Hi all! We are planning to visit DL/DCA in July as part of a road trip from NJ. I'm looking to purchase 3 day tickets and would ideally like to park hop while there. I am trying to minimize my potential financial loss if something should happen that we need to cancel our trip. Due to logistics of a huge road trip, this is our only opportunity to visit disneyland so basically if we don't get there in July, the tickets will go to waste since I understand they are non refundable and non transferable. My husband is getting an extended work vacation which won't happen again for another 5 years.
My initial thought was to purchase 3 day tickets without hopping since they are cheaper and then add hopping once we actually arrive so at least I wouldn't lose the money for the park hopping portion if we need to cancel. However, I just read that may not be possible if park reservations are not available at the time of arrival. I believe I can wait to add Genie+ until we arrive tho, correct?
Does anyone know of any other way that I haven't thought of to protect as much is possible of the financial loss that I could incur if we can't go? I hate to be out $1500 for tickets but I know we have to get tickets to reserve the parks asap. Can the cost of the tickets maybe be exchanged or put towards WDW? We have a much better chance to get to Florida in the future than California. The thought of losing all of that money is making me ill.
My initial thought was to purchase 3 day tickets without hopping since they are cheaper and then add hopping once we actually arrive so at least I wouldn't lose the money for the park hopping portion if we need to cancel. However, I just read that may not be possible if park reservations are not available at the time of arrival. I believe I can wait to add Genie+ until we arrive tho, correct?
Does anyone know of any other way that I haven't thought of to protect as much is possible of the financial loss that I could incur if we can't go? I hate to be out $1500 for tickets but I know we have to get tickets to reserve the parks asap. Can the cost of the tickets maybe be exchanged or put towards WDW? We have a much better chance to get to Florida in the future than California. The thought of losing all of that money is making me ill.