Undercover Tourist Tickets

[Heatherbell]

I bought tickets for my September trip through Undercover Tourist, I bought them before the price increase. Anyhow, we are already tentitively planning 2 more quick trips this year so I am thinking on upgrading to an annual pass. We have been passholders in the past and I think it is a great deal if you go more then once. Anyhow I received actual hard tickets from UT, not paper vouchers like if you get them from WDW.com. My question is since I bought them at UT and have actual hard tickets can I still upgrade to an AP if I choose to???

Thanks in Advance!
:wave:

 

[Rob562]

I bought tickets for my September trip through Undercover Tourist, I bought them before the price increase. Anyhow, we are already tentitively planning 2 more quick trips this year so I am thinking on upgrading to an annual pass. We have been passholders in the past and I think it is a great deal if you go more then once. Anyhow I received actual hard tickets from UT, not paper vouchers like if you get them from WDW.com. My question is since I bought them at UT and have actual hard tickets can I still upgrade to an AP if I choose to???

Thanks in Advance!
:wave:

Yes, you can!

You just pay the difference in price between what you have and what you want. A few notes, though:

-You *must* upgrade within 14 days of the first *use* of the ticket, or before the end of the last admission day (i.e. the 6th day you use the ticket on a 6-day ticket), whichever comes first, even if it has the No Expiration option.

-If the ticket has the Water Parks & More option, and you *use* even one of those options before you upgrade, you will only be able to upgrade to a Premium Annual Pass. If you leave all of the WP&M options unused, you can upgrade to any ticket you want.

-Normally, Disney will charge you the difference in price between what the *reseller* paid to *Disney* for the ticket you have, and the ticket you want to get. So because you bought it from a reseller, Disney would only credit you for the money that the *reseller* paid Disney for that ticket (that amount should be printed on the back of the ticket). You obviously will have paid more than that price to the reseller, because the reseller adds their own profit margin to the price. So, you won't get 100% of your moneys' worth back as credit on the upgrade.
*BUT* here's a tip from a Ticketing/Guest Relations CM on another board: He said that the way that Disney's system is set up for upgrades is that a totally *unused* ticket will be upgraded in the manner outlined above. But if the ticket has been used, even for just one theme park admission, you get the *current* gate price for that ticket as credit toward the Annual Pass. It's just how their ticketing system works.
So, your best bet would be to use your first day on the tickets, and then later that day go to Guest Relations to do the upgrade. You'll actually get *more* of a credit toward the AP than you actually paid for the ticket, because you're getting the *current* gate price as credit. Of course, the Water Parks & More note above still applies, so don't use a WP&M admission as your first admission if you're not upgrading to a Premium AP.

Note: All of the above info also applies to any type of ticket upgrade such as adding ticket options like Park Hopper, WP&M, or even adding extra days to the ticket. But be aware that the maximum number of days for a ticket is 10 admission days. You cannot upgrade a ticket beyond 10.

Hope that all makes sense.

-Rob

 

[mousermerf]

Also - if you're told one price to upgrade and think it should be different, just mention it, and they'll probably just give you the difference despite any such rule/law/what-have you. My Seasonal AP was from AAA and thus i should have only gotten the credit for the price i paid to AAA, i just asked for the full price of a seasonal and got it, no problem.

 

[Surf Fish2285]

Does that work if I have a MYW ticket purchased with a package? I really want to upgrade to an AP as it will save me money through this year!

 

[Heatherbell]

Thank you all very much!

 

[Rob562]

Does that work if I have a MYW ticket purchased with a package? I really want to upgrade to an AP as it will save me money through this year!

Yes, you can upgrade a ticket that's part of a MYW Package. CMs at a theme park Guest Relations can essentially extract the ticket from your room key and use it to upgrade to an Annual Pass. *But* there's a word of warning here....

If you have the MYW Plus Dining (or one of the new upper-level Dining Plans in 2008), you should wait until after all of your dining credits have been used up before upgrading. There have been stories of people losing ALL their dining credits when the ticket was stripped from the room key. (There have also been stories of people who haven't had a problem at all). So to play it safe, use up all the dining credits first, then upgrade. (As mentioned in my above post, you have until the end of the day you use your final admission to upgrade a ticket)

Also, anything having to do with buying or upgrading to an Annual Pass cannot be done at the Disney hotels. They don't have access to Annual Passes in the ticketing system. You have to go to one of the following places: a ticket window at any of the theme parks, water parks or TTC; Guest Relations window outside any of the theme parks or water parks; Guest Relations at Downtown Disney Marketplace or West Side.

-Rob

 

[Zummi Gummi]

I upgraded an UT ticket to an AP this past year, and it couldn't have been easier. I did it at the Downtown Disney booth. They credited me for the full value of the ticket, not the amount I paid (which was only like, $8 less than the gate price anyway).

Disney is always very happy to upgrade you to a more expensive ticket!!

 

[Chezman1399]

I'm not sure if Rob was trying to say this or something else but from working at the TTC, if you buy a ticket at a cheaper price, the price between the actually price and what you paid is written off at the ticket window. MAny tickets are actually upgraded twice. Let's say you bought a ticket at a discount or the previous year(and have not used it yet of course) and it was a 3 day ticket and you want to upgrade to 7, normally they would upgrade the ticket to the current non discounted 3 day to some internal account number and then you would pay the difference from the current 3 day price to the 7 day. Disney does not penalize people for buying tickets at a discount unless you're buying preused tickets which is illegal.
Also, you have 14 days to upgrade your ticket. As of January 1st(Last day I worked) you were still able to upgrade tickets whether or not you had remaining days as long as you were in the 14 days, of course if you are at day 13 you couldn't add 4 or 5 more days to it unless adding the No Expiration Option too. You can do it just to be safe, but a lot of people get 1 day tickets to start and will just upgrade everyday they go, they waste a lot of time, but they do it. I would suggest upgrading as early as possible just for convenience sake. Get it over and done with, and never look at Guest Relations or a ticket booth again unless for some reason(i.e. lost ticket, make reservations) you have to.

 

[Heatherbell]

Thank you all for your input!

Ok, one more question, I promise.

I also have a one day park pass from like 3 years ago that I never used or activated. At the time I got the ticket I was an AP holder. The first year free dining came out I wanted to do that however as you know you couldn't do it with the AP so I actually discussed this with Pam at KK and she told me to get the package with the one day ticket so I could get the dining plan. Well my husband and I three years later never used that ticket and we still have it. From what I was told as long as I did not activate the ticket it is good forever.,...correct?

SO would there be any chance that I could combine the price of my one day ticket and the price of my Undercover Tourist ticket and put BOTH towards an AP or no?

Thank you again for your Disney wisdom!

 

[Rob562]

Thank you all for your input!

Ok, one more question, I promise.

I also have a one day park pass from like 3 years ago that I never used or activated. At the time I got the ticket I was an AP holder. The first year free dining came out I wanted to do that however as you know you couldn't do it with the AP so I actually discussed this with Pam at KK and she told me to get the package with the one day ticket so I could get the dining plan. Well my husband and I three years later never used that ticket and we still have it. From what I was told as long as I did not activate the ticket it is good forever.,...correct?

SO would there be any chance that I could combine the price of my one day ticket and the price of my Undercover Tourist ticket and put BOTH towards an AP or no?

Thank you again for your Disney wisdom!

You can only use one ticket toward the new ticket. You cannot combine credits from multiple tickets toward the same ticket. It has to be a one-for-one trade.

But, that single-day unused ticket is good forever. You can use it toward an AP renewal next year, perhaps.


-Rob

 

[Surf Fish2285]

thank you for the information Rob!