When can you add extra days to tickets?

[adams3880]

This may be a totally stupid question but I have looked and still have no idea... I have read a bunch of times about people wanting to add park days onto the end of their stay and just paying the difference at park or resort. I understand how that works. My question is if you can do it in the beginning.

We're arriving in Orlando this Friday night, checking into Pop Saturday morning. We have 6 day tickets and scheduled all our fast passes for Sunday-Friday. DH just found out he gets Thursday off too so we're leaving earlier than planned and we'd love to putz around Flower and Garden on Saturday. (This will be our kids first time doing Epcot and we'd love to squeeze in a second day there.)

Is there any way to add a day the same way and use it when we check in or is it only AFTER the tickets have been activated going into a park?

 

[ravenclawtrekkie]

You can upgrade your tickets anytime up until the end of their last day (within 14 days of first use).

Doing it in the beginning of your trip is fine. Any ticket booth or Guest Relations location can do it. Your resort may or may not be able to. (I keep hearing conflicting information about what resorts can do to tickets these days.)

 

[DebbieB]

This may be a totally stupid question but I have looked and still have no idea... I have read a bunch of times about people wanting to add park days onto the end of their stay and just paying the difference at park or resort. I understand how that works. My question is if you can do it in the beginning.

We're arriving in Orlando this Friday night, checking into Pop Saturday morning. We have 6 day tickets and scheduled all our fast passes for Sunday-Friday. DH just found out he gets Thursday off too so we're leaving earlier than planned and we'd love to putz around Flower and Garden on Saturday. (This will be our kids first time doing Epcot and we'd love to squeeze in a second day there.)

Is there any way to add a day the same way and use it when we check in or is it only AFTER the tickets have been activated going into a park?

You can use the tickets on Saturday and that will be day one. Then add the day whenever it is convenient. The only thing is you will not be able to get fastpasses for Saturday until you add the day. Are the tickets part of a package?

 

[adams3880]

Thanks!!

So even if we use them Saturday, we won't lose any of our FPs? (Like it will eliminate Friday to set it back to 6 days.) That's what was making me nervous--when I went in to fiddle with things, it seemed like it was going to try to delete some. We're fine without FPs that first Saturday. We just want to let the kids wander and explore for a few hours.

 

[allysetraskos]

From what I understand you can technically use your tickets 3 days before your scheduled check in date by going to Guest Relations.. If you call Disney and ask they are instructed to tell you that you can't do this, however I've been doing some researching lately and people say that it works you just won't be able to pre-select FP+ for that day.
From my understanding FP+ is totally different, that your FP+ will stay locked in.
From what I read if you don't add a day onto your Sun-Fri & you go to a park on Sat-Thurs your Friday FP+ won't be eliminated it will just sit there unused.

 

[supersnoop]

We're your tickets purchased as part of a package? Separately from a third-party vendor? Or directly from Disney?

If you purchased separately and directly from Disney, you can upgrade in person any time.

If the tickets are part of a package, you can modify your tickets any time, even over the phone right now.

If your tickets are part of a package or purchased at a discount from a third party vendor, you can upgrade in person but you'll want to use the tickets first to lock in the current gate price. That will be applied towards the upgrade.

 

[ravenclawtrekkie]

If your tickets are part of a package or purchased at a discount from a third party vendor, you can upgrade in person but you'll want to use the tickets first to lock in the current gate price. That will be applied towards the upgrade.

Getting the correct pricing on an upgrade of package or discounted tickets is dependent on the CM knowing how to do their job, not on whether or not the ticket has been used. The procedure is the same either way.

I will die on this hill.

 

[adams3880]

We ordered from UT.

 

[p8ntldy]

We purchased two 5-day Park Hopper passes from UT before prices went up recently... if I want to upgrade (in person) during our trip to a 6-day Park Hopper and also add the Water Park Fun Option - how would I do it? Also, approx. what would it cost? Have never purchased from a discount third party vendor before -- alway bought as part of a package.

 

[seashoreCM]

For tickets purchased from outside vendors and already partially used, the correct price to pay for an upgrade is the difference between the ticket booth price of the original ticket and the ticket booth price of the tiekct you will end up with as of the time of the upgrade. To achieve that pricing, the ticketing CM has to perform the correct sequence of manual steps at his computer console.

For some tickets purchased directly from Disney, the starting price is the price of the ticket when originally purchased.

It is about 15 dollars more for ths sixth day down to about 11 dollars more for the tenth day.

Go to a ticket booth or a Guest Relations counter. The exact procedure you perform or see may be different if the ticket contents has already been coordinated with your Magic Band but does not differ depending on whom you purchased the ticket from.

Most tickets not part of packages will have expired at the end of the day on which you used the last thing (entitlement)., either theme park of water park. Not sure whether the cutoff is midnight even if the park hasn't closed.

 

[p8ntldy]

For tickets purchased from outside vendors and already partially used, the correct price to pay for an upgrade is the difference between the ticket booth price of the original ticket and the ticket booth price of the tiekct you will end up with as of the time of the upgrade. To achieve that pricing, the ticketing CM has to perform the correct sequence of manual steps at his computer console.

For some tickets purchased directly from Disney, the starting price is the price of the ticket when originally purchased.

It is about 15 dollars more for ths sixth day down to about 11 dollars more for the tenth day.

Go to a ticket booth or a Guest Relations counter. The exact procedure you perform or see may be different if the ticket contents has already been coordinated with your Magic Band but does not differ depending on whom you purchased the ticket from.

Most tickets not part of packages will have expired at the end of the day on which you used the last thing (entitlement)., either theme park of water park. Not sure whether the cutoff is midnight even if the park hasn't closed.

Thanks for the explanation! That helps me figure it out.

 

[supersnoop]

Getting the correct pricing on an upgrade of package or discounted tickets is dependent on the CM knowing how to do their job, not on whether or not the ticket has been used. The procedure is the same either way.

I will die on this hill.

Nope. If you don't use the ticket first, policy dictates that you'll only receive the value equal to what the third-party vendor paid for the ticket. You need to use the ticket first or it will not be "bridged" to the current gate price.

 

[seashoreCM]

It's as little as about 26 dollars more to add water park fun to a 5 to 10 day ticket that already has hopping.

But if you are at the water park ticket booth with your unused ticket then you run into a Catch 22 situation. You can't use the ticket there first to receive the more favorable gate price to gate price upcharge (bridged amount). You could buy a separate water park ticket and, later in a theme park, apply that towards water park fun but no change is returned from the 64 dollar cost of the water park ticket.

 

[Robo]

Nope. If you don't use the ticket first, policy dictates that you'll only receive the value equal to what the third-party vendor paid for the ticket. You need to use the ticket first or it will not be "bridged" to the current gate price.

ravenclawtrekkie is a current ticket CM at WDW.

 

[supersnoop]

ravenclawtrekkie is a current ticket CM at WDW.

Did this process change recently?

 

[Robo]

This (Did) this process change recently?

No.

 

[Mac30188]

For some tickets purchased directly from Disney, the starting price is the price of the ticket when originally purchased.

So if I bought a 5 day ticket directly from Disney prior to the prices going up and now I want to add a day the cost will be:

Price of 6 day ticket today - Price paid previously for 5 day ticket ? (They will charge me both for the day and for the pricing change of the ticket?)

Does it matter if I use the ticket or not?

 

[supersnoop]

So if I bought a 5 day ticket directly from Disney prior to the prices going up and now I want to add a day the cost will be:

Price of 6 day ticket today - Price paid previously for 5 day ticket ? (They will charge me both for the day and for the pricing change of the ticket?)

Does it matter if I use the ticket or not?

Correct. If Disney knows what you paid for the ticket, that's all the value you receive, whether you use if first or not.

 

[supersnoop]

No.

Wow, I guess you learn something new every day. So I could show up and try to upgrade my NE tickets with no intention of using them for another couple years? And they'd still be transferable via MDE?

 

[Robo]

Wow, I guess you learn something new every day. So I could show up and try to upgrade my NE tickets with no intention of using them for another couple years? And they'd still be transferable via MDE?

Never-used tickets have always been transferable.

I guess I don't understand your specific question.