Has anyone had an issue using OLD park tickets?

[newageretro]

We all know you should be able use old park admission tickets as long as they have not expired.
Has anyone ever not had a good experience with this?

 

[purple figment]

I think we need more information. How old are the tickets? Unused or partially used? What are you hoping to do with the tickets - use at gate as is or upgrade? On your sig are trips to DLP, DL and WDW so which tickets are you asking about because each park has its own rules. Are you thinking of using old tickets for the 2030 trip?

 

[smzito22]

Not sure when your tickets are from, but a friend of mine had no issue using the last two days of her no expiration ticket from 2011 recently. She was able to add it to MDE account and use her magic band to enter the park.

 

[kimbe21]

I linked partially used MYW tickets from 2005ish? and had no problems using them earlier this year. I also have a 4 day PH plus the water parks tickets from years ago and had not problem linking it either.
I wasn't sure how many days I had on each ticket so I had to take a picture of the front & back and email it, along with my drivers license, to Disney ticket verification and I received an email within about 3 days that told me how many days were available on each ticket.

 

[amjrsj]

Interesting thread, I am going in January with my Mom. She has a ticket with 3 days left on it from 1995 (it was a cast member discounted ticket) and my dad has one as well for the same. However my Dad will never go back to Disney. I had hoped to transfer his existing days but I have done enough research to conclude it is just safer to buy a ticket myself. I do need to email Disney and verify hers for her before we go though. Do they link them to your name even as far back as 1995? All I saw was that she signed it and they stamped it as used on one of the 4 days when she did use it back then. I don't know if they scanned it and linked it to her name or not...

 

[clarkgriswold]

Within the past 18 months I've transferred a variety of old non-expiring tix to our Magic Bands. Did it all nine w/ exception of "Be Our Guest" passes from circa 1993, I think, that req'd a phone call.

 

[bigtony777]

Can you use them one day at a time once they are added to your account? We have several non-expiring water park visits from some old tickets.

 

[Govols1997]

We were there last month. Had tix from dh's childhood (1987) that had a few days left on each. They turned them into park hoppers for each day left on each paper ticket. Wish I knew how to do a picture here and I'd share.

 

[HannaBelle]

For those of you that linked tickets, did you just use those days or upgrade them to add days?

DH, DS, DD and I all have an unused 1 day ticket from 2009. We bought it to use the dining plan.

My plan was to use those tickets on our 1st day to enter the parks and then upgrade them to add additional days for the rest of our trip.

It was my understanding that you had to use the ticket to enter the park 1st to receive credit equal to the current value of a one day park ticket and then pay the difference between the 1 day ticket price and the cost of the ticket you want to purchase.

Can someone post the email addreess we need to contact?

TIA!

 

[seashoreCM]

One catch-22. If you plan to upgrade the ticket in the park, you will not be able to make fastpass reservations in advance for more than the original number of days.

If you trade in the ticket towards a ticket with more day over the phone in advance, and then make your FP reservations more quickly for the new number of days, you would not get today's selling price for the ticket towards the trade in.

More days cannot be added to pre-2005 tickets.

I forget which year they introduced finger scans but if your old ticket is from the finger scan era then it will still have finger scan data associated with it.

When you call to link a ticket with your Magic Band, they may or may not ask for verification information but you do not have to volunteer any of that. If you don't remember then just say so. The CM on the phone may or may not ask you to find the information he was asking for and call back.

... my Dad will never go back to Disney. I had hoped to transfer his existing days ...

No tickets, after any usage, may be transferred to another person for continued usage except if the original guest has passed on and you follow Disney's procedures which involve the death certificate.