Price bridging a non-expiring PH ticket to an expiring PH+ ticket

[hodad]

Adult 7 day Magic Your Way Park Hopper Tickets now cost $516.53. If I purchased one from a third party vendor before February 12 ($467.54 retail price, but $419 at Parksavers) and bridge it to an expiring 7 day Magic Your Way Park Hopper Plus ticket when I am at the park after February 12 ($532.50 retail price), will I pay $15.97 or will I pay $64.96?

 

[Robo]

**AS FAR AS I KNOW... the same rules of upgrading still apply:

Subtract the current new gate price for the kind of ticket that you HAVE
from the current new gate price of the kind of ticket that you WANT.

Pay that difference price for the upgrade (plus tax on that difference price.)

And, if nothing has changed, the price that you PAID for the third party ticket remains totally irrelevant.


** I have some "insider notes" coming to me later today.
We'll see if there is anything newer to add that might modify these procedures.

 

[hodad]

Thank you. I'm hoping that doesn't change, but the fact that WDW is switching to expiring tickets makes me nervous that it might.

 

[supersnoop]

We won't really know for a while. Bridging works because it's the same ticket they're currently selling. Will they recognize the old tickets as the same as the new tickets? In other words, does the old ticket even have a "gate price" anymore? Only time will tell.

 

[Robo]

We won't really know for a while. Bridging works because it's the same ticket they're currently selling. Will they recognize the old tickets as the same as the new tickets? In other words, does the old ticket even have a "gate price" anymore? Only time will tell.

The difference between what we are NOW (as of today) calling "expiring tickets" and the "Non-expiring" tickets (of the days BEFORE today) are not quite the same thing as the old-style traditional "Non-expiring tickets.

In the case of the old-style traditional "Non-expiring tickets, those items fully disappeared from the current price list.

But, (say) "a 6-day Hopper" sold today is quite relatable to the 6-day Hopper that was sold yesterday. (Other than price, which is what price-bridging is all about.)

In fact, I have just been given word -with reference to the inside rules of WDW ticketing-
that indicates price-bridging -as we knew the rules... is still in effect -as we knew it.
I guess if there IS a difference, the price will only be bridged to the NEW "pre-purchased" price
(which does not account for the "extra $20" that would be charged for the new ticket at the gate.)

Tickets purchased NOT directly from Disney Ticketing can be price-bridged to the current day-of new price for the purposes of an upgrade transaction.

 

[momtwoboys]

super glad I bought the parksavers tickets over the summer and linked them! also just bought 3 more 7day hoppers from UCT last week. those are safely put away for 2018. NOWWWW if I only had more money I would buy more and save them. Good luck to all figuring this jargon out.

 

[freediverdude]

I guess one question would be, what if someone has a base ticket with no hopper but does have the old water parks fun and more option. How would that upgrade, would they have to go look up the old retail on that or something to establish a base price.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

I guess one question would be, what if someone has a base ticket with no hopper but does have the old water parks fun and more option. How would that upgrade, would they have to go look up the old retail on that or something to establish a base price.

I'm wondering that also.

 

[hodad]

Adult 7 day Magic Your Way Park Hopper Tickets now cost $516.53. If I purchased one from a third party vendor before February 12 ($467.54 retail price, but $419 at Parksavers) and bridge it to an expiring 7 day Magic Your Way Park Hopper Plus ticket when I am at the park after February 12 ($532.50 retail price), will I pay $15.97 or will I pay $64.96?

It sounds from what Robo has explained that I will pay $15.97 + $21.29 to upgrade to MYW PH+ because I'm buying day-of tickets. Is this correct?

 

[Splashboat]

*Sorry, found the answer to my question

 

[Robo]

It sounds from what Robo has explained that I will pay $15.97 + $21.29 to upgrade to MYW PH+ because I'm buying day-of tickets. Is this correct?

If I have the info correct in my head...
If you are not upgrading to AP, but simply adding "days" to your ticket, you will RECEIVE the extra $20 value as part of the upgrade transaction.
In other words, the price bridge will include the $20-higher cost of the gate price.

 

[supersnoop]

It sounds from what Robo has explained that I will pay $15.97 + $21.29 to upgrade to MYW PH+ because I'm buying day-of tickets. Is this correct?

Nope. Just $15.97.

 

[ravenclawtrekkie]

If I have the info correct in my head...
If you are not upgrading to AP, but simply adding "days" to your ticket, you will RECEIVE the extra $20 value as part of the upgrade transaction.
In other words, the price bridge will include the $20-higher cost of the gate price.

You're correct. That is, if the CM doing the transaction does all three (yes, three) steps of the transaction in the right order...

 

[mousestruck]

Ugh... I was not planning on buying our tickets yet! If I buy 7 day park hoppers from UT now (at old price), will I be able to bridge them to a Gold DVC AP in November. When I look at the new gate prices, am I correct that the price difference would only be about $80? That doesn't seem possible.

 

[ravenclawtrekkie]

Ugh... I was not planning on buying our tickets yet! If I buy 7 day park hoppers from UT now (at old price), will I be able to bridge them to a Gold DVC AP in November. When I look at the new gate prices, am I correct that the price difference would only be about $80? That doesn't seem possible.

According to some math I just did in another thread, that is theoretically correct.

 

[Robo]

According to some math I just did in another thread, that is theoretically correct.

$78.81 incl. tax, to be exact.

 

[mousestruck]

According to some math I just did in another thread, that is theoretically correct.

Thanks for the reply. It just seems too good to be true, which makes me believe it is!

 

[cigar95]

The difference between what we are NOW (as of today) calling "expiring tickets" and the "Non-expiring" tickets (of the days BEFORE today) are not quite the same thing as the old-style traditional "Non-expiring tickets.

In the case of the old-style traditional "Non-expiring tickets, those items fully disappeared from the current price list.

Robo my friend, you point out something I was planning on posting.

We need a bit of new terminology. "Expiring/non-expiring" are now potentially ambiguous. Maybe we can come to a consensus and add this to the ticket FAQ.

I would use "non-expiring" to refer to the tickets that were sold up until about two years ago. That was their official name, so it makes sense to use it. Those tickets are still out there - heck, I have an unused 10-day-non-expiring-hopper that I bought for $379, just waiting for the right trip.

then what term do we use to refer to last week's tickets vs this week's tickets? Both have 14-day expiration limit on them. My first thought is "good forever" vs "good through next year", but that's too long. Possibly pre-17 vs post-17, but that's not very descriptive and would require explanation to everyone the first time they encounter it. I welcome other suggestions!

 

[Robo]

Robo my friend, you point out something I was planning on posting.

We need a bit of new terminology. "Expiring/non-expiring" are now potentially ambiguous. Maybe we can come to a consensus and add this to the ticket FAQ.

I would use "non-expiring" to refer to the tickets that were sold up until about two years ago. That was their official name, so it makes sense to use it. Those tickets are still out there - heck, I have an unused 10-day-non-expiring-hopper that I bought for $379, just waiting for the right trip.

then what term do we use to refer to last week's tickets vs this week's tickets? Both have 14-day expiration limit on them. My first thought is "good forever" vs "good through next year", but that's too long. Possibly pre-17 vs post-17, but that's not very descriptive and would require explanation to everyone the first time they encounter it. I welcome other suggestions!

Perhaps:
"Tickets with a specified end date of..."
"Tickets with a specific end of use date of..."
"Tickets with a known stop date of..."

Tickets sold before Feb. 12, 2017:
"Tickets without a specified end date."
"Tickets without a specific end of use date."
"Tickets without a specific stop date."

 

[hodad]

How about "pre-expirocalypse" and "post-expirocalypse"?