromise and find something that works for everyone? We're at the point where we're considering paying for the extra day for him since one of his reasons for wanting to go to the beach is that it will be cheaper than Disney, but with tuition bills and all we'd rather not spend the extra cash buying someone else's ticket if we don't have to.
