Hey guys, brand new to the forum. I've looked online for the answer to my question and can't find it anywhere - so I'm turning to you for help!! My family and I plan on going to the Disney theme parks for 4 days and then one day will be spent at a Disney water park. Do I buy the 4 day base ticket + a water park ticket, or do I need the 5 day base ticket + a water park ticket. I don't know if I need to count the "water park day" in the count for which number of days I need on the base ticket. Help!!!
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Water Park Ticket Question
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sbkline
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A four day ticket means 4 admissions into the theme parks. A 5 day ticket means 5 admissions into the theme parks, and so on. If you want to include water parks in your ticket (as opposed to just paying at the gate), then you want the "water parks and more" option added to your ticket. The day at the water park does not count as one of your admissions to the parks. So a 4 day ticket with water parks and more option is what you want....except that if you are only visiting one water park, it might be more worthwhile to just pay at the gate instead of paying extra for it when you only plan to use one day of the "water parks and more". Unless you want to get the no expiration option, with plans to come back again and use the rest of your days. :wave:
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sbkline
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Like I said...just make sure that the "water parks and more" option would be beneficial for you. If I remember correctly, that option includes admission to both water parks, as well as Disney Quest and, I think something else. But if you only plan to visit one water park, then you might be wasting your money to get that option on your ticket as you really need to visit both water parks in order to make it worth it. Even then, if I am not mistaken, you are going to be paying pretty close to the amount you would pay if you just paid at the gate for both water parks. I might be wrong, but I think it only becomes a special value if you plan to visit both water parks as well as one of the other options.
So if you only plan to visit one park, you might want to just pay at the gate and not add the option to your ticket.
The other option, assumming you plan to visit WDW again, is to invest in a longer multi-day ticket with the no expiration option and water parks and more option. That way, you can come back and use the remaining days on the ticket, and they are all pre-paid. That's what I'm doing on this coming trip. I'm buying 10 day park hoppers with no expiration, even though we are only spending 6 days in the parks themselves. So I will have 4 pre-paid days left on my pass to reuse next year, or whenever we go next.
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sbkline
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Okay, I just checked, and for a 5 day or 4 day pass, the "water parks and more" option gets you 3 admissions into your choice of the water parks, Disney Quest, Disney's Pleasure Island, or Disney's Wide World of Sports. It costs 45 dollars. Although the prices may be different now, I'm looking in my 2006 Biernbaum's guide and he says that the admission price for 1 day to pay at the gate is $34 for either water park. So it looks like you're better off paying at the gate instead of adding the option onto your ticket. Unless, like I said, you plan to pay for "no expiration" and use it again next time. Adding the "no expiration" option onto a 4 day pass would cost you $15 bucks.
So, if you bought a 4 day pass with "water parks and more" and "no expiration", and used all 4 days, and only one of your "water parks and more" days, that means you could come back anytime in the future and have two visits left on that pass, to use at either water park, or any of the other places I mentioned above. But not the theme parks, because you already used up all of those days.
Just something to think about.
So, if you bought a 4 day pass with "water parks and more" and "no expiration", and used all 4 days, and only one of your "water parks and more" days, that means you could come back anytime in the future and have two visits left on that pass, to use at either water park, or any of the other places I mentioned above. But not the theme parks, because you already used up all of those days.
Just something to think about.
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