upgrading hopper tickets to APs

[robbs49]

Can you upgrade hopper tickets that you buy as part of a Disney package to an AP when you get to Disney? I know you can in Florida, but California and Florida have different rules for things. How do you know the value of the tickets when they have it all grouped in as a package deal????

 

[bumbershoot]

Yes.

The tickets should have the value of the same sort of ticket pre-purchased from disneyland.com. While WDW doesn't discount ticket-only purchases, DLR does, so if you check out the normal pre-purchase deal online (not a special like 5 for 3, or everyone pays kid's price, etc) that should be what your tickets are valued at.

Then you take the cost of the AP and subtract the value, and that's what you pay.

At WDW they "bridge" the price, but at DLR you don't, so the value of the ticket is the value of the ticket.

When we went, our adult tickets were valued at something like 189. The APs our first time were 239, or something like that. The adults each paid $50, DS paid more b/c APs are all the same cost, but his ticket was valued as less.


Be sure to watch out for blockout days; you can upgrade ON a blockout day and stay at the park (and hop and all), but you do not want to upgrade *before* a blockout day during your trip, if you're planning on going to the parks on that blockout day.

 

[pixiewings71]

Yup, like Molly said, the tickets you get will have a price "encoded" on them, on our last trip with hoppers we had 3 adults and 1 child, the 1 child ticket was less than the 3 adults, but it still only cost us around $200 to upgrade all 4 hoppers to Deluxe APs. We did our upgrade at the ticket booth, but you could just walk into the AP processing center and do it there, we did it at the booth because there was no line and we weren't sure we were going to do it or not.