jodyb
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 15, 1999
Doing my research and planning for November 2020 Mother daughter (ages 67 and 29 !) trip to Disneyland, and trying to figure out the budget. Saving every dollar helps, so I'm considering only getting MaxPass on part of the trip. Would love advice from the Disneyland vets (we are long time WDW people, and this will be a first. My daughter has never been to Disneyland and I was there many many moons ago...) Anyway, this is what I'm thinking, please correct me if your mileage varies:
We will be there 5 nights, so for sure 4 park days, and possibly another half day depending on when our flights leave/arrive. So this is what I'm assuming from my research: We do need park hoppers, and will feel frustrated by having to stay in only one park per day. MaxPass looks amazing. WAY better than having to stress 60 days in advance about which park we will be in on which day!! I love that you don't worry about getting FP until the actual day you are physically in a park! woo hoo! So freeing. That said, the cost of MP adds up, so here's my question. Say I get 5 day park hoppers for $790. To get MP added on for all of them takes us all the way to $940. So I'm thinking, what if I get the 5 day hoppers with no MP, but then when we are there, we perhaps add MP for one, two, or even three of the days.. $790 plus 2 days of MP is $850 - that's saving me $90 that we could use for other things like food and souvenirs... I think since we'll be in the parks for sure 4 days, for 2 of those days we can be more laid back and not chasing after FP's... getting the lay of the land... and for the other 2 we can get MP and commando through the rides we want. Your thoughts? Or am I nickel and dimeing myself and causing undue hassle? Also, is my assumption that we "need" hoppers correct? We could save even more by just getting one-park-per-day... how frustrating would that be? We never get hoppers at WDW - it's too exhausting IMO to run from one park to another.. but at DL it looks so easy..
We will be there 5 nights, so for sure 4 park days, and possibly another half day depending on when our flights leave/arrive. So this is what I'm assuming from my research: We do need park hoppers, and will feel frustrated by having to stay in only one park per day. MaxPass looks amazing. WAY better than having to stress 60 days in advance about which park we will be in on which day!! I love that you don't worry about getting FP until the actual day you are physically in a park! woo hoo! So freeing. That said, the cost of MP adds up, so here's my question. Say I get 5 day park hoppers for $790. To get MP added on for all of them takes us all the way to $940. So I'm thinking, what if I get the 5 day hoppers with no MP, but then when we are there, we perhaps add MP for one, two, or even three of the days.. $790 plus 2 days of MP is $850 - that's saving me $90 that we could use for other things like food and souvenirs... I think since we'll be in the parks for sure 4 days, for 2 of those days we can be more laid back and not chasing after FP's... getting the lay of the land... and for the other 2 we can get MP and commando through the rides we want. Your thoughts? Or am I nickel and dimeing myself and causing undue hassle? Also, is my assumption that we "need" hoppers correct? We could save even more by just getting one-park-per-day... how frustrating would that be? We never get hoppers at WDW - it's too exhausting IMO to run from one park to another.. but at DL it looks so easy..