Thanks so much for all the information and for taking time to update us during your vacation!!
I have a really complicated question about the way the different ticket windows work, if any of the ticket experts out there can bear with me through all the plot twists.
I now understand that "Will-Call" is the place to go for either the "free day" or the "fastpass" GAD exchange. My question is whether the folks at the will call window could also upgrade a non-GAD ticket at the same time, or whether a different window would be required for that.
Here's why it matters: we'll be arriving midday on day 1 of a 2-day trip and would like to use our GAD voucher (we'll just have one) to get the fastpass option at Epcot on our arrival day. But, there's a chance the GAD fastpasses will be gone by the time we get there (which might be as late as 3 or 4 pm). If that were the case, we'd rather use the GAD for park entry for one of us that day. As of right now, we have package tickets for 1 day only. If we wanted to use the GAD fastpass option, an upgrade of those tickets to 2-day would be necessary before we'd qualify to get the GAD fastpass (since you must "already" have a valid multi-day pass). But if the fastpasses are all gone by the time we arrive, we'd rather just upgrade my husband's ticket to 2-day (he won't have a voucher) and use my GAD voucher for park entry on arrival day (saving my package ticket to use for entry on day 2). So, my question is whether there's a single window we could go to and sort all this out in one place and make decisions and upgrades on the spot as needed, or whether we'd need to commit in advance to the 2-day upgrade (at some separate window) in order to have a chance at a GAD fastpass. If we did that and the FPs were gone we could of course either donate the voucher or get a GAD FP the next day (though it wouldn't be as useful to us on the second day, given our plans).
Or, would another possibility be to get a CM at the resort to take our package tickets off our KTTW cards and upgrade one of them to 2-day but not the other one? (Is that even possible?) I understand from one of the stickies that the KTTW cards have names printed on them but if the tickets were taken off the cards, would it be possible to upgrade one of them to 2 days without indicating, prior to first use, which ticket was whose? If that were possible, we could treat the 2-day one as mine if FPs were available (so we'd qualify for the FP option) and as my husband's if they were not (leaving me free to use my GAD for entry). But I don't know enough about how the ticket systems work to know whether this would even be a possibility. Perhaps all tickets have to be tied to a specific person right from the outset?
I am following the thread about how late GAD FPs will be available and am aware of the birthday FP experience (no known cases of them running out), but we'll be there at one of the busiest times imaginable (spring break).
Thanks to anyone who has even made it through this message!