Same situation for me. My pass expires in mid-October, but I'd rather purchase new for December, our usual travel time. I will need to decide soon - renewal window opens next week. Since I want to make park reservations asap, I will probably be joining the "grumblers". (Really don't want to complain too much as I know there are many who don't even have a pass to renew).I am hoping they allow new passes to be purchased, as mine currently expires in Novermber. I never tavel in November, it was a one off trip because everyone wanted to go for Thanksgiving last year (I tried to wwarn them, but now they know) and I'd like to have it start/stop in January or June. If they don't, I'll renew what I have, but grumble about it.
My husband renewed his DVC Sorcerer pass last week. No issues at all.
I would be willing to roll the dice a little on this. There are no "non-green" days past August for day tickets, and the AP availability has been even better--currently "all green" for all days. So, I'd probably push into my renewal window a bit rather than do it ASAP, in hopes that new passes go on sale.
I probably will roll the dice on this (for other reasons), but my concern is for early December park reservations. Don't care about August. Head says I shouldn't worry as it's unlikely to be a problem.. Heart says get it done and top worrying about it.
Maybe a better way to say what I was trying to say: Early December almost certainly won't have any park-days that fill before e.g. Thanksgiving week, so you have plenty of time to make your first choice park reservations.
I probably will roll the dice on this (for other reasons), but my concern is for early December park reservations. Don't care about August. Head says I shouldn't worry as it's unlikely to be a problem.. Heart says get it done and top worrying about it.
I'm with you. I need Thanksgiving week park reservations so I'm buying asap.I probably will roll the dice on this (for other reasons), but my concern is for early December park reservations. Don't care about August. Head says I shouldn't worry as it's unlikely to be a problem.. Heart says get it done and top worrying about it.
I still have Exchange Certificates for annual passes from 2004 when I bought SSR and was hoping to use next year. I hope they will allow it.
Good luck, I had a group of 11 for Thanksgiving Week last year. The parks were horrendous. Never again.
If it can be of any consolation, parks were horrendous in early December too. Less horrendous I bet, but still.
Yes, I will never go back in December.
We have gone every December since 2018 and while the parks are packed we’ve always had a great time. We knew how to maximize FP+ when that was a thing and last year we did great with G+. We just adjust our typical patterns and enjoy.
Yes, I hope they don't increase the prices tremendously. OTOH, we always look at the price of regular tickets for the trips we have planned. If the AP costs around the same or just a little more, we'll get the AP, because we have a tendency to add trips more often than cancel them!
Oh, I'm under no illusions about park crowds. One of the reasons I love owning DVC and having APs is frequent enough trips to space out what we do in the parks and not feeling like we have to do everything to get the value out of the cost of the tickets.
I'd recommend you get them loaded into your MDE accounts. My 2011 DVC Vouchers took some help Disney to get properly loaded since the numbering system had changed a bit.. I moved them to a dummy MDE account. Now it;s easy to track them and once they were moved to my MDE account, I was able to make park reservations even though the vouchers haven't been activated yet.
