AP expiration & park reservation

[Thegoatfeeder]

Good Afternoon/morning. Just a little background, I have a DVC trip booked April 2021 using a 14 day ultimate park ticket (park reservations already made).

We're also planning to visit again in December 2021, it makes more financial sense to upgrade the 14 day UK ticket to a gold AP rather than buying another 14 day ticket for the December trip.

So, if my thinking is right, the best way to go about it, would be to upgrade my 14 day ticket over the phone sometime in December this year, so it will expire at the end of my trip in December 2021. My original plan was just to upgrade it in person during my April trip, but with the whole park reservation thing etc, i'll be able to make my DVC room booking in Jan, and therefore if I already have the AP tied to my account I can also make the reservations.

That seems a safer approach than, just upgrading it in April when i'm out there, and risking park availability issues in the December. I just wondered what other people thought would be the best way of going about this, sorry if that makes no sense!

 

[FinallyFL]

You can't make park reservations past Sept. 2021 so no reason to decide now. The year for APs start on the day of its first use. I don't know whether you can upgarde over the phone.

 

[ColonialMouse]

In normal times you can only do that upgrade in person. But we’re in the same situation, where we have one DD who is on a 10-day pass for our (now) August trip that we will probably upgrade to a Gold pass for next April’s trip. I’m reasonably confident that April park reservations will still be fine by August, but I agree it’s harder to predict what will be happening for December by April.

I think I would wait a month and then call. For fast passes they could insert “FP planning card” tickets that let you make FP reservations for situations like this (we needed to upgrade a ticket to a pass the first day we were there). They might have a similar answer by the time they open up December reservations.

Bruce