We’ve been keeping you posted on all the latest Park Pass updates since Disney World’s reopening last year.
Cinderella Castle
In order to limit capacity after reopening, Disney implemented the Park Pass reservation system, which allows guests to book a spot in the parks for a particular day. To make one of these reservations, guests must have a valid theme park ticket for the same day as their Park Pass. And to reflect this policy, Disney has announced a change to the system.
As we mentioned, guests need a valid theme park ticket in order to book a Park Pass. However, sometimes guests will make changes to their tickets (for example, modifying the dates), leaving a Park Pass reservation without a ticket linked.
Tree of Life
Disney has announced that in these cases, guests’ Park Pass reservations will be canceled. If you have a Park Pass reservation with no valid theme park admission for the same day, you’ll receive an email from Disney warning you about this impending cancellation. You’ll have a 48 hours to link valid park admission to your My Disney Experience account for that day before your Park Pass is canceled.
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Park Passes have been booking up quickly lately, so you’ll want to make sure you don’t lose any reservations for your trip. Double-check to make sure your tickets are all linked to your My Disney Experience account! And if you do receive that warning email, be sure to take action as soon as possible.
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
By canceling these reservations, Disney may free up availability for people with valid tickets who are hoping to score a spot in the parks. If you’re trying to grab a Park Pass reservation — especially for Disney’s Hollywood Studios, which is the trickiest to snag — be sure to keep an eye out for spaces opening up. Disney also tends to add more availability as the date in question gets closer, so watch that availability calendar closely! We’ll keep you posted on any openings, too.
Disney World Theme Park Reservation Availability Calendar
If you’re looking to make Park Pass reservations, we’ve got all the info you need right here. We’ll keep an eye out for any updates on this situation — and we’ll keep bringing ya all the latest Disney news. Stay tuned to DFB!
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You should be able to reserve your park and then purchase your tickets. If you can’t get through n the days you want to go, then you may have to cancel your trip anyway
The system should have immediately cancelled the reservation at the time the guest changed tickets. There shouldn’t have been any reservations left unlinked.
Wooohooo!!! Thank you for this information. The week we planned to go was booked solid for Hollywood Studios. I just read this dropped, dropped what I was doing, and was able to snag a reservation for my party to Hollywood Studios today!!
With all the requirements concerning park reservations, fast pass reservations, dining plan reservations, just too many hoops to jump through. I’m going to stay home and see what happens in the future
I thought when you go into my Disney app you needed to link your reservation and ticket to that park your reserved for that day . Reservation to the park with no ticket that should not be that is like holding a space that you will not use . People try to do what they want to rune it for everyone else . Disney e- mail you link the ticket or no fun in the parks . The computer system should not let you reserved with out the ticket .
I keep seeing this story circulating around. But I makes no sense.
Since the reservation system’s inception, when you buy a ticket it must immediately be linked to a reservation date otherwise you cannot complete the transaction.
So what has changed? This makes no sense. How do people have reservations without tickets.
Brandon, I don’t know all of the conditions under which this happened, but I believe it would be due to glitches. For example, I planned a trip for September, made my DPP reservations, then changed my dates. When I made DPP for the new dates, I noticed that my original DPPs were still in My Disney Experience (I went in and cancelled them myself so as not to tie up DPPs).
It reads that people changed there minds and tried to move it to other parks that they did not pay for example Magic Kingdom switch to Epcot . They never linked up to the Disney app. They were just taking a day away from some one else . How this happened Disney just found out the other day . Disney said they e mail in 48 hours to link up or be canceled .
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Does one have to have a phone in order to go to Disney? Everything that I am reading need the phone to be able to do things such as having lunch I like it the way it used to be, much simpler maybe slower but that’s what I’m used to.
You mentioned a policy in another video that I couldn’t believe was actually in place, but I just checked with them and it’s correct: if you have a four-day park ticket, and you go to three different parks on the first three days, then want to do park-hopper for the last day, if you upgrade the last day to a park-hopper — on the day that you’re actually going to that park — you’ll be charged park-hopper mark-ups for all four days, even though the first three days have already passed.
So, would it be the less expensive option to just purchase a single-day ticket for the fourth day and reserve it for the second park you were hoping to hop to? It would be the full price of a one-day ticket, but still probably cheaper than 4 days of park-hopper mark-ups, right?
Hi, Debra! 🙂 You don’t have to have a smart phone to go to Disney World, but there are a lot of functions in My Disney Experience that can make a smart phone a really useful tool.