Adding additional days to your Park Hopper Tickets

[Lexi]

I am going down to Disney in December and will be there for 10 days / 9 nights, as of right now I purchased a 9-day park hopper ticket. I am toying with the idea of adding one more day to make it a 10-day ticket. Is this something I have to decide before a certain point or can I just go to the front desk while I am down there and have them add it for me?? :shrug:

 

[Pioneer Hall]

Extra days (up until the max of 10) can be added to the ticket before it expires. So you can decide while you are there if you would like to pay to add that extra day.

 

[Diane Hughess]

So funny! I was just about to ask this question! My family is visiting the world at the end of August. We are supposed to fly home on a Sunday, but then I found out I have to attend a seminar in of all places, Orlando! So I figured instead of flying home to NJ on Sunday and turning around and flying BACK to Orlando on Monday, I'd just hang out for an extra day of Disney, while the family still flies home on Sunday. I'll just take a cab to the conference. We all have 8 day passes, I'll just tack on another day! Never went to Disney solo before!! It just figures that my Company chose then to have the meeting--they haven't booked a conference in FL for 12 YEARS! Why couldn't they choose another time when I am starving for a Disney trip?!?!?

 

[DrummerAlly]

The upgrade from a 9 day ticket to a 10 day ticket is so inexpensive that we usually just add on the extra day from the get go. This also gives us a good excuse to stay longer or go to the park on a day with didn't originally plan on.

I may be totally wrong, but I thought that you could change the ticket up until the point when you initially put it through the turn style.

 

[Nemo14]

Yes you can add extra days within 14 days of the first use, and once you get up to the 8 or 9 day range, asn additional day will cost only about $5.

 

[disneygirl76]

I am going down to Disney in December and will be there for 10 days / 9 nights, as of right now I purchased a 9-day park hopper ticket. I am toying with the idea of adding one more day to make it a 10-day ticket. Is this something I have to decide before a certain point or can I just go to the front desk while I am down there and have them add it for me?? :shrug:

Just before the tickets expired. You can even add non expiration to the tickets if you like if you have left over days and don't want to loose them. We have done that before. :sohappy:

 

[chwilson88]

Yes you can add extra days within 14 days of the first use, and once you get up to the 8 or 9 day range, asn additional day will cost only about $5.

Can you help me understand this? If park tickets are on the order of $30-40 per day per person, how is it that you can add-on for only $5? Does that mean that the initial purchase is always more, and if you wait and add-on it's less per day?

 

[mickeysshoes]

The more you play the less you pay!!!!

 

[sbkline]

Can you help me understand this? If park tickets are on the order of $30-40 per day per person, how is it that you can add-on for only $5? Does that mean that the initial purchase is always more, and if you wait and add-on it's less per day?

The more days you have on your ticket, the less it is per day. At one point (it may still be this way, I just don't remember how much the tickets are now), a 10 day pass amounted to around $23 per person per day.

 

[sbkline]

Just before the tickets expired. You can even add non expiration to the tickets if you like if you have left over days and don't want to loose them. We have done that before. :sohappy:

The No Expiration option can be a good deal under certain conditions, but I would strongly suggest AGAINST doing this for one remaining day on a 10 day pass. It costs over 200 bucks to add the NE option to 10 day day ticket, and if you only have one day left, that essentially amounts to paying over 200 bucks for a one day ticket. Right now, one day tickets are around $75, so that wouldn't be a good idea at all.

The no expiration option is only a good deal if you can use the remaining days at a later date without needing to buy additional days with it. Like, say, if you buy a 10 day ticket with no expiration, and you use 5 days for this trip, and save the other 5 for another trip, and that's all the days you need. Once you buy additional days (like if you need 6 days, and only have 5 left on last year's ticket), then the cost of the additional ticket pretty well negates whatever savings you had from the prepurchase of the first 5 days. In other words, Take whatever you paid for that 10 day, no expire ticket and divide it by two. That is essentially what those 5 days cost you for this trip. Then add on the price of a seperate one day ticket, and the total amount may end up being a little higher than if you simply bought a 5 day ticket last year and a 6 day ticket this year. You may still end up coming out slightly ahead, but only by a few dollars.

The No expire option may also be a good deal if you just want it for little one or two day visits here and there until the ticket is used up.

 

[slappy magoo]

Someone can correct me if this clarification is wrong, and either way it doesn't apply to the original poster's situation, but it may apply to someone else.

Once you start using a ticket, it expires 14 days from first use (if you don't buy the "no expiration" option). So if you want to upgrade the ticket, you can do so anytime after you first use it, for the next 14 days...as long as there are still days remaining on the ticket. In other words, if you had a 5 day ticket, but were planning to be in the area for 10 days, you use all 5 days right away, then after 2 days you decide you need one or two more days in the park, you can't add on. But as long as you have at least one day remaining on your ticket, you can upgrade.

 

[WDW Vet]

Can you help me understand this? If park tickets are on the order of $30-40 per day per person, how is it that you can add-on for only $5? Does that mean that the initial purchase is always more, and if you wait and add-on it's less per day?

Anything longer than a 4 day ticket it is only $5 which is the difference in cost for each day per additional day. So a 4 day ticket for an adult is $286 and a 5 day is $291 so the difference is the $5 but it's still 50 something per day if you average it out.

The original post was switching from 9 days to 10 days so for $5 why not. You can do that change before you go or during your stay. Even if you received your final packet from Disney you can make the change. Since you are increasing the dollar amount of the package there is no change fees applied

 

[Nemo14]

prices from the official WDW website:

 

[timeman]

So if you want to upgrade the ticket, you can do so anytime after you first use it, for the next 14 days...as long as there are still days remaining on the ticket. In other words, if you had a 5 day ticket, but were planning to be in the area for 10 days, you use all 5 days right away, then after 2 days you decide you need one or two more days in the park, you can't add on. But as long as you have at least one day remaining on your ticket, you can upgrade.

If you have a 5 day ticket like you are using in your example and you used all 5 days, you can add more days to it as long as it hasn't been more than 14 days from your first use. What this means is that you would be able to add one or two more days to that ticket even if you have used up all the days you originally had on that ticket as long as it is within the first 14 days of use. The only time you would not be able to add on any days to it would be if for example you wanted to add 2 days to it exactly 14 days from your first use, because the ticket expires after 14 days even if you haven't used all the days on it, so they would only let you add one day and you would have to use it that day.

 

[jmcdougall]

My question is: I have a 10 day park hopper, no expiration and have used 5 days of the ticket. We are going in 2 weeks and can I add 5 more days to this ticket and how would it be priced? I've never thought of adding days to a ticket. Thanks for the help!

 

[ArtieJim]

What about adding a water park for one day?

 

[Nemo14]

My question is: I have a 10 day park hopper, no expiration and have used 5 days of the ticket. We are going in 2 weeks and can I add 5 more days to this ticket and how would it be priced? I've never thought of adding days to a ticket. Thanks for the help!

You can't add days to a 10-day pass, even if there are only 5 days left on it. You already got the lowerr price per day.

 

[timeman]

What about adding a water park for one day?

If you are planning on going to a water park for only one day it is cheaper to just buy the water park ticket than to add the Water Parks & More option onto you ticket.

 

[CleveRocks]

Someone can correct me if this clarification is wrong, and either way it doesn't apply to the original poster's situation, but it may apply to someone else.

Once you start using a ticket, it expires 14 days from first use (if you don't buy the "no expiration" option). So if you want to upgrade the ticket, you can do so anytime after you first use it, for the next 14 days...as long as there are still days remaining on the ticket.

I'll correct you ... you're wrong. :ROFLOL: Sorry, I just couldn't resist, I'm just trying to have some fun.

But seriously, there is no rule against adding days to a ticket after all of the entitlements are used up. Even a totally used up ticket can have days added to it, as long as it hasn't been more than 14 days from the day the ticket was first used. For counting purposes, the day the ticket was first used is considered Day One, not Day Zero. The ticket is good through the end of Day 14, and is no good starting on Day 15 (unless the No Expiration option was purchased).

 

[CleveRocks]

My question is: I have a 10 day park hopper, no expiration and have used 5 days of the ticket. We are going in 2 weeks and can I add 5 more days to this ticket and how would it be priced? I've never thought of adding days to a ticket. Thanks for the help!

Sorry, no can do, and for two different reasons:

1) A Magic Your Way ticket can never, in its lifetime, hold more than a total of 10 theme park days. In other words, if you buy a 10-day theme park ticket, you can never add park days to it, ever.

2) A ticket can only be upgraded within the first 14 days of its first use, even if you buy the No Expiration option. Let's say you buy a 6-day ticket with No Expiration for your July trip, and you use only 2 of those days on your July trip; you have 4 days leftover. And then in December you realize you'll need 5 park days, so you want to add 1 day to yoiur existing ticket. You won't be allowed to do that, since a ticket can't be added to or upgraded past 14 days from that ticket's first use.