Upgrading a ticket, and Resort Key Question

[scott6]

OK, my wife was sweet enough to surprise me with 1 day PHs for our upcoming trip to CA in July. Because of crowd sizes, and the fact we will have our son with us for his first visit (he'll be 7 months old), we decided to stay 2 days, and book a night at the Grand Californian.

I know you can upgrade a ticket easily at Guest Services (or any ticket window i assume), but does anybody know if we can upgrade it at check-in to the hotel, and transfer the tickets from the "e-ticket" state they are in now, to being a 2 Day PH on our resort key, without paying extra fees?

Thanks from a newbie to this board.

 

[hardingk]

Good question....I was wondering this too. Debating if we should buy our tickets ahead of time and can covert them at the hotel or if we should just buy them there.

 

[glendalais]

Unfortunately, unlike the Walt Disney World Resort, the Disneyland Resort is unable to transfer Theme Park Admission Tickets onto the Key to the Magic Cards at this time.

 

[scott6]

Unfortunately, unlike the Walt Disney World Resort, the Disneyland Resort is unable to transfer Theme Park Admission Tickets onto the Key to the Magic Cards at this time.

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately. does this mean we will not be able to use the Grand Californian entrance into DCA?

 

[mechurchlady]

The GCH entrance into DCA is open to all DLR hotel guests once they are checked in and it does not matter what their park admission is. That said once you are checked into the hotel you can use the DCA entrance.

 

[scott6]

The GCH entrance into DCA is open to all DLR hotel guests once they are checked in and it does not matter what their park admission is. That said once you are checked into the hotel you can use the DCA entrance.

Thanks a lot! I had thought maybe the turnstyles were programmed to only accept room key/tickets.

 

[bumbershoot]

The room keys at DLR do not *ever*, so far, have tickets on them. That might change in the future, but there are no tickets on room keys at this time.

Heck, they only recently started having charging on the room keys! When we stayed onsite in Sept '07 you had to carry your ticket, room key, and a slip of white paper with your stay info on it, and you had to show room key and white paper to charge food/stuff to your room! So the KTTW (er, KTTL???) type key they have now is more advanced than it was a short time ago...