Ticket upgrade?

[rili]

I bought 4 day FL resident pass in Oct. It cost $199. We are planning another trip next month and I am wondering if I can use them towards the current FL resident special? The 4 day pass for $159. Only 1 day was used back in Oct. and I would sort of get another day if they will let me do it. I could even add park hopper and still be less than the $199 I paid. If I can do this, will the expiration be in June, or April (6 months from the original purchase).

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Robo]

I bought 4 day FL resident pass in Oct. It cost $199. We are planning another trip next month and I am wondering if I can use them towards the current FL resident special? The 4 day pass for $159. Only 1 day was used back in Oct. and I would sort of get another day if they will let me do it. I could even add park hopper and still be less than the $199 I paid. If I can do this, will the expiration be in June, or April (6 months from the original purchase).

The expiration date of an UPGRADE will always start from date that you first used the original ticket.
Otherwise, it would not be considered an "upgrade" of an existing ticket.

 

[ConnieB]

I believe those FL resident tickets are valid for 6 months...so around April is as long as your original or any upgrade will be valid.

Also, an upgrade requires that you pay more than the original ticket.....so you need to find something that costs $200 or more. If the current special is $159, $30 for the Hopper won't be enough, but you could add the Hopper and Water Park, which is $60 total. But you don't gain any extra days.

Not sure if these tickets can be upgrade to a FL AP (this would be a question for #Cheshire Figment)....but if so, they have a seasonal pass that is about $340. I'm guessing if this is possible, your AP would end 1 year from the October purchase of your original tickets (because you used one day of them, thus starting the clock ticking). And it has blackout dates from March 28 to April 10 and also from June 8 thru August 13, but you'd have quite a bit of time to be able to go as often as you want (APs include hopping, but this seasonal pass does NOT include parking). The FL AP without blackout dates is $516

 

[Robo]

I believe those FL resident tickets are valid for 6 months...so around April is as long as your original or any upgrade will be valid.

I'm not sure that you meant to say that any upgrade would only be valid until around April.

 

[ConnieB]

I'm not sure that you meant to say that any upgrade would only be valid until around April.

OP first used their ticket in October.....6 months would be April. Since I don't know the exact date in October I don't know the exact date in April.

 

[Robo]

OP first used their ticket in October.....6 months would be April. Since I don't know the exact date in October I don't know the exact date in April.

I'm not questioning the "around April" part of the statement.
I'm questioning why you said that a new ticket upgraded from that ticket would necessarily expire in the same 6-month time-frame as the original ticket.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

By definition an upgrade is taking one ticket and adding cash (or similar) and ending up with one ticket with more entitlements. You cannot combine two tickets to get one ticket with more features.*

An upgrade is adding days or options to a MYW ticket, or converting it to some level of annual pass, or taking some level of annual pass and converting it to a higher level of annual pass.

* The only exceptions to this rule is at the water parks (or DQ) where you can combine a one day water park (or DQ) ticket with a base or hopping MYW ticket and a payment to end up with a MYW ticket with the WPF&M option or any level of AP to a PAP. Your payment will be the difference in price between the one day water park (or DQ) ticket and the cost of the WPF&M option (or AP upgrade) plus tax on the difference.

 

[rili]

I have converted 3 day passes into APs before. The expiration was 1 year from first use, not 6 months. I wasn't sure if I can trade the full price FL ticket into the special they now have. Maybe upgrade is the wrong word. I want to trade my ticket valued at $199 for one priced $189. I don't expect any sort of refund. I might add another night if I knew I could get an extra day at the parks.

 

[ConnieB]

I have converted 3 day passes into APs before. The expiration was 1 year from first use, not 6 months. I wasn't sure if I can trade the full price FL ticket into the special they now have. Maybe upgrade is the wrong word. I want to trade my ticket valued at $199 for one priced $189. I don't expect any sort of refund. I might add another night if I knew I could get an extra day at the parks.

The 6 months is a special expiration for Florida 3 and 4 day passes.

 

[ConnieB]

I'm not questioning the "around April" part of the statement.
I'm questioning why you said that a new ticket upgraded from that ticket would necessarily expire in the same 6-month time-frame as the original ticket.

The Florida Resident 3 and 4 day tickets have a 6 month expiration.....not the 14 of the non-resident xday tickets. If OP upgrades after using a day (or more) of it, are you saying that they would get to continue using them past the original expiration date? That makes those a truly excellent deal....so I buy a 4 day resident, use 3 of the days in October, then before they expire in April I upgrade and get a whole year? Sounds too good to be true. OP if you do, report back....could change the way I use tickets for sure.

 

[rili]

If you upgrade to annual pass, you get a year from first use. So your AP would expire in Oct. you would have to upgrade before the 6 month date.
At least I have done that in the past, Disney has changed a lot lately.
For example:

If
I bought 4 day pass 10/15/2014, due to expire 4/15/2015. On 4/14/2015 I upgrade to AP, that pass now expires 10/14/2015. You will have to pay the difference between 4 day pass and AP.

I don't want to upgrade to AP this trip. I would like to trade for the current special Discover Disney. I think it expires 6/5/2015. I could get 4 days and a hopper for the "value" of my current pass. If they will let me. I was wondering if anyone else had tried this. Or if a disney CM knows it will work. I will stay an extra day if it will! We don't park hop often, but I might go too EPCOT. For dinner or dessert if I could hop.

 

[ConnieB]

If you upgrade to annual pass, you get a year from first use. So your AP would expire in Oct. you would have to upgrade before the 6 month date.
At least I have done that in the past, Disney has changed a lot lately.
For example:

If
I bought 4 day pass 10/15/2014, due to expire 4/15/2015. On 4/14/2015 I upgrade to AP, that pass now expires 10/14/2015. You will have to pay the difference between 4 day pass and AP.

I don't want to upgrade to AP this trip. I would like to trade for the current special Discover Disney. I think it expires 6/5/2015. I could get 4 days and a hopper for the "value" of my current pass. If they will let me. I was wondering if anyone else had tried this. Or if a disney CM knows it will work. I will stay an extra day if it will! We don't park hop often, but I might go too EPCOT. For dinner or dessert if I could hop.

I understand that, but you're NOT upgrading to an AP....so the new tickets may not extend past the 6 months...i.e. April something. And I know, for sure, that you have to spend MORE than your original ticket in order to upgrade.....even if you're willing to forego getting the difference back, they won't allow you to do so...been there tried that (more than once, lol).

I'd be interested to know if you're able to upgrade to another ticket and thereby extend it's use beyond the 6 months, because if so, it's a big plus to me, because you can get more than 6 months use of your 6 month expiration ticket. That would be fabulous for some of the friends I have that come with us only on rare occasions....we could stretch their tickets a bit longer. But, I don't think it will work.

#Cheshire Figment should know....he literally wrote the book (err....the sticky post) on tickets as he spent many years working the ticket counter (now he's at one of the water parks I think).

 

[Robo]

I'm not questioning the "April"part of the statement.
I'm questioning why you said that a ticket upgraded from that ticket would expire in the same month as the original ticket.

The Florida Resident 3 and 4 day tickets have a 6 month expiration.....not the 14 of the non-resident xday tickets. If OP upgrades after using a day (or more) of it, are you saying that they would get to continue using them past the original expiration date?

No.

 

[ConnieB]

No.

Ok, then I guess I'm at a loss what your comment questioning the April date. OP used his ticket back in October, so it expires in April....if he buys another and you said "No" the expiration date won't change then OP can't use it past April. OP's first post was asking about using it in June...so the answer is they can't because it will have expired in April. Right?