I have read all of this and I understand it all, but I have a situation that is different than what I have had in the past.
I have a DVC Gold AP, expires 9/1. I will be in WDW on 8/2 and again 9/28.
I would like to find a way to renew my AP and use my Barclays Arrival + miles to pay for it. I know that Disney directly will not code as travel. I know UCT will.
So, I believe I can do this...
1. Buy a regular WDW ticket from UCT and then use to towards my AP renewal when I am there in August at Guest services.
2. And if I can do this, it doesn't matter what regular ticket I buy, one park per day or hopper, or how many days
3. (just want to spend the amount of $$ I will have to use on my Barclays),
as I will be paying the same $$$ overall once I renew?
1. Yes.
2. Correct.
3. The ticket that you want to purchase to use in the upgrade should have a full "Disney price" less than or equal to the ticket or AP to which
you intend to upgrade.
 
1. Yes.
2. Correct.
3. The ticket that you want to purchase to use in the upgrade should have a full "Disney price" less than or equal to the ticket or AP to which
you intend to upgrade.
Thank you. Exactly what I thought!!
 
Can I cancel the hopper option with a package? I just was going over our plans and I don't think we need the hopper.
 


1. You can buy nearly any regular ticket and upgrade it at any time during your trip to an AP.
2. Sounds like fun!
3. You certainly can.
In fact, you should buy your regular tickets from an authorized WDW ticket discounter and save even more
money when you upgrade.
Read Post #5 and Post #6 in the thread on which we are now posting to see how upgrading (and its pricing) works.
So how is that working that people are basically profiting off of Disney by buying tickets from UCT? (NOT complaining just trying to understand how it works and how it’s going to continue to work, as I’ve never upgraded before now but I have bought my tickets through UCT)
Another question, I priced out “non-date specific” 10-day PH tix on UCT to be $4261.49 (5 adults 2 kids). However, looking on the Disney site I only get the option to choose date-specific tix (guessing prices, totaling us at appx $4402.80). So if I have this right, and we did it that way and upgraded to AP’s, we’d save $141.31?
Now, if I bought the date specific tix (guessing prices since our Feb dates aren’t out yet) via UCT we’d total $4025.34 at most, saving us $377.46 at upgrade??
Can we be certain upgrading like this will be an option next year? Just don’t want to make any purchases that eliminate my option of ending up with AP’s and am not familiar enough with this to be sure! Thank you all for the help.
 
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However, looking on the Disney site I only get the option to choose date-specific tix

On the Disney website: After you get the tickets priced as date-specific, the next screen gives an option for the hopper, hopper plus, and/or “flexible” add-on.

If you purchase from UT and then upgrade (AP or longer tix), you will keep whatever savings you had from the UT purchase. I believe UT tells you how much the savings will be for various tickets.

Enjoy your vacation!
 


On the Disney website: After you get the tickets priced as date-specific, the next screen gives an option for the hopper, hopper plus, and/or “flexible” add-on.

If you purchase from UT and then upgrade (AP or longer tix), you will keep whatever savings you had from the UT purchase. I believe UT tells you how much the savings will be for various tickets.

Enjoy your vacation!

*****nevermind i found my answer ☺️

So I have one more question and I know it’s a stupid one but...does it matter if you have your tickets loaded into MDE before upgrading or do you have to have the physical ticket printed from UCT?
 
So how is that working that people are basically profiting off of Disney by buying tickets from UCT?
It is Disney who authorizes the legitimate ticket discounters.

And... once you BUY a discounted ticket from an authorized discounter, the money that Disney "loses" in the deal
has already been deducted.
(If you saved, say, $25 on a discounted 7-day Hopper, Disney has ALREADY taken the "loss" when you bought that ticket.)

So, Disney does not "lose" any more money if they allow you to "keep that discount" when you upgrade the ticket.
(In fact, they are HAPPY that you are giving them even more money when you upgrade your discounted ticket.)
 
I just checked prices for 8 day park hoppers at Disney, park savers and Undercover tourist. My question is i used park savers before but i never used undercover tourist and i was wondering how they were? I could save nearly $250 if i went with them also do they give the same tickets as Disney i prefer the hard ticket too just as a back up?
 
I just checked prices for 8 day park hoppers at Disney, park savers and Undercover tourist. My question is i used park savers before but i never used undercover tourist and i was wondering how they were? I could save nearly $250 if i went with them also do they give the same tickets as Disney i prefer the hard ticket too just as a back up?
UT is one of the most trusted and popular ticket sources on this board.
If you order tickets to be sent to you, they will be “regular Disney tickets.”
 
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FL (Orlando) residents and we have the Discover Disney 4-day passes. We’ve used 2 and planned a trip June 25-27 to stay on property and go to MK on the 25 and HS on the 27 for my son’s birthday which would use our last 2 days.

I’m looking at upgrading to a Theme Park Select and need to find out if we upgrade it now (to start going to the parks more immediately) will we forfeit our planned days in June that are blocked out? This would only affect MK.

Would love to get the extra 4 weeks of access but can’t mess up this trip!
 
FL (Orlando) residents and we have the Discover Disney 4-day passes. We’ve used 2 and planned a trip June 25-27 to stay on property and go to MK on the 25 and HS on the 27 for my son’s birthday which would use our last 2 days.

I’m looking at upgrading to a Theme Park Select and need to find out if we upgrade it now (to start going to the parks more immediately) will we forfeit our planned days in June that are blocked out? This would only affect MK.

Would love to get the extra 4 weeks of access but can’t mess up this trip!

If you upgrade to an AP with blackout dates, you won't be able to visit on those blackout dates after the upgrade.
 
I have a 9 day child PH that was purchased through UTC right before the ticket change (purchased 10/27/18). Now the child that I purchased it for may not go and I will be taking a 13 (adult) in their place. How is the upgrade going to be calculated? I paid 477.53 for the child ticket. Will it be the current adult price of 577.02 - the child 477.53? There is no way it would be the current adult price (577.02) - the current child price (574.04) right? I am just trying to make sure I know what to expect.
 
I have a 9 day child PH that was purchased through UTC right before the ticket change (purchased 10/27/18). Now the child that I purchased it for may not go and I will be taking a 13 (adult) in their place. How is the upgrade going to be calculated? I paid 477.53 for the child ticket. Will it be the current adult price of 577.02 - the child 477.53? There is no way it would be the current adult price (577.02) - the current child price (574.04) right? I am just trying to make sure I know what to expect.
"Officially," you would pay the difference between the Disney "child price" on the date that you bought the ticket
and the Disney "adult price" on the date that you do the upgrade.
(What YOU paid for the ticket does not figure into the equation.)
 
OK - I will expect the price to upgrade around 125.00ish - I know that I got a discount from UTC but not sure what it was but if have an idea of the upgrade $ I know how to plan for it. Thanks
 
If you upgrade to an AP with blackout dates, you won't be able to visit on those blackout dates after the upgrade.

Thanks for the fast response. I suspect we may just decline the upgrade and buy a year Theme Park Select ticket on our next visit after the June trip. Thanks!
 
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