Park Hopper upgrade to AP, is this possible?

[rcraw45425]

Just got off the phone with WDW ticketing, think I really confused this poor lady! DD9 and I both have AP's, DH and DD7 have three days remaining on old Park Hoppers. I know that they used to allow you to upgrade the remaining days onto an AP, they just pro rate that remainder based on what you paid for the tickets. They were purchased from WDW ticketing so their info is stamped on the backs of them. Well, I think the lady finally understood what I want to do, here is where it got sticky. THe hoppers were activated in October but she told me that if I upgraded to AP's that the AP's would not expire until one year from THEIR activation, in this case April 1 of 2006. If this is true, COOL

She did give me a heads up that I want to pass along to everyone: according to her. the old type park hoppers will not be honored by WDW after December 31 of 2005. SO, everyone with old hoppers, MAKE SURE YOU GET ANOTHER TRIP TO THE "WORLD" IN BY DECEMBER 31 SO YOU DON'T LOSE YOUR TICKETS!

 

[GoldenOldie]

Just got off the phone with WDW ticketing, think I really confused this poor lady! DD9 and I both have AP's, DH and DD7 have three days remaining on old Park Hoppers. I know that they used to allow you to upgrade the remaining days onto an AP, they just pro rate that remainder based on what you paid for the tickets. They were purchased from WDW ticketing so their info is stamped on the backs of them. Well, I think the lady finally understood what I want to do, here is where it got sticky. THe hoppers were activated in October but she told me that if I upgraded to AP's that the AP's would not expire until one year from THEIR activation, in this case April 1 of 2006. If this is true, COOL

This is correct.

She did give me a heads up that I want to pass along to everyone: according to her. the old type park hoppers will not be honored by WDW after December 31 of 2005. SO, everyone with old hoppers, MAKE SURE YOU GET ANOTHER TRIP TO THE "WORLD" IN BY DECEMBER 31 SO YOU DON'T LOSE YOUR TICKETS!

Don't believe it for a minute. I'd be more inclined to say she meant that Disney might change their policy on upgrading the old tickets in December. That would be a policy change.

Not accepting old tickets that were sold under terms of no expiration would be a class action lawsuit as it alters the terms of sale. Do you know that to this very day Disney still allows unused general admission tickets from the opening in 1971 to be exchanged for current one day passes at no charge? Not a bad deal for someone who stocked up when they were $3.75 each.

 

[rcraw45425]

That part about the new AP's being good till April '06 would be awesome! We arrive on Friday, April 1 probably around 2-3 in the afternoon. With the new park hours the MK is going to be open till midnight that night. We have a 6:40 PS for Ohana and are staying at the GF. If we could just go on over to Guest relations at the MK after arrival and get those upgraded, that'd be so cool! With it being April Fools day I could really pull a good one over on DD7, plus it's her birthday that trip too. To be able to say, we're going to go on over to the MK after we check in, the look on her face would be priceless!

As for the part about the tickets I was a little shocked too. I truly hope she has it wrong, I even stated that I felt that if this was true then they needed to have it posted somewhere on their website.

Thanks for confirming the part about the AP's, I was under the impression that they would be retroactive to when the Park hoppers were activated, only giving them about 6 months of benefit before they had to be renewed.

 

[Stitch1962]

GoldenOldie is right... they may not let you upgrade them after this year, but they will NEVER tell you that you cannot use a non expiring ticket with days still left on it.

 

[GoldenOldie]

... Thanks for confirming the part about the AP's, I was under the impression that they would be retroactive to when the Park hoppers were activated, only giving them about 6 months of benefit before they had to be renewed.

AP's are only back dated when you are doing the upgrade within the first 14 days of use of the MYW ticket (7 days with an unused PHP ticket). That's when you can apply the entire cost of the ticket towards the AP. They will back date the AP to the day you started using the ticket in that case.

When you have passed the 7 day/14 day window of use, then you will not get the entire price of the ticket applied to a new AP. You will only get a prorated amount. In these circumstances, your AP is never back dated.

 

[rcraw45425]

Thanks Golden Oldie for clearing that up. Actually that works our better for us, My DD and I have AP's that were activated in Feb, this way I won't ahve four up for renewal at once! This way will be able to take advantage of those half days we have upon arrival.

 

[madge]

AP's are only back dated when you are doing the upgrade within the first 14 days of use of the MYW ticket (7 days with an unused PHP ticket). That's when you can apply the entire cost of the ticket towards the AP. They will back date the AP to the day you started using the ticket in that case.

When you have passed the 7 day/14 day window of use, then you will not get the entire price of the ticket applied to a new AP. You will only get a prorated amount. In these circumstances, your AP is never back dated.

Then it is possible to upgrade an unexpiring MYW pass to an AP, after the 14-day window? We are buying 10-day passes--using 3 days this spring with another trip plaenned for October. At that time, we will have a better idea of our vacation plans for '06....upgrading the pass at that time makes more sense, if it's possible.

we will have passes from SoG, will guest services use that value for the price paid for the ticket. does that make sense?

thanks

 

[GoldenOldie]

Then it is possible to upgrade an unexpiring MYW pass to an AP, after the 14-day window?

Yes but you won't be upgrading them at that point. Upgrading can only happen within the first 14 days. When you upgrade, you get credit for the entire amount you paid for the original ticket towards the AP. After 14 days, you can no longer upgrade. What you get then is a dollar credit of the unused major park days that you can apply towards the AP. It sounds like it's almost the same thing but trust me when I tell you that in Disneyspeak, it's a huge difference.

we will have passes from SoG, will guest services use that value for the price paid for the ticket. does that make sense?

It should actually be a little more as what they do now with MYW tickets that they never did before is process the credited days of a used MYW at the gate price. That way you get to keep any discount that you got when you purchased the ticket. Previously with the old PH/PHP's, you would have lost that discount when you did the transaction.

 

[shellybaxter]

I'm wondering something. When I got dollar credit for unused days on a seven day park hopper toward my AP they just took the cost and divided it by seven to figure out the dollar credit. With the MYW tickets the sixth, seventh, and so on days are only a couple of dollars more than the ticket before. So how will they figure the dollar amount for crediting? Will it may an equal amount for each day, or if I only had one day left on a non-expiring 7 day ticket, will the dollar credit be only $3.00 or something like that? I'm just curious. What do you guys think?

Shelly