Extending a stay questions

[savafan]

Does anyone know how easy it is to extend a stay at a WDW resort? Say you book a 3 day trip, and then decide you want to stay longer, how easy is it to add hotel nights, and park ticket days to your plan?

Also, is there any kind of policy about switching resorts during your stay?

[Aurora]

It's easier to extend your stay during non-peak times than peak times. It's not uncommon during peak times for all rooms to be booked up, but you usually can find a room on property during non-peak times. If any rooms are available, you might have to change rooms and you'll probably have to pay rack rate. There are no restrictions on changing resorts; they would just treat it as a new reservation.

You can add days onto your ticket as long as you have any remaining admissions on the ticket, and it's within 14 days of first use. Once you use up the tickets, you cannot add days, even if you're still staying on property and it's one day after you last used the ticket. If your ticket is non-expiring, you can add days after the 14-day rule, as long as you have remaining admissions on the ticket.

[savafan]

So if you have 3 day park tickets, as long as you haven't used the 3rd day yet, you can add additional days to the ticket?

[ibelieveindisneymagic]

So if you have 3 day park tickets, as long as you haven't used the 3rd day yet, you can add additional days to the ticket?

Yes. You can add days on the 3rd day ... what you can't do is go back on the 4th day, after using all of your days and try to add more days then.

[Niecyboo]

Disney is also only allowing one upgrade to your tickets now. So you couldn't go back and add a fourth day then go back later and add a 5th. You can go from a 3 day to a 5 day (or whatever you want) but you can only make one change.

[Aurora]

Whoops -- Have to amend my post above re: non-expiring tickets. You cannot add days onto the ticket, even if it's non-expiring, more than 14 days after first use.

[savafan]

Is there any disqualification, if say you initially book your vacation package through Magical Journeys as opposed to going through Disney directly?

[faline]

Is there any disqualification, if say you initially book your vacation package through Magical Journeys as opposed to going through Disney directly?

If you bok through Magical Journeys, you would work with your agent there to make any needed changes in your trip plans. If you book through Disney directly, you would make any needed changes yourself with Disney. The rules to make changes do not vary regardless of who you work with.

[savafan]

Okay, I'm back with some more questions about this topic.

Where do you go at Disney to extend the stay? Front desk of the resort or front of the park?

Also, if you are adding days, but thinking about switching to a different resort, would you go to the resort you've been staying at to switch, or to the new resort that you want to switch to? Would it really be worth it to switch to a different resort for just one night?

[Aurora]

You can do it at the front desk, no need to go to a theme park. They can check on room availability for you. If there are no rooms at your resort, they can tell you whether there is availability at another resort, and if you decide to change resorts, they can also transfer your luggage for you so you don't have to do that yourself.

As to whether it's worth it, it depends on what you want from your resort, if you're just looking to try a new one, etc. Only you can answer that question. I can tell you that during one trip, we piggybacked a DVC stay with one-night stays at Port Orleans Resort on both ends of our week. It was worth it for us to have those extra days on site.