mmackeymouse
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 15, 2008
We have a number of 5 day park hoppers (the old kind that expires 14 days from 1st use) that we had for this trip. We hadn't yet attached them in MDE, for a couple of reasons. For one, there are a couple of people in our party who think they may only go 1 or 2 days to the parks. So, we didn't want to waste a 5 day park hopper in that case. We figured we'd buy a base ticket now and save the hoppers for when they would be more valuable.
In the meantime, this whole crazy virus happened, and we decided to hold off on attaching/using these tickets until we knew what the WDW experience would be. We didn't want to use these valuable 5 day park hoppers on half an experience. So, if worse case scenario happened, we'd buy tickets, and save the 5 day hoppers for a later trip down the road.
Well, as has happened, by the time we got (hard) information about what WDW would be like...the ticket sales have been frozen. So, we can't purchase the basic tickets. I don't really want to use a 5 day park hopper on this upcoming trip. But, they may be our only chance at a park reservation.
It feels like here are the options:
To complicate matters, our trip starts with 4 days in which we may or may not be on a cruise. We may or may not be able to get WDW resort reservations for those days. We may or may not need 2 or 3 extra days for parks. And whether we do or don't have those extra days will affect how we approach the strategy for the rest of the days. But...we won't know anything until DCL gives us more information.
Our plan was to just wait it out, and add days to our current tickets if need be. But, now, thanks to the park reservation system, we are in a position we have to make that decision right now. If we don't go for extra days, we won't be able to get those reservations IF we need them. If we do go for the extra days, we may end up not needing them, and will spend the extra money for nothing.
WWYD? Does anyone have any other options that they can think of.
In the meantime, this whole crazy virus happened, and we decided to hold off on attaching/using these tickets until we knew what the WDW experience would be. We didn't want to use these valuable 5 day park hoppers on half an experience. So, if worse case scenario happened, we'd buy tickets, and save the 5 day hoppers for a later trip down the road.
Well, as has happened, by the time we got (hard) information about what WDW would be like...the ticket sales have been frozen. So, we can't purchase the basic tickets. I don't really want to use a 5 day park hopper on this upcoming trip. But, they may be our only chance at a park reservation.
It feels like here are the options:
- Use the PHs and suck it up. Eat the loss in value.
- Commit to saving the PH for another trip, and purchase date-based tickets where I can (Sam's Club, etc) and if hopping is back when we go, we'll just have to pay to upgrade. The problem with this one is that if news starts coming out on attractions that are or aren't happening or transportation, and we want to just cancel altogether....we'd be stuck with dated tickets.
- Attach the PH now, and HOPE that ticketing opens back up before our trip, buy the tickets then, and get the PHs unattached, attach the new tickets, and again...hope that it doesn't screw up any park reservations we already have.
- Hold out for ticket-purchasing to open back up and cross our fingers that park reservations/ADRs will still be available at that point.
To complicate matters, our trip starts with 4 days in which we may or may not be on a cruise. We may or may not be able to get WDW resort reservations for those days. We may or may not need 2 or 3 extra days for parks. And whether we do or don't have those extra days will affect how we approach the strategy for the rest of the days. But...we won't know anything until DCL gives us more information.
Our plan was to just wait it out, and add days to our current tickets if need be. But, now, thanks to the park reservation system, we are in a position we have to make that decision right now. If we don't go for extra days, we won't be able to get those reservations IF we need them. If we do go for the extra days, we may end up not needing them, and will spend the extra money for nothing.
WWYD? Does anyone have any other options that they can think of.