Purchasing tickets pre-trip

jeffk410

jeffk410

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Hello all,

I am planning on purchasing my 7 day park hoppers before my trip as I want to have the ability to make FP plus reservations 60 days out. Now my question is, will I be able to still link the tickets if I choose will call pick up? Additionally, if I opt to upgrade to an annual pass there should not be an issue, correct?

Thanks for the help
 
englanddg

englanddg

One Little Spark...
Do NOT take my word for it. I am not an AP holder.

However, I believe to upgrade to an AP from standard tickets after the fact:

1) You can only do it while on the park and within 14 days of the first use of your ticket
2) You must be a FL resident

(I pulled that from their website, so someone may contradict me)

Also, I believe that you still need to be staying on site to do FP+, regardless of if you have APs or not. But, that may have changed recently.

I know for a fact, though, if you have regular tickets, you can't book FP+ in advance at all if you are staying offsite.
 
Rob562

Rob562

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You do not need to be a FL Resident to upgrade to an AP, unless you're trying to upgrade at the FL Resident price.

If you buy the Water Parks & More option and you *use* one of those options before upgrading, you will only be able to upgrade to a Premium AP that includes the water parks.

The upgrade must be done both within the 14-day window *and* before the end of your last park day on the ticket. So if you use the 7 days right in a row, you must upgrade before the end of that 7th day.

Will Call tickets should be able to link to MDE using the confirmation number.

As mentioned, currently advance FP+ reservations are only available to on-site Guests.

-Rob
 
jeffk410

jeffk410

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We will be staying on property. I am more curious if I will have a way to link the purchased tickets if I choose the will call option. I am debating whether I should have the tickets sent to my house in order to make sure I can link them in order to make the FP+ reservations.
 
englanddg

englanddg

One Little Spark...
jeffk410 said:
We will be staying on property. I am more curious if I will have a way to link the purchased tickets if I choose the will call option. I am debating whether I should have the tickets sent to my house in order to make sure I can link them in order to make the FP+ reservations.
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As long as you have the confirmation number, you should be able to link them in MDE without an issue.
 
jlsHouston

jlsHouston

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I purchased a couple of 7 day park hoppers for the kids for this upcoming trip. They came in the mail the other day and today I put them in my profile and entered the ticket # on the back and then I copied my FP+ selections I had already done for a couple of days to their now active park tickets. Everything went fine. I too am planning on upgrading those tickets for them before the 7th day of use when we get to WDW.
 
jeffk410

jeffk410

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Hmm, thanks for all the info everyone. Seems like I should be good to set them for pick up at will call and still think them.
 
C

CheshireCat12

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Why use Will Call? I bought the tickets for my last trip over the phone through the Disney site and received a confirmation number. I then logged into MDE and linked the ticket reservation numbers into my reservation page. This is the same page where all your confirmations are listed- resort room, tickets, Memory Maker, FP+ times are all there. I was able to set my FP+ at the 60-day window no problem. I was able to customize my MagicBands way ahead of time too. If you are worried about not physically holding the tickets in your hand, don't be. If you have a confirmation number you are good.
 
mystical magic

mystical magic

Member
I bought our tickets 'will call' and used the confirmation number to link the tickets. I did this within a few minutes of purchasing. It went smoothly.

How ever I did find out I could not choose which ticket media I wanted to used at the parks. I had old non expiring hopper ticket linked but wanted to use new 7 day expiring tickets on this trip. A disney supervisor was able to fix that for me but it did take some time on the phone.
 
jeffk410

jeffk410

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Unfortunately it is not letting me link the tickets by confirmation number. I can book FP in 9 days, hopefully my tickets arrive before then.
 
lilclerk

lilclerk

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jeffk410 said:
Awesome thanks. I am actually on the phone now because now all my reservations (dinning and resort) are missing.
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I think the site is having some (more) issues. I can't even get into MDX, I keep getting a Whoops page with Olaf without his head.
 
jeffk410

jeffk410

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Yeah, I can't even log in anymore. Must be having issues. The ETA for technical support was 35 minutes, so I gave up. I'll wait and check it out tomorrow.
 
jeffk410

jeffk410

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I hate to be the one complaining about MDE, but jeesh this has been awful. First, I couldn't purchase the tickets online because I was using a gift card as well as a CC. So I had to call on the phone, which I thought went smoothly; however, I was mistaken. Finally my confirmation code worked to link the tickets but only three tickets appeared! Somehow there is a missing ticket and an employee has not been able to figure it out. Even weirder is I did not receive a confirmation e-mail either.... :banghead:

Rant over! sorry...
 

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