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You will receive a voucher for your Annual Pass if you purchase it at the Disney Stores. You do NOT need the pass to get the AP discount on the phone. Just show your AP at check-in. The official rule is you need an activated pass at check-in, but many guests are not even asked to show it and many only have an unactivated voucher. In any event, do NOT buy the pass until you have booked the room and gotten the AP discount. When you buy your passes off property, you receive paper passes, not the plastic cards Disney gives you at Guest Services. Both paper and plastic work the same. The only way to tell how many days are left on a pass is to have your tickets scanned in person at Guest Services. During the summer, Disney sometimes offers reduced admission for late arrivals to its water parks. Ask at Guest Services. Have a fun and affordable WDW vacation! When you get back, send us a trip report for our new book, "Walt Disney World® Travelogues: Trip Reports For Arm Chair Travelers."
Return to the park later in the afternoon? There will be a castmember at the exit who will stamp your hand. Be sure you all get stamped before exiting. There are no E-Ride nights scheduled for March so far. Have a safe and fun vacation. Send me a trip report when you get back!
Even Timeshares have to give you a ticket to enter the parks if that's part of the deal. Ask them to explain that. All ticket holders get to use FastPass. In March, temps are in the low 50's to lower 80's - swimming during the day will be ok. The pools are heated, so you can also swim at night. But it sure is cold when you get out of the pool! Universal Express Pass allows all guests to get priority access to certain attractions and rides. Universal Express Passes are available until one hour before closing (or until they are all taken) at 20 different distribution centers scattered throughout Universal's two parks. Passes can be used one hour after the park opens until closing. Universal Express Ride Access allows guests staying at the hotels on Universal property (Royal Pacific Resort, Portofino Bay Hotel and the Hard Rock Hotel) to enjoy no wait unlimited access to the rides and attractions at Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure every day of their stay. Hotel guests must show their room key card at the Universal Express entrance to each attraction.
Disney Hopper passes from 1998 are still valid!
The following constitute valid proof of Florida residency:
To Purchase Walt Disney World Tickets at a
Discount, see:
You will have to visit Guest Services so they can
scan your tickets to see how many days you have left.
Guest Services will scan your passes when you get to WDW and tell you how many days are left. They will then cash in your old passes and issue new ones which will include the Animal Kingdom. You may want to use the old passes (which you bought at prices much lower than today!) and then buy new passes that include the Animal Kingdom when you run out. (Details on buying WDW passes at a discount are in our book.)
If you see anyone selling tickets to the parks at a discount, particularly at a significant discount, they are probably linked to some kind of timeshare visit. Stick with people you can trust: Disney, AAA, travel agents, and the sources we recommend.
FastPass attractions have a box placed outside where a visitor can
insert her ticket and receive a time to return later in the day and enter
the attraction without waiting. 7-year old tickets?
Your tickets are still good...and at prices 7 years old. That's a deal! Just
hand your old ticket to the person at the turnstile and it will be accepted.
By all means, buy your tickets now before the price
increases. Disney will also let you trade in the days left on your World
Hopper pass for a more expensive pass. They will deduct what you paid for
them from the cost of the new passes and you will only pay the difference.
However, trade-ins can only be done in person at Walt Disney World. Trade-ins
can not be done through phone or mail order.
Upgrading to a seasons ticket... Just go to Guest Services and tell them that you would like to upgrade to whatever pass you want. For example, let's say you have two days left on a 4-day park hopper pass, but you want to go into the parks four days. If you use those two remaining days, you will have to buy another 4-day hopper and will have two days left again, not to mention the additional expense of buying a 4-day hopper. (You could, of course, buy individual tickets at the gate for the two days, but you can't park hop.) Instead, Disney will refund the two days left and issue you another 4-day park hopper. Bottom line: you have a brand new 4-day park hopper pass and you only had to pay for half of it from your "out of pocket cash." The same method works on any pass upgrade. Disney will refund whatever you have left on your pass and issue you the new pass.
Ideas on a two-day visit? We would definitely suggest attractions in the Magic Kingdom, especially Buzz Lightyear's new ride, the Festival of the Lion King show at Animal Kingdom, Epcot's Tapestry of Nations Parade, and Fantasmic! at MGM. The fun part now is choosing what you want to see (read the descriptions and choose as a family) and plan your itinerary before you get there. Just remember that you can't do it all. Enjoy what you can.
Ticket price increase... Disney can raise its prices from January on. We advise all our customers who are going within a year or so to buy their tickets before January 1. The tickets never expire so you can use them any time in the future. By the way, even if Disney raises its prices, the Disney stores usually have old tickets left over. So, if for some reason you don't get them in time, be sure to ask if they have any tickets at the old prices.
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