Tickets for over 10 days?

disneyonmymind

disneyonmymind

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So I have an odd question, I won a 5 day park hopper through a contest but I just found out that my family will be down the following week. I was just wondering what the most cost effective way to do 12 days at the parks would be. I would imagine that I can upgrade my current hopper to at least 10 days through guest services but I'm not really sure of the process.
 
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Monty

Monty

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You can upgrade the hopper to a maximum of ten days. Beyond that they want you to get an Annual Pass.

Depending on your likes, chances are your best bet would be to upgrade and include the Water Parks and More option, which would allow you to go to the water parks and/or Disney Quest to fill out the extra couple of days.

Or you could do a day at Downtown Disney exploring and another resort-hopping. You could just hang out at your resort pool for a while.

One note: If you "won" the 5-day hopper, make sure it's not a comp ticket. Complimentary tickets have no value toward an upgrade.
 
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Goofy6294

Goofy6294

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Monty said:
You can upgrade the hopper to a maximum of ten days. Beyond that they want you to get an Annual Pass.

Depending on your likes, chances are your best bet would be to upgrade and include the Water Parks and More option, which would allow you to go to the water parks and/or Disney Quest to fill out the extra couple of days.

Or you could do a day at Downtown Disney exploring and another resort-hopping. You could just hang out at your resort pool for a while.

One note: If you "won" the 5-day hopper, make sure it's not a comp ticket. Complimentary tickets have no value toward an upgrade.
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Agree. And don't forget - IF you can upgrade your ticket to an AP, it opens up lots of available discounts as well!
 
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captainkidd

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I've always been perplexed as to why they don't sell a longer than 10 day ticket to US residents. It's really not that smart. I know they want you to buy an AP, but it's not good marketing. A 10 day park hopper is $346, $8 more than a 9 day. So, why not have an 11 day PH for $354? Or a 12 day for $362? Instead, they make you go up to an AP for $519. There are gonna be people that are in Central Florida for 2 weeks that will say "I'm not spending $519 for an AP. That's $170 more than a 10 day ticket. Let's just go to Universal or Sea World instead."
 
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experiment624

experiment624

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There is so much to do without a ticket

As already mentioned, there is so much to do outside of the parks that there is a possibility you may not do a park every day. I tried the resort hopping once with a friend, he is now my husband, we had that much fun that day. Downtown Disney and Disney Marketplace are a day's worth of activities too, shopping and free entertainment galore, and the restaurants are world-class.

Are you a Florida resident? If you can upgrade to a 10 day pass, then maybe consider an additional Florida resident three day or four day pass to round out the 12 days. Don't forget that you have six months to use it from the first use. I still recommend the Water Parks and More options, because you have six months to use them.

Resort hopping doesn't cost anything and you get to check out all of the modes of transportation and see the property. I read on one of the boards that you may kindly request a transportation card from any driver and they may elect to give you a collectors card, I don't know if they still do it, but here is the link to that discussion. http://forums.wdwmagic.com/showthread.php?t=579660
 
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dreamfinder

dreamfinder

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captainkidd said:
I've always been perplexed as to why they don't sell a longer than 10 day ticket to US residents. It's really not that smart. I know they want you to buy an AP, but it's not good marketing.
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How so? I don't know that many people that take more than 2 weeks of vacation at a given time. (Most are around the 1 week length) Figure that not everyone wants to go to the parks on the first or last day, so suddenly even a 2 week trip is down to 12 days. And lots of people do plan on taking a day or two off to do DtD, the water parks, etc. So either I need to start rubbing elbows with a different type of crowd (and get them to adopt me....) or it's really not that big of an issue.
 
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Annielkd

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experiment624 said:
As already mentioned, there is so much to do outside of the parks that there is a possibility you may not do a park every day. I tried the resort hopping once with a friend, he is now my husband, we had that much fun that day. Downtown Disney and Disney Marketplace are a day's worth of activities too, shopping and free entertainment galore, and the restaurants are world-class.

Are you a Florida resident? If you can upgrade to a 10 day pass, then maybe consider an additional Florida resident three day or four day pass to round out the 12 days. Don't forget that you have six months to use it from the first use. I still recommend the Water Parks and More options, because you have six months to use them.

Resort hopping doesn't cost anything and you get to check out all of the modes of transportation and see the property. I read on one of the boards that you may kindly request a transportation card from any driver and they may elect to give you a collectors card, I don't know if they still do it, but here is the link to that discussion. http://forums.wdwmagic.com/showthread.php?t=579660
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Which pass are you saying you can use 6 months from the first day of use... not the 10 day pass.
 
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patricia27

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I guess we are lucky in the UK to get longer tickets--but most of us come for 2/3 weeks as we think we have paid alot for our flights so might as well stay a while!! I presume that most US residents go for maybe a week at the most on one visit--is that right?
 
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JCtheparrothead

JCtheparrothead

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I have a similar issue as i am heading to Disney for 3 weeks (i want to see what it's like to vacation like a European) and it was way cheaper to buy a season pass than 2 10 days. Plus it will force me (yeah right) to take advantage of the AP for the rest of the year. I agree with the other members here though, resort hopping, DTD, and water parks can fill the other couple days pretty well.

Either way have a good time during your extended stay.
 
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captainkidd

captainkidd

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dreamfinder said:
How so? I don't know that many people that take more than 2 weeks of vacation at a given time. (Most are around the 1 week length) Figure that not everyone wants to go to the parks on the first or last day, so suddenly even a 2 week trip is down to 12 days. And lots of people do plan on taking a day or two off to do DtD, the water parks, etc. So either I need to start rubbing elbows with a different type of crowd (and get them to adopt me....) or it's really not that big of an issue.
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I'll agree, that most people don't take 2 weeks at a time. That being said:

1.No one takes an entire day to do DTD anymore. There's not nearly enough there to justify it, unless you're going to see 5 movies in a day.

2.Though not the norm, there are people that take 12-16 day vacations. Disney has always been about keeping people on property. By having a ridiculous difference between a 10 day ticket and an AP, they're basically just pushing people off property. The 2 week vacation crowd is specifically why they have the 14 or 21 day ticket for European guests. They know they're most likely coming for more than a week. It's kind of short-sighted to think only visitors from overseas will take a 2 week vacation in Florida.
 
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