Park hopper to MYW ticket conversion

[soupy11]

Hi all, just six days and a bit to go....

I wanted to get some information on transforming older park hopper passes into the new MYW tickets.

I have 2 7 day park hopper plus tickets that have 4 days and 3 plusses left. I would like to trade them in to get 5 days park hopper with 3 plusses. It is ok if they expire. Does anyone have an idea on what the cost breakdown would be? Thanks.

 

[SnackyStacky]

Hi all, just six days and a bit to go....

I wanted to get some information on transforming older park hopper passes into the new MYW tickets.

I have 2 7 day park hopper plus tickets that have 4 days and 3 plusses left. I would like to trade them in to get 5 days park hopper with 3 plusses. It is ok if they expire. Does anyone have an idea on what the cost breakdown would be? Thanks.

Because you have a 7 day partially used ticket, your new ticket will need to have 7 days or more on your Magic Your Way ticket.

Because you used one of your plusses, you will have to get the Magic Plus Pack.

If it has been more than 14 days since you last used that ticket (which I assume it has been) you will have to put non-expiration on the ticket.

If you visited multiple parks on the same day with your 7 day ticket you will also have to put park-hopping on your new ticket.

Your 7 day pass, if it was purchased in 2004 will be worth about $209. (They will credit you the gate price of $365, divide that by 7, then multiply it by 4 - the number of days remaining). You then will need to purchase a new ticket at gate price. Assuming you have to get all those options, your total for a 7 day premium, non-expiring ticket would be $355.71. Subtract your $209 credit, and you're looking at an out-of-pocket expense of about $147.

You have countless other options, but you asked for a breakdown of exchanging the pass for Magic Your Way, so that's what I gave you. Hope that helped!

 

[seashoreCM]

You say you wanted a 5 day pass but as was explained, trading requires ending up with a 7 day pass. This means having 2 days left over. (You also end up with 2 more plusses than you had on the old pass)

Since your trade up outlay was $147 per person for three more days, the cost per day is $49. so you will have two leftover days that cost you $49. each.

Something to be aware of: It is difficult to use up two leftover days during a longer vacation and get good bang for the buck.

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One of the countless alternatives.

Trade up to a ten day pass rather than a seven day pass. The outlay is $206. rather than $147, or $41. per day including the day you used now. You will have five days left over rather than two. For many folks this perhaps together with Universal Studios will be enough for a complete second vacation further in the future without the need for another trade up.

Another alternative.

If you can confine your theme park activities to four days and use the plusses for the remaining day of your vacation, you don't have to do any trade up and your outlay is zero dollars. (Requires separate admission of $35. if you want to go to Disney Quest, or is even less flexible if your vacation was really 6 days and you already planned one of them as plus-only.)

Another alternative, I don't like this one.

Use the old pass as-is and buy a new one day pass for the last day. Outlay is a minimum of $64. No park days are left over. But notice that the cost of the fifth theme park day is $64 non-hopping, not $47 with hopping. Also does not include Disney Quest.

Hint: If you use more of the plusses on the old pass before trading, you do not diminish the trade up value.

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

 

[NancyIL]

Instead of spending $294 ($147 x 2) to upgrade to two 7-day premium non-expiring tickets, I'd have one person use both old tickets as is, and buy what you need for the other person. You have 8 days and 6 plusses from the two old PHP's that never expire. Buy a 5-day premium expiring ticket for the 2nd person ($290.75 gate price/$283.29 in advance/less from discounters)- although additional days are only ~ $3 more per day. Or better yet, buy the 10-day premium ticket that doesn't expire from www.undercovertourist.com for $362!! (If you subscribe to the Mousesavers newsletter, the link from there to Ticketmania has a slightly lower price.)