Question about Adding a Day

[DizFan13]

On our upcoming trip, my DS has decided he wants to spend one extra day in the park, as his cousin will be there and they want to have a twenty-somethings day to themselves.

We have three-day hoppers from LMT; does anyone know how much I'd pay at the ticket booth to upgrade just his to a four-day?

 

[serendipityaey]

Unfortunately I believe you do have to pay the difference to full price. Online a four day hopper is 355.

 

[Cal-Pie]

Most people report that the price was bridged, meaning that you'll pay the difference between a 3 and 4 day ticket at Disney's prices. I think you'd increase the chance if this happening by using the ticket for at least one day before upgrading.

 

[pharmama]

Most people with LMT tickets report the pricing being bridged as Cal-Pie describes (and I have personally experienced the price being bridged on LMT tickets several times) but people with discount tickets from other sources like ARes seem to report that the ticket booth people can somehow "tell" that those tickets were discounted and the price was not bridged.

At the end of the day, I think its something of a YMMV based on the CM you get...sorry!

 

[DizFan13]

Thank you all so much! I'll just plan on paying the full difference, and if they bridge the cost, we'll consider ourselves lucky.

 

[tzeitel]

We've bought tickets from LMTC 3 or 4 times. We have upgraded to APs twice and both times (latest one was this past May) the price was bridged. We also upgraded from 4 day to 5 day once and it was bridged as well.

 

[Jimsig]

Most people with LMT tickets report the pricing being bridged as Cal-Pie describes (and I have personally experienced the price being bridged on LMT tickets several times) but people with discount tickets from other sources like ARes seem to report that the ticket booth people can somehow "tell" that those tickets were discounted and the price was not bridged.

At the end of the day, I think its something of a YMMV based on the CM you get...sorry!

I'm sure Disney keeps track of the ticket serial numbers that get sold to outside vendors. So when you go to upgrade/add days the system knows who sold it, how much you got the ticket for originally, and it was was further discounted etc and it gets based on that.

Last year in Oct at WDW we got our tickets from UT and got 7 days for the price of 4. We ended up staying a couple extra days and when I went to add an extra day to the tickets it was going to be $60 a ticket IIRC. The CM was confused as they were thinking it should only be around $15 a ticket and spent a few min trying to figure it out, he even got his supervisor. When I mentioned we got them from UT and that they were 7 for 4 days he said that was why it was so much to upgrade. It seemed as because the ticket were technically 4 day tickets we had to pay $15 a day to get to the 8th day we wanted to add. But it sounded like if we had purchased regular 7 day tickets it only would have been $15.

In the end we didn't upgrade and instead rented a car and drove to Kennedy Space Center and saw a SpaceX Launch.

 

[Kender]

Most people with LMT tickets report the pricing being bridged as Cal-Pie describes (and I have personally experienced the price being bridged on LMT tickets several times) but people with discount tickets from other sources like ARes seem to report that the ticket booth people can somehow "tell" that those tickets were discounted and the price was not bridged.

At the end of the day, I think its something of a YMMV based on the CM you get...sorry!

Those were the ones (ARes) I used to upgrade to an AP a few years ago (4 day for the price of a 3 day) and the price was bridged. It was a few years ago, though, so things can always change. Although my start date wasn't backdated as it should have been to first use of the ticket... CM either made a mistake or pixie dusted my mom and I with a renewal date that started on the day of upgrade (day 4 of the ticket).

Agree for sure that it is very much a YMMV. I always go with the "hope for bridging, but expect to pay the real difference between what was paid and the new cost" mentality.

 

[Winnowill]

I'm sure Disney keeps track of the ticket serial numbers that get sold to outside vendors. So when you go to upgrade/add days the system knows who sold it, how much you got the ticket for originally, and it was was further discounted etc and it gets based on that.

Depends on the reseller, I think. LMTClub tickets that have been redeemed for the regular ticket media at the turnstiles seem to be bridged often. We were bridged on tickets we'd gotten from ticketsatwork, as well. Other resellers are a YMMV situation.

 

[Jimsig]

Depends on the reseller, I think. LMTClub tickets that have been redeemed for the regular ticket media at the turnstiles seem to be bridged often. We were bridged on tickets we'd gotten from ticketsatwork, as well. Other resellers are a YMMV situation.

Yep, that's basically what I mean't when I said if the ticket "was further discounted etc and it gets based on that". Tix from UT, LMTC, and others that have a normal discount get bridged. Those with a larger discount/special like pay for 4 days get X days free or maybe even some from non-authorized resellers don't get bridged.

 

[Kender]

Yep, that's basically what I mean't when I said if the ticket "was further discounted etc and it gets based on that". Tix from UT, LMTC, and others that have a normal discount get bridged. Those with a larger discount/special like pay for 4 days get X days free or maybe even some from non-authorized resellers don't get bridged.

Sometimes don't get bridged*.

See my post a couple above. I have experienced being bridged on a 4 day for the price of a 3 day. I really don't think any discount you can expect it, though, even if one seems to be more common than the other. Not even as a maybe. Hope for, yes. But I would always expect to not be bridged on any ticket with a discount no matter where it was purchased.

And unauthorized sellers I wouldn't even include for consideration as a possible bridging since no one should be purchasing from an unauthorized seller anyways. Too much risk.

 

[ishbit92]

Alright I'm sorry but I'm not understanding the answers. Perhaps I need more coffee. Anyway I am considering upping my husbands 3 day park hopper with maxpass to a 4 day. So there's a $35 difference, I was thinking I'd just have to pay $35 more to upgrade it, is that too good to be true haha? Will I have to pay more?

 

[Malcon10t]

Alright I'm sorry but I'm not understanding the answers. Perhaps I need more coffee. Anyway I am considering upping my husbands 3 day park hopper with maxpass to a 4 day. So there's a $35 difference, I was thinking I'd just have to pay $35 more to upgrade it, is that too good to be true haha? Will I have to pay more?

It should be $35.