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How was the tour for you? When did you go, how many people? Did you get your own group or shared with strangers? Doing some math and it looks like we'd need to do about 16 rides a day per person to breakeven on the cost of VIP ticket. 14 rides if you count fireworks and parade as one ride. So think it's close.

And that doesnt account for extra comfort with literally 0 waiting and being able to do unlimited repeat rides with no timer window. I'd say if it's shared with strangers I'd be a bit less likely to do it if I have to feel considerate having randos wait when your child does Zootopia 5 times in a row :D

But yes, how was it for you?

Planning on going October, weekday after Golden Week so crowds _should_ not be crazy. Will have early entry via hotel.

1. Many people are saying that using pre-purcased packs may not be the best value because some entries may go unused. And best to to wait until the park to see the queue situation and purchase single DPAs via the app and they are unlikely to sell out.

I read that if you do it this way, it will give you a time window you have to go in (for example, purchase Zootopia DPA at 3pm, have to wait until 5pm to go in).

Is that really true and how limiting did you find that? My understanding is that pre-purchased bundles do not have this limit for one ride a day, so wondering how valuable is it to be able to just walk in instead of having a timed entry.

2. Me and wife have Android phones only. Does the app work on on that, especially for purchasing and using DPA tickets? I saw a lot of 1-star reviews for Disney Shanghai app, and am a bit concerned the app might bug out and I can't buy or use a DPA. Did it work ok for you Android users?

Going Disney first time October on a weekday after Golden Week. Staying at Toy Story hotel to get early entry.

Everyone says you don't need to pre purchase DPA packs for this specific park, but to just buy them individually via the app when you're in the park, and they won't sell out like in Japan so planning to do that.

Question: Do individually bought DPA tickets have any limitations, such as:

after using one for Zootopia you can't use another one for Zootopia in 2 hours

Or

you can only use one DPA per ride per day

Or

It's unlimited with no limitations, just keep buying tickets via app and can keep riding as many times as you want?

If my son son likes something, we like to go again immediately, sometimes several times, so want to know if this strategy allows that or do we need to look for a VIP package or Consierge package or something above single DPA tickets.

Disney website has a million tickets so not going to try to figure it out there :D Thank you

Thinking of going between October 16-25 this year on a weekday (probably Tuesday since I read it's slowest).

Have a 5yr old with us so definitely not queing for 40mins+. Plan to go with early entry, probably with hotel access. And get the premium entry thing for all rides maybe 30min+.

Is one day enough or not? I like planning and we're effecient but if we find something we like we will probably do it several times.

We're the type of travelers who like to see everything in a park and not feel like we didn't have time to do something. We just completed Europa-Park (was AMAZING btw!) and did 3 full days there, did every ride that we wanted to, some of them several times, saw every show that looked interesting and saw the full area. And barely made it in 3 days, I'd say 2 would've been too little. Looks like Europa-Park is 2x bigger in park size and has 100+ attractions, and Disney has 17, so guess by math Disney would need 1.5 days if we want to see everything?