Ticket 4 Every Day?

[steamboat willy]

Just curious, do you purchase number of days Park Tickets based on number days of your stay. We always say we're NOT gonna get a Ticket for everyday, but for ONLY $10 to add a day, being able to even go to a Park just to see the Fireworks is worth the $10 dollars. The thoughts of taking a day or more off from the Parks more and more appeals to me.
What do you do? :cool::confused::cool:

[PlutoPlanet]

It seems to me you pay for the first three days for your ticket. Then you pay a little more for the 4th day. The days after that are cheap compared to other options in the Orlando area, like shopping all day.

[joonyer]

We always go to WDW for multi-day visits, and get passes for every day of our visit. We go there for the parks, we're not into just hanging around the resorts. We do that kind of trip somewhere else without theme parks. We usually visit DTD on our arrival and departure days, so we don't buy park passes for those days.

[ibelieveindisneymagic]

We buy the 10 day ticket, and even if we only spend park of a day in a park, we're not worried, since it costs so little to add the extra days at that point.

[ANG]

We've taken break days some trips and did a park every day on others. If you can afford it, I like having a park everyday because like you said, you could even just go in for dinner and see a night show.

[DizneyRox]

We kept APs from like 1996 to a few years back, always enjoyed the ability to come and go as we please.

[Giggy]

The tickets work a little different if you are travelling from the UK. As most people travel for longer to justify the 10 hour flight each way and because an annual pass is unlikely to be of much use there are length of stay passes. On our last two visits we have bought a 14 day pass (a 21 day pass is also available) that gives unlimited access to the parks, water parks, Disney Quest and probably some other things starting on the day it is first used.

We therefore have a pass available every day, although there will be a few days where we visit other parks in and around Orlando. Aside from sometimes doing a day at a beach we don't really do rest days, we can rest when we're at home! ;)

[larjani]

We are going to take a break in the middle next time we go. We haven't tried that yet. We always seem to spend all day in the parks, and find that we get home tired from lack of sleep.

[VacationDisney]

In the past we have always bought park tickets for our entire stay(7). We think next time we go we won't get park tickets (Hopper) for the first day since we are totally exhausted having to get up at 3:30am. We are going to just get 6 day park tickets and leave the arrival day as a day to explore DTD and have a nice dinner and call it a day before midnight:thumbsup::blush:

[mickclub1955]

If we do a seven day trip, counting the day we get there and the day we leave, we only get a four day Hopper. We go to DTD when we get there, do two days in the parks and then take a rest day to do whatever. We then do two more days in the parks and then the next day check out, go eat breakfast at Kona Cafe or Boma and then drive home.

[paragon]

We typically stay 10 days, and get a 9 day w/hopper. Arrival day is usually exhausting, ( and unless we get there early, we don't go into a park ( except if we have dining reservations), we plan a "resort day" in the middle of the ten days, but almost always somehow end up in a park anyway, even if just for a night walkthrough. We often end our trip with a half day at AK, and then the last two hours at DTD.
Our real "resting" vacation is when we cruise on the Dream, or Fantasy.
( this year it will be a 7 night April cruise, and a ten day Sept WDW trip...)

[Janmac]

We always bought length of stay park hopper passes until our Feb 2013 trip which was a bit more spur of the moment than most trips (only several weeks planning instead of several months) and thus, on less than a shoe string budget. We had lodging for 7 nights but bought 4 day passes.

Best. Trip. Ever.

We are seriously thinking of touring like this even if we're not on a budget. Between having meals at other resorts and some of the activities at our resort (Boardwalk) we were happily occupied even on non-park days.

One of our days we park hopped to 3 parks, doing some e-ticket rides, since we were a group of long time visitors. Some of those folks left, and the last couple of days we had newbies with back and neck issues. Had a blast doing all the classic quintessential (Tiki Birds, etc.) Disney stuff.

In four days of touring we got and used one Fast Pass. We did almost everything we wanted to do. Soarin' and Test Track were the only exceptions. Seems every other trip we miss these. Still a good time at WDW. Toy Story Mania first thing was our FP which we knew we were going to do weeks before we arrived. :blush:

Jan

[TheVBs]

We typically stay 10 days. We used to get a park pass every day, but now we get 8 day passes. We drive down, so on our arrival day we usually get there mid to late afternoon. We've learned that it's much more relaxing to hang out at the resort that first day, swim, get pizza, etc., and be refreshed the next day. We also take one day to go to a water park. So we're technically in a park 9 out of the 10 days.

[etibbetts]

We go for 14 nights and buy 10 day park hopper w/ water park and more option tickets. We go to the parks for ten days and then have some dedicated water park days.

When we have gone for shorter times, we do buy tickets for every day. It's such a small price difference between days when you get in the 7-10 day range that we figure it's worth it, even if we only went to the park for a few hours on one of the days.

[1DisneyNut]

The way we visit WDW has changed over the last 4 years.

We used to stay onsite with a package including tickets. We would get tickets for every day except our departure day.

Now we usually stay offsite and only buy tickets for 3 or maybe 4 days out of a week stay in Orlando. We have one day we go to the beach and find a nice seafood restaurant. We have a couple of other days we go and do other things such as Sea World, Busch Gardens, and next we are trying Universal. They are making it so aggravating to visit WDW with all the changes and preplanning months in advance it is getting to the point we are doing other things more and more.

[buzznwoodysmom]

We quit getting a ticket for everyday when we started using the military salute deal back around 2009. At first we were disappointed, but soon realized how much we enjoy time away from the parks. It was then that we realized Disney wasn't just about the parks for us. Some of our best times, and best memories, have actually had nothing to do with the parks. There is so much to do in Disney besides the 4 main theme parks, and often much more than you realize simply at your resort. Our best trips have been those we had several days off from the parks. We felt it gave us much more time to relax, truly felt like a vacation, and we weren't exhausted by the end of the trip.

[#1donaldfan]

Since my DD became a CM we have used days for NON PARK fun. I don't know why or how we began doing this but I love it. We seem to fit in every attraction we want at each park, but spend A LOT less time in the parks. The resorts we stay in have tons of activities to enjoy or just lying by the pool is fun for us. We typically stay a week (7 days) and out of that we park hop 5 now. We've seemingly evolved into a different type of Disney lover because years ago it was park, park, park every waking momnet......:cool:

[AndrewJackson]

Our ticket plans have evolved over the years.

When we were young, stupid, and broke, we would only do a 2 day ticket without park hopping. We would pick MK and one other park, and spend the rest of the time at the resort swimming, walking, bike riding, etc.

Now that the kids are older, they want to spend most of the time in the parks. Since, after the 3rd day it's only an extra $10 to add another day, we usually get a ticket for each day.