Annual Pass Question.

[Skylinecar1982]

If I have a 10 park hopper, water park and more, no expiration for $555.00 at Undercovertourist then I want to upgrade at Disney World for normal annual passes how would that work??

The Annual pass is $520 at Disney. Would they give money back to me?

 

[lilclerk]

No because if you have the water park & more option, you have to upgrade the ticket to a Premium Annual Pass.

 

[Rob562]

No because if you have the water park & more option, you have to upgrade the ticket to a Premium Annual Pass.

Actually, that's not *quite* true... If you have the Water Parks & More option and you've USED any of those WP&M admissions, then you're forced to upgrade to a Premium AP. But before you use them (or before you use the ticket at all), they're just considered a dollar-amount value on the ticket.

As for the answer to the OP, you're out of luck, unfortunately. Disney does not give refunds when trading *down* tickets. You're either stuck using the 10-day ticket as-is, taking the hit in the wallet and end up paying *more* for an AP than you normally would, or upgrading to a Premium AP.

When you're buying a ticket through a reseller, the trick is to buy one that gives a good discount, but make sure that its gate value is still LESS than the ticdket you want to upgrade to.

EDIT: Also, as long as you use a major theme-park admission before you upgrade the ticket (to lock-in the gate-price value), even though you only paid $555 for it, that ticket's value when applying it toward an upgrade is the current gate-price for it, $592.14. So the upgrade to a Premium AP would be about $67.

-Rob

 

[Skylinecar1982]

Thank you for your answers. Just thinking of something because I know one year I had bought 7 day passes from undercovertourist and decided when I was down there I wanted to upgrade and I remember getting a good deal because I got the discount from undercovertourist of the gate price and when I upgraded they treated it like a gate ticket and ended up saving that money on the AP.

Just wondering how the whole thing works.

 

[JWG]

Actually, that's not *quite* true... If you have the Water Parks & More option and you've USED any of those WP&M admissions, then you're forced to upgrade to a Premium AP. But before you use them (or before you use the ticket at all), they're just considered a dollar-amount value on the ticket.

As for the answer to the OP, you're out of luck, unfortunately. Disney does not give refunds when trading *down* tickets. You're either stuck using the 10-day ticket as-is, taking the hit in the wallet and end up paying *more* for an AP than you normally would, or upgrading to a Premium AP.

When you're buying a ticket through a reseller, the trick is to buy one that gives a good discount, but make sure that its gate value is still LESS than the ticdket you want to upgrade to.

EDIT: Also, as long as you use a major theme-park admission before you upgrade the ticket (to lock-in the gate-price value), even though you only paid $555 for it, that ticket's value when applying it toward an upgrade is the current gate-price for it, $592.14. So the upgrade to a Premium AP would be about $67.

-Rob

So I can buy a ticket at a discount (ie, 10-day park hopper no expiration) for it's discounted rate, use one-day (or more but not all) and then trade it for an elevated ticket (ie annual pass) getting its full gate value? Essentially getting the dollars off the annual pass instead?

 

[Monty]

So I can buy a ticket at a discount (ie, 10-day park hopper no expiration) for it's discounted rate, use one-day (or more but not all) and then trade it for an elevated ticket (ie annual pass) getting its full gate value? Essentially getting the dollars off the annual pass instead?

Yessir! :wave:

 

[JWG]

Yessir! :wave:

Good to know. That can save you $40+ off the annual pass just by buying the 10-day no expiration and trading it in. Do you have to use a day first, if it's an unused ticket do they just give you its actual value versus gate value?

 

[MissM]

Good to know. That can save you $40+ off the annual pass just by buying the 10-day no expiration and trading it in. Do you have to use a day first, if it's an unused ticket do they just give you its actual value versus gate value?

Use it first. When you use it, they will "update" the media type to be whatever the current gate price is and apply that towards your upgrade.

 

[Rob562]

Good to know. That can save you $40+ off the annual pass just by buying the 10-day no expiration and trading it in. Do you have to use a day first, if it's an unused ticket do they just give you its actual value versus gate value?

If you don't use the ticket first, there are two ways that the CM can upgrade the ticket, and one of ways will only give you the value that *Disney* received for the ticket (i.e. what Undercover Tourist paid for the ticket, so even less than what you paid UT). The other way is current gate price.

Using the ticket before upgrading "locks in" the current gate price as the value of that ticket, and the only available option for the CM is to credit the current gate price. It's just a quirk of the ticketing system. So to guarantee the full value, use the ticket first.

Even if you used multiple days on the ticket before upgrading, you'd still get the full value, but the start date of the AP would be back-dated to be the first day you used that ticket to enter a park. Of course, this upgrade has to be done within 14 days of first usage, even if No Expiration is purchased.

-Rob

 

[Skylinecar1982]

Thanks for the info. I guess I lucked out that the CM used the current gate value to upgrade the first time seeing how I hadn't used the ticket yet.