Upgrading package tickets

[figmentfan704]

Can you upgrade MYW park passes once you get to the resort/park? We have 4 people in our group with 4 day base tickets (in a package). I wanted to upgrade and get 10 days with no expiration (it was only 123.00 more). I couldn't sell the rest of the people in my group to do this. Is it possible?
thanks!
Christina

 

[kaytieeldr]

It's not only possible, it's being a smart consumer!

Here's what I've done this year:
1/05
Used remaining two days on existing old park hopper
Purchased a three-day expiring non-hopper pass.
Upgraded that pass to six-day non-expiring hopper pass.
Used two days of new pass (four days remaining)
9/05
Upgraded same pass to ten-day non-expiring hopper pass.
(eight actual days available)
Used four days of pass
(departure day) Upgraded same pass to add five Plus options.
Came home with four park days and five hopper options remaining. Oh, and one day pass I was required to purchase to make trip a package and qualify for free dining, which I can apply at some future date to a new, multi-day non-expiring hopper pass - assuming Disney doesn't change things again

 

[seashoreCM]

(revised) According to the rules, adding days and options can only be done during the first 14 days from first usage. Thereafter you have to do dollar value trading up which would make adding the five plus options cost well more than $48.

If you had been unable to get the new pass all the way to ten day non-expiring using upgrades, using the old hopper pass for the first two days would have been highly disadvantageous dollar wise.

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

 

[GoldenOldie]

More than likely it's a terminology thing. Her September ticket changes could not have been done as "upgrades" since she was past the 14 day window. Doesn't matter whether you have expiring or non-expiration tickets, you can only do an "upgrade" in that 14 day window. They were undoubtedly handled as a dollar value transaction.

Many people think that what they are doing is upgrading their ticket each time and call it that. In Disneyspeak though, it isn't. But the guest would often not know the difference in the two transactions and call each of them an upgrade.

 

[seashoreCM]

>>> think what they are doing is upgrading
>>> upgraded same pass to 10 day non-expiring (8 days available)

I hope the CM did a real upgrade for her, mistake or not.

A trade-up to a 10 day would have 10 days available. Any acquisition of 8 days non-expiring is a horrendous deal unless deeply discounted perhaps as a promotion.