child park hopper ticket upgrade?

[Disney_dreamer]

A friend of mine will be visiting Disney in a couple of weeks. They plan to use the remaining days on some park hopper tickets purchased about 4 years ago. One of their children is now 11. My friend called the Disney store about this, and they told her to come in and pay to upgrade the child ticket to an adult ticket.

Is this necessary? I swear I have read on these boards that a child's park hopper ticket is always valid for that child, even once they would need an adult ticket.

Anybody out there know about this or have any recent experience bringing in an "adult" child on their old 3-9 year old ticket?

Help please! Thanks.

 

[Robo]

One of their children is now 11. My friend called the Disney store about this, and they told her to come in and pay to upgrade the child ticket to an adult ticket.

Do not do this.

Just use the ticket at WDW.

There should be no problem with using it for a now "adult" child.

And even on the off-chance that there IS, it won't cost any more to upgrade it at WDW.

 

[Samsma]

I had some leftover tickets once for my DS who was 9 when we bought, but 10 when we used the remaining days. We just used them like normal. I was told that Disney wouldn't charge you to upgrade from a child to adult so I didn't bother since he wasn't noticeably over age.

 

[knebel22@frontiernet]

Same thing happened to me a few years ago. The Disney store told me that I would have to pay for the upgrade. When we got to DW the ticket was upgraded for free with no questions asked. I was willing to pay but Disney was great about it.