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Currently, Air Miles carry normal WDW admission tickets, at 5400 miles / 7 days. I understand the previous discounted one cannot be bridged? How about the current ones? Has anyone tried it yet? Thanks.
Yup, any ticket media is "upgradable" (is that a word?!) because Disney would LOVE to take more money from us!!Currently, Air Miles carry normal WDW admission tickets, at 5400 miles / 7 days. I understand the previous discounted one cannot be bridged? How about the current ones? Has anyone tried it yet? Thanks.
You can never really trust the info provided by phone agents ... they seem to have either a TON of info that is correct or an equally large amount of info that is waaay off base. The $10 you were quoted is based on today's pricing of tickets .. the 5 day ticket (I think that's what you have??) is $395 and the 6 day is $405 so the agent missed the part of the tickets being *bought* in 2014. You can always try to have that quote honoured and you might get lucky but i wouldn't count on it (but the Duck has been wrong more than a few times )So on a previous thread I asked a similar question. By all calculations it 'should' cost me and extra $70 and change to add a day to my airmiles ticket from 2014. I called wdw ticket services and she quoted me $10.65 - so I wrote down her name, time, date that I called - hoping guest services will honor the agents 'quote' but fully prepared to pay the higher price. Might be worth the phone call!
It can only be done once you're there. That's the one downside to AM tickets (or any other 3rd party reseller). It's not necessarily the end of the world. Make all your hard to get FP for the first 5 days. You will still be able to get decent FP once you have done your upgrade.
It's not completely accurate to say that price bridging is entirely a thing of the past, but it is true that bridging only happens now in a very limited form. By dating tickets, Disney has put a ceiling on the value of those tickets, so that bridging now only applies up to the value of that ceiling.
For tickets purchased from a reseller prior to the introduction of expiration dates in early 2017, tickets can be bridged up to their value in 2016. Newer tickets can be bridged to their value at the time of expiration.
So if I had a ticket bought from a reseller in 2010, that ticket should be valued at its 2016 price on an upgrade. A ticket bought now from a reseller at, say, $50 below Disney's advance purchase price price, will still be valued at the advance purchase price on an upgrade (ie. you will not lose the reseller discount).
Note that bridging does not (and never did) apply to tickets purchased directly from Disney (so if you have tickets bought from Disney in 2005 and you want to upgrade them you'll pay the full difference between what you paid for the ticket in 2005 and the cost of the upgraded ticket today) or to tickets discounted by Disney (ie. Canadian Resident tickets).
Source: Robo's "Ticket Sticky" on the strategies board.
Yes but AirMiles/LoyaltyOne is considered a reseller just like any other. They buy the tickets from Disney. Disney knows how much LoyaltyOne paid for them. LoyaltyOne passes these tickets onto members of the AM program. EVEN if you happen to have an older AM-obtained ticket lying around, Disney can look it up, see how much LoyaltyOne was charged for the ticket, and charge YOU the difference.
Robo's information is awesome but it doesn't apply to all situations. And it certainly never considers the FAQ from a Canadian perspective.
It's not completely accurate to say that price bridging is entirely a thing of the past, but it is true that bridging only happens now in a very limited form. By dating tickets, Disney has put a ceiling on the value of those tickets, so that bridging now only applies up to the value of that ceiling.
For tickets purchased from a reseller prior to the introduction of expiration dates in early 2017, tickets can be bridged up to their value in 2016. Newer tickets can be bridged to their value at the time of expiration.
So if I had a ticket bought from a reseller in 2010, that ticket should be valued at its 2016 price on an upgrade. A ticket bought now from a reseller at, say, $50 below Disney's advance purchase price price, will still be valued at the advance purchase price on an upgrade (ie. you will not lose the reseller discount).
Note that bridging does not (and never did) apply to tickets purchased directly from Disney (so if you have tickets bought from Disney in 2005 and you want to upgrade them you'll pay the full difference between what you paid for the ticket in 2005 and the cost of the upgraded ticket today) or to tickets discounted by Disney (ie. Canadian Resident tickets).
Source: Robo's "Ticket Sticky" on the strategies board.