Anyone out there have experience with OLD ticket + options?

[detroitdad]

We still have some tickets from 2000 and 2003 (when you didn't have to pay extra for non-expiration...sigh) that still have unused "plus" options for water park visits. 2 of the tickets are adult, 2 are child tickets. Clearly, none of my children are considered a child anymore based on Disney ticket requirements.

Here is my question....can they still use the ticket even though they are not younger than 10? I read many many years ago that the ticket never expires regardless of age. I have also read that we would have to pay the difference in price from a current child to adult ticket to use the option.

Does anyone have first hand experience with this?

Thanks!

 

[HM]

We still have some tickets from 2000 and 2003 (when you didn't have to pay extra for non-expiration...sigh) that still have unused "plus" options for water park visits. 2 of the tickets are adult, 2 are child tickets. Clearly, none of my children are considered a child anymore based on Disney ticket requirements.

Here is my question....can they still use the ticket even though they are not younger than 10? I read many many years ago that the ticket never expires regardless of age. I have also read that we would have to pay the difference in price from a current child to adult ticket to use the option.

Does anyone have first hand experience with this?

Thanks!

Yes, we used the water park pluses on the child's ticket two different years after they were no longer under 9 years old. We did not exchange the ticket.

 

[detroitdad]

Yes, we used the water park pluses on the child's ticket two different years after they were no longer under 9 years old. We did not exchange the ticket.

Was this recently?

 

[disney*mom*82]

We were just there earlier this month and we have been using old tickets up for the past few years. Our older two children are teenagers and there was no problem. The tickets did not work at the gate, so they had someone from guest services come get us, they did, took us in there and scanned the tickets, pulled up all the info and put the tickets on a new card. Never once did they say we would have to pay more.

One thing Ive just noticed is that on the WDW website they dont even offer to purchase the no expiration option. Is this gone? We were hoping to buy the full 10 day tickets for each of us our next trip.

 

[parboy]

We were just there earlier this month and we have been using old tickets up for the past few years. Our older two children are teenagers and there was no problem. The tickets did not work at the gate, so they had someone from guest services come get us, they did, took us in there and scanned the tickets, pulled up all the info and put the tickets on a new card. Never once did they say we would have to pay more.

One thing Ive just noticed is that on the WDW website they dont even offer to purchase the no expiration option. Is this gone? We were hoping to buy the full 10 day tickets for each of us our next trip.

The no expire is still available, just not online through disney. If you buy your tickets through disney, just get the 10 day ticket you want then when you get to the park, just pay to upgrade it to no expire there. You can order them from UT already upgraded, which is what I just did via the mousesavers.com discount link.

 

[jmclester]

Is this still the case? UT does not have the "no expire" option on their website now.

 

[MomForFrozenAddicts]

My experience from last October at EPCOT.

The CM by the entry spotted my daughter's old ticket. We were escorted pass the entry and waited for another CM with a handheld scanner machine. The CM switched the old paper ticket to the new ticket. Process took a few minutes. Booked FP+ was working with the new ticket.

As for the non-expiration tickets, Disney has removed the option as of the recent price hike on Feb 2015. You can no longer upgrade your ticket to non-expiration, but the old tickets are still honored.

 

[NEM]

As long as the ticket was used by your children and "started" then they will honor them as adults with no additional charge. If the ticket was new and had not been used at least once, then you would have to pay to upgrade it to an adult ticket

 

[Robo]

The no expire is still available, just not online through disney. If you buy your tickets through disney, just get the 10 day ticket you want then when you get to the park, just pay to upgrade it to no expire there. You can order them from UT already upgraded, which is what I just did via the mousesavers.com discount link.

Sorry, but all of that is now a thing of the past.
As of the last ticket price increase, the Non-Expire ticket has been discontinued (and cannot be added to tickets, either.)

UT (and some other resellers) did have some back-stock of NE tickets, but when those few tickets are all sold (and they all may be, even now,) the availability of NE will be over.

 

[Robo]

As long as the ticket was used by your children and "started" then they will honor them as adults with no additional charge. If the ticket was new and had not been used at least once, then you would have to pay to upgrade it to an adult ticket

Ditto to both points.

 

[parboy]

Sorry, but all of that is now a thing of the past.
As of the last ticket price increase, the Non-Expire ticket has been discontinued (and cannot be added to tickets, either.)

UT (and some other resellers) did have some back-stock of NE tickets, but when those few tickets are all sold (and they all may be, even now,) the availability of NE will be over.

Well that is some horrible news. I enjoyed the savings from buying 10 days and using them up over 3 trips vs having to buy a 3 day ticket each visit.