Originally Posted by
exbayern
Another rumour is that bridging will no longer occur, except for tickets bought from AAA. In late 2013 the Disney/AAA relationship was in jeopardy, and I wonder if the contract was renegotiated to give AAA priority above ticket resellers.
There has been no official announcement on this, and I frankly don't expect that we will see much if any official information if this does become some new policy.
I have never seen any official acknowledgement of bridging, so I also doubt there will be anything official. For years now I have always used any ticket for a day before upgrading because unused tickets didn't always bridge.
CS/guest assistance in Epcot, the location under the ball across from the camera store (is it still a camera store? Haven't needed batteries in years) combined multiple one day tickets for me (free dining relics) which was great. Intresting to know how much override ability CS has on things like that.
I could see D making 1 day tickets non upgradeable.
At least this news makes me feel much better about missing that one day 20% off ticket deal.
If anyone is holding a lot of 2-5 day tickets from Undercover Tourist or the likes and the no bridge thing is true, it might be worth doing the math on a 10 day no expire.
Even at the ridicules prices on them, if you have a 10 day no expire with water parks and more and you use the 'and more' over 6 to 10 trips one water park day a trip and Disney Quest once every few trips, that covers the $360 no expire fee ($60 add on, so after the 7th trip you have made up the cost of adding the water park option and adding the no expire option). Then you have 10 days of park entry at $38 a day (1/10 price of 10 day ticket). If your cost to upgrade a discounted ticket is less than $38 a day upgrade it, if it is more use a day from your no expire ticket instead.
It has been awhile since I did ticket math.
2 one week trips
5 park days and 1-2 water park/DQ days
Two 5 day w/water park and more
$324 + $64 = $388 x 2 =$776 (gate prices) today's UT price $683
10 day no expire w/water park more
$377 +$362 + $64 =$803 (gate) UT price $726
For park hoppers the math is about the same, for park hopper and water parks and more the 10 day no expire is the same price as 2 five day tickets! (On UT w/mousesavers link)
So if you go to WDW 3 times over more than a year (less than a year and AP is better) and will spread the 10 park days over at least 2 trips and the 10 water park days over 3, this saves you $37 ($21 w/UT prices) on the 3rd trip and $64 on additional trips until you use up the 10 water park days. You would need to wait to use the last park day until you finish with the water park days (I'm not 100% sure if the ticket expires after last park day or if left over water park days stay good, better safe than sorry). This also locks in today's prices, you have about 11 months before the next expected increase unless Disney does two this year.
Today's Undercover Tourist prices are the lowest I have seen in awhile, the uncertainty about upgrades may be why. If you need the link for the mousesavers discounted prices (they really are better than the public prices) PM me.
I will stop, but if anyone has specific ticket questions they can PM me. I have 10 tickets on hand so I'm doing the math on lose the discount to upgrade vs buying no expires (2 out of the 4 of us currently have 5 no expire days).