adding days to a no exp ticket

[nluvwithmickey]

I have a 7 day no exp base ticket with 3 days left over from our last vacation. I would like to know if I can add more days (from a 7 to a 10day) and the water park option to this ticket when I return in 10 days.

Is it still doable? I imagine yes if my ticket is no expiry and is only a 7 day base originally.

I know that I will have to pay for the upgrades of a 7 day no exp to a 10 day(days + difference in no exp.)

Thanks!

 

[seashoreCM]

Too late. You can only add days if the ticket had not been used more than 13 days ago.

There is a trade-up procedure for older (but post-2004) tickets but the exchange rate is terrible.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

 

[nluvwithmickey]

Even if they ARE no expiration??? I can't add 3 more days to a 7day base ticket that is ALREADY no exp from last year'S trip?

 

[briar_rose_59]

I thought that you could add more days too, afterall it is a non-expiring ticket. I could understand not being able to upgrade an expiring ticket so I'm gonna give this a bump

 

[nluvwithmickey]

Anyone?

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) Yes, you can upgrade with more days.
2) But, it gonna cost you a few bucks.
3) In addition to cost of days, you pay non-expire cost for for 10-days.
4) This is considerably more than the 7-day non-expire option.
5) Just the non-expire cost diffference is about $65 per ticket.

 

[Allison]

allears says you can upgrade a non-expiring ticket any time.

Disney allows you to UPGRADE most park tickets to a longer Magic Your Way ticket, an Annual Pass (AP) or a Premium Annual Pass (PAP) within the first 14 days for MYW tickets that do not have the no expiration option on them. They will take the entire price of the ticket you started using and deduct it from the cost of the new ticket. Disney will not allow you to upgrade certain promotional tickets not available to the general public or any partially used ticket purchased prior to the January 2005 introduction of Magic Your Way tickets.

If your MYW ticket has the no expiration option on it, you can upgrade it or add any options (Park Hopper or Water Park Fun & More) at any subsequent time. You are not locked into the 14 day window.

 

[castleri]

allears says you can upgrade a non-expiring ticket any time.

Disney allows you to UPGRADE most park tickets to a longer Magic Your Way ticket, an Annual Pass (AP) or a Premium Annual Pass (PAP) within the first 14 days for MYW tickets that do not have the no expiration option on them. They will take the entire price of the ticket you started using and deduct it from the cost of the new ticket. Disney will not allow you to upgrade certain promotional tickets not available to the general public or any partially used ticket purchased prior to the January 2005 introduction of Magic Your Way tickets.

If your MYW ticket has the no expiration option on it, you can upgrade it or add any options (Park Hopper or Water Park Fun & More) at any subsequent time. You are not locked into the 14 day window.

I have an unused 7 day PHP from before 2005- i wonder if I can get credit for that towards a 10 day MYW non expiring premium ticket. It does say partially used tickets are not eligible. If not at least we have this one to use in the future. It just doesn't have DQ which is my son's favorite place and the one he uses the plus features for so will have to let some other family member use it instead.

 

[kaitlin-n-mom]

I have a 5 day hopper from 1997 that still has 1 day left on it. Can anyone tell me how much credit I could get (if any) towards an AP. Planning a trip for Jan. 07.

Thanks

 

[KathyTX]

nluvwithmickey-

You're in luck! You can absolutely upgrade your MYW ticket to a 10 day and add the water park option. The price will be the full price of the 10 day PH, no exp, with the water park, LESS the actual amount you alread paid. So you lose nothing. It's a great deal.


castleri-

Sounds like you already have your answer- you can't upgrade or get dollar credit for any partially used older (pre-MYW) tickets. They're good for park admission, but can't be traded in.

kaitlin-n-mom-

Same as above- you won't get any credit on an older, partially used ticket.

 

[kaitlin-n-mom]

Webmasterkathy,

thanks for the quick reply.

 

[Nite0wl71]

I have a 7 day no exp base ticket with 3 days left over from our last vacation. I would like to know if I can add more days (from a 7 to a 10day) and the water park option to this ticket when I return in 10 days.

Is it still doable? I imagine yes if my ticket is no expiry and is only a 7 day base originally.

I know that I will have to pay for the upgrades of a 7 day no exp to a 10 day(days + difference in no exp.)

Thanks!

I bought a 7 day no expy in April 2006, when I went back in August I had 3 days left and wanted to upgrade to a 10 day. I couldn't do it because it was past the 14 days of the first use. This was at guest services at POP.

I thought the same thing because it was no expy I figured I could add days to it.

 

[Cmbar]

We each (DH, ME, DS9, DD7) have three days left on our 7 Day non expiring ticket (with water parks and hopper). Can I take these and add more days to it? Right now only three are left. Can I upgrade to a 10 day (from the original 7) and then have six days left with all the options?? IF so, how do I calculate what that would cost us???


Also, Since DS9 will be ten next time we go, will we have to upgrade hit ticket to an adult??

Thanks for any help or point in the right direction!

 

[Dan Murphy]

Here is great info on upgrades from Deb's site, along with a lot of other ticket info............

http://www.allearsnet.com/pl/ticket.htm#credpass

 

[jultomzach]

We tried to add days to a non-expiring 7 day (that was partially used in Oct.05) in June 06. Adding days to tickets must be done within 14 days of first use-even if the ticket is non-expiring. We were told this by SEVERAL CMS - including guest services in DDT, our resort, Magic Kingdom and Epcot.
I had also emailed Disney before our arrival and got the same response.
We could add hopper and/or the water park feature but not the additional park days.
If you want to apply the unused value of your old ticket towards a new ticket, you receive "credit" from the unused park days left on your ticket(unused water parks, Pleasure Island are not worth any credit towards a new ticket) This credit is based on cost of what you paid for the ticket. (If you paid $200 for 5 days - each park day left on the ticket is worth $40)

 

[CleveRocks]

Here's why you can't just constantly add days to a non-expiring (NE) pass ....

Let's say the last time you were at WDW you bought a 10-day NE pass but used only 7 of the days -- you have 3 days left.

Now let's say you're heading back to WDW and will be going to parks for 7 days. If you COULD just upgrade those passes and add 4 days, the difference between the 3 days you already have left ($192 + $15 for NE option) and the 4 days you'd want to add ($202 +$40 for NE option) would be only $35. If you had to buy a new 4-day ticket, that would cost you $202.

The way I understand it, the days you initally buy never expire. But a non-expiring ticket doesn't mean that you can keep adding days to it in perpetuity. Disney's relatively new price structure for multi-day passes makes it only a few dollars more per day after 3 days. If you could just keep adding days to non-expiring passes, Disney would never again have to sell APs because people could just keep adding days at about $2 per day.

 

[kenban]

Here's why you can't just constantly add days to a non-expiring (NE) pass ....

Let's say the last time you were at WDW you bought a 10-day NE pass but used only 7 of the days -- you have 3 days left.

Now let's say you're heading back to WDW and will be going to parks for 7 days. If you COULD just upgrade those passes and add 4 days, the difference between the 3 days you already have left ($192 + $15 for NE option) and the 4 days you'd want to add ($202 +$40 for NE option) would be only $35. If you had to buy a new 4-day ticket, that would cost you $202.

The way I understand it, the days you initally buy never expire. But a non-expiring ticket doesn't mean that you can keep adding days to it in perpetuity. Disney's relatively new price structure for multi-day passes makes it only a few dollars more per day after 3 days. If you could just keep adding days to non-expiring passes, Disney would never again have to sell APs because people could just keep adding days at about $2 per day.

Except unless I missed it thats not what anyone here is tying to do. They are trying to upgrade a ticket shorter then 10 days to a 10 day ticket. In the example of the person who started this thread he purchased a 7 day no expire ticket that still has days left on it that he now wants to upgrade to a 10 day ticket. Which if this had been done during the 14 day period after the first use would have been allowed. The question was if someone could still do the upgrade outside this 14 day window because it is a no expire.

There is no ticket options for US visitors longer then 10 days except the Annual pass. In your example your trying to upgrade from a 10 day pass to a 14 day pass which does not exist (except to overseas visitors and I think they must be purchased in their home country). Even though some of the days have been used you must always upgrade to a better ticket which if you already have a 10 day ticket there is nothing better.