Help with Absurdly Complicated Ticket Questions!

[poohbear999]

I would love some help from the Disney experts!

We are going to Disney soon, and we have three adult park hopper passes of two days each (found some old paper tickets from 20 years ago, and we turned them into regular passes the last time we were there). The passes are not currently linked to our names, but we can link it online.

We are going to the park for four days total. The first two days we will not need the park hopper option, but we plan to park hop the third and fourth day. Questions:

1. What is the most economical way to handle tickets? Do we simply add two days to our existing tickets? Or do we buy a two day non park hopper ticket, use those on day one and two, and then link our two day park hopper pass after we leave the park on the second day?

2. How do we handle park hopper options? Will we have park hopper for all four days if we add just days to our existing tickets? Or just park hopper for two days? I don't want to pay for extra park hopping if we only need it for two days.

3. Another wrinkle: one of our group is a child, and the existing passes are for adults. Can we add a two day child ticket to the existing two day pass? Will that work?

4. Are there other considerations we need to think about, such as reserving advance fastpasses?

Whew, thanks for your help!

 

[Robo]

If the tickets that you currently have are "partially used" from a previous trip,
you cannot add days (or other upgrades) to them.

A child needs a "child's ticket" for all days of the trip.

If you have all of the ticket days that you need purchased in advance, you can make
FP+ reservations for all of those days in advance.

 

[Raenstoirm]

Did you use any part of the old tickets (20 years ago)? As Robo said, that changes the advice we can give. If they were purchased 2 day tickets in the past there is one solution, but if they were originally 5 day tickets and you used 3 of the days that changes things.

 

[hiroMYhero]

Because your very old tickets were converted to two-day park hoppers and they aren't linked to anyone in MDE, you'll be able to link them to whoever you want.

Research the pricing if you:
- link two of the two-day park hoppers to one person.
- link one two-day park hopper to the second adult and add on two more days to that ticket when you reach the park.
- buy a child's 4-day PH ticket.

You'd be able to book 4 days of FPs for one adult and the child and 2 days of FPs for the 2nd adult; you then will be able to Copy FPs to the second adult once the additional two days of ticket entitlements are added on when in the park.

 

[poohbear999]

Thanks, everyone! Yes, the old tickets were partially used, so it looks like we will have to buy two-day non park hopper tickets to use first, and then use the old park hopper passes on days 3 and 4. Makes sense now.

 

[hiroMYhero]

Thanks, everyone! Yes, the old tickets were partially used, so it looks like we will have to buy two-day non park hopper tickets to use first, and then use the old park hopper passes on days 3 and 4. Makes sense now.

If the regular two-day parkhoppers that you were given do not have names and are not linked to anyone in an MDE account, you can link them to whoever you want and just pay an upgrade price.

The value of each ticket can be applied to an upgrade. Even the value of the adult 2-day ticket can be applied towards a 4-day child ticket.

Buying new two day non-hopping tickets is the most expensive way to visit the parks.

 

[siskaren]

If the regular two-day parkhoppers that you were given do not have names and are not linked to anyone in an MDE account, you can link them to whoever you want and just pay an upgrade price.

The two-day parkhoppers the OP has are partially used though, and you can't upgrade partially used tickets past 14 days from the first use.

 

[Accident]

Use your existing tickets for the non-park hopping days. get a 2 day ticket with hoppers for the other two, that should be the lowest cost.

I also recommend you call them and play dumb about your old tickets asking them to let you know the options for what your after on your upcoming trip.

 

[hiroMYhero]

The two-day parkhoppers the OP has are partially used though, and you can't upgrade partially used tickets past 14 days from the first use.

But they were twenty years old and the OP said Disney converted them to regular 2-day parkhoppers. They aren't linked to anyone and biometrics wouldn't be linked to them either.

 

[siskaren]

Use your existing tickets for the non-park hopping days. get a 2 day ticket with hoppers for the other two, that should be the lowest cost.

Actually, the other way around would be cheaper.

 

[Accident]

Actually, the other way around would be cheaper.

oh are the existing hoppers? yes my advice is bad.

 

[TwinPrincessMermaids]

As Robo says, no upgrades or change can be made to non expiration tickets. Any additional days need to be purchased. Technically tickets are supposed to be non transferable, for what its worth.

 

[Raenstoirm]

If the regular two-day parkhoppers that you were given do not have names and are not linked to anyone in an MDE account, you can link them to whoever you want and just pay an upgrade price.

The value of each ticket can be applied to an upgrade. Even the value of the adult 2-day ticket can be applied towards a 4-day child ticket.

Buying new two day non-hopping tickets is the most expensive way to visit the parks.

You can link them to whoever you want, but they cannot be upgraded once used (14 day window). The ticket knows it was once a longer ticket. The simplest option might be to buy a 2 day adult and a 4 day child, but I haven't priced it out to see if that is the cheapest.