Upgrading Disney passes

[dazza3]

Hello Everyone

I just wanted to ask a question - I am new to the Boards but not new to WDW!

We went last November and bought 10 day non- hopper non-expiry WDW tickets. It was a great deal at about $300 a ticket as I recall.

Unexpectedly we've decided to go back this August - mainly since I found a VIrgin Holiday still offereing a free child place on a 3 week trip )

My question is this. In November we didn't pay the extra for water parks, etc since it wasn't that warm.

Someone mentioned that they think we can add them now (we have 6 days each left on a 10day ticket). I think I read somewhere I can upgrade for $50 a ticket and that gives 6 plus options. Can anyone confirm this is correct? And if so, do they have a time limit when they expire?

Sorry to ramble
Darren

 

[JohnnySharp2]

Darren,
This is a complicated one, however, I presume you have the MYW tickets?:

"Disney allows UPGRADING only within the first first 14 days for MYW tickets. After the fourteenth day, they will not upgrade it but they will apply the DOLLAR CREDIT of any unused major park admissions towards the purchase price of the new ticket. This will only be done if you have MYW tickets with the no expiration option added.

UPGRADING is the act of applying the entire original purchase price towards the new MYW ticket or AP/PAP. DOLLAR CREDIT is the act of applying the current dollar value (not the entire purchase price) of the unused major park admissions on the ticket towards the new one. Unused plus options carry no dollar value"

see:
www.allearsnet.com/pl/ticket.htm#credpass

So it sounds like you cannot upgrade your tickets as it is not within 14 days, but you can use the purchase price of the originals and put this money towards brand new passes.

Sorry - if I am incorrect in this please someone confirm?

 

[wilma-bride]

I think that's pretty much it in a nutshell Johnny

 

[JohnnySharp2]

I am sure I saw a link somewhere this morning that said you couldn't upgrade passes or get credit towards new passes if the tickets have already been used. I'm sure there was a link to AllEars. I will see if I can find it.

I have put a link in my post Joh - just searching around to see if I could help, hence the doubt about whether my post was 100% correct.

 

[wilma-bride]

I have put a link in my post Joh - just searching around to see if I could help, hence the doubt about whether my post was 100% correct.

Sorry Johnny, just found it and realised you are correct. Was obviously editing my post as you were quoting me

 

[JohnnySharp2]

Sorry Johnny, just found it and realised you are correct. Was obviously editing my post as you were quoting me

No worries Joh, we are obviously both helpful people.

 

[dazza3]

ok many thanks for this. one more question

is the dollar value they talk about a staright calculation? i.e. if i buy a 10 day ticket for $400, and use 5 days of it, they offer $200 credit for the unused 5 days on a new ticket?

Many thanks

D

 

[mattnkatsmum]

Mmm. I'm in a similar position as you with some unused tickets and as I understand it all that Disney will give you is the unused dollar credit. As Disney heavily weights the first few days of a pass (after about the fifth day, you only pay a couple of dollars a day fo additional days) I fathomed that it is just now financially viable to use that credit.

Allears has some excellent advice in this regard, but the gist of it being that it's generally not worth applying the dollar credit. It'll probably be cheaper to pay out of pocket for the water park passes.

If I've got this wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me, but I'm fairly sure that my understanding is correct.