Need Ticket Help

[MapleGirl]

Hello,
Where is the cheapest place to buy a 5-day hopper pass? With the mousesaver code I can get it from undercovertourist.com for $398.32. Is this the best deal?

Once in WDW I might upgrade to a DVC Gold AP. We're not sure if we're going to go again within the coming year but I suspect we will. If I buy my ticket online today then upgrade it to an AP in April when I am there, will the AP expire 2/11/18 or the day I first use my 5-day pass in April?

Kenny the Pirate also posted something interesting but it seems too good to be true. Has anyone heard about this?

"All tickets purchased from February 12, 2017 onward will expire December 31, 2018 with an odd exception being added. If you purchase a 3 to 10 day ticket and have an unused portion, you’ll be able to add on to that ticket.

Example: You have 2 days remaining on a multi-day ticket purchase. Those 2 days usually expire 14 days from first use. With this new option, you can bring your expired ticket with two days remaining on another trip and purchase a ticket of greater value for only the difference in the ticket cost.

So, you’d take the 2 days remaining ticket to the ticket booth on a later trip and then pay the difference to upgrade the ticket to a 3 days or longer ticket.

This seems like a pretty obvious way to hold value for future trips. You purchase a 10 day ticket and use 5 days. Bring the 5 days remaining to the ticket booth next trip and add 5 more days to create another 10 day ticket for less than the cost of a usual 5 day ticket.

Currently, you’d pay $400 for the 10 day ticket, then use 5 days. Return for a later trip and add 5 more days for only $60.

I hope I understood and communicated that message correctly. If not, I’ll update the post as necessary."

 

[Cyberc1978]

Hi

Parksavers.com have 7 days for 419 including hopper or 5 days for 410$ including hopper and WP.

I haven't heard of the new ticket tiers but sounds exciting with the new option to save the remaining days for future visits.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Hello,
Where is the cheapest place to buy a 5-day hopper pass? With the mousesaver code I can get it from undercovertourist.com for $398.32. Is this the best deal?

Once in WDW I might upgrade to a DVC Gold AP. We're not sure if we're going to go again within the coming year but I suspect we will. If I buy my ticket online today then upgrade it to an AP in April when I am there, will the AP expire 2/11/18 or the day I first use my 5-day pass in April?

Kenny the Pirate also posted something interesting but it seems too good to be true. Has anyone heard about this?

"All tickets purchased from February 12, 2017 onward will expire December 31, 2018 with an odd exception being added. If you purchase a 3 to 10 day ticket and have an unused portion, you’ll be able to add on to that ticket.

Example: You have 2 days remaining on a multi-day ticket purchase. Those 2 days usually expire 14 days from first use. With this new option, you can bring your expired ticket with two days remaining on another trip and purchase a ticket of greater value for only the difference in the ticket cost.

So, you’d take the 2 days remaining ticket to the ticket booth on a later trip and then pay the difference to upgrade the ticket to a 3 days or longer ticket.

This seems like a pretty obvious way to hold value for future trips. You purchase a 10 day ticket and use 5 days. Bring the 5 days remaining to the ticket booth next trip and add 5 more days to create another 10 day ticket for less than the cost of a usual 5 day ticket.

Currently, you’d pay $400 for the 10 day ticket, then use 5 days. Return for a later trip and add 5 more days for only $60.

I hope I understood and communicated that message correctly. If not, I’ll update the post as necessary."

A WDW ticket CM posted after Kenny's post that there was a lot wrong with the info but they aren't allowed to talk about anything until tomorrow. The keep days and add to them seems very unlikely.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Hello,
Where is the cheapest place to buy a 5-day hopper pass? With the mousesaver code I can get it from undercovertourist.com for $398.32. Is this the best deal?

Once in WDW I might upgrade to a DVC Gold AP. We're not sure if we're going to go again within the coming year but I suspect we will. If I buy my ticket online today then upgrade it to an AP in April when I am there, will the AP expire 2/11/18 or the day I first use my 5-day pass in April?

Also, the Gold AP would backdate for an expiration to the date that you first use the ticket, not the day that you purchased the ticket unless you also used it on that day.

You could benefit by deciding if you will upgrade because then you can purchase whatever ticket has the greatest discount over the gate entry price. On Undercover tourist the 4 day Hopper plus 3 days free for $418 has a $49 savings or the 5 Day Hopper with water parks and more has a $52 discount over gate price (you just couldn't use the water parks option prior to the upgrade to a gold pass or else the pass with water parks would be the only possible upgrade). The 5 day Hopper only has a $37 savings which is nice, but if you're upgrading go with the largest savings.

 

[Brian Noble]

Kenny the Pirate also posted something interesting but it seems too good to be true.

Too good to be true is an understatement. It seems very very unlikely that Disney is now going to offer a steep discount to infrequent, short-stay guests---precisely the set of people they targeted by dropping the no-expire option.

If this comes to pass, I will eat my mouse ears.

 

[Disneyaddict16]

Question, I currently have hotel only reservations. If I purchase and link my tickets in MDE do I still have to bring my receipt to the park enterance or can I scan my magic band and go right into the park. Sorry this is the first time my tickets were not part of a package.

Thanks!

 

[BillPA]

I believe ONLY the unused days, cost per day can be applied to new tickets. So your $400 10 day with 5 left will get you $200 towards a new ticket. At least that the way I understand it based on posts on several site and that is basically how Disneyland does it.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

I believe ONLY the unused days, cost per day can be applied to new tickets. So your $400 10 day with 5 left will get you $200 towards a new ticket. At least that the way I understand it based on posts on several site and that is basically how Disneyland does it.

You must mean within the first 14 days after use? Kenny seemed to be implying bring it back anytime.

 

[BillPA]

Sorry, I miss read the post. It applies to the new "all tickets have an expiration" date.


Some interesting changes are coming to Walt Disney World’s tickets – for the first time, they’re going to offer a discount for buying in advance from Disney, similar to the discount Universal Orlando has offered for years. In practice, this means that the prices at the gate are being raised an additional $20, and then you get a $20 “discount” for buying in advance. Really, you should think of it as a $20 penalty for arriving at the park without tickets. Undercover Tourist has assured us that going forward their prices for Walt Disney World tickets will be lower than Disney’s advance-purchase prices.

Another big change is that Walt Disney World tickets will all have expiration dates, including multi-day tickets. At this point we don’t know what the expiration timeframe will be, but this is a change we’ve assumed was coming for a long time. Disneyland tickets have had expiration dates for many, many years. We expect that if an unused Walt Disney World ticket expires, it will no longer be good for park admission, but it will still be worth what you paid for it in exchange for new tickets. That’s the policy at Disneyland and it’s hard to imagine they would handle it differently at Walt Disney World.

 

[MichelleB]

Example: You have 2 days remaining on a multi-day ticket purchase. Those 2 days usually expire 14 days from first use. With this new option, you can bring your expired ticket with two days remaining on another trip and purchase a ticket of greater value for only the difference in the ticket cost.

So, you’d take the 2 days remaining ticket to the ticket booth on a later trip and then pay the difference to upgrade the ticket to a 3 days or longer ticket.

This seems like a pretty obvious way to hold value for future trips. You purchase a 10 day ticket and use 5 days. Bring the 5 days remaining to the ticket booth next trip and add 5 more days to create another 10 day ticket for less than the cost of a usual 5 day ticket.

Currently, you’d pay $400 for the 10 day ticket, then use 5 days. Return for a later trip and add 5 more days for only $60.

Did anyone find out if this is correct???

 

[Marionnette]

Kenny the Pirate updated his blog post from the OP's link:

The expiring, yet non-expiring ticket
All tickets purchased from February 12, 2017 onward will expire December 31, 2018 with an odd exception being added.


UPDATE: “All tickets purchased from February 12, 2017 through the end of the year will expire December 31, 2018. Any UNUSED ticket that does expire may be applied toward the purchase of a new ticket of equal or greater value.
There will not be an option to roll over partially USED tickets to future trips. Those tickets will continue to expire completely 14 days after first usage.”
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The operative word here is UNUSED. Once a day has been used, you will have 14 days to use the remaining park days just like before.