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

[ThornXBL]

Hmm, so it sounds like the pre-price increase 6 Day Park Hoppers we have will cost more than $15/ea to upgrade & add on water parks (upgrade to Park Hopper Plus)? It'll actually be closer to $60 each??

Current 6 Day Park Hopper Plus: $511.20 -
Old 6 Day PH: $451.56

Upgrading them before the price increase (if we were able to be there in person, which we weren't) would have been $27.xx~ each...

If anyone has done this already (added on water parks to pre-increase park hoppers; i.e. upgrading from an old Park Hopper to current Park Hopper Plus), I'd be thrilled to know how it went and what the cost was.

 

[AngiTN]

If anyone has done this already (added on water parks to pre-increase park hoppers; i.e. upgrading from an old Park Hopper to current Park Hopper Plus), I'd be thrilled to know how it went and what the cost was.

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.

 

[supersuperwendy]

Robo I need your help!! If someone has a package booked and one of the guests has an AP, can that guest have their package tickets pulled off and put onto a card for future use at guest services?? I would think yes at Disney Springs prior to touching a park, possible?

 

[Robo]

Robo I need your help!! If someone has a package booked and one of the guests has an AP, can that guest have their package tickets pulled off and put onto a card for future use at guest services?? I would think yes at Disney Springs prior to touching a park, possible?

It won't matter.
Once a ticket (or AP) is put into a guest's MDE, even if a card ticket is later issued, that CARD will also just access the MDE account,
interchangeably with any MagicBands.

The SOLUTION to holding new tickets separate from being used, is to create a "made-up name" (fictional guest name) in the MDE account and transfer that new ticket into that fictional guest's name/account. Since that fictional guest won't be entering the park, the ticket will not be accessed.

Then, in the future, the unused ticket can be instantly transferred back to a "real" guest
for use at that time.

 

[supersuperwendy]

It won't matter.
Once a ticket (or AP) is put into a guest's MDE, even if a card ticket is later issued, that CARD will also just access the MDE account,
interchangeably with any MagicBands.

The SOLUTION to holding new tickets separate from being used, is to create a "made-up name" (fictional guest name) in the MDE account and transfer that new ticket into that fictional guest's name. Since that fictional guest won't be entering the park, the ticket will not be accessed.

Then, in the future, the unused ticket can be instantly transferred back to a "real" guest
for use at that time.

Ok Robo thanks, that is worth a try for sure. Then once the trip is complete that unsused hopper can be transferred back to the intended guest?

 

[Robo]

Ok Robo thanks, that is worth a try for sure. Then once the trip is complete that unsused hopper can be transferred back to the intended guest?

Yup.

 

[biochemgirl]

829.64 for ap so 362.10 per adult... um that sucks its now more than it would have been a few months backto upgrade .

Yep, right there with you. I want to upgrade in a couple weeks and it looks like the deal is not going to be as good as I'd hoped

 

[momtwoboys]

Yep, right there with you. I want to upgrade in a couple weeks and it looks like the deal is not going to be as good as I'd hoped

yeah at least I know now and we will not bother. The money on Disney gift cards will go towards food for this trip 2017 and roll over to 2018 food too!

 

[MichelleB]

I have one more question, Robo....thank you so much for all of your help!

I currently have 5 day base tickets that were bought pre-ticket increase. I know those have a value of $362.10. I'm confused on upgrading and adding an extra couple of days. I'm trying to determine if I decide to upgrade my 5 days to 8 MYW, what the price difference will be. Do they use the $447.30 online pre-purchase price or the $468.60 gate price?

 

[Robo]

I have one more question, Robo....thank you so much for all of your help!

I currently have 5 day base tickets that were bought pre-ticket increase.
1. I know those have a value of $362.10.
I'm confused on upgrading and adding an extra couple of days. I'm trying to determine
2. if I decide to upgrade my 5 days to 8 MYW, what the price difference will be. Do they use the $447.30 online pre-purchase price or the $468.60 gate price?

1. Correct.
2. Subtract $362.10 from the CURRENT WDW PRICE of $447.30
So, it will cost $85.20 to add the three additional days.

 

[bdarling]

I bought tickets that are a voucher and need to be exchanged at the TTC or ticket window. My ILs bought FL resident passes and also have vouchers to exchange. We are checking in offsite at Bonnet Creek on Sunday afternoon then have a dinner at California Grill at 9:20, and want to see Wishes at 8:45.

Will this plan work...

Drive to Contemporary and park around 7PM
Take Monorail to TTC
Exchange vouchers
Monorail back to Contemporary
Check in for Wishes
eat
Use tickets the next morning

I am wondering if the TTC will do the exchange at 7pm or should be get there earlier on Sunday. If earlier, can we go without paying parking somehow?

 

[SUSIEQ]

1. Correct.
2. Subtract $362.10 from the CURRENT WDW PRICE of $447.30
and Subtract the $20 "Gate fee." (no tax on that $20 gate fee.)

So, it will cost $65.20 to add the three additional days.

I'm trying to follow all of this closely and learn everything I can. So can you explain why she would subtract the $20, when the $447.30 is the pre-arrival rate? Thanks!

 

[Robo]

Subtract $362.10 from the CURRENT WDW PRICE of $447.30
So, it will cost $85.20 to add the three additional days.

 

[Robo]

I'm trying to follow all of this closely and learn everything I can. So can you explain why she would subtract the $20, when the $447.30 is the pre-arrival rate? Thanks!

Because I was doing the computation incorrectly.
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A ticket upgrade MUST be done at a ticket window or Guest Relations ("at the gate.")
So, what will happen when a guest goes to "the gate" to upgrade is that the "at the gate" price will come up
on the computer for the NEW ticket (which will be $20 higher than the on-line price.)
At this point, the ticket CM should compute the price-bridged upgrade value of the guest's original ticket,
THEN, add $20 additional to that upgrade value,
THEN, subtract that total amount from the gate price of the new ticket.

That way, the extra $20 is not lost by the guest.

 

[Robo]

I bought tickets that are a voucher and need to be exchanged at the TTC or ticket window. My ILs bought FL resident passes and also have vouchers to exchange. We are checking in offsite at Bonnet Creek on Sunday afternoon then have a dinner at California Grill at 9:20, and want to see Wishes at 8:45.

Will this plan work...

Drive to Contemporary and park around 7PM
Take Monorail to TTC
Exchange vouchers
Monorail back to Contemporary
Check in for Wishes
eat
Use tickets the next morning

I am wondering if the TTC will do the exchange at 7pm or should be get there earlier on Sunday. If earlier, can we go without paying parking somehow?

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

Guest Relations / Will Call is at #9 on the map.

 

[Robo]

Oh, what FUN all of this is!

 

[amberpi]

Ok, I have a stupid question about Military tickets, because I know nothing about the military, so I apologize if this is dumb. Military tickets, and discounts, are only for uniformed military, correct? Not for advisers with clearance and a military id, right? The uniformed bit would not be inclusive of a civilian expert working for the military. Again, sorry for my ignorance.

 

[Hatwriter456]

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?

 

[dtstampz]

So, does Disney know the price paid for all of the tickets purchased through UCT, etc?
I have a couple that are the old "paper" tickets from 2011...

 

[AngiTN]

So, does Disney know the price paid for all of the tickets purchased through UCT, etc?
I have a couple that are the old "paper" tickets from 2011...

No, they only know the price they sold the ticket to UT. They have no idea what UT (or any reseller) sells them for