How easy is it to get an unused day of a ticket moved to a new date?

[FSU Girl]

My parents had the Florida resident 4 day ticket. They used 3 of the days and have one day they didn’t use. My understanding is the unused day you can apply towards a new ticket and you just pay the difference? Is this easy to do? Do they just call customer service and tell them the new date they want it for?

 

[mom2rtk]

They can't do that if the ticket has been used. Tickets are only good for a very short range of dates.

 

[FSU Girl]

They can't do that if the ticket has been used. Tickets are only good for a very short range of dates.

Are you sure? I thought if one day isn’t used they can use the money towards a new ticket? They just lose the money?

 

[dizneegirl]

New tickets expire if part of them are used. Unused days are just gone.

Way back when, there were non-expiring tickets, and you could save unused days for future use.

 

[FSU Girl]

New tickets expire if part of them are used. Unused days are just gone.

Way back when, there were non-expiring tickets, and you could save unused days for future use.

But I thought you can use the money towards a new ticket not just keeping the unused day

 

[Brett Wyman]

But I thought you can use the money towards a new ticket not just keeping the unused day

Nope. Not if its a 4 day ticket. If you have 4 individual tickets then yes.

 

[SirDuff]

UNUSED expired tickets can be used the way you suggest (money put towards a new ticket) but not if any of the days were used.

 

[DCLCruiseFan09]

My parents had the Florida resident 4 day ticket. They used 3 of the days and have one day they didn’t use. My understanding is the unused day you can apply towards a new ticket and you just pay the difference? Is this easy to do? Do they just call customer service and tell them the new date they want it for?

There is a 3 day FL res ticket usually, not sure why they didn't look for that? Typically with the savings offered for FL resident tickets, there is no way to roll over any "money" as the tickets are usually significantly discounted from an original 4 day ticket price already. Disney tickets are now all "use it or lose it" with the non-expiring option a thing of the past sadly.

Now, if there is still time left on their usage period for the ticket, they could look to make a reservation and use the day in the future. The ticket rules vary based on the sale. Sometimes its "all days must be used within a 14 day period" sometimes its "Come any days in this 6 months minus blockouts for holidays". It really does vary based on what kind of FL resident ticket they purchased.

 

[FSU Girl]

Ugh I swear you used to be able to do this with a partial ticket?

 

[FSU Girl]

There is a 3 day FL res ticket usually, not sure why they didn't look for that? Typically with the savings offered for FL resident tickets, there is no way to roll over any "money" as the tickets are usually significantly discounted from an original 4 day ticket price already. Disney tickets are now all "use it or lose it" with the non-expiring option a thing of the past sadly.

Now, if there is still time left on their usage period for the ticket, they could look to make a reservation and use the day in the future. The ticket rules vary based on the sale. Sometimes its "all days must be used within a 14 day period" sometimes its "Come any days in this 6 months minus blockouts for holidays". It really does vary based on what kind of FL resident ticket they purchased.

They bought the 4 day Florida resident ticket it used to be 6 months but I think this was only good for a week

 

[SteveMouse]

Both last (2022) year and this (2023) year there is a Florida Resident ticket that can be used over a period longer than a “normal” Disney ticket. I don’t recall a time period where there was any value to an expired ticket. You had up until the last day the media was valid to add to a ticket as long as there were not already 10 days purchased, but those additional days were consecutive. When non-expiring tickets were available, you could add the NE option and/or add days, up to the 10 day max.

The 2023 Florida Resident ticket info is available at https://wdwnews.com/releases/walt-d...s-to-save-in-2023-with-2-day-tickets-for-175/

 

[scrappinginontario]

Both last (2022) year and this (2023) year there is a Florida Resident ticket that can be used over a period longer than a “normal” Disney ticket. I don’t recall a time period where there was any value to an expired ticket. You had up until the last day the media was valid to add to a ticket as long as there were not already 10 days purchased, but those additional days were consecutive. When non-expiring tickets were available, you could add the NE option and/or add days, up to the 10 day max.

The 2023 Florida Resident ticket info is available at https://wdwnews.com/releases/walt-d...s-to-save-in-2023-with-2-day-tickets-for-175/

Based on this link, if it is a 2023 FL Resident ticket they purchased, it appears they have until April 27, 2023 to use the 4 days of the ticket. After that, any unused days are lost and not work any monetary compensation.

 

[lanejudy]

My parents had the Florida resident 4 day ticket. They used 3 of the days and have one day they didn’t use. My understanding is the unused day you can apply towards a new ticket and you just pay the difference? Is this easy to do? Do they just call customer service and tell them the new date they want it for?

What kind of ticket did they have? If it was a special FL Resident 4-Day that may have a different expiration than a standard 4-day theme park ticket. I think there may be a couple of different "FL Resident" ticket options -- there's a short term "Magic" ticket which is only valid for Jan-Apr 2023 and possibly another that may be more of the typical 6-month validity has a regular use-window. **ETA that maybe an old offer with a 6-month validity; it looks like the 2023 FL Resident tickets are discounted but have a similar expiration as standard tickets.

That said, I don't know that they can add more days to a partially-used ticket more than 14-days after first use. And if they are still within that upgrade window, upgrading a special ticket to a regular ticket would essentially lose the discount (unless there is a longer-length special ticket but I think FL Resident has typically been 3-day and 4-day only). It's usually best to simply carry forward the remaining day to be used before the stated expiration date. If unused by then, yes it will be lost.

 

[FSU Girl]

Thanks everyone. I could have sworn this was a thing. Oh well

 

[FSU Girl]

Based on this link, if it is a 2023 FL Resident ticket they purchased, it appears they have until April 27, 2023 to use the 4 days of the ticket. After that, any unused days are lost and not work any monetary compensation.

Unfortunately they got one that expires in 2 days I logged into their account to check

 

[JodyK]

There are probably better ticket experts than me here but... they could possibly upgrade it to a Pixie Dust annual pass if they wanted to and apply the value. I think they have to have not used the tickets on a weekend day to be eligible but maybe experts can weigh in.

 

[HopperFan]

What kind of ticket did they have? If it was a special FL Resident 4-Day that may have a different expiration than a standard 4-day theme park ticket. I think there may be a couple of different "FL Resident" ticket options -- there's a short term "Magic" ticket which is only valid for Jan-Apr 2023 and possibly another that may be more of the typical 6-month validity has a regular use-window. **ETA that maybe an old offer with a 6-month validity; it looks like the 2023 FL Resident tickets are discounted but have a similar expiration as standard tickets.

That said, I don't know that they can add more days to a partially-used ticket more than 14-days after first use. And if they are still within that upgrade window, upgrading a special ticket to a regular ticket would essentially lose the discount (unless there is a longer-length special ticket but I think FL Resident has typically been 3-day and 4-day only). It's usually best to simply carry forward the remaining day to be used before the stated expiration date. If unused by then, yes it will be lost.

Yes.

Right now I can get ...

"Florida Resident Disney WEEKDAY Magic Ticket" 2, 3 or 4 day and it has flexibility. Different versions of this pop up every now and then and likely what OP was thinking of.

OR

"Florida Resident Ticket" 1, 3, or 4 day and it has no flexibility. Sounds like they have this one.

 

[MickeyMice]

i was able to do this - but only because our partially used tickets were interrupted by hurricane nicole and extended by almost a year. ticketing applied the value of the outstanding days to a new ticket purchase, but it was clear that this was an override because of the hurricane interruption.