Upgrading a Citypass

[TwinsRmyLife]

Is there anyone who has done this recently. Can you tell me what the disney portion credit is, I have heard $250 and $265. If it is $265 and we want to add one day to it, and the 4 day hopper at disneyland is $289, does that mean it will cost 24 per person to add the 4th day on. just not quite sure how it all works. Also where do you go to do the upgrade

 

[Geemo]

Have you done a search here for CityPass?

I don't know the cost to add a day.
I'm sure the CityPass Representative that monitors the board will answer you soon.

The CityPass is a nice way to see Disney, Universal and SeaWorld.

Geemo

 

[riftguy]

You'll be credited either 260 or 265 depending on when you purchased the ticket. It's incredibly painless. Just take your passes to the ticket booths before it expires. You're correct on the 24 per adult pass if it was purchased after June.

 

[chabelita545]

We did this last year, upgrading 4 adult SoCal City Passes to 5 day hoppers at the main gate ticket booth. The cost was $200, or $50 per person. I'd been told by various sources it would only be $40 per person, so we were surprised, but what could we do? We paid it and enjoyed 2 more days in DLR.

We purchased our City Passes from getawaytoday for $314 each and my notes say 3 day hoppers were valued at $260.

 

[disneylandvisitor]

We just upgraded out CityPasses from Costco.ca to a 4 day hopper for $24/person. Great deal considering we also went to universal.

 

[CityPASS]

Hi There,

For 2014 Southern California CityPASS cards purchased prior to June 17, a credit of $260 for Ages 10+ and $244 for Ages 3-9 will be applied toward another ticket of equal or greater value. For 2014 Southern California CityPASS cards purchased June 17 or later, a credit of $265 for Ages 10+ and $254 for Ages 3-9 will be applied toward another ticket of equal or greater value. The final cost of the upgrade is based on current gate prices.

Also, we've had two customers report to us that they were told by Disney agents that they would need to turn in their CityPASS card when upgrading, even if they hadn't visited USH and/or SeaWorld. This is NOT the correct process for upgrading and I confirmed this with Disney management. Hopefully if any Disney staff was misinformed about this, they have been or will be soon corrected, but just in case, wanted to let everyone know, don't give up your card when upgrading!

 

[sgtdisney]

We did this on a recent trip. Bought our Citypass online and picked it up at Will-Call at the Disneyland Ticket booths. For our trip, it worked out that we visited SeaWorld and Universal before we started the "Disney" part of our trip. All in all it worked out good for us. We did get a 265 credit toward the purchase of the new tickets. We ended up adding one day and it was 24.00 per person.

The ticket agent did ask us if we had used the ticket already for Universal and SeaWorld and we had. They did let us keep the Citypass tickets, so we could keep them as a Souvenir. Disney gave us new (paper) park hopper passes with the extra day on them. All in all, it was pretty simple. I wasn't sure why they asked us if we had used the SeaWorld/Universal tickets first, maybe because they would have had to things differently, but I didn't ask since we had.

The only small snafu we had was we originally tried to upgrade the tickets at the front desk concierge at the Disneyland Hotel. I had called from our room and talked to someone and they said we could upgrade Citypass in the Hotel. I had thought that I would save time in line at the Disneyland ticket window. However, when we went down to the lobby, the cast member looked at the tickets and said she'd never done that before so she talked to a "supervisor" who said "since they were "discounted" tickets they couldn't be upgraded at all." Luckily I had done my research here on this site and on CityPass's site and knew that was false. I told the cast member it was not true either and had her look it up on CityPass's website. She was surprised but said that it may only work at the ticket counters, which it did. Luckily, I knew better and didn't just listen to the castmember when she said they couldn't be upgraded at all.

Overall the Citypass tickets were great. I got to experience 6 days in 4 different theme parks (with the 1 day added at Disneyland) at a pretty reasonable price.

 

[TwinsRmyLife]

thank you for the clarification!! We are purchasing from costco.ca at $319. Will not be visiting seaworld but doing the math even if we bought 4 days hoppers through say Ares which is $265 right now,with exchange rate we are looking at at least $295, plus a universal ticket at $87 = $382 pp (so around $1528 total) doing it through citypass we are looking at around $343 pp ($1370 total) so totally worth it to save about $150!! more money for treats in the park! can anything be done with the seaworld ticket, if you don't use it you can't apply that value to anything else can you? or give them to someone. I hate to see it go to waste

 

[disneylandvisitor]

When we upgraded our CityPass, the ticket booth agent did ask us if we used out Universal/Sea World yet because we will lose the admission for them once we upgraded. Good thing we went to Universal the day before because he took our plastic CityPasses and gave us a 4 day hopper DL ticket. They had our names on them too.

 

[CityPASS]

Just wanted to reiterate that if you have not used the USH or SeaWorld portion of your CityPASS, that Disneyland should NOT be taking your CityPASS card. If the Castmember tells you that they will need to take your card in order for you to upgrade even if you haven't been to USH or Seaworld yet, they are wrong. See if you can get a supervisor or someone else to help. I confirmed this for the second time with Disneyland management because we have seen several questions on this topic. There IS a process for the Castmembers to use that allows CityPASS holders to keep their card if they have not visited USH or Seaworld yet.