Tickets and Annual Pass Questions - Please add your ticket questions to this thread

[Rjw615]

I must be going crazy- when I looked the other day at renewing my AP, it was a 15% discount, pretty sure.

Today, I go back and look, it is now only 10%.

Has it always been 10% or did they just decrease the renewal savings?

 

[Robo]

I must be going crazy- when I looked the other day at renewing my AP, it was a 15% discount, pretty sure.

Today, I go back and look, it is now only 10%.

Has it always been 10% or did they just decrease the renewal savings?

It has always been "generally about" 10%.

 

[hodad]

Another question for @Robo, since I couldn't find the info in his initial posts: are MNSSHP and MVMCP tickets transferrable?

 

[Robo]

Another question for @Robo, since I couldn't find the info in his initial posts: are MNSSHP and MVMCP tickets transferrable?

All unused tickets can be transferred to other guests.
(Otherwise, nobody could buy tickets as gifts.)

 

[wendow]

Hi Robo and others contributing to this thread

We have 6-day MYW base tickets that I bought prior to Feb 2017. We were holding them for a 2018 trip. Now we are considering going in Sept 2017 and maybe using FD promo which would force us to buy 2-day PH'ers. If I understood all the beginning posts to this thread, it doesn't appear we can use the 6-day and 2-day tix combined to upgrade to AP's. That is a bummer because that was our plan.

We don't typically PH much. Are we able to use the 6-day tickets this Sept and just save the 2-day tickets for the 2018 trip (would upgrade them then to more days base ticket)? Would we still be able to book FP's 60 days out?

And another 'wrinkle', we are thinking of going three days before the FD package would start for us and staying at a different resort. We'd need to be able to enter the parks and hopefully have been able to books FP's for those park days. Is that doable?

All this seems so much more complicated than it used to be...TIA for any help! It is much appreciated!!

 

[Robo]

Hi Robo and others contributing to this thread

We have 6-day MYW base tickets that I bought prior to Feb 2017. We were holding them for a 2018 trip. Now we are considering going in Sept 2017 and maybe using FD promo which would force us to buy 2-day PH'ers. If I understood all the beginning posts to this thread,

1. it doesn't appear we can use the 6-day and 2-day tix combined to upgrade to AP's.
2. Are we able to use the 6-day tickets this Sept and just save the 2-day tickets for the 2018 trip
3. (would upgrade them then to more days base ticket)?
4. Would we still be able to book FP's 60 days out?
And another 'wrinkle', we are thinking of going three days before the FD package would start for us and staying at a different resort.
5. We'd need to be able to enter the parks and hopefully have been able to books FP's for those park days. Is that doable?
6. All this seems so much more complicated than it used to be...

1. Correct. Upgrades are "one-to-one."
2. Yes.
3. You could do that. (You might want to do that before leaving the 2017 trip.**
4. Yes, but only for the number of days on that ticket.
(It MIGHT be possible to call ahead (in 2018) and upgrade the 2-day tickets in advance of your trip. No guarantees.) **Otherwise, you could add days to the FD tickets before you leave the 2017 trip... enough to cover advance FP for the number of days in your first 2018 trip.
Then, you can upgrade to AP but still have advance FP for all of that first 2018 trip.
5. Using your current 6-day tickets, that is all possible.
You can book 6 days of advance FP starting 60 days before your first check-in date.
6. Yup. You might say that.

 

[thiabelle]

I'm starting to drown in tickets...

I have a 5 Day Salute ticket (which I plan on using on this trip); a 7 day PH; and a 2 day PH.

Can I create a phantom within my MDE and just assign the 7 day and 2 day to them (I'll call them Thiabelle2) and then when ready to use the ticket just transfer it back to me? And I know that I can't make FP for the phantom- I'm a reformed rule follower!

Would this ensure that my Salute ticket is the one used for sure? No stop at Guest Services necessary to double check?

 

[Robo]

I'm starting to drown in tickets...

I have a 5 Day Salute ticket (which I plan on using on this trip); a 7 day PH; and a 2 day PH.

1. Can I create a phantom within my MDE and just assign the 7 day and 2 day to them (I'll call them Thiabelle2) and then when ready to use the ticket just transfer it back to me? And I know that I can't make FP for the phantom- I'm a reformed rule follower!

2. Would this ensure that my Salute ticket is the one used for sure? No stop at Guest Services necessary to double check?

1. You can freely transfer any "never-used" ticket to any "person" in MDE... as many times as needed.

2. If there is only one ticket still in YOUR name, that is the only one that will be used.

 

[pachelbel9]

You need to ask UT exactly what tickets you have.

So I did just this. They confirmed my tickets were pre-increase, and let me send them back. Once they received them, they called me to say they ONLY had pre-increase tickets in stock, and said I would have to get etickets instead. So, I did that. They did not charge me the 5% fee. Now we're just waiting till August to see what the upgrade price ends up being.

 

[Robo]

So I did just this. They confirmed my tickets were pre-increase, and let me send them back. Once they received them, they called me to say they ONLY had pre-increase tickets in stock, and said I would have to get etickets instead. So, I did that. They did not charge me the 5% fee. Now we're just waiting till August to see what the upgrade price ends up being.

Very interesting.
Thanks for posting back with this info.

 

[thiabelle]

1. You can freely transfer any "never-used" ticket to any "person" in MDE... as many times as needed.

2. If there is only one ticket still in YOUR name, that is the only one that will be used.

Thank you Robo!!

 

[desertbloom]

Hi all! Tried searching to see if this has been answered before but couldn't seem to find anything....so I apologize if it's already been covered. We have decided to do AP's this year since we spend a week every year for my birthday and it makes more economic sense...(we will go end of Jan 2018 and beginning of the month in 2019). I am going to use UT to buy hoppers and then upgrade once we get there but I am curious if there is anything that can be done with the 9 waterpark admissions we have on our MDE account from old no expiration date 10 day hoppers that we had years ago. Do they just stay linked to our MDE? What happens to them if we upgrade to the AP with the waterpark admissions?

 

[wendow]

Thanks so much,@Robo

Looking @thiabelle 's question of having multiple tix in MDE and wanting to make sure the right tix are used, it looks like I need to create six additional profiles and assign the 2-day tix to those profiles. Am I understanding that correctly?

 

[Robo]

Hi all! Tried searching to see if this has been answered before but couldn't seem to find anything....so I apologize if it's already been covered. We have decided to do AP's this year since we spend a week every year for my birthday and it makes more economic sense...(we will go end of Jan 2018 and beginning of the month in 2019). I am going to use UT to buy hoppers and then upgrade once we get there but
1. I am curious if there is anything that can be done with the 9 waterpark admissions we have on our MDE account from old no expiration date 10 day hoppers that we had years ago.
2. Do they just stay linked to our MDE?
3. What happens to them if we upgrade to the AP with the waterpark admissions?

1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. They will continue to be separate tickets in your MDE account.
Guests can have any number of active tickets in an MDE account.
Before you use any of the new AP WP admissions, go to any ticket booth or Guest Relations
and have those "old" remaining WP tickets set to the LOWEST PRIORITY in your MDE account.
That way, the new AP WP admissions will be used at the WP gates.

 

[Robo]

Thanks so much,@Robo

Looking @thiabelle 's question of having multiple tix in MDE and wanting to make sure the right tix are used, it looks like I need to create six additional profiles and assign the 2-day tix to those profiles. Am I understanding that correctly?

If all 6 of the tickets you wish to "protect from use" have never been used,
you can create just ONE "fake" profile and transfer all 6 of those tickets that you wish to "protect"
into that one "fake" account.

 

[desertbloom]

1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. They will continue to be separate tickets in your MDE account.
Guests can have any number of active tickets in an MDE account.
Before you use any of the new AP WP admissions, go to any ticket booth or Guest Relations
and have those "old" remaining WP tickets set to the LOWEST PRIORITY in your MDE account.
That way, the new AP WP admissions will be used at the WP gates.

Thanks, Robo! You're awesome!

 

[lahobbs4]

If I purchase an AP online today for a November trip, and an AP room discount comes out for that time frame, will I be considered an AP holder? Or not, because it will still just be a voucher?

Thanks!

 

[Robo]

If I purchase an AP online today for a November trip, and an AP room discount comes out for that time frame,
1. will I be considered an AP holder?
2. Or not, because it will still just be a voucher?

1. For the purposes of booking advance FP+, yes.
2. The voucher is fine for FP+ booking...
But, the OTHER news (which is about which you are asking)
is that you didn't need to advance-purchase even an AP voucher in order
to book an AP discounted room.
ANYONE can book an AP discounted room. The only requirement is that the guest
needs to buy/activate an AP at least after arriving at WDW on that trip.
You're fine.

 

[JenB1104]

My husband has an annual pass that expires 6/18 and we arrive first week of July. I know we can use our package ticket toward the renewal when we get there. In emails we are receiving about renewing it is saying he will get 13 months if he renews. If we do it within the window of 30 days after expiration date would he still get the 13 months? Or does that only count if done before official expiration date? Thanks!

 

[AngiTN]

My husband has an annual pass that expires 6/18 and we arrive first week of July. I know we can use our package ticket toward the renewal when we get there. In emails we are receiving about renewing it is saying he will get 13 months if he renews. If we do it within the window of 30 days after expiration date would he still get the 13 months? Or does that only count if done before official expiration date? Thanks!

Yes, I have done it twice now, in April and last week. Got the 13 month renewal both times

I'll warn you though, I either hit a really bad run of luck or there is something up but both times I had the CM tell me they are no longer using existing tickets to renew AP but they did it for me this 1 time per AP and we can't ever do it again. So far I'm the only one to have reported this but I was told the same exact thing and had to go through the same exact process both times, a month apart, different locations, different CM. So be ready to "fight" for your renewal