Today we have a question from Mark, who writes:
I heard people mention E-Ticket rides at Disney World? Other than park admission do we have to get additional tickets? I am confused what is an E-Ticket???
Mark, thank you for your question! I hope that I can help get rid of your confusion over what an E-Ticket is. For that, though, we need to look at a little Disney history.
When the Magic Kingdom first opened, on October 1st, 1971, you paid a certain amount to enter the park itself. The cost was $3.50 for an adult, $2.50 for a child aged 12-17, and $1.00 for a child aged 3-11. However, just paying to get into the park wouldn’t provide you access to many of the attractions. The Magic Kingdom also sold “Adventure Books”, which were a group of tickets that you could use to ride the attractions with. However, at Walt Disney World, then as well as today, there were different levels of attractions — everything from an A-Ticket attraction all the way up to an E-Ticket attraction.
The tamest attractions were the A-Ticket attractions, and if you used all your A-Tickets up, you would be able to buy more for a small fee. The most exciting attractions were the E-Ticket Attractions, and when you used all of them up, you could also buy more, but those tickets were more expensive.
Fortunately, Mark, today we don’t have to worry about separate tickets to ride the attractions. Now, when you purchase your Magic Your Way Ticket, you are provided entrance to the parks, and you can ride as many of the rides as you can fit into a day. A standard Magic Your Way ticket will provide you with entrance to one park per day, however, if you want to “hop” from one park to another, you can do so by purchasing the “Park Hopper” add-on to your ticket. This does cost a little extra, and the debate is endless over whether it is worth it or not (the current cost for the Park Hopper add-on is $55 per ticket, and covers all of the days you have on the ticket) — but I for one really like hopping from park to park.
Lastly, there are quite a few E-Ticket attractions at Walt Disney World. Here are what I would call the E-Ticket Attractions from each of the parks:
Magic Kingdom
- Space Mountain
- Splash Mountain
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
- Peter Pan’s Flight
- Pirates of the Caribbean
Epcot
- Soarin’
- Mission:SPACE
- Test Track
I might have left some out, but you get the idea. If any of you out there think I’ve missed some, please comment and let me know which ones I’ve missed.
Mark, I hope that this helps to answer your question. If you have any further questions, or if anyone else has a question, please do not hesitate to shoot us another email using our contact form.
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