It currently costs $60.00 to add the park hopper option to any park ticket (adult or child) of 4 days or more in length. For a family of 5, with four day park tickets, this will cost you an additional $300, or $75 per day.
To be honest, our family rarely purchases the hopper option.
Why? Well, park hopping is not very time efficient. Exiting a park, taking resort transportation (or even getting in your vehicle and driving to a second park), and then entering another park (including going through security) can be quite time consuming. You should allow at least an hour. That's an hour that could've been spent riding Space Mountain for the fifth time, watching Mickey's Philharmagic, or meeting talking Mickey in Town Square.
You're already on your feet a lot in the parks, but add on walking to the car in the gigantic WDW parking lot - again? Park hopping is exhausting. If you're staying on-property, you can take the Disney buses which skips parking lot hunting altogether, but it takes more time. Overall, as you can see, we don't find Park Hopping worth the extra $500+ it would cost our family of 8.
But that's just us.
If you enjoy spontaneity - and the hopper option is in your budget - it is definitely nice to have the option. Want to have lunch at the Crystal Palace in Magic Kingdom and dinner at the Brown Derby in Disney's Hollywood Studios? You're going to need a park hopper. Crowds too much for you at Epcot today and you want to head over to Magic Kingdom? The park hopper is a must. Animal Kingdom closed at 5pm today, but you've still got several hours of magic left in you? Park hopper is the way to go.
Do you add on the park hoppers? Why or why not? Tell us in the comments!
*Photo from Disney PhotoPass+ Gallery Disc
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