Ap Discounts

[k5thbeatle]

Did you try for the same dates as the poster above?

AP rates are available for some resorts some weeks.. and not others. Unless you specifically said your dates were flexible.. Way flexible going your travel date in your SIG file.. you would be correctly told perhaps they were not available for your week.

J

Ahh...thank you. I did not realize this. I thought the rates were available for all AP holders for the dates listed. Thanks

 

[NewCrew42]

Hi All! The first call I made this morning, the CM said AP rates were not out yet for May. Knowing that the CM did not have the supreme knowledge of the DIS. I said, "Thanks!" and hung up. I called right back and got a CM who was in the know and was able get Pop for $74 a night. There were only standard rooms available at this rate. Pop Preferred was not available.

 

[tulsanurse1]

What does AP stand for?

 

[TheLittleRoo]

This may be enough to lock in my decision to buy an AP, even if only for the discount. How much difference is it to buy an adult AP vs. an 8 day MYW base ticket? Like $200? I'm trying to figure out my break even point in hotel savings total to be worth getting the AP when I know I won't be back before it expires -- totally for the hotel discount.

Thanks!

 

[loopner67]

What does AP stand for?

Annual Pass. If you buy an annual pass, you can get certain discounts sometimes during the year. Right now, we're all celebrating on getting the annual passholder's rates on our hotels now that the April - May dates have been "released". Before today, there were only discounts available thru the end of March.

 

[loopner67]

This may be enough to lock in my decision to buy an AP, even if only for the discount. How much difference is it to buy an adult AP vs. an 8 day MYW base ticket? Like $200? I'm trying to figure out my break even point in hotel savings total to be worth getting the AP when I know I won't be back before it expires -- totally for the hotel discount.

Thanks!

I can give you half of the info. An annual pass (with tax) will cost you $462.21 (if this is a new pass and not a renewal. The renewal cost is $419.61 with tax). Hope this partly helps. You can probably go on the disney site and price out the 8 day MYW ticket.

 

[CanadianGuy]

I can't tell you for an 8 day ticket.. but a 7 day ticket purchased at the park gate is 271 or so.. and the same 7 day ticket purchased in advance is around 264.

J

 

[scorp111]

We changed to the AKL - Pool View for less than what we were going to pay for CSR Waterview.....

 

[Bama174]

With regards to the break even point for AP vs MYW: Making one trip to WDW is unlikely to net you a break even point. An exception to this would be a family of three staying at a deluxe resort for seven nights with the discount. Ofcourse this would only save money if you had originally planned on staying at the above mentioned resort. Two trips in a year would save money on most scenarios. Hope this helps.

 

[slug]

This may be enough to lock in my decision to buy an AP, even if only for the discount. How much difference is it to buy an adult AP vs. an 8 day MYW base ticket? Like $200? I'm trying to figure out my break even point in hotel savings total to be worth getting the AP when I know I won't be back before it expires -- totally for the hotel discount.

Thanks!

Here's another thing. If you buy an AP, you can also add DDE to it for $60 and get 20% off most of your meals. That includes alcohol. So in order to justify the additional $60, you just have to plan on eating $300 worth of food - pretty simple to do in Disney.

So if there are a few adults in your group, and the food prices are going to be high, that's another way to justify an AP on top of any potential room savings.

For us, it cost us $260 more for the AP and the DDE. We're going to be in a group of 7 adults and 1 child for 6 nights. We figured out it would be worth it for the meals savings alone.

When the discounts came out yesterday, the AP saved an additional $55 per night over the AAA rate for one of the rooms at the CR and the AP was paid for. Now the 20% DDE savings is all gravy.

And we're only going on 1 visit to WDW during the year.

 

[popstar7867]

Here's another thing. If you buy an AP, you can also add DDE to it for $60 and get 20% off most of your meals. That includes alcohol. So in order to justify the additional $60, you just have to plan on eating $300 worth of food - pretty simple to do in Disney.

So if there are a few adults in your group, and the food prices are going to be high, that's another way to justify an AP on top of any potential room savings.

For us, it cost us $260 more for the AP and the DDE. We're going to be in a group of 7 adults and 1 child for 6 nights. We figured out it would be worth it for the meals savings alone.

When the discounts came out yesterday, the AP saved an additional $55 per night over the AAA rate for one of the rooms at the CR and the AP was paid for. Now the 20% DDE savings is all gravy.

And we're only going on 1 visit to WDW during the year.

I'm still on the fence about the DDE. Working it out we would just break even because there are only two of us. The only CS meals included in the savings are at AK right??

 

[DISNEY FIX]

Here's another thing. If you buy an AP, you can also add DDE to it for $60 and get 20% off most of your meals. That includes alcohol. So in order to justify the additional $60, you just have to plan on eating $300 worth of food - pretty simple to do in Disney.

So if there are a few adults in your group, and the food prices are going to be high, that's another way to justify an AP on top of any potential room savings.

For us, it cost us $260 more for the AP and the DDE. We're going to be in a group of 7 adults and 1 child for 6 nights. We figured out it would be worth it for the meals savings alone.

When the discounts came out yesterday, the AP saved an additional $55 per night over the AAA rate for one of the rooms at the CR and the AP was paid for. Now the 20% DDE savings is all gravy.

And we're only going on 1 visit to WDW during the year.

What did you book that saved you an additional $55 a night?

 

[Poohbear123]

We changed to the AKL - Pool View for less than what we were going to pay for CSR Waterview.....

How much per night if you don't mind me asking?

 

[slug]

What did you book that saved you an additional $55 a night?

Yesterday, the AP discount I got at the CR dropped my nightly rate from $400.50 (the AAA rate I already had) to $344.00. It's actually 56.50 per night off but I was rounding off. I think the rack rate had been 445 per night but I already had the AAA discount so the AP just saved the difference between the 400.50 and 344.00.

We have 2 rooms at the CR. When I tried to get the same deal for the 2nd room, they told me there were no additional AP discounts available. So I lucked out getting the discount for the 1 room at least.

 

[slug]

I'm still on the fence about the DDE. Working it out we would just break even because there are only two of us. The only CS meals included in the savings are at AK right??

That I'm not sure about as far as the CS goes.

Depends on how many days you'll be there during the year. You'd need to spend $300 at restaurants that accept dde to justify it. Also, it looks like most of the WS restaurants at epcot accept it so if you go to those places for food, drinks, etc.

For us it was a no-brainer b/c there are 7 adults. If it were just 2 of us, we'd probably still do it b/c we'd end up hitting a few restaurants for dinner over the course of 6 nights and it would add up to over $300.

 

[slug]

I'm still on the fence about the DDE. Working it out we would just break even because there are only two of us. The only CS meals included in the savings are at AK right??

Here's a link if you don't already know the info:

http://www.wdwinfo.com/disneydiningexperience.htm

 

[RachelTori]

Here's another thing. If you buy an AP, you can also add DDE to it for $60 and get 20% off most of your meals. That includes alcohol. So in order to justify the additional $60, you just have to plan on eating $300 worth of food - pretty simple to do in Disney.

The DDE recently increased to $65 (still a good deal!)

 

[Koda]

Did anyone get an AP discount on the family suites at ASMu? I know that these rooms haven't been discounted in the past. Just hoping that they will be included in the discounts soon!

 

[PrincessV]

Checking back in... found out that WL had no rooms at AP rate for my dates, so I switched to CSR for $167/night (incl. tax). Okay, it's not the WL, but I'm spending less than HALF of what I once was. Much more palatable!

 

[hobbes4444]

For late April, I had a ress at the Poly GV for $385 ($433.12) per night. Could not apply the AP, and switched over to the GF GV for $324 ($364.50) per night. The savings of $412 for 6 nights just about pays for the AP ($460-ish). Not a bad deal.

When I got through at 7:05, there was nothing at the Poly, and I could not get the first night for the GF. So I kept the Poly. Called again at 7:50 and got all 6 nights at the GF. Nothing was ava at the Contemp (always wanted to stay in the Tower). Definitely on the list when our son is a little older. However, the convenience of the GF is hard to beat.

If the rates become ava for the Poly (and with enough cancellations they might), I'll probably switch again for further savings $284 per night sounds even better, and we can finally stay at the Poly!!

Now if the stupid airlfares would just drop. . .