Old Parkhoppers - options only

[Harambe]

I have four old park hoppers with 4 options left on each. I plan to use these in August to go to BB and TL. What do I have to do, if anything, to use them now that the new ticket system is in place? I also have to upgrade DS's from child to adult. Any ideas?

 

[safetymom]

They should be able to take them at the water parks with no problems. You would have to have DS with you when you go to upgrade. Since you only have the plusses left not sure what they would upgrade.

 

[dcmbshafe]

I think you should be able to simply give your passes to the CM at the entrance to use them - I don't think you have to convert them to a different media.

The child upgrade question is a little trickier. According to allearsnet.com, if your child has just made the change from child to adult (i.e. is only 11 or 12), you do not have to upgrade your passes at all. If the child is now a teenager or older, you'll have to go to GR and exchange the child passes for adult passes. Apparently, there is no extra charge.

One note - the piece on allearsnet specifically talks about park passes, so I don't know whether there are any other issues associated with "pluses" since Disney doesn't attribute any dollar value to these under the old ticket system.

 

[Colorado Belle]

I just rounded up all my old 'paper' parkhoppers from long ago (before the magnetic strip versions) and took them to Guest Services Window (where you get APs and such) and they 'converted them' to regular ones. I don't think the 'extra' water park stuff got 'transferred' tho...and I was in too much of a rush to ask, so I probably lost out of a little value.

As for the child to adult 'upgrade'...I think it is wonderful that they don't charge the adult price to do this. I guess I was just sort of P/A about it long ago when my 'child' became an 'adult'....She used up the child passes and I figured that if a gate person wanted to question her age, I would tell the truth, but that it felt 'ok' to just use the old ones up...though I would have drawn the line at buying a new 'child' one for an older child. I think that the 9 year old distinction just never made sense to me...so I rationalized that an 11 year old using a child's pass was still just a child. Ah...ethics!!!!

Anyway...just take them to guest services at any of the parks and they will fix you right up.

Colorado Belle

 

[GoldenOldie]

I just rounded up all my old 'paper' parkhoppers from long ago (before the magnetic strip versions) and took them to Guest Services Window (where you get APs and such) and they 'converted them' to regular ones. I don't think the 'extra' water park stuff got 'transferred' tho...and I was in too much of a rush to ask, so I probably lost out of a little value...

You probably didn't lose anything. The tickets from the pre-magnetic strip days (which was pre-1996) were the Super Duper Pass and the World Hopper Passport. Both of those allowed unlimited entry into the water parks for 7 days after first use. Unless the tickets you converted included a brand new, unused one of either of those, you would have lost nothing.

Obscure info: The All-In-One's didn't start being sold until 1997. The PHP's that we all came to know and love didn't start being sold until 1999.

 

[Harambe]

Thanks guys! DS will only be 10, so he's just become an "adult" in WDW eyes. I'm glad that I can just bring these to the water parks and use them!