1 Day ticket or Upgrade Pass?

[carps09]

Each year, my husband and I purchase our Disney passes this way - 1 of us gets the Florida Resident Seasonal Pass and 1 of us gets the full Annual Pass. We do this because we never want to go during June/July anyway and then it works out as it covers parking.

Our family is visiting next week and wants to go to Disney, so this means my husband would need to purchase a 1 or 2 day ticket. We're trying to decide what makes more sense - purchasing a 1 or 2 day ticket or just upgrading his pass to a full annual pass. We were going back and forth comparing it and I said let me ask the DISers...they'll know!

 

[Robo]

Each year, my husband and I purchase our Disney passes this way - 1 of us gets the Florida Resident Seasonal Pass and 1 of us gets the full Annual Pass. We do this because we never want to go during June/July anyway and then it works out as it covers parking.

Our family is visiting next week and wants to go to Disney, so this means my husband would need to purchase a 1 or 2 day ticket. We're trying to decide what makes more sense - purchasing a 1 or 2 day ticket or just upgrading his pass to a full annual pass. We were going back and forth comparing it and I said let me ask the DISers...they'll know!

HERE is the current price list.

Subtract the gate price of the ticket that you HAVE from the gate price of the AP that you want.
That's (approx.) how much it will cost to do the upgrade.


Then, check the cost of the one-day and two day tickets.

(All prices, plus tax.)

 

[stargazertechie]

HERE is the current price list.

Subtract the gate price of the ticket that you HAVE from the gate price of the AP that you want.
That's (approx.) how much it will cost to do the upgrade.


Then, check the cost of the one-day and two day tickets.

(All prices, plus tax.)

Robo, if CF is the king of ticketing, and you're the Duke of ticketing, I'd fancy myself somewhere around the marquise of ticketing, and this one has me stumped.

Will OP's husband get the renewal rate for the FL AP since he has a seasonal, or will it be the Seasonal AP Renewal rate (which is what I'm assuming they have) being upgraded to a full-price "first time" Resident AP.

ETA:

The difference between a FL Resident AP Renewal and a FL Seasonal Renewal is $138.45 (tax inclusive)
A 1 day FL resident hopper is $116.62
A 2 day base ticket is $195.96

So if you think you'd want to go at all outside of next weekend during blackout dates, upgrading to the regular AP would be more cost effective.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

If a renewal-rate pass is upgraded at any time to a higher level of annual pass, the higher level is also at the renewal rate. Conversely, if you downgrade at time of renewal, you still get the renewal rate of the lower-level AP.

 

[stargazertechie]

If a renewal-rate pass is upgraded at any time to a higher level of annual pass, the higher level is also at the renewal rate. Conversely, if you downgrade at time of renewal, you still get the renewal rate of the lower-level AP.

In that case, I stand by my numbers.


*Hail to the King*

 

[carps09]

Thank you all! I knew the ticket gurus would help. I did talk to ticketing this morning and was told it'd be $165 to upgrade...but I'm confused about that because 3 other agents I spoke with as I was being transferred told me we'd receive a pro-rated amount because we're already a few months into our AP year. I guess we'll wait and see what Guest Services says at the ticket window!

 

[Robo]

Thank you all! I knew the ticket gurus would help. I did talk to ticketing this morning and was told it'd be $165 to upgrade...but I'm confused about that because 3 other agents I spoke with as I was being transferred told me we'd receive a pro-rated amount because we're already a few months into our AP year. I guess we'll wait and see what Guest Services says at the ticket window!

That one is easy.
There is no "pro-rating" of AP rates done at Disney.

 

[carps09]

I thought it sounded too good to be true Still, considering a 1-day ticket is $100, for $60 more we can go whenever we want for 7-8 more months, so that sounds like the way to go.

 

[stargazertechie]

Thank you all! I knew the ticket gurus would help. I did talk to ticketing this morning and was told it'd be $165 to upgrade

I have absolutely no clue where they'd get that number from. None of the options would work out to anywhere near $165....

ETA: Actually, I think I just found it. That's the difference in price between a full price Resident AP (no renewal discount= $464) and a first time resident seasonal pass ($309)


Make sure your husband is credited the correct amount. If his seasonal pass is a renewal, make sure the cost quoted at ticketing is the difference between a resident AP renewal and a seasonal pass renewal ($138.45 tax included)