Annual Pass-looks like regular park ticket...

[sonicblaze]

Didn't know where to post this.

I just purchased my annual pass for the first-time and I have to admit for the four hundred something bucks that it costs, and the fact that it's supposed to last a year, I'm surprised that it's just a regular looking park admission ticket.

I expected it to be made of hard plastic since it needs to last the year, and they obviously have the technology as the roomkey/admission tickets are hard tickets.

It's surprising enough that I'm wondering whether maybe some kind of mistake has been made and I should actually have been given something a bit nicer than a paper ticket that's valid for a year.

I'm not ranting or raving, just found it unusual. Even six flags prints annual passes on a hard plastic card.

 

[Matt]

APs are paper although I'm not sure why.

 

[waltfan1957]

Didn't know where to post this.

I just purchased my annual pass for the first-time and I have to admit for the four hundred something bucks that it costs, and the fact that it's supposed to last a year, I'm surprised that it's just a regular looking park admission ticket.

I expected it to be made of hard plastic since it needs to last the year, and they obviously have the technology as the roomkey/admission tickets are hard tickets.

It's surprising enough that I'm wondering whether maybe some kind of mistake has been made and I should actually have been given something a bit nicer than a paper ticket that's valid for a year.

I'm not ranting or raving, just found it unusual. Even six flags prints annual passes on a hard plastic card.

we were suprised at this as well

 

[llij]

No, you were given the right ticket. Our AP's were 'paper looking' tickets, but I think they were made of something else that is a little more durable. We managed to go on 6 Disney trips with our APs and they held out beautifully.


Congrats on getting an AP! I miss not having one!

 

[Servants of Evan]

Yep. You tend to miss the old days when you were given a laminated ID with your photo and bar code...

 

[Chuck S]

I've had APs for years, after they stopped the photo ones, they went to the Tyvek, a polymer, not paper. I had to have one replaced out of the maybe 10 I've had, and it had gotten demagnetized some how...which could just as easily have happened to a hard plastic type. I've had to get credit cards replaced more ofter than that because the mag stripe was erased.

 

[SueM in MN]

I've had APs for years, after they stopped the photo ones, they went to the Tyvek, a polymer, not paper. I had to have one replaced out of the maybe 10 I've had, and it had gotten demagnetized some how...which could just as easily have happened to a hard plastic type. I've had to get credit cards replaced more ofter than that because the mag stripe was erased.

The Tyvek is a card stock version of the envelope that is impossible to tear that you sometimes get UPS stuff delivered in. Much, much tougher than paper and without some of the problems the plastic cards have.

DH had to get his AP replaced last year because it got demagnetized.
He was talking to the CMs at Guest Services and they told him the hard plastic ones have to be replaced a lot because the magnetic strips on them get scratched (he said that doesn't happen on the Tyvek AP), they get cracked (people sit on them or put them in their wallets) and get demagnetized (he said that happens more easily to them than to the APs).
I believe the Tyvek ones are actually more expensive to make than the plastic card ones.

 

[safetymom]

I used my AP over 80 times last year for admission and the AP looked as good at the end of the year as it did in the beginning.