1. You can do that.Hi! My family currently has Gold AP vouchers. We purchased them before the recent price increase and intend to activate them in Nov when we arrive for our trip. Since purchasing them we decided to take a Spring Break trip and need to upgrade the passes to Platinum to cover the black out dates (only three days which kills me but I don’t see any other choice). I was told multiple times this upgrade can only be done in person (I tried before the price hike so many times!!) so I intend to upgrade these passes during our Nov trip so everything is set and we can make our April fast passes without an issue. Question is
1. do I upgrade them the same time I activate them
2. or do I wait until after they have been activated to do the upgrade.
3. I am not sure if they will apply the current DVC Gold AP price or the price I paid (a $100 difference) -
4. wondering if waiting until after I activate would make a difference.
5. I really wish this could have been done beforehand over the phone - could have potentially saved me $100.
If you want the “old MYW” tickets with a 12/31/19 eticket expiration date with the 14-day usage range, UT is selling those through October 29th.Do UT tickets sell out fast?
So if I purchase a 6 day hopper (5 day plus 1 day free) from UT for $469 (e-ticket expiring 12/19), what do I pay to upgrade it to a DVC platinum? How do I know what the “pre-purchase price” is? And are we sure we can upgrade the old MYW tickets, even though Disney’s website suggests the contrary?I'm having trouble clearly wording my explanation.
There are many explanations of ticket upgrading and price-bridging that include the phrase "gate price," (over the years, that would include some of mine.)
But, the prices now called "gate price" are different (within the past few years) than they have been for many previous years.
If you are upgrading a pre-purchased ticket it will be a good plan to simply not use the "gate price" as a number in figuring upgrading pre-purchased tickets.
There is no "extra" $20 that is figured into or used in the calculation of the upgrade cost.
The "gate price" is not used in the upgrade transaction.
The "pre-purchase price" is the figure used in the upgrade transaction for both the original ticket value (or the "bridged value") and the upgraded ticket cost.
If a guest was looking at the cost of the upgraded ticket based on the price that is POSTED AT THE GATE for a ticket
(if that listed price included the $20 extra due to it being sold "at the gate,")
THAT $20 would be "nulled out" by the CM doing the upgrade.
The "$20 gate up charge" is not paid by (nor given to) the guest who is upgrading a ticket.
Check the price that was charged for a 6-day ticket on October 15, 2018. That listing should be in one of the first posts in this thread.How do I know what the “pre-purchase price” is?
Yes. Your 6-day MYW ticket retains the value of a 6-day ticket as of 10/15/18 and that value is applied to the new ticket to which you are “upgrading.”And are we sure we can upgrade the old MYW tickets, even though Disney’s website suggests the contrary?
1. Very likely. (That would be the prescribed procedure.)I have a MYW six day base ticket and I will be using it during a high priced week for the new ticket pricing (ie. it now costs way more than I paid for it )
1. If I choose to add a hopper to the ticket will they price it up to that week and then add the hopper price?
2. Or just an added hopper price?
1. Very likely. (That would be the prescribed procedure.)
2. Maybe. (It never hurts to "ask nicely.")
1. If you ARE intending to use your ticket's value to help pay for an AP, it doesn't matter if you let it expire before you get the AP.1. the ticket expires either 12/31/18 or 1/14/19 depending on which CM gave me correct information on phone before I came.
2. I'm not planning on returning until 6/19
1. If you ARE intending to use your ticket's value to help pay for an AP, it doesn't matter if you let it expire before you get the AP.
2. So... instead of renewing your current AP, you COULD wait until your next trip in June to THEN buy a NEW AP that would then be good for a full year after you first used it.
A few months ago, I purchased 2 child 10-day PH tickets and 2 adult 10-day PH tickets from UT with the plan to upgrade to AP during our trip next month since we'll be back in August. Our plans changed, and now we will only be going for MVMCP next month, but we will still be visiting for 10 days in August, so I'll save our 10-day tickets to use in August. My son will be turning 10 in March, so he will now need an adult ticket in August.
Would it be possible to upgrade his 10-day child ticket for an adult ticket in November without activating it (we will only need to use our MVMCP tickets), and possibly upgrade all of our PH tickets to PH Plus? Assuming tickets will be increasing again in February, I would like to do it now if I'm able to, but I'm thinking it won't be possible.
1. Nope.I purchased tickets from UT before the Disney ticket price increase. We have pay for 4 days get 2 days free. Anyway, my family has decided that they would like to go to one of the Disney water parks also on this trip. We've never done a water park at Disney and I'm not sure how to get a ticket for the water park. As I said, I have a ticket with 6 days available to use.
1. Can I use one of those days for the water park?
2. Do I upgrade at Disney and add a water park day onto what I have?
3. I just don't know how to get a water park ticket as I don't see that they sell them separately.
Thanks so much for any info you can give me.