AP discount when only your kids have the AP?

[MinnieMSue]

In a store on main st my kid was not allowed to use the AP discount because she didn’t have ID. She was maybe 6th grade at the time. The lady wouldn’t budge. I took her gift card and showed my pass and ID and was allowed to make the purchase. If your kids have school id or anything I would take it. I actually got her a state ID which was inexpensive and she used that until she got her license.

 

[DisneyWishes14]

Thanks for the info. I think I'm going to put money on a GC to "have the kids buy the stuff" when they are with me, because, well, other than the risk of losing it, why not, and then just try to use mine if the kids aren't with me. Since they don't scan it I don't see how it would be an issue, and if I pay with the GC or cc and not my MB they don't have any info on me anyway.

It's interesting to me that a kids AP won't allow discounted tickets or rooms, and since the prices are now the same I can't see why or how they defend that. Back when prices were different if the kids prices were anything like the kids prices for tickets you probably saved what, $10 on their AP so I would just buy an adult one and save the hassle anyway! This whole thing is Just another reaction I have to make to the negative changes Disney throws at me. If they hadn't raised AP prices so high in June (I think it was) I would have just renewed my AP even though we don't have more than 2 trips planned, and they would have gotten more money out of us and possibly more trips since the tickets were "free" (disney math). Since I'm not renewing we aren't going as much, we're going to universal for 3 of the 5 days during our next trip, and I'm using an old NE ticket.

The explanation I got when I tried to buy AP discounted special event tickets with my DS's AP (prior to having my own) was he was not old enough to purchase tickets on his own, so they would not honor the discount. I'm assuming that is the same reasoning for not allowing AP discounted rooms on a child AP as they are not old enough to be a lead guest on a reservation.

 

[ninafeliz]

In a store on main st my kid was not allowed to use the AP discount because she didn’t have ID. She was maybe 6th grade at the time. The lady wouldn’t budge. I took her gift card and showed my pass and ID and was allowed to make the purchase. If your kids have school id or anything I would take it. I actually got her a state ID which was inexpensive and she used that until she got her license.

Wow. Just wow.

My kids go to a small private school in 1st and 4th grade and have no ID whatsoever, and they don’t have passports because we live close enough to Canada that we always drive and they only need birth certificates for that.

I’m just going to use mine and pay with GC or cc. I still think it’s absurd, since we pay the same for their AP as ours and it is supposed to have discounts as a benefit,, but since mine looks the same as theirs I don’t see how they know, and I think it’s crazy, so I’ll use it.

 

[Mickey's Best Girl]

Honestly, the discount is for the AP holder, it isn’t transferable. Might they let you use it, possibly. But I would try to have one of them nearby if needed. Otherwise, be prepared to pay full price if you are denied.

Several years ago, I had an AP & my teen didn’t. He was buying something so I gave him my AP card....nope, no go. I was right there, just didn’t wait in the line with him. I had to go up to the register to get the discount. Even tho the AP holder in your situation is a kid, it is similar in that another immediate family member wasn’t allowed to use the discount.

And my AP card has never been scanned either. Last time we got one, the CM just wrote our first names on them, not our full names. I’m not even sure my AP card has an expiration date on it??

Same type of thing happened to us.

I was paying at the register and my DD (14 at the time) came up last minute and plopped something else down among the items that I already placed on the counter. The CM told me she couldn’t let me pay for that item with my discount as it wasn’t for me and the discount in non-transferable (or something to this extent). My DD had an AP at the time as well and as @RememberWhoYouAre mentioned, the CM seemed almost annoyed that she had to discount the item.

I almost asked the CM if she had to make up discounts with her own money but I work in retail so I cut her some slack.

 

[ninafeliz]

Same type of thing happened to us.

I was paying at the register and my DD (14 at the time) came up last minute and plopped something else down among the items that I already placed on the counter. The CM told me she couldn’t let me pay for that item with my discount as it wasn’t for me and the discount in non-transferable (or something to this extent). My DD had an AP at the time as well and as @RememberWhoYouAre mentioned, the CM seemed almost annoyed that she had to discount the item.

I almost asked the CM if she had to make up discounts with her own money but I work in retail so I cut her some slack.

These stories are amazing me, honestly I hadn't thought it would be a problem but had just asked here to make sure! Haha, jokes on me, but at least now I know it could be an issue. I'm wondering/hoping that these stories are just CMs with an axe to grind or something, and not the norm or even common? So those of you who hit them remember and share, because of the annoyance, but all of the unmemorable transactions are not noted? I get the whole "you can't use your neighbors AP for a discount when you come on your own trip", but I really didn't think non transferrable would also mean kids and parents. I mean, again, my kids are not buying anything "themselves", literally everything they get is being payed for by us. So they should have a child's AP price that is actually less expensive, not $10 less, and say that it does not include any discounts or perks, just park admission, no?

ETA this example seems particularly crazy to me, because you are allowed to buy things for other people with your own money, so you would be entitled to the discount. Gifts for friends and family. There is no rule that it is only for items to be used by the AP holder solely, that would be absurd. Or was that CM really distinguishing that because the kid put it there it didn't qualify, because that wasn't a gift but buying for someone else? Her own child? That's utterly ridiculous! Had she handed it to you on the other side of the store that CM wouldn't have known anyway. There is just so much wrong with this whole scenario that my head is spinning and I'm annoyed for you LOL! I don't think I could have held in the sarcastic comments, which would definitely not have helped the situation for sure!