PARK TICKETS

Aside from your airline tickets, you will need to purchase Park tickets.

The very quick answer to the question I know you all have is:
Magic Your Way Park Hopping Ticket
No Plus Options
Expires 14 Days From First Use

5 Day MYW PH     $309.92
6 Day MYW PH     $315.24
7 Day MYW PH     $320.57

I think the 6 day will make the most sense but it depends on the flight time home on the 13th.

Here are the answers to every Disney Ticket question you could ever have.

WDW TICKET BASICS

What do the Admission tickets include?

Regular Magic Your Way Base tickets provide entrance to a single theme park on a given day. You may add on options such as Park Hopping (to visit more than one theme park on a given day) and the Water Park Fun & More (to receive a varying amount of admissions to the so-called "minor gates" that consist of the water parks, DisneyQuest and Wide World of Sports). You can also add a non expiration option so your tickets will not expire after 14 days from first use. None of these tickets will provide admission to any of the special Disney events that are referred to as "Hard Ticket Events". Use of Disney transportation is included with admission.

I'm already confused -- how do I go about deciding what type of ticket to buy?

First evaluate your travel plans and budget - How many days do you plan to visit the WDW major parks? How much are you willing to spend on admission media? Do you want just enough admissions for this trip or do you want to buy some extras and save them for your next visit? How likely/often will you visit the Water Parks or DisneyQuest? Will you be returning to WDW within the next 12 months? Will you stay at a WDW hotel? How likely is it you'll never come back to WDW or won't be back for at least several years?

Weigh your choices carefully. What might seem like a good deal, may not be. The Magic Your Way tickets offer greater flexibility than previous WDW passes. You start with the Base Ticket which is really just a one park per day ticket and can increase your days and add on from there. These tickets offer the best per day prices with the longer ticket lengths (between 4 and 10 days), the longer the ticket, the lower the per day price. Remember -- any unused days on your Magic Your Way tickets DO expire unless you add on the No Expiration option at an additional cost.

Determine if an Annual Pass or a Premium Annual Pass may serve your needs better. You can always plan next year's visit 1-2 weeks earlier so your Annual Pass is still valid, hence saving an entire trip's admissions cost. Visit our "break-even" analysis, "When Does an Annual Pass Become Cost-Effective?" for more details about deciding if an AP is for you.

What are these Plus Visits (now called Water Park Fun & More) I see included on some passes?

It depends on what ticket they are on. If it is a plus visit (option) from one of the old pre-2005 Park Hopper Plus tickets, it is one valid admission for one person to your choice of any one of the following: Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach, or Wide World of Sports. If it is a WPF&M visit from one of the Magic Your Way tickets, it includes DisneyQuest as well as the places listed for the PHP plus options. And beginning June 28, 2008, you can also choose to use a visit to play a round of golf at Disney's Oak Trail Golf Course, a relaxed, nine-hole walking course designed for the entire family. Tee times are required and subject to availability. For tee times, call (407) WDW-GOLF (407-939-4653) or visit disneyworldgolf.com.

Think of it as two tickets with different privileges on one card. Everything expires 14 days after first use unless you have the no-expire option. Using a Water Park Fun & More option does not use up a major park day from your pass. But unlike the major park admissions on these tickets, you can only visit one place per WPF&M visit. No hopping is allowed on these visits even if you purchased the Park Hopper option for your MYW ticket. Unlike the major park admissions, you are allowed to visit multiple WPF&M locations on any one day but if you do, you will use up one WPF&M option for each place you visit. Leaving and returning to the same park on the same day does not use an extra entry as readmissions are always allowed at the same park on any day.

WPF&M visits may or may not be used on the same days as you go to the major parks. If you use a WPF&M visit on one day and do not go to a major park, you do not use up one of your major park admissions.

Your WPF&M visits are completely independent of your major park visits. Example: You can go to a water park only on day one (1 WPF&M visit), then do a major park on day two (1 theme park admission) followed by a major park (1 theme park admission) and a Typhoon Lagoon visit (1 WPF&M visit) on day three. At the end of day three you will have used up two major park admissions and two WPF&M visits. But if on day four you went to TL in the morning and DQ in the afternoon, you would have used two WPF&M entries in the same day.

Do I have to use my WPF&M options in different places or can I go back to a place twice?

You can use them all at the same venue if you so desire. You have two limitations. One is that you can only use it for one person. You cannot have a group of three use three options off your one pass. The second one is that you will use a separate Plus option for EACH water park, WWoS, DQ admission or Disney's Oak Trail golf course round you do on the same day. You are allowed to go to one, leave and return to the same one on a given day but you cannot park hop between the WPF&M venues like you can with the major park days.

How do I use a MYW ticket with the Water Park Fun & More options?

Now that you have purchased MYW tickets with the WPF&M option, you'll need to know how they work. The easiest thing to do is to think of it as two completely different tickets put on the same card. The theme parks portion is measured in days (one use equals one day) while the WPF&M portion is measured in separate admissions (going to two WPF&M gates on the same day will use two admissions).

For the theme parks admissions:
1) You get admission to any of the four WDW major theme parks for the number of days you bought your ticket for. You do not have to go to a theme park on consecutive days.
2) If you purchased the Park Hopping option, you may visit more than one theme park on any day and it will consume only one day's admission from your ticket. If you have not purchased the PH, you must choose a single theme park you wish to attend that day. You may leave and return later that day TO THE SAME PARK if you desire but you cannot enter another theme park on the same day.
3) If you do not purchase the Park Hopper option, you cannot use another day's admission to visit a second theme park on the same day you went to another.

For the WPF&M admissions:
1) You get a set number of admissions to the minor parks that mirrors the length of your MYW ticket in most cases. You will get two admissions with a 1 or 2 day ticket, and on all other MYW tickets you will get the same number of admissions as the number of theme park days on your ticket. Example: a 5 day ticket has 5 admissions, a 7 day has 7 and a 10 day has 10.
2) These WPF&M admissions do not allow park hopping even if you added the park hopper option to your ticket. Each time you enter a minor park on any given day, you will use another WPF&M admission. The exception is that you are also allowed to leave and return TO THE SAME WPF&M PARK on the same day and not use a second admission.
3) You do not have to use a theme park admission on the day(s) you wish to use a WPF&M admission.

For both kinds of admissions:
1) You have 14 days from first use of the ticket at ANY turnstile to use all of the admissions on both portions unless you have purchased the No Expiration option.
2) The ticket must be used by the same person on all days. Ticket tagging (biometric finger scanning) is attached to the ticket at the first use to tie the ticket to that person.

What Ticket Options do I have?

The coming of the Magic Your Way tickets has actually increased the number of available options for you to use in building the ticket that you desire. Below is a description of the currently available ticket options and approximate (non-discounted) gate prices for adults/children (ages 3-9). Prices include tax, except where noted and are subject to change. Daily theme park parking is $11 for non-resort guests. Ages under 3 gain free admission. The prices are shown here for comparison purposes only and are subject to change. Please call WDW direct to confirm (1-407-W-DISNEY).

TICKET MEDIA AND PRICES

Beginning on January 2, 2005, Disney completely changed the way they sell all daily admission tickets. They introduced a new ticket called "Magic Your Way" that replaced the one day, Park Hopper, Park Hopper Plus and Ultimate Park Hopper tickets. These tickets are available to all on and off site guests.

The ticket starts out with what they call the Base Ticket. Base Tickets will be available in lengths of 1 to 10 days. In essence, this is a one park ticket that allows you to visit whatever theme park you want but no park hopping is allowed even if you buy 5 or 6 days. Then once you have this Base Ticket, you are able to add on any additional admissions you may want. You can add on the Park Hopper which will allow you to turn that Base Ticket into a Park Hopper. It will allow you to visit multiple theme parks on the same day. The pricing structure is set up so the longer the length of the ticket you buy, the lower the per day cost of each day becomes.

You can also add on the Water Park Fun & More which will allow you a set number of admissions to the water parks, Wide World of Sports and DisneyQuest. You get two WPF&M visits with the one or two day tickets; 3 with the 3 day, 4 with the 4 day, 5 with the 5 day, 6 with the 6 day, 7 with the 7 day, 8 with the 8 day, 9 with the 9 day, and 10 with a 10 day ticket. If you add on both the Park Hopper and Water Parks Fun & More options, you will have created what Disney calls a Magic Your Way Park Hopper & WPF&M Ticket.

All adult (ages 10+) ticket holders must use the biometric scanners before entering a park no matter what ticket they have. See our Finger Scans For Passes page for more information. You will be asked to sign your name on your tickets prior to using it for the first time. Should the biometric scan fail, you will be asked for a photo ID before being allowed in.

All Magic Your Way tickets will carry an expiration date of 14 days from first use of the ticket. There is an add on available to allow the unused days to be good forever. This add on MUST be purchased to avoid having the ticket expire. The no expiration add on can be added at any point before the ticket expires but you will pay based on how many days the original ticket was for, not how many days are left. Same goes for the Park Hopping and Water Park Fun & More add ons. They may be added at any time but will be charged at the full rate of the add on regardless of how many unused admissions remain on the ticket. The add ons (PH, WPF&M and No Expiration) are priced on a *per ticket* cost, not on a per day cost. You may do the add ons at any Guest Relations location in the parks or DTD or at the Lobby Concierge (formerly Guest Services) window at any Disney resort.

So you can now custom design the length and makeup of your MYW ticket with any of the following eight options that best suit your needs:

    * Base Ticket only (one theme park per day, no theme park hopping, no pluses, expires 14 days from 1st use) - See Prices

    * Base Ticket only - No Expiration (one theme park per day, no theme park hopping, no pluses, with No Expiration add on) - See Prices

    * Base Ticket with Park Hopping add on (theme park hopping allowed, no pluses, expires 14 days from 1st use) - See Prices

    * Base Ticket with Park Hopping and No Expiration add ons (theme park hopping allowed, no pluses, with No Expiration add on) - See Prices

    * Base Ticket with Water Park Fun & More add on (one theme park per day, no theme park hopping, number of WPF&M Options determined by length of ticket, expires 14 days from 1st use) - See Prices

    * Base Ticket with Water Park Fun & More add on - No Expiration (one theme park per day, no theme park hopping, number of WPF&M Options determined by length of ticket, with No Expiration add on) - See Prices

    * Base Ticket with Park Hopper & WPF&M (number of Water Park Fun & More Options determined by length of ticket, expires 14 days from 1st use - See Prices

    * Base Ticket with Park Hopper & WPF&M & No Expiration (number of Water Park Fun & More Options determined by length of ticket, with No Expiration add on) - See Prices

The Magic Your Way ticket plan also includes special values for Florida residents who sometimes make shorter but more frequent visits. See our Florida Resident Special Offers page for the complete information. There are also slightly reduced regular MYW ticket prices for Florida residents. See our Ticket Chart Page for the complete list.

Adding either Park Hopping or the Water Park Fun & More options is a flat fee. It doesn't matter what the length of the ticket is. Adding the No Expiration option is based on the total number of days that was originally on the ticket, not on the number of days remaining when you want to add it. Current prices for Magic Your Way addons (Park Hopping, Water Park Fun And More and No Expiration are as follows:

    * Add Park Hopper - $54.00 plus tax per ticket
    * Add Park Hopper (FL Resident tickets) - $27.00 plus tax per ticket
    * Add Water Park Fun & More - $54.00 plus tax per ticket
    * Add Water Park Fun & More (Florida Resident tickets) - $27.00 plus tax per ticket
    * Adding No Expiration to tickets costs between $22.00 and $213.00 plus tax depending on the length of the ticket. Price for Florida Residents are slightly lower on some tickets but not all.

All prices quoted are for purchases made while at the WDW Resort. See our Ticketchart page.

Theme Park New Annual Pass - $531.44 w/tax (Ages 10+); $479.25 w/tax (Ages 3-9) (8/10). Provides admission to Disney's Hollywood Studios, Epcot, Magic Kingdom and Disney's Animal Kingdom for one year from date of voucher redemption or in-person purchase at WDW. Does NOT include admission to any of the Water Parks or Disney Quest. Complimentary parking is also included in the price. Annual Passholders have other benefits described on our Annual Passholders page. There is a small discount when you renew your AP.

Florida Resident Theme Park Annual Pass - Provides admission to Disney's Hollywood Studios, Epcot, Magic Kingdom and Disney's Animal Kingdom and free parking for one year from date of voucher redemption or in-person purchase at WDW. Adults $403.64 with tax; Children Ages 3-9 $364.23, with tax. (8/10)

Premium Annual Pass - Provides admission to Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom, plus Disney Quest, Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon, ESPN's Wide World of Sports and Disney's Oak Trail Golf Course and free parking for one year from date of voucher redemption or in-person purchase at WDW. Complimentary parking is also included in the price. Premium Annual Passholders have other benefits described in the AP section. There is a small discount when you renew your AP. $669.89 w/tax(Ages 10+); $603.86 w/tax (Ages 3-9) (8/10)

Florida Resident Premium Annual Pass - Provides admission to Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom, plus Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon, ESPN's Wide World of Sports and Disney's Oak Trail Golf Course and free parking for one year from date of voucher redemption or in-person purchase at WDW. Adults $531.44 with tax; Children Ages 3-9 $479.25, with tax. (8/10)

Disney's Premium Passport - admission to Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom, plus Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon, ESPN's Wide World of Sports and Disney's Oak Trail Golf Course and free parking as well as being valid at Disneyland in California for unlimited admission to both Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure Parks including park hopping privileges and free parking at any pay-on-entry parking lot. Good for one year from date of voucher redemption or in-person purchase at WDW or DLR. Adults $722.75 with tax; Children Ages 3-9 $722.75, with tax. (03/10)

Water Parks 1-Day - Provides one-day admission to Typhoon Lagoon OR Blizzard Beach for designated time period $48.99 (Ages 10+); $42.60 (Ages 3-9) with tax (5/09).

Water Parks Annual Pass - Provides unlimited admission to both water parks for one year. Adults $106.45 with tax; children 3-9 $85.73 with tax. (1/05)

ESPN's Wide World of Sports - Provides general admission to ESPN's Wide World of Sports complex. (Does not include Premium Events.) $13.43 (Ages 10+); $9.95 (Ages 3-9), with tax (8/10)

Disney Quest Annual Pass - Good for one year from date of purchase - unlimited admissions to Disney Quest. Adults $94.79 (with tax), Children 3-9 $75.62 (with tax). (1/06)

Disney Quest & Water Parks Annual Pass - Good at Disney Quest and both water parks, Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon, for one year from date of purchase. Adults: $137.39 (with tax), Children 3-9 $105.44 (with tax). (1/06)

DisneyQuest 1 Day - $44.73 (Ages 10+); $38.34 (Ages 3-9), with tax (8/10)

Cirque du Soleil - Category 1 tickets: $111.83 (Ages 10+); $90.53 (Ages 3-9), with tax (8/07);
Category 2 tickets: $90.53 (Ages 10+); $73.49 (Ages 3-9), with tax (8/07)