AP renewal question

[arliepooh68]

Ok my fellow DISers . . I need help cuz clearly all disney can do is send me a form email which was WORTHLESS....GRRRR


can someone please answer this question??


say my AP's expire 04/30/09, If i renew the 30 days out (blah blah blah) will my expiration date continue to be 04/30, but in 2010???? see my quandry is, why lose days tosave a whopping 20 bucks/?? I can go get the AP's another route and not lose days and still save money, sooooo, answers, opinions would be of most assistance right now. THANKS!

 

[bumbershoot]

Yes, it will stay the same date for next year.

If you do not have any trips planned at that time or for awhile after, it definitely doesn't make a huge amount of sense to save the money but lose the time. They keep your info, so if you go after your renewal date and just buy another, they can print it for you even outside the park (we went to the Guest Services/Relations/whatever booth over to the left of the Disneyland gates to change hubby and son's bought-online AP vouchers and they printed out the new cards (with old pictures) right there!

 

[MichaelColey]

Is there any advantage to renewing a season pass? I would just let it expire and buy a new one the next time I went.

If you schedule things right, you can go to DL every year and only buy a season pass every other year. For instance, go in July this year (buy a season pass) and go in June next year (with the previous season pass). Go in July again the third year (buying a new season pass) and June in the fourth year.

Of course if you're local and you go more frequently, it doesn't work out quite that good but you still get some benefit from letting one expire and buying another. If yours expire on 4/30 but you don't go again until 5/15, your new season pass lasts a couple weeks longer than your old one would have if you had renewed it.

 

[arliepooh68]

I'm semi local, i'm in So cal, so we go all but the uber busy hot summer months, july/aug, avoid it like the plague! but the rest of the year we go, in fact I am going for my bday next weekend, which would fall within that 30 day period. .

oh and update, I got yet another FORM freakin response. ARRGGGHHHHH . . seriously, did you see how easily my fellow DISers helped me out??? how hard was that?? yes i'm a bit frustrated. .

THNANKS!

 

[mechurchlady]

The site does not like me. You can use your birthday ticket to upgrade your account and other stuff. Locals can pay a renewal of the cost of a one day ticket and a monthly fee oaf $6 to $35 I think. You would pay three days after you sign up for the monthly plan the first installment. There is a discount for renewals.

 

[bumbershoot]

oh and update, I got yet another FORM freakin response. ARRGGGHHHHH . . seriously, did you see how easily my fellow DISers helped me out??? how hard was that?? yes i'm a bit frustrated. .

THNANKS!

I wrote to them about a month ago about those celebrations that were going on. For Vancouver BC and SEattle they never put up the location. So I sent off an email, yes to disneyland b/c there was NO other place to write (I looked! everything else was snail mail, and time was of the essence!). So shortly after I emailed, I thought oh gosh, I'll just call. I called an got The Best Disneyland CM Ever, a lovely female named Brittany, and she put me on hold for perhaps a year, but came back with THE answer.

Something like 5 days later, which was 4 days after the event in question, I got an email back saying that the disneyparks site would have it listed on the Celebrations map.

Eh em.

I wrote back "you do realize this event was DAYS ago, don't you?"...funny, I never heard back from them!

Disney email CMs ain't the best, that's for sure!!!


I was in something of the same quandry in September, as our APs expired mid-September, but I didn't have a trip planned until early November. I just let them expire and bought new...absolutely no reason to flat out WASTE that money for the month and that month. At least that's what my decision was.


Now...if you had trips planned soon AND you wanted to upgrade, they are letting us upgrade (possibly only to Premium, b/c that's all that was offered to me, but then I'm Deluxe anyway b/c I'm not in so cal) in our renewal period, have our date stay the same, but get the Premium perks for the month before the actual renewal date. Now that's nice...if you're going to use the AP in that month!

 

[Dizneydaz]

I too let my AP expire and renew it on my next trip. I agree that keeping it without any gaps doesn't always make sense. And the current discount they offer doesn't make it worth it. However....

I recently answered a survey (emailed to me) from Disney which was specifically about renewing AP without gaps. Looks like Disney is looking into how to get us to renew automatically, and what would it take to get you to renew with now days lost. Some options they mentioned were greater food discounts, parking add on discount, free tix, greater merchandise discount, etc. So, just like Disney making monthly payments available (finally) looks like they realize they need to offer us AP holders a greater incentive to renew without gaps. (Last offer I received only saved $10)

 

[arliepooh68]

see last year we got them through the base, and still saved that whopping 20 bucks per ticket, without losing days. . . so my thinking is, hello why would i renew early to lose days when I can do it this way???

it would be great if they offered a free ticket here and there. . . can you imagine what it would do for their product revenue???

 

[PinkBudgie]

Is there any advantage to renewing a season pass? I would just let it expire and buy a new one the next time I went.

If you schedule things right, you can go to DL every year and only buy a season pass every other year. For instance, go in July this year (buy a season pass) and go in June next year (with the previous season pass). Go in July again the third year (buying a new season pass) and June in the fourth year.

This is exactly what we are doing. Also, if Costco still offers that deal on the AP that is better than saving $20 anyway. Don't know if they are still doing that or not or for how much longer it will continue.

 

[Sleepless Knight]

The discount can make sense if your circumstance is right. For a local visitor who visits Disneyland monthly even in the summer months, the discount is great because it's a discount off the renewal price, which they were going to pay anyways. If you will be making visiting within days after the expiration date, the renewal makes sense because you get the renewal discount.

For instance, I planned to visit Disneyland 3 weeks ago to get one last day in the parks before my pass expired. Because of my job, I will always have a 3 month period where I cannot go to the parks, so I was going to let it expire and renew on my next visit. However, because of the free birthday promo this year and my birthday falling the day after my pass expired, I ended up with a spur of the moment trip for my birthday that encompassed 2 days instead of one. Renewing the pass made sense this year because of the discount and because of when my visit fell.

Now, if I don't make it down for my birthday next year, it makes very little sense to renew my pass at that time because I'll be getting a discount, but won't really be able to use it.