Expiring ticket question

[K9pal]

This is probably a stupid question, but if you have several days of an expiring ticket left at the end of your trip, can they be used for anything? Credit towards purchase of new tickets perhaps? Or are they just lost? TIA!

 

[SnackyStacky]

You can upgrade the ticket within 14 days of the first use of the ticket.

After that, the ticket is worthless.

 

[K9pal]

So I can upgrade a current ticket, but not use remaining days towards purchase of future tickets? Specifically, we need 5 day expiring tickets but right now they are buy 4 days, get 3 days free (Undercover Tourist). So do we lose the 2 days we'd have left?
We've always bought non-expiring, but we're taking family and need to buy tickets for them.

P.S. Your daughter is just beautiful!

 

[Cheshire Figment]

You can upgrade any MYW ticket within 14 days of first use. Following discussion involves current gate prices of adult tickets only and no tax. Note that if you bought at anything less than current gate price, if you did an upgrade Disney would internally absorb the difference between the actual selling price of the original ticket and the current gate price of the original ticket, so all you would have to pay for is the additional days and/or options you are purchasing.

UT is charging you for 4 days and giving you 3 free, so effectively they are selling you a 7 day ticket which is worth $210 as a base ticket (one park per day). If it is a hopper it is worth $45 more; if it has WPF&M it is worth $50 more, and if it has both options it is worth $95 more.

The current gate price for a 5 day base ticket is $206, so having used 5 days of a 7 day ticket your "trade-in" value toward a new ticket is $4.00.

What you might consider is paying $161 more to convert the ticket to a ten day No Expire. This will effectively give you a new 5 day ticket for that amount. And if you have either the hopper or WPF&M options they will carry over.

Disney Math is fun, isn't it? (And don't forget to add 6.5% tax to all numbers.)