Tickets and Annual Pass Questions - Please add your ticket questions to this thread

[starry_solo]

I'm not sure if anyone will be able to answer my question, but here it goes...

I'm from CA and we just booked a trip for June 2018 for WDW. If I buy tickets from UT or from WDW this fall and I can't use them (ie we can't go on our trip) can I apply the amount of money spent towards Disneyland tickets or a DLR annual pass?

Nope, DLR used to let you exchange day for day on the WDW tickets but that stopped a few years ago.

 

[starry_solo]

I'm curious myself. So far all the talk has been about bridging to an AP. Not adding days. One would assume the value of the ticket used would be the same but with Disney, and especially with bridging, I know to never assume.

I'm planning to add days to my 6-day base in a few months. I am expecting the same thing will happen as those that have tried to bridge to an AP, just getting the Pre increase price applied to the cost of the upgrade. As long as it is the online price, ill still save about $20. Not as good as I originally thought it would be. Blech

 

[Jennny]

So, our family of 4 is arriving in August with a free dining bounceback- I have 5 day parkhopper.
1. If I want to upgrade one ticket to AP, can I do just one?
2. Am I best to use one day first and then upgrade
3. Do I have to wait until the next day to do this or as soon as I enter the park and my ticket is activated ?
4. Does it not matter anymore
5. Will the upgrade be based on what the 5 day PH is worth today?

Thanks!

 

[Robo]

So, our family of 4 is arriving in August with a free dining bounceback- I have 5 day parkhopper.
1. If I want to upgrade one ticket to AP, can I do just one?
2. Am I best to use one day first and then upgrade
3. Do I have to wait until the next day to do this or as soon as I enter the park and my ticket is activated ?
4. Does it not matter anymore
5. Will the upgrade be based on what the 5 day PH is worth today?

Thanks!

1. Yes.
2. Doesn't matter at all.
3. Do the upgrade before entering, if you like.
4. It doesn't matter.
5. Good question. When did you BOOK your trip?

 

[jenmsmith]

We have a trip in two weeks. DH and I are APs, but I was planning to add a day to 5 day PH (purchased pre increase) for each of our sons. If it is as stated earlier in this thread, that would be $60 per ticket. For one day. I saw the post AngiTN linked to, so I am very interested if anyone has paid the $20 per ticket to add lately, or if it really is the difference between the current price and the pre increase price.

 

[Robo]

We have a trip in two weeks. DH and I are APs, but I was planning to add a day to 5 day PH (purchased pre increase) for each of our sons. If it is as stated earlier in this thread, that would be $60 per ticket. For one day. I saw the post AngiTN linked to, so I am very interested if anyone has paid the $20 per ticket to add lately, or if it really is the difference between the current price and the pre increase price.

That info came from some early-on misunderstandings.

Unless a CM will offer some out-of-the-ordinary Pixie Dust, the pre-Feb. 12 price will be the price-bridge basis for upgrades of tickets issued before that date.

 

[jenmsmith]

That is disappointing. We will have an extra resort day, then. A $60 per ticket increase to go from 5 to 6 days is not worth it to us, especially when it was not that long ago that was closer to $15 a ticket to do the same thing.

 

[Robo]

That is disappointing. We will have an extra resort day, then. A $60 per ticket increase to go from 5 to 6 days is not worth it to us, especially when it was not that long ago that was closer to $15 a ticket to do the same thing.

You're preaching to the choir.

 

[Jennny]

1. Yes.
2. Doesn't matter at all.
3. Do the upgrade before entering, if you like.
4. It doesn't matter.
5. Good question. When did you BOOK your trip?

Thank you ...We booked our trip August 2016. I was just figuring out the difference assuming it would take into account the price of a 5 day ph as of today and not when I purchased it through Disney last year when I booked my package

 

[Robo]

Thank you ...We booked our trip August 2016. I was just figuring out the difference assuming it would take into account the price of a 5 day ph as of today and not when I purchased it through Disney last year when I booked my package

Sorry, but that's no longer the case.
You would look up the price for a 5-day Hopper as it was before Feb. 12, 2017 and use THAT price subtracted from the CURRENT on-line price
for the ticket to which you are upgrading.
That difference will be the cost of the upgrade.

 

[ottawamom]

I've got to say I really hope Disney decides to reconsider the upgrade formula. They will be losing out on an easy $450 from me next year as I won't be upgrading my base tickets to Park Hopper+ tickets if I have to add the price increase onto that as well. (That's an extra $200). We'll just do 1 park per day and swim at the hotel pool. ($650US total is $1000Cdn and I just can't justify that to park hop and go to the water park twice)

 

[bdarling]

There's no reason that they MUST be done at TTC.
So, you COULD just stroll over to the MK gates and make the exchanges there

Robo - thanks for the maps. I didn't realize the Contemporary was so close to the entrance to MK. I will park and walk!

 

[undone73]

Just curious if you have tickets purchased before or after the change does it indicate it once they are linked in MDE? Or does it just say the expiration date on the hard ticket?

 

[canyoncam]

Just curious if you have tickets purchased before or after the change does it indicate it once they are linked in MDE? Or does it just say the expiration date on the hard ticket?

This was my exact question! I just linked one I just bought with the 2018 expiration and I have one already linked, but never used, from a previous package in 2015 so it should be non expiring (it does state package by it). Neither one states anything about expirations, but was wondering if there is a place it might that I have just overlooked. I have a non expiring one that I have not yet linked, wondering if it is best to hold off so I do not get confused.

 

[jmmess]

Just curious if you have tickets purchased before or after the change does it indicate it once they are linked in MDE? Or does it just say the expiration date on the hard ticket?

This was my exact question! I just linked one I just bought with the 2018 expiration and I have one already linked, but never used, from a previous package in 2015 so it should be non expiring (it does state package by it). Neither one states anything about expirations, but was wondering if there is a place it might that I have just overlooked. I have a non expiring one that I have not yet linked, wondering if it is best to hold off so I do not get confused.

On MDX, if you went to View My Tickets and then scrolled down to your tickets, if you click on Reassign Ticket and were to Match it to another person on your account, you would see when the ticket expires (once the ticket is matched). There may be a better way of seeing this, but that's how I know you can see it for sure. (you can the Match the ticket back to the original person, assuming the ticket has not yet been used!)

 

[2binak]

Can someone please tell me if parksavers charges tax on top of the price that they show on their site for tickets?

 

[PolyRob]

Can someone please tell me if parksavers charges tax on top of the price that they show on their site for tickets?

It does not, the price shown includes all taxes and fees and does not increase when you checkout.

 

[cruiser21]

I bought 6 day MYW through UT in Jan. How much is it going to cost to add the park hopper?

 

[starry_solo]

I bought 6 day MYW through UT in Jan. How much is it going to cost to add the park hopper?

The difference in price from the pre-increase 6-day base ticket to the post-increase 6-day park hopper. I don't have the old values handy, sorry, so hopefully someone will come along to answer definitively the cost.

 

[jmmess]

I bought 6 day MYW through UT in Jan. How much is it going to cost to add the park hopper?

The difference in price from the pre-increase 6-day base ticket to the post-increase 6-day park hopper. I don't have the old values handy, sorry, so hopefully someone will come along to answer definitively the cost.

A 6 day MYW ticket bought pre-increase should be worth $378.08 (based on Allears 2016 historical ticket prices). A 6 day PH today costs $495.23 with tax. That's a difference of $117.15!