Tickets: No expiration option question

[design_mom]

I've asked this question twice via e-mail on the Walt Disney World web site, but I haven't received a response either time, so I'm hoping someone here knows.

We are planning to go to WDW this year with DD3 and DS7. I am considering buying tickets for more days than we plan to use on this trip. I know we'll go back again, but I don't know exactly when.

My question is: If I buy DS7 an extended ticket with the no expiration option, what happens if we haven't used all the days by the time he turns 9. (I think 9 is the point at which they need an adult ticket.

• Are the remaining days forfeited?
• Can DS still use the remaining days?
• Can those days be redeemed toward the price of an adult ticket?
• Can those days be transferred to DD?

Does anybody know? Thanks so much.

Kim
planning a trip for December, 2007

 

[KINGBOBOFTHENORTH]

No expiration means no expiration.

Heck, the attendants at the turnstyles are simply making sure people coming through put the tickets in right and put their finger in the right place. They're not looking to see what age anyone inputting a ticket is!

BobK/Orlando

 

[DisneyFanatik]

Are the remaining days forfeited? No. Non expiring tickets do not ever expire.

Can DS still use the remaining days? Kind of depends on his size and how old he actually is when you return (and how you feel about it). I personally wouldn't have a problem letting my DS use his "child" ticket if he was 9 or 10, but if he was 13 on the next trip (and looked it) I wouldn't be comfortable doing it!

Can those days be redeemed toward the price of an adult ticket? Yes they can. You need to go to Guest Services in Downtown Disney.

Can those days be transferred to DD? Yes, we did this. I had DS(14)'s ticket from when we went in 2001 (DS(8) was under 3 at the time so he didn't need a ticket). When we returned in 2004 older DS needed an adult ticket, so we bought him a new ticket and we went to Guest Services to have his old child's ticket transferred to younger DS. No problem.

Have a great trip!

 

[Indy's Girl]

9 is still considered a child, 10+ is an adult. If you buy the non-expiring option for your 7 year old and return when he is 10 or older, lets say just for example with 3 days remaining, go to guest services and his ticket will be converted to a 3day adult ticket AT NO EXTRA COST. The CM will look at your son's age and the date the ticket was purchased to make sure that it makes sense for him to have been 9 or younger at time of purchase (so for example, if your son was 16 and the ticket was purchased the prior year they could tell there was no way it was his ticket, but if it was purchased 8 years ago you are good to go).

 

[DisneyFanatik]

I do believe that there is a cost involved in upgrading the ticket to an adult ticket. In the scenerio that I previously mentioned, my older ds "outgrew" the remaining days on his child ticket. Guest services said that they would charge me the difference and give him an adult ticket. They would not just give me an adult ticket for him (no charge). Since my younger DS needed a ticket anyway I just used the child ticket for him.

 

[seashoreCM]

There is no cost to convert a child ticket to an adult ticket:
(1) if the ticket has already undergone usage, and,
(2) when the owner does it himself perhaps with his parent standing over his shoulder, and,
(3) no additional days, hopping, other features other than non-expiration are added, and,
(4) the ticket has not already expired.

If more days, etc. are desired, add them first, and convert to adult at a later date.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

The CM in the above scenario may have goofed. Should that happen, the ticket owner save receipts and the used ticket and his Dumbo memory and revisit the subject at Guest Relations on a future visit.

 

[dancin Disney style]

In my experience, there is no charge to make a childs ticket into an adult ticket as long as the ticket was purchased while the child was between 3-9 years of age. Also, at this time they are not using the biometrics for kids so you could pass the ticket down to a younger child.

 

[design_mom]

Thanks everyone. It sounds like we wouldn't have a problem with him "aging out" of the ticket. It's amazing how much easier it was to get an answer from here than from Disney themselves though.

Thanks for your help!

Kim
planning a trip for December, 2007