Adding the water parks?

[Masonmj84]

We have a 12 night trip planned for early May next year.

Originally, I hadn't planned to vist water parks but have recently decided to visit both on this trip (we've never been to either).

Currently, I have an AP scheduled to expire in December and the rest of my family has 10 day MWY base tickets that I purchased from UT a couple of months ago.

So my plan is to add WPF&M onto my family's MWY tickets after I have used them at least once to enter a theme park (to take advantage of "price bridging").

For me, I'm planning to renew my AP to another regular AP (and not a premium AP) and waiting until I get to one of the water parks and then buying myself a water park annual pass.

Other than the water parks, I don't care about any of the extra admissions on the premium AP. In addition, the above plan provides flexibility, should we ultimately decide not to visit the water parks.

Moreover, the water park annual pass would allow me water park admission until May of 2015, whereas the premium AP would only go until December of 2014 (the pre-tax cost of the water park annual pass is $104 whereas the pre-tax difference of renewing to a premium AP is $100 more than renewing to a regular AP - so only a $4 difference - and I'm not sure I can renew a regular AP to a premium AP anyway).

Am I thinking about this correctly?

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Yes. And to clarify one point, at the time of renewal of any level of AP, you can upgrade or downgrade to any other level and still get the renewal price. If you go to the locked sticky Everything About WDW Tickets in this Forum, especially Post #15-G, you can get a lot more information. An easy way to get to the sticky is by clicking on the link in my signature. The ticket sticky is your friend!