by With so many options, are the Walt Disney World Flexible Dates Tickets worth the price?
One of the best things about a Walt Disney World vacation is the customization. You pick the travel dates, hotel themes, park experiences, and dining options depending on your interests. However, the customizations can also feel like an overload of options!
Purchasing park tickets is one of these overloads. How many days will you need? Will you want to visit a theme park more than once? Should you pay more for a flexible day ticket? All of these questions are valid, and often, the decision is easier than you think.
Why Buy a Flexible Date Ticket?
Disney created the flexible ticket for families staying longer, but don’t want to visit the parks every day. Now that there is a date-based ticket option, where guests pay for park tickets depending on their travel dates, a flexible ticket gives more choices. For example, a 4-day park hopper ticket usually expires about 6 days from your selected first-use date. However, flexible date tickets tickets allows guests to use over 14 days from their first selected date.
Furthermore, flexible date tickets allow for any first date. So, you can ignore the date-based ticket option and use them any start date. Therefore, this ticket add-on is ideal for gifts or if you don’t know the exact travel dates.
In short, if you’re staying in Orlando for around two weeks but only planning on visiting the theme parks for 4 or 5 days, then get a flexible date ticket. It could be a little cheaper than buying individual park hopper tickets.
Why Shouldn’t You Buy a Flexible Date Ticket?
If you’re not getting a park hopper ticket, we don’t recommend the flexible date ticket. One-day tickets are usually cheaper to purchase individually than paying for the flexible date add-on.
Guests using a 10-day ticket likely won’t need a flexible date ticket either. These longer ticket options usually expire around 12 days after the first selected date. You also don’t need to use your tickets on consecutive dates (unless your ticket deal says otherwise).
Furthermore, if you’re purchasing an 8-day ticket, but want to spread out more days, then just upgrade to the 10-day ticket. It’s usually a much better value than buying the flexible date ticket.
How Much Do Flexible Date Tickets Cost?
Like all Walt Disney World multi-day ticket options, flexible date tickets prices change depending on how many dates you book. For example, a 4-day park hopper ticket with the flexible date add-on is usually $687.99, or $171.99 per day. A 10-day is usually $738.05, or about $73.80 per day.
Where to Purchase Disney World Flexible Dates Tickets
Walt Disney World’s website offers flexible date tickets as an add-on option. Once you’ve selected your ticket dates and the number of tickets, continue to the next screen. Here you will see the option to add Flexible Dates and the price.
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