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Hi!
I've been following along for quite some time, but believe this to be my first postI *think* I have a good understanding of the following, but was hoping some experts could give me their thoughts!
We purchased our 7-day passes through AM back in July - so received actual "ticket cards". Debating now whether we should upgrade one ticket to an AP upon our arrival.
These are the calculations I've been using:
$394.04 (gate value of the 7-day pass we currently have) - assuming this is what would be applied towards the AP
$31.96 (cost to upgrade to a 10-day pass)
$200.00 (parking for 10 days)
$149.00 (memory maker)
TOTAL: $775.00
AP: $797.69
Difference: $22.69
Based on AP discounts, we figured we'd save at least the $22.69 (one ex. we eat at Yak & Yeti at least twice and there's a 10% discount there)
So, does this seem to make sense? Am I going about this all wrong? lol Any advice is appreciated!
We were just at WDW and upgraded our 7 day base tickets that we got from Airmiles in July to an AP renewal. Our AP's expired in November so we were within the 30 days to get the renewal price. We redeemed for the tickets in July so had the hard tickets. My advice is to know your numbers before you do the upgrade. I had calculated that it would cost us $564.46 to upgrade the two tickets to two AP renewals (which are cheaper than the initial AP cost).
There were some bumps on the road to renewal but we did finally get them. We originally went to Disney Springs to the guest services there - which is really nice now btw. The castmember said that it was not a problem to upgrade the tickets but when she checked the value the tickets were valued at $358 not $394. We reversed the process at Disney Springs and decided to use the tickets first so we went to Epcot and used the tickets to enter and then went straight to guest services to do the upgrade. On the way in I confirmed that a 7 day base ticket cost $394.05 at the front gate. At guest services in Epcot the castmember again said that it was possible to upgrade the tickets. I wanted to confirm that the price for the ticket was $394.05. The castmember checked the ticket and said no - because we used the ticket to enter Epcot it was now worth $285 although she did agree that it was a $394.05 ticket. Almost flipped out on the castmember at that point. She also told us that we couldn't upgrade to an AP renewal but only to the initial price of an AP (which is about $100 per ticket more). Was absolutely not thrilled at that point but asked to speak to a supervisor and the castmember went backstage at that point. When she came back she upgraded our 2 tickets to 2 AP renewals for $564.46 which is exactly how much I had calculated it to be.
Learned a few things from the experience (and we had upgraded tickets lots of times before). Know how much your ticket is supposed to be worth before you start the process. Be prepared to 'use' the ticket before you upgrade. At Disney Springs before we entered a park the value of the ticket was $358 which the castmember said was what was paid for the ticket. After we entered Epcot the same ticket was then worth $394 - the going rate for the pass. If I had not known the value of the ticket we might have paid an extra $80 to upgrade them.
As an aside with an AP you get parking for free at the parks so that would save you the cost of parking. You also get all of your photopass pictures posted to my disney experience and you can download them for free - not exactly the same as memory maker but could be a great substitute for free.
I suspect that with the Canadian discounted tickets the key to upgrading them will be using them first to get the current value of the pass.
Hope this helps.
