**This post may sound confusing with a lot of numbers thrown out..but I hope it makes sense in the end lol**
I would recommend purchasing the PROMO ticket even though it starts at 3-days if you think you might be able to make it for even a tiny bit of the second day. We didn't know if we would be able to go more than 2 days but the cost comparison between the PROMO and non-PROMO price meant it made no sense to not go with the PROMO ticket.
- A 1-day base ticket non-PROMO through Disney it would cost you $149.00.
- A 1-day park hopper ticket non-PROMO through Disney would cost you $199.00.
- A 2-day base ticket non-PROMO through Disney it would cost you $225.00.
- A 2-day park hopper ticket non-PROMO through Disney would cost you $280.00
- A 3-day base base PROMO ticket through Disney is $210.00.
- A 3-day park hopper PROMO ticket through Disney is $260.00.
Having said that though I'd look into the cost comparison with 3rd party vendors like
Undercover Tourist.
Through Undercover Tourist:
- A 3-day base is $191.76 PROMO through Undercover Tourist as opposed to Disney's $210.00. That's a savings of $18.24 per person.
- A 3-day park hopper PROMO is $237.42 through Undercover Tourist as opposed to Disney's $260.00. That's a savings of $22.58 per person.
Buying directly through Disney would allow you to add on MaxPass for $10/day.
- However, you have to buy it for ALL 3 days when buying through Disney directly.
- When buying through 3rd Party vendors you would need to purchase each day after you scan your ticket at the tapstiles and it would be $15/day.
- Purchasing Park Hopper tickets will close the gap in terms of savings when you're doing 2 and 3 days for MaxPass ($7.58 per person savings). Only you can determine if those savings are worth it.
We did Undercover Tourist 3-day Park Hopper PROMO, purchasing MaxPass for 3 full days (at the $15 per day rate) and while $7.58 per person savings ($282.42 vs $290.00) over buying directly through Disney doesn't sound like a lot:
- It paid for a meal for us OR
- We could look at it as it covered just wee bit more than 1 day's worth RT of Uber from our hotel (excluding tip) OR
- We could look at it as it covered 69% of the cost (excluding tax) for the Disneyland Christmas ornament we purchased (which the ornament's price was just over the amount needed to have our parking ticket validated at Downtown Disney parking)
- Well you get the picture
I will say with the castle under refurb your walking distance to attractions in DL will be longer so that will add some time spent throughout the day. We utilized Park Hopping frequently when we were there TBH.
You'll want to download Disneyland app. That will have the wait times and show times, mobile ordering, ADR reservations, etc on it. It's basically WDW's
MDE app for Disneyland.
One word of caution with MaxPass. IF the app goes down, which is did for us on our last day there (March 4th), it significantly reduces the advantage to MaxPass. For that day they actually stopped selling MaxPass early in the day when they realized the app crashed. I couldn't access my account the whole day on my phone but luckily my husband could on his phone so he was able to make FPs for us and see our plans as we had already purchased MaxPass. I don't think the app crashes often at all but just throwing that out there.
Also I don't know how long you've been going to WDW but if you've only been since FP+ was introduced just know that at Disneyland you can't modify your FP time like you can at WDW if say you originally grabbed a FP for it's a small world at 1:00-2:00pm you couldn't go back into the app and refresh and modify to an earlier time. Disneyland still uses Legacy FP distribution rules.
Have fun--I know we did!!
**Sorry for the long post
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