Annual Pass Experts - Help with Discounts please!

champagne27 · Oct 30, 2015

If I bought 1 annual pass for the room discount, can I book 2 rooms under my name? We are going with another family so I am trying to figure out if an annual pass would be worth it.

We are going for 4 nights next November and plan on staying at the HRH in a Deluxe room. It is 2 families, each with 2 teens.

Is there a reason to buy anything more than the Power Pass? We won't have a car to park.

Thanks so any feedback!

HM · Oct 30, 2015

Well, I was able to get two rooms with mine, but it was only for our family and both rooms were in my name.

I suspect that you can too, but I don't know for sure.

mousecrazy · Nov 1, 2015

Yes, you can reserve two rooms under two different names.

wilma-bride · Nov 2, 2015

I was under the impression that you could only book one room per AP, unless that has changed.

Ceryssa · Nov 25, 2015

I'm trying to decide which AP to buy as well. Is there a standard AP discount %, or does it just depend on the hotel/season/etc?

HM · Nov 25, 2015

Ceryssa said:
I'm trying to decide which AP to buy as well. Is there a standard AP discount %, or does it just depend on the hotel/season/etc?

It depends on season and days. And even depends on type for room. They'll discount the hard to fill rooms mostly.

bumbershoot · Nov 25, 2015

champagne27 said:
Is there a reason to buy anything more than the Power Pass? We won't have a car to park.

FWIW the parking benefit is for the themepark parking, which isn't something an on-site guest would be using. So IF you had a car, no matter the type of AP, you would pay for parking at the hotel.

There are other discounts (food and merchandise) you get with the APs above the Power Pass. If you are big food and souvenir people, you might consider thinking about the discounts on those and how they might be worth upgrading to Preferred.

kohlby · Nov 25, 2015

As for buying more than the power pass, we did it for the parking - which is something you won't need. But you also get a percentage off of food and merchan

bumbershoot said:
FWIW the parking benefit is for the themepark parking, which isn't something an on-site guest would be using. So IF you had a car, no matter the type of AP, you would pay for parking at the hotel.

There are other discounts (food and merchandise) you get with the APs above the Power Pass. If you are big food and souvenir people, you might consider thinking about the discounts on those and how they might be worth upgrading to Preferred.

Am I right in presuming that the person with a preferred pass can buy more food than just for that one person and still get the discount? We just had one person in our family get the preferred. (The rest have the Power Pass).

macraven · Nov 25, 2015

kohlby, you are correct.
i have the preferred pass and if i pay for all in my group when we eat, the bill reflects the discount on the total.

kohlby · Nov 28, 2015

macraven said:
kohlby, you are correct.
i have the preferred pass and if i pay for all in my group when we eat, the bill reflects the discount on the total.

Thanks! We're breaking in the APs in about 12 hours. Woot woot!

bumbershoot · Nov 28, 2015

kohlby said:
Am I right in presuming that the person with a preferred pass can buy more food than just for that one person and still get the discount? We just had one person in our family get the preferred. (The rest have the Power Pass).

Absolutely.

cyndik1111 · Jan 1, 2016

Last year we booked a room with APH discount. Then a few weeks later my sister in law said she wanted to come. So I called UO and they added her room to our reservation and gave her the APH rate. They sent her confirmation to her email (it was a different con #) and she was able to pay for her room separately with her CC. And they gave us joining rooms.

My SIL got to the resort hours before us. I was worried that she wouldn't get the discount without our AP. But they never even asked her about the AP. It all worked out so nicely.

carmelhp · Jan 9, 2016

Are there discounts at the PB restaurants and pool bar with an AP?

MrBean · Jan 10, 2016

Just booked a APH room and looks like it no longer qualifies for YouFirst. Is this something new? My last APH room did qualify for YouFirst.

macraven · Jan 10, 2016

MrBean said:
Just booked a APH room and looks like it no longer qualifies for YouFirst. Is this something new? My last APH room did qualify for YouFirst.

did you book for HRH?
that hotel is not a Loews and has no participation in the program.

also, third party bookings do not qualify for YouFirst

MrBean · Jan 10, 2016

macraven said:
did you book for HRH?
that hotel is not a Loews and has no participation in the program.

also, third party bookings do not qualify for YouFirst

No, both this stay and previous are for PB booked directly through the Loews website with the APH promo code. Maybe it just shows up as non qualifying when you book and changes on completion?

bumbershoot · Jan 10, 2016

My ap stays never show that they will credit and then they do tend to do so.

macraven · Jan 10, 2016

a lot of us have issues with the Loews website when you pull up your account with them.

i book and qualify for the stay when using the ap.
but, the loews site usually does not reflect it right away.

usually it picks up and you get the credited stay after you checkout.
and for the times it does not show credit given, i call their help desk and it is manually changed.

rlduvall · Jan 11, 2016

bumbershoot said:
My ap stays never show that they will credit and then they do tend to do so.

Same here, and then it is usually credited. If not, as macraven posted, just call them up and they will fix it. :thumbsup2

MrBean · Jan 11, 2016

rlduvall said:
Same here, and then it is usually credited. If not, as macraven posted, just call them up and they will fix it.

Thanks everyone. I just booked a full price room for later in the year also (no APH rates yet), and it also says it's not qualifying. Guess that's just how they do it.

Thanks again! :thumbsup2

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