Is it best to buy a non-expiration ...

[TreesyB]

before a new year? I noticed between Dec. 2005 and Jan. 2006, that the price of a 2 day pass went up $25. Has anyone noticed these jumps in prices? And does this happen every year? So is it best to buy in December, a non-expiration pass so you save at least on the base price?

 

[JohnnySharp2]

I would consider the non-expiry Magic Your Way tickets , you can spread them out over more than one vacation.

 

[eeyoreiscool]

Generally prices are raised early in the year, so if you wanted to beat the increase then buying in December would be the best chance. Disney does reserve the right to change prices at any time so they may catch on to this after a while.

 

[bicker]

Prices track pretty closely to prices in the broader travel and hospitality industry, except when prices go down -- in that case Disney prices will typically stay the same.

 

[seashoreCM]

Only if the pass, used as-is, will completely cover at least two vacations.

Disney has reverted to generally using the wholesale price and/or your purchase price, rather than the current gate price for what you have, when computing how much you need to pay to add more days, etc.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/dispass.htm

 

[bicker]

Oy... I'm confused. Didn't you say the opposite in a different thread last week?

 

[bicker]

Oy... I'm confused. Didn't you say the opposite in a different thread last week?

Okay, this is the message I was thinking of:

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=11647416&postcount=4

I believe that to add the seventh day (or any other feature) to Magic Your Way tickets it costs the same no matter where you bought the ticket or how much you paid. In other words you pay #3 but not #1 or #2 below.

1. The wholesale versus retail differential
2. The 2005 to 2006 differential (for tickets bought last year)
3. The gate price difference as posted above the ticket window now. About two dollars for the seventh day on an expiring pass.

The above applies only to unused tickets or tickets not used more than 14 days ago. A somewhat less favorable "dollar value trade-up formula" applies otherwise and I think #1 and #2 apply also.

[Emphasis added.]

Okay, so is this it? With never-used tickets, the upgrade price is the difference between how much the ticket you have would now cost and how much the ticket you want now costs. With used tickets, the upgrade price is the difference between how much Disney received for the tickets, and how much the ticket you want now costs.

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Is that it?

But! This message:
http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=11665428&postcount=687
... seems to indicate that they're even doing #1 with never-used tickets.

Still confused.

 

[seashoreCM]

Recent evidence seems to be flooding in that, in response to comments I made in the past, to upgrade:
(a) totally unused tickets, and
(b) tickets used less than 14 days ago,

guests have been charged all of
(1) the wholesale versus retail differential,
(2) the 2005 to 2006 differential for tickets purchased last year
on top of
(3) the gate price of the added features

Hopefully more people would post their experiences, breaking down the dollar grand total per ticket if both child and adult tickets were upgraded. Only this way could someone try to reverse-imagineer Disney's formula.

 

[aviva5675]

We (3) are going in November for 6 days. We have 1 day left from an old pass. I debated getting an AP for the room discounts and getting DDE, and then 2 MYW tickets for DH and DD, non expiring 10 days. My DH and I would use the leftovers soemtime in life, DD growing up and off on her own soon (ok, 4 years, but thats about how often we go). But the finger scan thing tripped me up---I wouldnt (alledgeldy) be able to us my daughters leftover ticket when I go back. I ended up with 3 non expiring 10 day MYW with dining. The cost savings of a 10 day, even with the extra money for non expiring overcomes the idea of paying whatever it will be when we go back later in life. The ticket price will have gone up more by then than paying for 10 days now. I bought in December to save the increase I knew was coming in January. If we could go more than once a year, even doing the- go late one month then back again before the beginning of following same month I would have done AP.

 

[bicker]

Okay, so what you're saying, seashore, is that my confusion is accurate!

 

[mouseplanner]

I'm so confused. I was also planning on buying extra days, non-expiring, for my trip figuring I can use them in the future. I thought tickets were tickets and I could just use my leftovers when I return? Are you all saying that if I have 3 days of tickets leftover (non-expiring) I will have to pay a difference when I go back to WDW in say two years???? Sorry to be ignorant on all this but I'm not clear on how much extra I will have to add. Thanks!

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

I'm so confused. I was also planning on buying extra days, non-expiring, for my trip figuring I can use them in the future. I thought tickets were tickets and I could just use my leftovers when I return? Are you all saying that if I have 3 days of tickets leftover (non-expiring) I will have to pay a difference when I go back to WDW in say two years???? Sorry to be ignorant on all this but I'm not clear on how much extra I will have to add. Thanks!

No, you will not have to pay more in order to use those 3 days that you have leftover. What the other posters were saying is that if you want to upgrade an unused pass or one that was first used less than 14 days ago, it will be calculated differently than was previously reported.

 

[mouseplanner]

Thanks for the clarification. I think I am officially on planning overload (but I love it!)