Park Hopper upgrade to an AP ?

[iuki]

OK, let's try it this way.

Resorts cannot upgrade your tickets to APs. That can be done only at a park or at Downtown Disney. You want to use your ticket at a park before you upgrade so that you get the highest credit for it.

You have free dining. Your tickets and dining credits are all on your KTTW cards. It has been reported by others on these boards that upgrading to an AP with a ticket that is also attached to dining credits can mess up the credits.

So, this is what you want to do, and in this order.

1) Check in to your resort and get your KTTW card with tickets and dining credits.
2) Go to the concierge desk at your resort and ask them to remove your tickets from your KTTW card and give you your tickets separately. You will get something that looks like a KTTW card, but without a resort name or dates on it.
3) Go to a park and enter with that separate ticket.
4) Go to Guest Services any time after that, either at a park or at DTD, and upgrade to the AP.

Does that make sense?

Yes. Thanks.

 

[HLAuburn]

Just wondering...might it be possible/beneficial to "downgrade" to one day tickets with your package, use that one day, and then upgrade them to APs?

But to answer your question...we had a one day passes from 2007 that we had never used (we bought them to get free dining but already had tickets). We just upgraded them to FL Resident Seasonal Passes, but the process is the same: we used the tickets to get into AK, then we went straight to Guest Relations inside the park and paid the difference between the Seasonal Pass less current price of a one day ticket. It worked just as we had planned and saved us about $250.

 

[LaneOT]

We did this exact thing...we went in august and had 7 day park hoppers. We took them to guest relations at epcot and they applied the 1200 dollars to 4 annual passes. Our out of pocket cost was 840! Not too shabby. We were given regular paper tickets, not anything special or similar to KTTW. The only way they differed from other paper tix is that our names are printed on the back along with Annual pass and the expiry date. Mind u we checked on on 8/25 but did not head to the parks until 8/27 yet our APas expire 8/25/11. Don't know y

 

[nyrebecca]

They gave your paper tickets? I thought it would be plastic of some sort. Paper tickets sound to easy to lose/tear/rip/get wet/destroy.

 

[disneyfan55]

They gave your paper tickets? I thought it would be plastic of some sort. Paper tickets sound to easy to lose/tear/rip/get wet/destroy.

It looks like a thick paper, but it's coated and does not tear/rip/get destroyed with water. Losing it is another story. It's the same size as a Credit card or there about. If you lose it, easily replaced with ID.

 

[LaneOT]

They are the standard "paper" type tickets given out when purchased at the park.. with the Disney characters on one side.
They arent thick like cardboard... more like index card thick. I was surprised because I expected something vinyl covered or at least somewhat like the KTTW cards, but it wasnt that.

 

[HLAuburn]

They are the standard "paper" type tickets given out when purchased at the park.. with the Disney characters on one side.
They arent thick like cardboard... more like index card thick. I was surprised because I expected something vinyl covered or at least somewhat like the KTTW cards, but it wasnt that.

We were surprised, too. We were thinking "this has to last us a year?!". Can you laminate them? Or does anyone have any good ideas for keeping them safe, especially at the parks?

 

[snykymom]

They are the standard "paper" type tickets given out when purchased at the park.. with the Disney characters on one side.
They arent thick like cardboard... more like index card thick. I was surprised because I expected something vinyl covered or at least somewhat like the KTTW cards, but it wasnt that.

We were surprised, too. We were thinking "this has to last us a year?!". Can you laminate them? Or does anyone have any good ideas for keeping them safe, especially at the parks?

They're not paper. They're a thin, strong, flexible plastic called Tyvek. They are extremely difficult to tear accidentally, and they do not disintegrate in water. And they have significant electronics running through them.

You cannot laminate them (and, as noted, there's no reason to do so). Laminating will make them difficult to read in the admissions gates and FastPass machines.

 

[iuki]

Just thought I'd let you know the process must have changed. We were told at the Concierge Desk (by two CMs) that we could not upgrade to the AP until the very last day, or we would lose our FD. On the last day, we went to Guest Services at Downtown Disney and was able to upgrade to the AP. He confirmed what the CMs at the Concierge Desk told us.

iuki

OK, let's try it this way.

Resorts cannot upgrade your tickets to APs. That can be done only at a park or at Downtown Disney. You want to use your ticket at a park before you upgrade so that you get the highest credit for it.

You have free dining. Your tickets and dining credits are all on your KTTW cards. It has been reported by others on these boards that upgrading to an AP with a ticket that is also attached to dining credits can mess up the credits.

So, this is what you want to do, and in this order.

1) Check in to your resort and get your KTTW card with tickets and dining credits.
2) Go to the concierge desk at your resort and ask them to remove your tickets from your KTTW card and give you your tickets separately. You will get something that looks like a KTTW card, but without a resort name or dates on it.
3) Go to a park and enter with that separate ticket.
4) Go to Guest Services any time after that, either at a park or at DTD, and upgrade to the AP.

Does that make sense?

 

[snykymom]

Just thought I'd let you know the process must have changed. We were told at the Concierge Desk (by two CMs) that we could not upgrade to the AP until the very last day, or we would lose our FD. On the last day, we went to Guest Services at Downtown Disney and was able to upgrade to the AP. He confirmed what the CMs at the Concierge Desk told us.

iuki

The Concierge desk at a resort knows nothing about APs. You simply ask at the Concierge Desk to remove your tickets from your KTTW card. That's all. They can do that and you will not lose free dining.

Then you go to Guest Services with the separate ticket, and upgrade to an AP.

 

[nurse.darcy]

Let me interject something here. . .I had a park hopper from the buy 4 get 3 deal and did the (as stated here) use it once to get full credit. When I went to customer service to "renew" my AP, I only got credit for the 6 unused days, not the full credit of the 7 day park hopper as previously stated here. So before you use the ticket, double check with the Customer Service counter OUTSIDE the park so you get your FULL upgrade credit. They are FULL of knowledge and will help you out no problem.

 

[iuki]

The Concierge desk at a resort knows nothing about APs. You simply ask at the Concierge Desk to remove your tickets from your KTTW card. That's all. They can do that and you will not lose free dining.

Then you go to Guest Services with the separate ticket, and upgrade to an AP.

That's what we tried to do, but the Concierge said that if they removed our tickets from our key card and placed it on a separate card, that we would lose our FD. We upgraded on the last day, so it wasn't a big deal for us whether we did it on the first day or the last day.