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

[disneyfreak71]

I have a crazy question...(I think)

We bought a 4 day base ticket from the Disney Store in 2014. We are going this month and would like to add one day onto the tickets we currently have. How exactly should we do this to get the best value and does anyone know how the one day will cost? Is the difference of what we paid in 2014 (I think it was roughly $313 per ticket) and what the 5 day costs now?

Thank you!!!

 

[Robo]

I have a crazy question...(I think)

We bought a 4 day base ticket from the Disney Store in 2014. We are going this month and would like to add one day onto the tickets we currently have.
1. How exactly should we do this to get the best value and
2. does anyone know how the one day will cost?
3. Is the difference of what we paid in 2014 (I think it was roughly $313 per ticket) and what the 5 day costs now?

2. This is a tough question to answer for anyone.
3. Nope.

1. Adding "days" to a ticket minted/purchased prior to Feb. 12, 2017 from a third-party seller (Disney Store is a third-party seller) is unclear at this time.
I can tell you what a MAXIMUM cost to upgrade would be.

4-day MYW Base ticket pre-Feb. 12, 2017 price: $346.13
subtracted from the current gate price of a 5-day MYW Base ticket: $394.05.

$394.05
-346.13
=$47.92

So, expect to pay as MUCH as $47.92 for the one-day upgrade.

But, it is POSSIBLE that they will add a day for as little as $20.

(This info is still unclear as we have not had enough response from guests doing the upgrades to form a consensus opinion.)

Good luck.

 

[disneyfreak71]

2. This is a tough question to answer for anyone.
3. Nope.

1. Adding "days" to a ticket minted/purchased prior to Feb. 12, 2017 from a third-party seller (Disney Store is a third-party seller) is unclear at this time.
I can tell you what a MAXIMUM cost to upgrade would be.

4-day MYW Base ticket pre-Feb. 12, 2017 price: $346.13
subtracted from the current gate price of a 5-day MYW Base ticket: $394.05.

$394.05
-346.13
=$47.92

So, expect to pay as MUCH as $47.92 for the one-day upgrade.

But, it is POSSIBLE that they will add a day for as little as $20.

(This info is still unclear as we have not had enough response from guests doing the upgrades to form a consensus opinion.)

Good luck.

Thank you. I will let you know what happens after we do it.

 

[ottawamom]

I figured out a way to make upgrading 7 day base tickets (per Feb 12) to 7 day PH+ (current) more palatable. I had decided not to add the upgrade because it was just too much money (especially after I converted it to $Cdn) but I was going to add 1 water park day to our trip and pay for it OP.

7 day PH+ (current online) $532.50
7 day base (pre Feb 12) - 394.05

138.45​

less water park (1day) - 60.71 (I was going to pay for this OP anyway)
addition cost of upgrading $77.74

or per day $11.10

When I break it down like this I can rationalize the cost to do the upgrade for 5 people ($692.25US or in my case $935Cdn)

Just thought I would post this here for others who may find this useful in justifying the extra cost. Robo you always said to take it back to a per ticket increase (mainly so that people could apply it to their own circumstance but it works here too)

edit to try and get my #'s to line up in a column

 

[Robo]

Thank you. I will let you know what happens after we do it.

Very good!

Also, I suggest that if you are quoted a higher price that you "mention very nicely" that you had heard that some
had only paid $20 for the upgrade.
It never hurts to "ask nicely."

 

[Robo]

I figured out a way to make upgrading 7 day base tickets (per Feb 12) to 7 day PH+ (current) more palatable. I had decided not to add the upgrade because it was just too much money (especially after I converted it to $Cdn) but I was going to add 1 water park day to our trip and pay for it OP.

7 day PH+ (current online) $532.50
7 day base (pre Feb 12) - 394.05
138.45
less water park (1day) - 60.71 (I was going to pay for this OP anyway)
addition cost of upgrading $77.74

or per day $11.10

When I break it down like this I can rationalize the cost to do the upgrade for 5 people ($692.25US or in my case $935Cdn)

Just thought I would post this here for others who may find this useful in justifying the extra cost. Robo you always said to take it back to a per ticket increase (mainly so that people could apply it to their own circumstance but it works here too)

Very nice of you to post this.

 

[cruiser21]

I will be there in 3 weeks and I will let you know. I may or may not upgrade to park hoppers with water parks. I may or may not upgrade to annual passes. I haven't been in 5 years. In the last 5 years we've traveled all over Europe and North America. I have no idea how I'll feel about WDW anymore. If I inhale the pixie dust and get overcome with nostalgia anything can happen. I'm an impulsive person. Regardless I will go to a guest services or maybe two guest services if I'm really determined to upgrade and I'm not happy with the first answer. I will come back here and report what I find out.

 

[WhitGB]

If I were to purchase an AP voucher, to use in the fall will MDE recognize it so I can reserve FP at 60 days (we have an onsite room) or do I need to activate the AP? I don't want my 365 days to start counting down until I use it.

Thanks

 

[AngiTN]

If I were to purchase an AP voucher, to use in the fall will MDE recognize it so I can reserve FP at 60 days (we have an onsite room) or do I need to activate the AP? I don't want my 365 days to start counting down until I use it.

Thanks

When you buy it you use your MDE account. That automatically links it to your account and you can book FP, book rooms with AP discount, etc.

 

[cruiser21]

When you buy it you use your MDE account. That automatically links it to your account and you can book FP, book rooms with AP discount, etc.

How are the AP discounts? When we had AP's 5 years ago they were plentiful. Now it seems like you have to go through a TA or third party and stack discounts to get a good rate.

 

[AngiTN]

How are the AP discounts? When we had AP's 5 years ago they were plentiful. Now it seems like you have to go through a TA or third party and stack discounts to get a good rate.

On avg about 5% more than a general public discount. More importantly, to us, there seem to be more rooms available with an AP discount than with the public discount. I frequently find rooms that are otherwise sold out at promo rates.

Before AP I would use Orbitz some but this is just easier to skip the hassle of linking to MDE etc.

 

[hodad]

Southwest Vacations 6-day for the price of 3-day tickets are back, if you purchase them in a package with flight and hotel, traveling by the end of September.

 

[apone6]

I purchased the 6 days water park and more tickets. Can I go to the water park in the morning and the theme parks in the afternoon? Park hopping is considered among the 4 main theme parks and not the water parks?

 

[Robo]

I purchased the 6 days water park and more tickets.
1. Can I go to the water park in the morning and the theme parks in the afternoon?
2. Park hopping is considered among the 4 main theme parks and not the water parks?

1. Yes.
2. Correct.

 

[jeremy1002]

I very recently bought an AP, had it activated, but have not yet used it to enter a park. I was very surprised that in this activated but as yet unused state it could still be reassigned to another person in MDE! Anyone have experience with this?

 

[Robo]

I very recently bought an AP, had it activated, but have not yet used it to enter a park. I was very surprised that in this activated but as yet unused state it could still be reassigned to another person in MDE! Anyone have experience with this?

Why did you activate the AP and not use it?

 

[AngiTN]

Why did you activate the AP and not use it?

Your great mind, and my lesser one, are thinking alike.
I can't think of one good reason to activate an AP prior to using it. All it does is us up days on the AP

 

[jeremy1002]

Your great mind, and my lesser one, are thinking alike.
I can't think of one good reason to activate an AP prior to using it. All it does is us up days on the AP

One good reason is to take advantage of being there with a Florida resident grandparent to buy a gold pass for her out of state grandkid.

 

[AngiTN]

One good reason is to take advantage of being there with a Florida resident grandparent to buy a gold pass for her out of state grandkid.

But why do even that in advance? Why not do it when the out of state Grandchild arrives? Why waste the dates of the AP before the child can use it?

 

[jeremy1002]

But why do even that in advance? Why not do it when the out of state Grandchild arrives? Why waste the dates of the AP before the child can use it?

Theoretically, the FL Grandparent might not be there during the planned trips to provide residency standing.