When you’re planning your Disney World trip, it all seems to be sunshine and rainbows, right?

But what if you — perish the thought! — need to cancel your trip? Y’all we love talking about al the GREAT things about vacation, but sometimes…well, we’ve gotta look at what can go wrong. And there is a VERY important thing you need to know about your Disney World tickets! So, let’s take a look.

 

This may not SEEM like a big deal to you IF you’re in the Disney World planning honeymoon phase and don’t plan on backing out of your trip for NOTHIN’, buuuuuuut… things happen. LIFE happens. There are storms, there are sicknesses, there are a dozen things that could force you into a corner where you need to back out of your Disney World vacation.

And while, for the most part, Disney reservations for things like hotels and restaurants can be canceled no problem-o (if you cancel soon enough, that is — you’ll just have to check Disney cancellation policies on their website), Disney World park tickets are pretty unforgiving.

Disney World tickets are nontransferable and nonrefundable, so you cannot cancel a ticket or get your money back for it. And that… can really feel like salt on an open wound when you’re already bummed about postponing your trip in the first place.

With that being said, Disney does warn that “while you cannot cancel or get a refund for tickets or packages, you may be able to change the date of your unused tickets.”

You can often use unexpired tickets in the future just as long as the first date has not already been used. But you’ll need to change the date of an unused standard theme park ticket via the Disney World website.

If you’re picking a different date to use your park tickets in the future — and said future date happens to be during a more expensive time of year — don’t sweat it! You’ll just have to pay the price difference between your original ticket date versus this new ticket date instead of paying for all-new park tickets.

So, in short, you can’t go back on a Disney ticket purchase once the purchase has been made, but Disney will work to accommodate you if you need to push back your Disney vacation to a later time. 

We have also had success in converting our tickets to other types — for example, applying a completely unused 4-day ticket to the purchase of an annual pass. We have found this type of transaction best done in person, and because there are no specific policies regarding this on Disney World’s website — please understand that your mileage may vary!

We Found Every Single Disney World Ticket Price Increase So You Don’t Have To

Basically if you need to cancel a Disney World trip you can, but to get your money’s worth our of those non-refundable, non-transferable tickets, you’ll need to schedule a Disney World trip for some time in the future. And that’s not a bad thing, right?!

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