You can purchase a ticket for anywhere from 1-10 days. Each day, you can use your ticket to enter one theme park. If you want to go from park-to-park, you can purchase the "Park Hopper" option which will allow you to visit multiple parks on the same day.
While Disney does a very good job of marketing the Park Hopper, and most people feel they want that option, I've found that I *rarely* make use of the Park Hopper option, and typically stay in the same theme park for the entire day. This last trip to Disney World, I specifically got the "one park per day" ticket to see if I would notice any inconvenience, and I did not.
You can also purchase a "No Expiration" option if you like, otherwise the tickets are valid for 14 days from the first day of use.
Buy a ticket for as many days as you will be visiting WDW. The more days on your ticket, the less $ per day. Also, if after four days, you want one more, you may be suprised how much less day 5 %26amp; 6 cost compared to day 1.
The Park hopper option should not be bought if you are staying "off-Disney-property", and parking your car in the huge parking lots next to each Park.
For a family to go to two Parks in one day would require trecking back to your parked car and driving to another parking lot. All this may take an hour out of your mid-day, when you should be seeing fun Disney things.
The Park Hopper option is most useful for Disney Resort Hotel guests.
If you are staying at a Disney Resort Hotel, you have the perk of Extra Magic Hours. When the Park is less crowded, you are able to pack so much more fun times productively in the extra hours, that you may have had enough of that Park after half a day. Then you can ride the Disney Bus to a different Park. Also you like to use all your resort Dining Plan meals at Epcot (for example), in that case you want to be at Epcot for half the day each day of your stay.How do Disney world tickets work?
go to you public library and get some books on WDW, also check out allears.net. great site.
a base price ticket allows you to enter one park in one day. You can pick which park you go to.
A hopper pass allows you to enter as many parks in one day as you wish.
A water park option on your ticket allows you to enter one water park per day.
you can also call WDW with any questions with out having to book a package.
You get one ticket for your vacation. Lets say you got a five day ticket. you can go to Animal kingdom mon, Magic kindom tues, etc. If you get a park hopper pass, for instance, you can go to epcot in the morning, then go to Magic Kingdom at night. I hope this helps.How do Disney world tickets work?
In a nutshell, you buy a ticket with so many days on it. A ticket can be used for any of the 4 parks but you can only visit 1 park per day unless you add the park hopper option.
I suggest you read the ticket info pages at All Ears:
http://allears.net/pl/ticket.htm
squidoo.com/saving-bucks-at-disney-world
that should be a lot of help.
Every body has done a good job, so I won't repeat their efforts...
Here are my few tips: The more days you buy, the cheaper each individual days are. They will only let get 10 days before you have to buy an annual pass. However, if you *KNOW* you're going to come again in a few years you can make good use of the non-expiration option. If you're going to the parks for 5 days this year, and then want to go back in for 5 day in 4 or 5 years, you can buy the 10 day ticket with no expiration, use 5 days now and save 5 for later. That way you can go in 2015 for 2010 prices.
In addition to all your park tickets being on your "Key to the Kingdom" your dining plan (if you opt to utilize one) will also be tracked by your card. The first time you put your card through a reader at a park gate you will have your index finger scanned. Each time you use it there after you will scan your finger and they will compare. Your ticket is yours and yours alone and cannot be used by anyone else.
The other option you can have on your ticket for an additional fee is the "waterparks and more" option. This will give you access to things like Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon and Disney Quest. In 2009, the number of options was based on the number of days. If you got a three day ticket with the waterparks and more option then you got one option - if you got a five day ticket and added this feature you got three options. I have used this option a couple of times on longer trips and it worked well for those trips. If you're doing a quick in-and-out you probably will be to busy to use this feature. Happy Vacation!
I agree, Disney Tickets can be quite confusing the first time.
WDW (Walt Disney World) is divided into four major parks, which you have already, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom. That is the easy part to figure out. There are a number of different ticket options that you can buy. There are day tickets, week tickets, even annual passes (this is what I have, but none the less). I'm not sure what all the day amounts of tickets, but they all act the same way.
If you just buy a normal ticket, without any extra options on it, then you will be able to enter one of the four parks that day. With that ticket, say you went to Magic Kingdom that day, you would be able to enter Magic Kingdom and ONLY Magic Kingdom that day, but I will get to that later. Once inside Magic Kingdom, you are open to all the rides, shops, shows, etc. It goes the same way for all four parks.
Now, when I said you could only go to Magic Kingdom on that particular day (this could work for any park, say you started in Epcot, you could only go to Epcot) and this is if you don't have the Park Hopper option on your park ticket. It costs a bit extra, but if you are only staying at WDW for a couple of days and plan to visit all the parks, its a great thing to have. Its really great to have for any length of stay, but it is especially nice with a short visit. What a park hopper pass does is give you the ability to leave one park (say Animal Kingdom) where you may have started in the morning, take a break, and then travel to a different park (say Epcot again). It means you can travel to any of the four parks in one day, you could even go to all four (although I don't suggest it).
There are also a number of other options when you first purchase your tickets, such as the Waterpark %26amp; more option. Now I must tell you that WDW is not just made up of the four parks, but also consists of two waterparks (giant ones, not your normal waterpark!), a Shopping District (called Downtown Disney), 22 different resorts, and many more unique experiences, such as golf and mini-golf. WDW is known for all of these things, so try to do a few! The Waterpark %26amp; more option I suggest you avoid. If you decide to travel to the waterpark, just buy your tickets for that day at the water park then. The weather can change quickly at Disney, so you will want to find the best day (it could be raining the whole time!). It is really a gamble whether you will get a chance to go to one of the water parks, so avoid the option because of this.
There are also a few other things that can be confusing when it comes to tickets. There are times where guests have extra time in the parks. This is normally called Extra Magic Hours (there are also sometimes special parties) or what most of us Disney Freaks call EMH. This is for Disney Resort Guests only, so I highly suggest that if you are planning on staying in the Orlando area for a number of day, stay at one of the Disney Resorts. There are a number of different price ranges, some as low as a normal hotel, and you get many benefits to staying on property. You get those EMH (which happen at one park a day, summertime includes the waterparks, either for an hour in the morning, or up to 3 hours at night) along with free parking in any of the Disney lots if you have a rental car. This is really my #1 tip to those confused about Disney.
Secondly, once inside any of the parks, as I said, you can go on any of the rides inside. Often, especially in the summer, the lines can be quite long. There is something called a fastpass inside each of the parks. For a selection of the most popular rides in each park, a fastpass can be issued, which is a separate little ticket that you can use to go through the fastpass line on that ride at a specific time. You put your park ticket into one of the fastpass machines just outside of the ride and then a little ticket will pop back out (along with your park ticket). On the little ticket there will be a time that you are to return to the ride to use the fastpass. It can be any time, but will most likely look something like this...2:34-3:34. When you come back to that ride during that time period, you will be able to travel onto the ride through a special line, that enables you to skip what may be a one or two hour line, and get on the ride quickly. This doesn't cost anything extra, but you must remember that you can only have one fastpass per ticket at a time, so you can't get a fastpass for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (Magic Kingdom-Frontierland) and then go get another for Space Mountain (Magic Kingdom- Tomorrowland). If you miss your time period (they will normally accept it for a half hour after your time as well, but it depends on how busy it is) they will normally accept it at the end of the day, not long before the park closes.
I really hope this helped, and if you have any other questions about WDW, please contact me, I would be happy to help you!
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