Can someone double check my math? GAD upgrades

[hoffmann2828]

I need 2 adults (we did GAD), and 1 child (no GAD). We want regular AP's and we are DVC members. Is this right? I don't want to be off at the gate!!!

AP (A) - $499 Regular Price
-100 DVC Discount
- 82 GAD Discount
+ 20.60 Tax
= $337.60 Each
AP (C) - $450 Regular Price
- $100 DVC Discount
+ $22.75 Tax
= $372.75
Grand Total (r) = $1047.90


Thanks in advance!!!
Jenny

 

[Cheshire Figment]

1. There is no such thing as a "DVC Discount" related to any Annual Passes (No matter what Member Services says).

There are three separate categories (or price ranges) of Annual Passes. The lowest price range is for Florida Residents. There is a higher price range for DVC Members. And the highest price range is "Tourist", which is people who do not qualify for either of the other categories.

Regular and Premium Annual Passes have the same privileges, no matter which price range they are in.

2. DVC Adult AP = $399, DVC Child AP = $360.

3. Value of GAD ticket - Adult $82

4. Subtract value of GAD ticket from price of AP. Multiply this difference by 6.5%.

5. Adult $ 337.61, Child (without GAD) $ 383.40

 

[hoffmann2828]

Thank you kind Sir

Jenny

 

[DaParkers]

No matter how you word it, it's still a discount. (cheaper = discount)The question was about the math, and according to your long post, the easy answer is yes. The math was correct.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

No matter how you word it, it's still a discount. (cheaper = discount)

But DVC Member Services says the AP is a $100 discount. This is true in only one of the sixteen APs which a DVC Member is may be eligible to purchase. It is an entirely separate pricing structure. If there were a fixed dollar or fixed percentage discount that would be a discount.

But then with the exception of the Charter Resident, all DVC APs cost more than Florida Resident APs.

So what Member Services is saying is hype!

 

[doconeill]

Member Services/DVC Sales are using marketspeak. "Discount" sounds better in general that "cheaper". And as far as DVC is concerned, it IS a discount. The negotiate with WDW to get the members a $100 ($125 on PAP) discount. WDW Ticketing turns around and handles it as a separate pricing structure, not by simply taking $100 off a Tourist AP, and this is probably done for any variety of reasons.

But to the DVC members advantage, WDW does not consider it an actual discount, so any other discounts that might be available can be applied.

It's all semantics. But it works to our advantage. Another way it is advantageous is that all perks can come and go - if it were simply a discount, they could probably just stop it at any time. As a different class of ticket entirely, it would probably be more problematic.

 

[cel_disney]

I disagree about the math being correct...because the DVC rate for a child is NOT 100$ less than the child tourist ticket....and I think what DVC offers is a 'discounted rate' - not a 'discount'...

What Cheshire Figment posted is (of course!) the correct DVC childs rate....

 

[rondesj]

Thanks for the math lesson. Much less confusing that way. Now I just need to redo it for a FL res like me and see how it goes. Thanks again