Tickets Question

[sweetinmaine]

I purchased 7 day, no expiration, park hopping tickets for the family last year. We've used more days than the kids and now want to add to them. Can we just add to these existing tickets the days that we need or do I just purchase new tickets. I'd be adding 5 days, no exp, park hopping.

 

[Lucky4me]

They will take your remaining days and prorate them into a new ticket.
I believe you will be better off money wise to use up the days and buy new tickets.

Sign up for Mousesavers newsletter and they'll send you a link to ticketmania for discounted tickets. They're the cheapest I've seen lately.

 

[erikthewise]

They will take your remaining days and prorate them into a new ticket.
I believe you will be better off money wise to use up the days and buy new tickets.

Not necessarily.
Let's suppose you have two days left and need a 7-day ticket. Let's assume you want expiring park hopper.

You could use the last two days and buy a 5-day ticket. That's $242.82 at the gate.

Or you could cash in your old ticket and buy a 7-day ticket. That's $249.21 at the gate. I'm not sure what they will give you for your remaining two days, but I'll bet it's more than $7!

There are a lot of different possibilities of course, but in many of them cashing in the old ticket will be better.

 

[seashoreCM]

The best bet for the old leftover tickets is to save them for a vacation that they (together with other leftovers) will fully cover, and then use the tickets as-is. Buy new tickets as needed in the meantime.

If the ticket was used more than 14 days ago or was manufactured before 1/2/05, you cannot do upgrades in the sense of adding days for as little as three dollars apiece.

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

 

[erikthewise]

Another reasonable use (if not strictly best) for old tickets is to apply them to the purchase of an annual pass, assuming that an AP makes sense for you. But it is definitely harder to get good value for old passes under the MYW scheme.

 

[Lucky4me]

I'm pretty sure they'll only give you what you paid for the ticket divided by how many days the ticket was originally for. You cannot upgrade an old ticket, so using up the old ones first or on a future trip makes the most sense.