upgrading to annual pass question

[mapleleaf4ever]

I will be going to DW in April and have 8 day non-park hopper tickets. I am planning on changing ticket to an AP and use the AP to purchase Tables in Wonderland. My question is about when to do this. We plan on going to DTD the night of arrival, and could use the TIW discount if we had the card, and was thinking of going to customer service in DTD. My concern is that I have heard that you should use one park admission before changing ticket to AP. I am not clear on the reason, or even if it is true. Any help would be appreciated.

If you do need to go to CS at a park first, is there one that is quicker to go to? Will be staying at POP and will have a car.

 

[Missyrose]

I will be going to DW in April and have 8 day non-park hopper tickets. I am planning on changing ticket to an AP and use the AP to purchase Tables in Wonderland. My question is about when to do this. We plan on going to DTD the night of arrival, and could use the TIW discount if we had the card, and was thinking of going to customer service in DTD. My concern is that I have heard that you should use one park admission before changing ticket to AP. I am not clear on the reason, or even if it is true. Any help would be appreciated. If you do need to go to CS at a park first, is there one that is quicker to go to? Will be staying at POP and will have a car.

Where did buy the tickets originally?

 

[mapleleaf4ever]

Purchased from DW as part of package.

 

[POOHsie]

First, to try and answer your question, did you make your WDW reservations after Feb. 23, 2014? That is the date that ticket prices increased. If your reservation was made before that date, the package tickets have the older price value on them. Disney won't charge you the price increase between now and check-in unless you change your reservation in some way.

If you don't change your tickets, and then you check-in, you get your original tickets, and then upgrade those tickets before you enter a theme park, you will have to pay for the increase in ticket price, plus the upgrade. Your 8-Day base ticket has increased in price $15.98 (including tax).

If you enter a theme park first (using your original tickets), the ticket will be price-bridged to current gate value, and then the upgrade will be applied. (Sometimes the CM helping you won't price-bridge for no explainable reason. Know what you should owe, which is the AP gate price minus the 8-Day Base gate price. Add 6.5% tax, which is x 1.065. If the CM doesn't give you the right number, take back your tickets and find another CM to help you. Mention about Price-Bridging.)

If you had plans to get the TiW card for dinner at DTD on your first night, I can see the purpose of upgrading your original tickets first. Do you know that DTD parking lot is under major construction and much of the lot is closed. Doesn't matter if you take a bus or drive in, it is a major mess. If you're going anyhow, I would make plans for the West Side, not the more popular Marketplace (East Side). There is a Guest Services outlet on the West Side at the DisneyQuest building.

 

[jrjankowski8]

If you buy any ticket now (after the increase) can you upgrade later?

I am getting the 4 day hopper but may decide to plan a second trip for the same amount of time. In that case a annual pass would be cheaper.

 

[POOHsie]

If you buy any ticket now (after the increase) can you upgrade later?

I am getting the 4 day hopper but may decide to plan a second trip for the same amount of time. In that case a annual pass would be cheaper.

Yes, you can upgrade later. If the ticket is unused, it won't expire. If, however, you use the ticket during a trip, you have only those 4 days' use of the ticket in the parks to do your upgrade. After your ticket is finished, no upgrades are allowed. You have 14 days to use your tickets once you start using them. You can spread out their use in any way during those 14 days.

 

[Robo]

Yes, you can upgrade later. If the ticket is unused, it won't expire. If, however, you use the ticket during a trip, you have only those 4 days' use of the ticket in the parks to do your upgrade.

You have 14 days to use your tickets once you start using them. You can spread out their use in any way during those 14 days.

After your ticket is finished, no upgrades are allowed.

The bolded may or may not be true... if the ticket is associated with a MyDisneyExerience account and accessed via a MagicBand.
The new MDE situation can change the REASON that Disney had added that extra rule that stated,
"No upgrade after the day the final ticket asset is used."

I've not specifically seen anything new in this regard, but it just makes sense
that if a ticket is linked BY DISNEY COMPUTER to
an individual guest,
there's no need to worry that a used ticket can be "resold" to another person...
which WAS the reason for the rule I sited above.

 

[POOHsie]

The bolded may or may not be true... if the ticket is associated with a MyDisneyExerience account and accessed via a MagicBand.

Waiting to hear that from Disney. This is where Cheshire Figment is sorely missed. We know from his Ticket Sticky that tickets on KTTW cards were allowed to be upgraded after all assets were gone, with guest ID. The change-over to MDX and Magic Bands hasn't contained published details of upgrading rules, in an official way (to us on these Boards).

 

[Robo]

We know from his Ticket Sticky that tickets on KTTW cards were allowed to be upgraded after all assets were gone, with guest ID.

That's my logic.
The KTTW cards were "connected to guests directly by Disney" (individual NAMES printed right on the cards.)

And now, that would be even more the case with MDE.
(Heck, in most cases with MDE, there is not even an actual TICKET that could be resold.)