I purchased an adult 10-day park hopper from UT prior to the price increase this February for $478.69. I want to upgrade to an AP ,which costs $829.64.
1. With the new way of price-bridging since February, I'm not sure how much out of pocket I will pay to upgrade. Can anyone help?
2. do I need to enter the park with my current Park Hoppers to activate a price BEFORE I upgrade to an AP?
1. From the Sticky Post
"All About Tickets" found >HERE<
• Upgrading Tickets -Post 5
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Cost to Upgrade:
1. To upgrade an "
Old Price" Ticket:
If the ticket that you have, and want to upgrade, was purchased from an authorized ticket reseller from "old stock" or "leftover tickets" (a ticket minted BEFORE the Feb. 12 price increase,) THAT ticket will be price-bridged up to the full WDW gate price that was in place BEFORE Feb. 12, 2017. Even if you actually purchased your tickets after Feb. 12, if you bought
"leftover tickets" from the resellers older stock of tickets, they are considered to be tickets
minted before Feb. 12.
The price at which Disney sold these tickets to the public "before Feb. 12" will be the price subtracted from the CURRENT gate price of the new ticket to which you are upgrading.
That difference price will be the cost to upgrade.
Ticket PRICES-PREVIOUS to Feb. 12, 2017 from an archived Allears page
HERE.
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So...
Subtract $499.49 from $829.64 = $330.15.
Cost to upgrade your ticket to AP: $330.15.
2. No. (But, it won't affect your upgrade cost if you DO want to upgrade later in your trip
after you use some of your original ticket.)