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  1. Caroline
    October 23, 2018

    We are military retirees planning on taking our son (current military) and his family late Oct/Early November. We had planned on buying the military tickets on base. How does this system affect us?

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  2. Jeff
    October 17, 2018

    Lots of hard work here.
    Thank you.
    You are amazing!

    The thing about this change that really hoses me is all tickets are no longer good for 14 days.
    I tend to stay longer than average, usually 11-12 nights, but only buy theme park tickets for 3 or 4 days. Spending tons of extra time wandering the resorts, at the H20 parks, at the pool, or my balcony. I spread these park visits out over the entire stay. Now, with the limited days they can be used, I’m gonna have to make a change or pay more.
    Which sucks because I pretty much always visit in September, which is one of the few time periods where the price dropped.

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    • Dave
      October 18, 2018

      Jeff-especially because the ticket windows don’t seem to expand to cover split stays…If you stay 12 days at one resort, the ticket valid use window expands to fill that time–but not, it seems, on split stays…

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  3. Dawn
    October 17, 2018

    Cracked me up right off the bat!! “not here you goober!”..very funny. In reference to the Ten day (non hopper if it matters) tickets, you indicate that they would expire 14 days from selected ‘start’ date, or the length of your stay on property. I believe that the longest package available to USA guests is 14 days..do you anticipate that will change ? allowing a longer stay and hence extending the ticket expiration dates? This was a tough read, but you made it funny, I can ‘feel’ the work you put into this and I appreciate your time and accuracy!

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    • Dave
      October 18, 2018

      Dawn, my guess is no. The differences are tuned especially to folk who might have for example a three day ticket and an eight night stay, and less so for the ten/fourteeners. The initial word is that split-stays don’t count (that is, you don’t get extra ticket days if you check out of the Poly and check in to Art of ANimation) which seems dumb to me. I hope that changes.

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  4. BostonEd
    October 17, 2018

    Wow. Just… wow.

    And how exactly are places like The Official Ticket Center going to sell tickets with this kind of system in place? Can they?

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    • Dave
      October 18, 2018

      BostonEd, I’m pretty sure they will all still be in business, but it will be more complicated for them.

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  5. Kelly B – Destinations in Florida
    October 17, 2018

    Thanks for all the hard work you put into this Dave!!

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