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    Default Annual Pass Pros/Cons If Live In Texas...

    Hi! We live in Texas and are considering treating ourselves to annual passes. We plan to use them twice during the year. Would those who have passes consider this worth our money to do? Thank you for any advice!
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    Yes. If you are planning on visiting 10 days or more during the year they are worth it. Between saving on park tickets, photo pass and available discounts you can use it for its worth it. We figure ours have paid for themselves 2 times over at least in the last year!

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    This might help. It's from a discussion of where the break even point is for AP that we had here back in April of 2018. It's still relevant today, but will likely need to be tweaked after Oct 16 when the new pricing structure is implemented (too many unanswered questions there, particularly around APs).

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    There is no fixed number of days where break even occurs. It depends on the number of trips planned during the year and the length of those trips.

    Linda's math is correct, but only for the upper limit of the range.

    At the lower limit, the number is 8 if we're talking only two trips. Two, four day trips would require 2 separate tickets at $455 (you do need to use the price for hoppers, since that's equivalent to having an AP), so total of $910. A 4 day plus a 3 day ticket is $825, just under the $849 AP.

    The absolute lower limit is 7 days - three 2day trips and a 1day trip. 3 2day hoppers is $822. Another day trip puts you over the breakeven point.

    So the breakeven range is from 7 to 19 days, depending on how many trips and how long each trip is.

    Note, this is for US tickets only. UK has different length tickets with a different pricing structure. I'm not very familiar with that.

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    We live in Texas and get APs every year or so. We first activate them, say May 15th, then next year plan our trip around May 1st. We don't renew passes. We then, wait until our next trip, say it's in January, so we plan a second trip in the mid-late fall. So we always get 2 trips out of an AP, and between days in the park and AP discounts we use for dining, shopping, etc. it makes economic sense.

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