Need help with ticket converting.

[ashley081500]

I bought a 7 day Park Hopper Plus ticket last year for our trip to WDW. I currently have 3 park days and 3 Plus options left. These tickets also have no expiration date. I have 2 adult and 1 child pass. I am trying to determine their value if I choose to convert them for our trip in May. Also, if I choose to upgrade, do I have to buy the hopper, Plus, and no expiration option or can I just get regular admission tickets?

 

[BostonRob]

I bought a 7 day Park Hopper Plus ticket last year for our trip to WDW. I currently have 3 park days and 3 Plus options left. These tickets also have no expiration date. I have 2 adult and 1 child pass. I am trying to determine their value if I choose to convert them for our trip in May. Also, if I choose to upgrade, do I have to buy the hopper, Plus, and no expiration option or can I just get regular admission tickets?

To learn their value towards an upgrade, just take what you paid, divide by 7, and multiply by 3. That is what they will give you towards an upgrade.

I'm not 100% sure about the other question, but my feeling is no, you don't have to by the options, you could just get regular admission tickets.

As far as the 'plus' options on your old tickets go, I'm pretty sure those won't be factored into your new tickets. Further, I think they expire after a year anyway.

 

[pezpam]

I don't know every detail, but You will only get credit for what the days were worth when you bought them, so a day on the old ticket may well be worth less than a day on the new tickets. The Plus options won't count for anything, though I am not sure they expire. I believe that as long as your original ticket was non-expiring, the Plus options were also non-expiring. Some people have posted that when you trade in old tickets, the new tickets HAVE to have all of the same options as the original.

It may well be more worth it to simply use the tickets as-is and get new tickets to cover any days not covered by the old tickets.

 

[BostonRob]

It may well be more worth it to simply use the tickets as-is and get new tickets to cover any days not covered by the old tickets.

But there's the problem. With the new MYW tickets you have to pay like full price for the first 3 days, but each day after that gets cheaper and cheaper. So, if this guy is going to be there for 7 days or more, he'd probably be better off upgrading. I a lot of it would hinge on whether or not the plusses on the old tickets are still valid.

This is really a lose-lose situation. If you upgrade, you get screwed on the value of your old tickets. If you use your old tickets and buy new ones, you get screwed on the price of the new ones.

 

[seashoreCM]

The only way not to lose-lose is to not use the old tickets now and save them for a future vacation where you need exactly three (or two or one) days.

Nowadays, using the old tickets as-is and buying new ones for the rest of your vacation is usually the worst.

For partly used (pre-2005) hoppers, trading towards new passes requires that the new passes have all the features of the old.

Usually the best deal achievable with trade-ups is towards a 10 day non-expiring pass, although you still end up with extra days for the future.

For hoppers with a small number of plusses, the plusses do not expire either. (For non-ultimate hoppers with unlimited plusses, I think the pre-1998 ones, the plusses expired 7 days from first usage)

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

 

[keishashadow]

We had 4 unused park hoppers that we did not convert because:

a) they're not tied to a biometic scan, anyone can use them in the future, I can see mine being used for other family members on future trips.

b) their "value" will only increase in the future, you've bought tickets for anytime in the future at past rates, WDW raises ticket prices at least on an annual basis.

c) it's much cheaper to buy the MYW tickets for the maximum length of time you can afford (either tie them in to your length of stay or add the no expiration option). Again, you're buying tickets for future vacations today.

 

[eeyore0062]

If your tickets have been used to enter any of the parks or plusses (and you have stated that you went to the parks 4 days and used one Plus) they must include all of the options that were on your ticket originally, so you would have to upgrade to a MYW ticket with at least 7 days, non expiring feature, PH feature and Magic Plus feature.