When you activate your renewal pass, please make sure you closely monitor the expiration date on it. Even though mine said it was a renewal for Scorcerer, when I activated it, it originally showed the expiration date as one year out from the purchase date and not one year out from when my current AP expires. I had to go to guest services to get the expiration date changed to the correct date. Also when I tried going to extended evening hours, my magic band was already linked to the renewal AP after I activated it. When my magic band was scanned for access to the rides, it was saying I didn't have a valid hotel reservation. Luckily I had my old AP card from the still valid AP (not renewal) and that scanned in just fine for rides. It was almost like the magic band was looking at the renewal AP to determine hotel eligibility after I activated it and completely ignored the still valid one. The magic band still worked fine to access the parks though so who knows what was going on that night.
