I didn't realize that it was an annual refurb. We missed riding Splash in Jan. 2008 and then when I saw it was closing on the day we were planning to get there this coming trip I was devastated. I wanted to move the dates of our trip up a day or two just to get to ride it, but anything before the 3 disqualifies you for the buy 4 get 3 free ( or 5 get 2) and we'd be looking at a lot more money. We love going in January because of the weather and crowd size, plus it's a great time for me to take a week off work. My wife had what I thought was a good idea to solve the problem though, if it would work. Could we add an extra day to our ticket, which with myw base tickets is very little money, and go on Saturday the 2nd of Jan. before it shuts down? We have family in Kissimee we could stay with for a couple of nights before we check in on Sunday the 3rd. The problem I thought of is that I think they normally give you your tickets when you check in, but we would need them the day before in order to get in on Saturday. Would they ship us our tickets ahead of time? I know we have received tickets in the mail ahead of time before but I can't remember what the circumstances were. Could we go by the resort Saturday morning and get the tickets? Anyway, just an idea, do you think it could work?