Upgrading Park Passes to Add More Days

[psiprez]

If we purchase 4-day Passes, and decide when we are there to go an extra day, can you have your passes upgraded to 5-day, and pay the difference? Or, would we need to buy 1-Day Passes?

Also, am I correct that you can add the No-Expire option before you leave? (ex. if you have a 6-day pass, and have one day left over you wish to save, you can add it but must pay for all 6 days to be no-expire)

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

If we purchase 4-day Passes, and decide when we are there to go an extra day, can you have your passes upgraded to 5-day, and pay the difference? Or, would we need to buy 1-Day Passes?

Upgrade your 4-day pass before it expires and before the 4th day is used and you will only have to pay the difference between the cost of your 4-day pass and the gate price of a 5-day pass. If the pass has expired, or you have used all 4 days that were on the pass, you can no longer upgrade it.

Also, am I correct that you can add the No-Expire option before you leave? (ex. if you have a 6-day pass, and have one day left over you wish to save, you can add it but must pay for all 6 days to be no-expire)

Yes, you can add the no-expiry option to your pass before you leave as long as it is within 14 days of the first day that the pass was used. You must pay for the upgrade for all of the days that were originally on the pass, regardless of how many remain unused. So if you have 1 day left on a 6-day MYW pass, you will pay to add "no-expiry" to a 6-day pass and not a 1-day pass.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

not trying to hijack the thread, but does anyone know how they arrive at how much of a credit they will give you to upgrade Park Hopper Plus passes to MYW tickets? Here's my situation..I have 2 7-day Park hopper plus passeswith 4 water park options. We used only 1 day park admission on each. We paid about $320/each for them. Is it true that they prorate the remaining days at the original purchase price? Do they include the water park options? I really want to convert these tickets to the 10 day, parkhopping, nonexpiring, 5 added waterpark admissions (did I forget anything), but if it comes out better to just keep what I have, I will. I need to purchase 2 new kids passes, and I just wanted us to all be on the same numbers.

 

[seashoreCM]

Upgrading a 4 day expiring pass to a 5 day expiring pass costs nine dollars if it is less than 14 days after first usage.

Currently they pro-rate the gate price of a (pre-2005) hopper pass as of the date the pass was manufactured when you do a trade up to (post-2004) Magic Your Way passes. But ask what the trade up value is before giving the go-ahead to the CM to do it. A different less favorable formula is used when trading towards an annual pass.

For hopper plus passes, whether or not any plusses are still there does not contribute to computing the trade up value but if zero days and some plusses were used, something is deducted to arrive at the trade up value. Unused plusses are not added to the water park fun admissions you are purchasing with the new pass.

Should you trade in a 7 day hopper plus pass one of whose days was used, and get a 10 day pass? I am guessing that trading in those old passes is a tossup, bargain wise.

A non-expiring pass is best purchased when you foresee sometime in the future another vacation short enough that the remains of the pass fully cover it.

(Caution: Math Ph.D. required to read beyond this point)
You paid $320. apiece for a 7 day hopper plus and you used one day so 6/7'th of the price is $274. for trading up with. You need to add $141. to get a 10 day non-expiring hopping pass with water park fun which gives you four more days, one more water park admission, and ability to choose Disney Quest which you did not previously have. I value the 4 more days at $31. each and the one more water park admission at $16.

If instead you bought the 10 day non-expiring for $415. without trade in, I value its contents as 10 days at $33. each and 5 water park admissions at $17. each. The old pass still in your hands with its $274 trade up value has six more days at $34. each and four plusses at $17. each.

(Roughly I valued each remaining park day as twice the value of each remaining plus.)

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