Using days left on old tickets...

[dbal]

Hi- I wasn't sure which board this ? would go on, so I picked this one since it's my favorite.

We have trip planned for 5 days in Dec. for our family of 6 - on the dining plan. We got everyone a 5 day hopper. My dh and I just found our tickets from a previous trip and there are 4 tix w/ 1 day left on each ticket.

Is it possible to cancel a 5 day hopper for one person and purchase a 1 day base tix and have her use the remaining days on our old tix. (use a different ticket each day and then use the new base ticket another day)

I'm not sure if there is a better or easier way to do this? Thanks.

 

[momof2inPA]

If you didn't have your fingerprint scanned to use the old tickets, anyone should be able to use them. You could even sell them on ebay. People pay big bucks for a one day parkhopper.

 

[gris gris]

We're planning on doing this.....DH & I have 4 days each in unexpired tickets. We're buying a 1 day pass for each of us plus a 5 day for DD.

 

[pezpam]

Bear in mind that if you're doing the package, you need to get the same tickets for everyone, at least to start. If you make her ticket a 1-day pass, yours will have to be a 1-day pass, which you can then have upgraded to a 5-day pass at the parks - paying the difference between what they figure you paid for the 1-day ticket as part of the package and the current 5-day price.

Not that it can't be done, but there's just an extra step.

Now, as far as using your old tickets for someone else, they're nontransferable and the topic often results in a lot of flames from both sides of the debate. Bear in mind that if you're caught, they reserve the right to confiscate the ticket and escort you out of the park, which is a pretty big potential downside, ethical arguments aside........

 

[gris gris]

Now, as far as using your old tickets for someone else, they're nontransferable and the topic often results in a lot of flames from both sides of the debate. Bear in mind that if you're caught, they reserve the right to confiscate the ticket and escort you out of the park, which is a pretty big potential downside, ethical arguments aside........

My tickets from 1999 don't have my name on them - how does Disney know who they belong to?

 

[dbal]

pezpam- Are you sure that everyone needs the same ticket for the dining package? I was under the impression that everyone in your party had to have the dining portion- but the ticket portion was a minimum requirment of each person having a 1 day base ticket.

If anyone else has experience with this- I would appreciate your input.

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

My tickets from 1999 don't have my name on them - how does Disney know who they belong to?

Unless you scanned your finger when you used that ticket, Disney doesn't know who it belongs to. Now, they make all adults do a fingerscan when they use a ticket...even the old park hoppers. Once your finger is scanned along with the ticket, the information is stored together. There's still no name tied to it, just your biometrics and the ticket's info.

If you didn't have your fingerprint scanned to use the old tickets, anyone should be able to use them. You could even sell them on ebay. People pay big bucks for a one day parkhopper.

The sale of partially-used theme park tickets is illegal in Florida. eBay does not allow them to be auctioned on their site. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, because eBay cannot police every auction but if you get caught selling them, they will shut your auction down. If you try repeatedly, you will get booted off of eBay.

Pezpam's advice to change your ressie to 1-day base tickets for everyone and then upgrading only the ones that you need to is probably the only way to keep your package and use the passes that you just found. Another alternative would be to save them for another trip when you don't have a package reserved.

 

[Hannathy]

We were there last week and when I asked about upgrading only one of the passes -that we bought to get the dining- they said all four passes would have had to be upgraded to the same days. Two different places told us the same thing all passes on the package need to be the same. I bought my DS and myself passes from Ticketmania and my DH and DD used old days from other trips and we brought home the passes from the plan and will upgrade those for the next trip.

 

[DisneyCowgirl]

pezpam- Are you sure that everyone needs the same ticket for the dining package? I was under the impression that everyone in your party had to have the dining portion- but the ticket portion was a minimum requirment of each person having a 1 day base ticket.

If anyone else has experience with this- I would appreciate your input.

When we went in May, I booked a package with dining and one-day tickets for each of me and DH. When we got there, we went to guest services in our hotel and confirmed how many days were left on the old tickets and then added days to only DH's new ticket. They did not make us both have the same number of days and it only took a few minutes to make the change at guest services.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

When you are purchasing a package all tickets purchased as part of the package must be the same.

When you go to a ticket window at any park (including water parks) or a Guest Relations window at a park or DTD, you can have tickets upgraded.

To do what you want would mean changing the package tickets to one day each person and then upgrading five of them to five day tickets.

Any tickets issued prior to 1/1/05 will not have any biometrics on them. However, when one such ticket is put through a turnstile it will then require a biometric scan which will be tied to that ticket. Since you have four one-day remaining tickets without biometrics, all four of them can be used on separate days by one person.

 

[momof2inPA]

The sale of partially-used theme park tickets is illegal in Florida. eBay does not allow them to be auctioned on their site. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, because eBay cannot police every auction but if you get caught selling them, they will shut your auction down. If you try repeatedly, you will get booted off of eBay.

I've seen a million of these auctions. I used to bid on the plusses, but they always went too high. I wouldn't buy them from ebay, now, with the finger scans in place, but LOTS of people do.