60 Day FP Window with AP?

[disneyfav4ever]

If we purchase APs through MDE before going on our trip will we be able to make our FP reservations in advance. And will our APs expire from date of purchase or the first day we use them?

Right now we're planning trips in Jan and Dec 2019. If we buy our APs by Nov when our 60 day window opens would our APs then expire in Nov 2019? Because that would mean we wouldn't have tickets in Dec.

First time having an AP since FP+ and MDE and no idea how it works!

 

[DisFam4]

Your AP's do not expire until you validate it at the Park on your arrival to Disney (Jan 2019). We bought our AP last October, assigned it to each person in MDE and were able to make FP at 60 days. We arrived on Jan 9th and activated them at Disney Springs (late arrival, no park that day) so we didn't need to worry about taking the time the next morning, and our exp. is 1/9/19.

So buy them before your 60 day window opens, link the serial # to each person and make your FP+ for your trip at that time (Nov 2018). When you arrive just go to any Guest Relation booth to activate your AP, they will then expire 1 year from THAT date.

 

[Robo]

We arrived on Jan 9th and activated them at Disney Springs (late arrival, no park that day) so we didn't need to worry about taking the time the next morning, and our exp. is 1/9/19.

So buy them before your 60 day window opens, link the serial # to each person and make your FP+ for your trip at that time (Nov 2018). When you arrive just go to any Guest Relation booth to activate your AP, they will then expire 1 year from THAT date.

While this AP activation info used to be correct, is not exactly accurate anymore.

Guests with new APs do need to visit a Guest Relations (or any ticket booth) along with their legal photo ID to "activate" the AP before going to a park gate to enter.
However, the AP does not being it's year of use UNTIL the guest actually USES the AP to enter a park for the first time.

So, if a guest "activates" a new AP at a Guest Relations on, say, Feb. 10, 2019 but does not actually enter a park until, perhaps, Feb. 12, 2019 that AP will THEN have an anniversary (expiration) date of Feb. 12, 2020.

And, yes, guests can make their FP+ bookings on the appropriate advance date by just having their (yet, unactivated) AP (called and "AP certificate") connected to and listed in their MDX account.

 

[pitpat]

You will be staying onsite, right? That's what gets you 60 days, not just the AP.

 

[bwang123]

You will be staying onsite, right? That's what gets you 60 days, not just the AP.

yes, onsite to get 60.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

You will be staying onsite, right? That's what gets you 60 days, not just the AP.

Yes. Except now we're considering going offsite, but I know that would limit us to a 30 day window.

 

[chalee94]

One other note that might have been obvious to everyone but me:

You get 7 days of FastPasses with an AP (at a time), so if you have 2 stays planned within a month or so of each other, you will need to make some tough choices.