Ticket change question

[jgazda]

Two years ago my daughter received a 2 day pass with the no expiration option added to Disney as a gift. It has not been used. Is there any way to take the expiration option off to make the length longer? I think the people that bought the gift thought that the ticket would eventually go bad if not used soon. Thanks!

 

[vicki_c]

I'm not CF, but I'm not sure why you would want to remove the NE? That is not related to whether you can make the ticket longer or not.

If it is a regular park tickets and the ticket has never been used, you can add the extra days to it at the parks. The price to do that will be the same whether it has NE or not. Now if you're asking, can you downgrade the ticket to get the money to add the extra days, I think the answer is no - they don't downgrade tickets, as far as I know.

 

[selina4disney]

I don't know if it can be done but I get what she means...a non-expiry ticket more expensive than a plain ticket (which also doesn't expire until it is user anyway) and she wants to know if they can make it a plain MYW ticket and use the difference in price between plain and non-expiring to buy more days. Doubt it can be done, but never hurts to ask. It could be used to UPgrade though

 

[vicki_c]

And I was giving it some more thought and realized that if it already had NE on it, and you add days, you'd have to add additional NE days too, so I guess that would be a lot more expensive. So I guess I get the reason for the question now!

But I still don't think you can downgrade the ticket to remove the NE, only if it's part of a package and you do it before your trip, not once you have the ticket in hand. I went back and re-read CF's ticket sticky very quickly and didn't see that addressed, but I think it's been covered here on the boards before.

 

[jgazda]

I know I can keep the no expiration option, pay the difference and add more days, but if I could take off the not needed no expiration option and add extra days instead, it would work out better for our situation.

 

[selina4disney]

I know I can keep the no expiration option, pay the difference and add more days, but if I could take off the not needed no expiration option and add extra days instead, it would work out better for our situation.

I know it would, but I doubt that they will allow that...as the other poster said, they don't usually allow downgrades. It would also work out better for people's situations if they could use days off a pass to get into a second park the same day rather than buy a hopper, but Disney doesn't allow that either because it is not better financially for THEM...and I suspect it is the same in your case...they care what is better financially for Disney

 

[jgazda]

I know I can keep the no expiration option, pay the difference and add more days, but if I could take off the not needed no expiration option and add extra days instead, it would work out better for our situation.

 

[KellyNY]

I know I can keep the no expiration option, pay the difference and add more days, but if I could take off the not needed no expiration option and add extra days instead, it would work out better for our situation.

Try it. Last time we bought tickets with water parks option at the check in, 2 hours later we realized we made a mistake, it was kind of cold for our taste to be in a pool. I returned to main building and asked if I can downgrade, yes they told me they usually do not do it and instead asked me if I want to change tickets to hoppers( appr. same price). I said I have no use for hoppers and they did downgrade my tikets. It took CM a talk with a manager but I got my money back. It is exception of couse but it happens. Since you do not want your money back but simply want to change options, I think you have good chances. It will depend on CM however, so be extremely polite and if get refused, try again later.

 

[VLee]

Don't know if this is considered a downgrade or not, but on a recent trip, we first added additional days to my mom's ticket and also made it a parkhopper. Within 3 or so days, we saw that we would not use the parkhopper feature, so returned to Guest Relations where they took that feature off and refunded $53.

 

[Alesia]

As long as what you end up with costs more than the original ticket, it should be fine.

 

[jgazda]

It's too bad it has to be all about money. I'm not looking for a refund just a change to make it even.

 

[KellyNY]

It's too bad it has to be all about money. I'm not looking for a refund just a change to make it even.

Well, they do have to recount it, if they will agree and you will have to pay couple $$ diference, take it and run, downgrade or exchange does not happen every day, trust me.

 

[doconeill]

So long as the ticket remains unused, I believe there should be no problem in changing the ticket,so long as there aren't any restrictions on the ticket itself (i.e. it is not a MYW but some special ticket), and as long as the target ticket costs the same or more. NE on a two-day ticket is only $18 at current prices, so pretty much ANY other ticket will cost more...

This may be an exception to the "use it first" advice. Once used, I'm not sure you can drop the NE expiration option, at least not without some pixie dust...but I'm not sure about that.

Cheshire Figment is the authoritative answer for this one...

 

[jgazda]

Bumping in hopes Cheshire Figment will see it...

 

[BrettS]

There was another post about this recently and the answer is that you definitely can remove the no expiration option and add more days or other options to the ticket. As the others have said, you need to wind up with a more expensive ticket in the end, so you can't just remove the no expiration option, but since it's not terribly expensive for a 2 day ticket this should be a problem.

Do use the ticket first, to bring it up to current gate value (removing no expiration from a used ticket is no problem because you don't use the no expiration option until the 15th day, and by then it's not changable anyway).

At that point you'll have a ticket that is worth $185.31 (including tax). You could upgrade it to pretty much any ticket you want because everything else will be more expensive.

Removing no expiration from a ticket with a lot of days may be impossible, especially if you already have the park hopper or water park options on the ticket because it might not be possible to come up with a combination that would be more expensive than the original ticket, but in this case the OP will have no problems.

 

[jgazda]

Excellent. Thanks for everyone's help! Maybe I'll just change it for an AP so I HAVE to plan another trip.

 

[WillCAD]

Are you sure that it has the No Expiry option on it? It's very unusual to get a 2-day ticket with no-expiry - how many people go to WDW for one day, then save one extra day of park pass for a later trip?

If it is a no-expiry ticket, it will have the words "no expiry" printed right on the back, along with the original length of the ticket and whether it's a park-hopper. If it doesn't say "no expiry", then it doesn't have that option, and if it doesn't say "hopper" then it doesn't have that option.

 

[doconeill]

Are you sure that it has the No Expiry option on it? It's very unusual to get a 2-day ticket with no-expiry - how many people go to WDW for one day, then save one extra day of park pass for a later trip?

What's most interesting is that a 2-day base NE costs MORE than two 1-day base tickets...it may only make some granule of sense if you had the WPFM option...

 

[jgazda]

Yes I'm sure. We received it as a gift from my coworkers for our daughter's baptism. They aren't as informed on tickets and purchased the no expiration option because they thought it would have to be used within a year if they didn't.