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

[wdw4mealso]

Question.. My daughter was just accepted into the Disney College Program. I know they get some passes, and hotel discounts. We are a family of 5, so the other 4 of us will take her down- and probably want to go to the parks. I just planned a solo trip, and would have 5-6 days to visit parks. And we already have a Christmas trip planned. I think it would be cost effective for me to at least buy myself an AP. But I'm not sure. Does anyone know if the college program kids get 10% off any ticket purchase? Would that include an AP? Trying to wrap my head around the cheapest way to get down to see as much as possible.

 

[babesboo99]

Does anyone know when the expiration date is on the tickets now? we are planning to go again in 2019 and was going to buy our tickets early but when the prices went up i could have sworn they said they are going to have expiration on them now.

 

[Robo]

Does anyone know when the expiration date is on the tickets now? we are planning to go again in 2019 and was going to buy our tickets early but when the prices went up i could have sworn they said they are going to have expiration on them now.

Magic Your Way tickets do have an expiration date.

Tickets purchased at the present time will expire at the end of 2018.

 

[jmmess]

So i just tried to upgrade 7 day PH from pre-price increase and asked the CM to bridge them to current gate first. He said he could only bring to gate pre-price increase and they would be about $467 (with tax) vs. the online gate price of $485+tax and my difference vs. DVC Gold was $127. I was expecting the difference to be around $97 (with tax). CM said he just pushed a button to do the bridge and that's what comes up. He said there is a third level for the ticket (first level is my discounted ticket, second level was the gate price he could bridge to, and third level was current gate price increase). Is this right??

 

[Robo]

So i just tried to upgrade 7 day PH from pre-price increase and asked the CM to bridge them to current gate first. He said he could only bring to gate pre-price increase and they would be about $467 (with tax) vs. the online gate price of $485+tax and my difference vs. DVC Gold was $127. I was expecting the difference to be around $97 (with tax). CM said he just pushed a button to do the bridge and that's what comes up. He said there is a third level for the ticket (first level is my discounted ticket, second level was the gate price he could bridge to, and third level was current gate price increase). Is this right??

Sorry, too much info meshed together for me to follow.

What is the new current gate price of the ticket (or AP) that you ultimately WANT to get?
What is the new current gate price of the kind of ticket that you HAVE?

 

[PopGirl26]

When I look at buying tickets directly from WDW online, WPF&M is no longer listed, just Park Hopper Plus, which I expected given all the news.

However, when I go to book a package, WPF&M is still an option (and is still the same affordable $65ish when added to a 7-day base).

Is this an oversight on Disney's part? Why will they still let you buy these as part of a package but not a la carte?

 

[Robo]

When I look at buying tickets directly from WDW online, WPF&M is no longer listed, just Park Hopper Plus, which I expected given all the news.

However, when I go to book a package, WPF&M is still an option (and is still the same affordable $65ish when added to a 7-day base).

Is this an oversight on Disney's part? Why will they still let you buy these as part of a package but not a la carte?

The WDW resorts have their own supply of older tickets.
They can choose to book packages with those, if they like.

 

[PopGirl26]

The WDW resorts have their own supply of older tickets.
They can choose to book packages with those, if they like.

You know everything, I swear. Thank you!

 

[jmmess]

Sorry, too much info meshed together for me to follow.

What is the new current gate price of the ticket (or AP) that you ultimately WANT to get?
What is the new current gate price of the kind of ticket that you HAVE?

DVC Gold is $559+tax. I have a 7 Day PH. When I look online that is $485+tax (or $505+tax at the ticket counter), but CM is saying it is worth $467 (incl tax, I didn't get the price without). I bought my ticket pre-price hike and from an authorized reseller. So can discounted park tickets only be bridged to the pre-price increase cost? I thought bridging the ticket brings it up to current gate price?

 

[Robo]

DVC Gold is $559+tax.
I have a 7 Day PH. When I look online that is $485+tax (or $505+tax at the ticket counter),
3. but CM is saying it is worth $467 (incl tax, I didn't get the price without). I bought my ticket pre-price hike and from an authorized reseller.
1. So can discounted park tickets only be bridged to the pre-price increase cost?
2. I thought bridging the ticket brings it up to current gate price?

1. No.
2. Correct.
3. That CM is incorrect.

If you are sure that the numbers above are, in fact, correct,
the only prices you need to deal with are:
$559+tax = $595.34
$485+tax = $516.53

So, $595.34 minus $516.53 equals $78.81.

The price of your upgrade to DVC AP should be $78.81, including tax.

 

[Minniekins]

Hello Robo, have some questions for you. I was all set on how it works, done the price bridging several times no problem. Now with the new prices and all I wanna get it clear again, lol. One of the above posters mentioned something about three levels and just pushing a button and what the CM would be able to do their tickets for. Is it possible at all that things have changed and bridging to current gate price is not how they do it anymore? My thinking is no as I've seen the many responses and explanations of why they bridge, but have to ask in case I missed something! I do see you said that the CM was wrong. Have others successfully bridged since the price increase?
So, I have an AP right now but considering getting a 4 day with 3 extra days 'free' from UCT, it's the ticket with the biggest savings between their sale price and the Disney site price, savings listed at $117. So the cost is $419 and I get an adult 7 day park hopper I can use sometime in the next few years as it still expires 14 days after first use. At the time of use I figured I'd either use as is, add a day or two, or likely upgrade to an AP. Now I just checked the math if I bought from Disney and the 7 day hopper is listed as $516.53. That's only a savings of $97, though UCT lists it as a savings of $117. I'm not sure if I'm missing something somewhere. My main thought in buying ahead here is saving the $117, but with $20 difference and it's making me stop and think if it's worth it to buy now. Are they maybe saying it's a savings of $117 over if I bought in person at the ticket office and not as much savings if I were buying online at the Disney site?
Of course, $97 is a good savings but I was more impressed with the $117! The non-expiring till use is great, but as I would not be buying in person the $20 is not a real savings, if that's what the discrepancy is all about. Plus just putting out extra money now while i still have an AP, lol. Next year we will do DL so won't need it probably, but, in a couple years, like 2019, it'll probably save me even more than that with more ticket price increases by then. But if they change the price bridging it won't save me anything. what to do, what to do, lol...
Hopefully this was okay to post in this thread. Thank you very much for sharing all your tickets, maps, and more!, knowledge!

 

[jmmess]

1. No.
2. Correct.
3. That CM is incorrect.

If you are sure that the numbers above are, in fact, correct,
the only prices you need to deal with are:
$559+tax = $595.34
$485+tax = $516.53

So, $595.34 minus $516.53 equals $78.81.

The price of your upgrade to DVC AP should be $78.81, including tax.

Any tips how I get this done right with the next CM? Something I need to ask or suggest? As the PP notes, I'm wondering if anything has changed, since the CM said he was familiar with bridging, yet couldn't do anything more than he was already doing. It is the same ticket I am using to try and get updated to the Gold AP. Thanks!

 

[Friendlyadvice2]

DVC Gold is $559+tax. I have a 7 Day PH. When I look online that is $485+tax (or $505+tax at the ticket counter), but CM is saying it is worth $467 (incl tax, I didn't get the price without). I bought my ticket pre-price hike and from an authorized reseller. So can discounted park tickets only be bridged to the pre-price increase cost? I thought bridging the ticket brings it up to current gate price?

1. No.
2. Correct.
3. That CM is incorrect.

If you are sure that the numbers above are, in fact, correct,
the only prices you need to deal with are:
$559+tax = $595.34
$485+tax = $516.53

So, $595.34 minus $516.53 equals $78.81.

The price of your upgrade to DVC AP should be $78.81, including tax.

Robo, in looking at this a little deeper, have we actually had any data points (have to be within the last week) where someone successfully price bridged one of the pre-increase non-expiring tickets? With the addition of the new expiration terms on the tickets, I find it entirely possible that price bridging as we know it, is no more.

Clearly bridging was put into place to give the guest the benefit of the doubt of what they paid for their ticket by giving them the current gate price of the ticket being used for the upgrade. Technically, with what the poster is reporting, Disney is still doing that, but going forward, Disney actually knows that the most the guest could have paid for the ticket in this case was the $467 because it doesn't have the expiration restrictions tied to it. Therefore, they ARE still bridging to $467, but not to current gate prices (minus the $20 up-charge). Further, the ticket being upgraded in this case technically doesn't even exist anymore because of the new expiration terms.

While it's certainly possible the CM was uninformed as we often see, I also think it would be very easy for Disney to code the systems to only bridge to the highest pre-increase price of a non-expiration ticket. The CM stated to the poster that he just "pushed a button" to do the bridge and that's what came up. That also seems to support the hard coded pre-expiration values.

There may have been a lot more to these ticket changes than we initially thought than just a price increase and added expiration terms. I think this is something to keep an eye on; Disney may have just made your "job" here on the DIS a whole lot easier. If it is the case, on the bright side, at least you'll have more time to focus on those great maps

 

[ravenclawtrekkie]

Recent updates and rule changes have made price bridging a lot more complicated on the part of the cast member. It used to be very simple in 99% of cases - now it involves multiple steps and is done differently depending on what kind of ticket is being upgraded and what it's being upgraded to. I'm not even remotely surprised that people are having trouble with it.

 

[Friendlyadvice2]

Recent updates and rule changes have made price bridging a lot more complicated on the part of the cast member. It used to be very simple in 99% of cases - now it involves multiple steps and is done differently depending on what kind of ticket is being upgraded and what it's being upgraded to. I'm not even remotely surprised that people are having trouble with it.

I hope that's all it is, but having trouble with it is one thing and a change in the rules is something different. Is there a possibility that price bridging of pre-increase non expiring tickets will only be bridged to the price on the day before the increase and added expiration terms (2/12/17) and is hard-coded into the systems? I'm just trying to see if the rules have changed here or if it's business as usual going forward.

 

[Hadley's Mom]

I have a question. I have some one day tickets from before they had an expiration date. Right now we have APs but I was going to add some days to the one day tickets on our next trip since I have some extra money. Would doing this then make the upgraded tickets have an expiration date?

 

[Robo]

I have a question. I have some one day tickets from before they had an expiration date. Right now we have APs but I was going to add some days to the one day tickets on our next trip since I have some extra money.

Would doing this then make the upgraded tickets have an expiration date?

Yes.
You would be upgrading to a "current" ticket.
Current tickets expire at the end of 2018.

 

[jmmess]

Recent updates and rule changes have made price bridging a lot more complicated on the part of the cast member. It used to be very simple in 99% of cases - now it involves multiple steps and is done differently depending on what kind of ticket is being upgraded and what it's being upgraded to. I'm not even remotely surprised that people are having trouble with it.

So, is it still possible to bridge to current gate price or no? And if yes, what do I need to ask them to do?

 

[poohntigger]

We are going in June and have 9 day base plus water parks tickets. We want to upgrade to platinum plus tickets....what will our cost be for 4?

 

[Robo]

So, is it still possible to bridge to current gate price or no? And if yes, what do I need to ask them to do?

Just ask to upgrade to the ticket you want.
Know in advance how much the upgrade should cost.