Can I add days to tickets not bought from Disney?

[nikki&petey]

If we buy our tickets from Parksavers can we add on an extra day to our tickets when we get to Disneyland?

 

[longtimedisneylurker]

You probably can add days, but usually when you add days to DL tickets bought on discount, you lose the benefit of any discount received because you are charged the full difference between gate price and what you actually paid for the ticket.

 

[disneychrista]

Tickets can have days added up to a total of 5 days. In general though, you will pay the difference between what you paid and what the current price of the ticket you are upgrading to.

 

[kathy040690]

Is buying from park savers legit. Is what that was supposed to say. The sun was in my eyes when I typed that and I have no idea how to edit

 

[DLfan4]

if you buy a 3 day parkhopper from a 3rd party, you can upgrade it to a 4 day parkhopper at disneyland. You would only need to pay the difference between what Disneyland charges for a 3 day parkhopper and what disneyland charges for a 4 day parkhopper.

 

[disneychrista]

if you buy a 3 day parkhopper from a 3rd party, you can upgrade it to a 4 day parkhopper at disneyland. You would only need to pay the difference between what Disneyland charges for a 3 day parkhopper and what disneyland charges for a 4 day parkhopper.

This is not necessarily true. In most cases they make you pay the difference between what you paid and the current price. Not only the difference between what they charge for the two different passes.

 

[Kindermouse]

So here's what I did. I bought a 3 day hopper from getaway today. It was a discounted ticket. When I went to upgrade it to An AP I paid the difference of the value of the ticket and the cost of the AP. So my cost was more to upgrade than it would have been with a non discounted ticket but upgrading was totally fine. Did that make sense. They had no qualms about taking more money from me and upgrading the ticket but the cost to upgrade was more becuase the value of the ticket was less.

 

[JCornell]

This is not necessarily true. In most cases they make you pay the difference between what you paid and the current price. Not only the difference between what they charge for the two different passes.

If that's true then you're saying anytime you upgrade, you are effectively paying the gate price, and removing any advantage you had to buying a discounted ticket. Is this correct?
I'm more familiar with WDW and there they always take the difference between the value of your ticket (gate price) not what you paid for it.

 

[SMD]

If that's true then you're saying anytime you upgrade, you are effectively paying the gate price, and removing any advantage you had to buying a discounted ticket. Is this correct?
I'm more familiar with WDW and there they always take the difference between the value of your ticket (gate price) not what you paid for it.

Correct. DLR does not bridge ticket prices. There have been cases where a retailer may have sold a ticket for less than the gate price, and you get the gate price, for example, a deal Costco had several years ago the tickets had an upgrade value $15 higher than the price paid, but those are the expect ions, not the rule. The most common advice here on this is to expect to pay the gate price and any discount is pixie dust.

Also, tickets are not protected from price increases if you upgrade. So if you buy a 3 day hopper in June that expires Dec 31st, and then DLR raises ticket prices in Oct, if you tried to upgrade to a 4 day ticket or an AP in Nov you'd also end up paying the then current gate price.

 

[disneychrista]

If that's true then you're saying anytime you upgrade, you are effectively paying the gate price, and removing any advantage you had to buying a discounted ticket. Is this correct?

Yes this is correct. There is no advantage to buying at a discount if you plan to upgrade.

 

[DLfan4]

how do they know how much you paid if you purchased a discounted ticket from a 3rd party?

 

[Kindermouse]

When I upgraded my ticket in march the lady scanned my ticket and told me the value of it. I had bought a discount ticket as part of a package from getawaytoday.com and she could see that it was a discounted ticket right away. I'm guessing Disney sells them to the third party ticket sales people at a discount and their value is coded onto the ticket.

Since I didn't think about the ticket being discounted when I went to upgrade to an AP I was surprised that the cost to upgrade was more than I had thought, the lady showed me that my tickets value was less than the regular cost of the ticket at gate price and she asked if I got it with a discount package because that is what it showed in her computer. I said yes, and it dawned on me why my package price was so good. We had save about 40 per person on our tickets. That discount disappeared when I upgraded but I can't really complain when you think about it since my AP is already a bigs savings over 2 trips with 2 sets of 4+ day park hoppers and since I have them I'm thinking of squeezing in a 3rd trip this year before it expires.