Will This Work?
--Fizzie
gift card promotion which requires a reservation at rack rate. If I
purchase this promotional packagae with 6 day park passes, can I turn
my pass into an AP on the last day of my reservation without losing
any of the promotional benefits?
Or, would I be better off getting the AP ahead of time, booking a
ressie, and forgetting about the accompanying gift card?
-Fizzie
Rob Steere
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If you find that the gift card promotion is a better deal for your situation
vs. any of the percentage-off (General Public or AP discount), you can book
the trip with whatever ticket you want, as long as the value of that ticket
is less than the value of a new AP. (There are no refunds if you somehow get
a ticket worth *more* than an AP, but I think would have to be some kind of
fully-loaded ticket like a 10-day No Expiration Hopper with Water Parks to
surpass the price of an AP...)
Then, after you've used the ticket at least once, you can visit a theme park
or Downtown Disney Guest Services window and upgrade it to an AP by paying
the difference between your ticket and the AP. The start date of your AP
will be back-dated to coincide with the first day you used the ticket. So
whether you upgrade at the start of your trip or the end of your trip, it
won't make any difference in the expiration date of your AP. (About the only
real reason to wait until the end of your trip would be so that you can keep
the convenience of having your admission ticket encoded on your room key so
that you don't have to worry about two cards in your wallet)
Note that the upgrade window is 14 days from the first use of the ticket,
regardless of whether or not the No Expiration option was purchased for that
ticket. (This holds true of all tickets... Upgrades/trade-ins of any kind
cannot be done after the end of the 14-day window)
Lastly, if your hotel reservation includes the Dining Plan, make sure you
mention it to the Guest Services CM when you go to upgrade your ticket. As
they'll be stripping the ticket off of your room key, they need to make sure
to leave the dining credits on your hotel account. (It's rare, but I've
heard of a few isolated incidents where the CM inadvertently wiped out all
the dining credits on their account while upgrading to an AP, and it took a
manager at their hotel quite a while to rebuild their reservation in the
system)
-Rob
Tom Moeller
"Rob Steere" <ste...@charter.net> wrote in message
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> Lastly, if your hotel reservation includes the Dining Plan, make sure you
> mention it to the Guest Services CM when you go to upgrade your ticket. As
> they'll be stripping the ticket off of your room key, they need to make
> sure to leave the dining credits on your hotel account. (It's rare, but
> I've heard of a few isolated incidents where the CM inadvertently wiped
> out all the dining credits on their account while upgrading to an AP, and
> it took a manager at their hotel quite a while to rebuild their
> reservation in the system)
We were warned of the same thing last June when we upgraded to AP's. We were
encouraged to wait until our last day, to ensure we wouldn't lose our
lunches. The CM who printed our AP's (at MK guest services) also commented
that the paper passes are more durable (magnetically) than the plastic room
keys.
tom
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Laura Gilbreath
Tom Moeller <sends...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>We were warned of the same thing last June when we upgraded to AP's. We were
>encouraged to wait until our last day, to ensure we wouldn't lose our
>lunches. The CM who printed our AP's (at MK guest services) also commented
"Lose your lunches?" Is that because of sticker shock at the price of
an AP? :-)
You know, now that I think about it, I never received anything from them
indicating that you had used the discount card you got from me. Hmmm.
Laura
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Tom Moeller
"Laura Gilbreath" <lg...@REMOVETHISlgil.net> wrote in message
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> In article <hi6731$hhv$1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Tom Moeller <sends...@microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>We were warned of the same thing last June when we upgraded to AP's. We
>>were
>>encouraged to wait until our last day, to ensure we wouldn't lose our
>>lunches. The CM who printed our AP's (at MK guest services) also commented
>
> "Lose your lunches?" Is that because of sticker shock at the price of
> an AP? :-)
>
> You know, now that I think about it, I never received anything from them
> indicating that you had used the discount card you got from me. Hmmm.
>
Hmm indeed. My AP says 'referral' on it, and right next to it in the wallet
is the card with your name on it. It's possible that the barcode on the card
wouldn't read quickly enough, and the CM has a generic referral barcode at
the desk in case of such an emergency. It'd also be convenient for them to
avoid paying your commission...
Tom