Child turning 10 during trip-Adult or child ticket?

[magicjasb]

My daughter will turn 10 on the second day of our trip. We are considering purchasing AP's. Do you I need to purchase an adult ticket, or child's? Thanks.:mickey:

[kakn7294]

I believe that you should be able to purchase a child's ticket and not have to pay the price difference to the adult ticket as long as it is purchased and used while she's still 9.

[BigRedDad]

Buy the child's ticket. I think WDW's policy is that the age they begin their trip is their age for the trip. She will be 9 when you activate the AP, so why should she have to have an Adult Ticket to activate? We were going to run into this with my DD turning 3.

[thrillme]

Don't even think about it. She's 9. She's 9 when you get there...it's close enough. Celebrate her birthday.

Really and truly...if she's 9 at booking she's considered 9 for the duration.

[gerald72]

I believe the rule is that if at least one of the days is used while she is 9, then the remainder can be used as a child.
However, I believe that on the dining plan, on her 10th birthday, she would officially be charged as an adult for the rest of the trip.

[Strmchsr]

Guys, please remember we do not accept "getting around the rules" advice on Intercot so please no more of this "Disney will never know stuff."

The official rule for normal tickets and DDP is whatever the age the child is when the ticket is activated (or on check-in) is the age for the entire trip. I think for the AP that it's the same thing, but you would need to ask Disney about that one. She'd be fine for this trip you're talking about, and I'm 99% sure the ticket is fine the rest of the year, but you might want to ask about subsequent trips.

[KAT1811]

The official rule for normal tickets and DDP is whatever the age the child is when the ticket is activated (or on check-in) is the age for the entire trip. I think for the AP that it's the same thing, but you would need to ask Disney about that one. She'd be fine for this trip you're talking about, and I'm 99% sure the ticket is fine the rest of the year, but you might want to ask about subsequent trips.

:ditto:

Disney's official position is that whatever the age is at check in is the age for the entire trip.

[magicjasb]

Thanks for that info. It seems she would be 9 for this trip, but we would plan on using the AP another trip during the year. Should I call Disney reservations and ask?

[Strmchsr]

Thanks for that info. It seems she would be 9 for this trip, but we would plan on using the AP another trip during the year. Should I call Disney reservations and ask?

Always better to ask directly and be 100% sure than get caught unexpectedly later on.

[KAT1811]

Always better to ask directly and be 100% sure than get caught unexpectedly later on.

Not a bad idea. But from my understanding it is the age of the child when the ticket media is being purchased. Since the child would be 9 at the date of purchase that would put the AP in the child rates. Next year however, you would (as I'm sure you already know) be in the adult pricing matrix.

[NotaGeek]

Thanks for that info. It seems she would be 9 for this trip, but we would plan on using the AP another trip during the year. Should I call Disney reservations and ask?
Be sure and report back, there always seems to be a gray are when this topic comes up! :mickey:

[MOJoe]

I thought that during a trip to Disney, when a child turned 10 they were instantly taken away from the family, escorted to the Castle by Mickey and Minnie, magically turned into adults and then returned, escorted by The Evil Queen and Scar. The bill comes later. :thedolls:

[Suzi Q]

yah and skipped past the teen years!

[KylesMom]

This information used to be on the passholder website, but no more. I had to call the passholder hotline to clarify this answer (just in case it changed).

According to Disney's CM, as long as the child's ticket is activated while they are nine, they can continue to utilize the child pass until it expires, even if they turn 10 during this time. This is the same policy as it has been for as long as I can remember.

Just to clarify, however . . . if you purchase the child's ticket while they are nine, but do not activate it until they are ten, then you must upgrade the ticket to adult media.

[Gregandmel]

Yeah it's kind of a bummer. Our son turns 10 the day after we arrive, but we are buying him an adult pass. :mickey:

[magicjasb]

Thank you KylesMom. We would be activating the AP the day before she turned 10. We are trying to decide if an AP is worth it since we will be there for 12 and usually go each year.

[kakn7294]

Yeah it's kind of a bummer. Our son turns 10 the day after we arrive, but we are buying him an adult pass. :mickey:But you can legitimately buy him an child pass and use that for your entire trip, or in the case of an AP, for the entire year if you purchase it AND activate it when he's still 9. It's not bending the rules, it's been Disney policy for years.

[KylesMom]

We are trying to decide if an AP is worth it since we will be there for 12 and usually go each year. If you're going for 12 days, then I'd say go for it. With adding the park-hopping option to MYW, you'd be coming out ahead with the A/P.

We've been purchasing A/Ps for DS since 2002 - he just turned 12 on Sunday. What we do is we all purchase A/Ps, go to Disney for 15 days, and then go back the next year before the passes expire. Makes for some great economic sense. :mickey:

[KAT1811]

. We are trying to decide if an AP is worth it since we will be there for 12 and usually go each year.

Like Kylesmom said purchase the AP and then plan next years trip a bit earlier to get there before the pass expires. That's what we are doing. That means we will get a total of about a months worth of visits out of our APs. Plus with the AP you can purchase the Tables in Wonderland card for $75 which saves you 20% off TS dining (including alcoholic beverages). That paid for itself after 2 meals!

[magicofdisney]

I just renewed one of my daughter's passes this past weekend. She is currently 9. Because we are FL residents she gets the 3mos extension they're offering as a promo. She will turn 10 this summer but her "child" pass is good, for her, until April of next year. The CM and I joked about her having a child pass beyond her 9th year and how that worked in our favor. :mickey:

EDITED: A couple of years ago I renewed my oldest's pass just a couple of days before he turned 10 just so we wouldn't have to pay the adult price. It was standard policy then and now.

[alliekat]

On our last trip our DS turned 3 during the trip. When I booked at Disney Travel Co. They said because he was two at the time of travel he was two for the whole trip so we did not need to buy him a ticket. I should mention he is tall for his age. When we were in Epcot two days after his third birthday, a cm stopped us on the way in and said he needed a ticket. We explained the situation and said we understood the confusion, but he would not let us in because he was three and had no ticket. It was sort of upsetting, but we just left the turnstyle and moved down to another one and they let us right in and the cm didn't even say a word. The original cm saw us go in, called over a supervisor who I saw come out. I walked right over before they could come to us. I explained the whole thing and she could not aplogize enough. She said that we should not have been put through that. I know the cm was just doing their job, but we did feel badly about starting the day like that, but it's Disney so you get past that pretty fast. I actually carried a copy of his birth certificate around with us just in case. You may get stopped, but if you just tell them what's happening all will be good. Have fun!!

[magicjasb]

I am sorry to hear that happened to you. Actually, the thing in our favor, I guess, is my daughter is very petite for her age.

[mom2morgan]

I'll tell my daughter there are advantages to being petite - she's 16 and she still gets offered the Children's Menu and colouring sheets sometimes! LOL

[ibelieveindisneymagic]

DD turned 10 during one of our trips (and she's quite tall for her age), but we had no issues using her child ticket throughout the trip.

Enjoy the last little bit of savings :) (In fact, DD used that as one of the reason why we HAD to go back for her 10th b-day ... the last time she would "save" us money by being a kid in Disney's eyes :D)