Complicated Ticket/AP Question

[vnovabri]

So long story short, my SO and I bought gold AP last spring with the plan to upgrade to Platinum for our trip for NYE. Yesterday we were planning on booking our FPs only to find out that we are blacked out on the majority of our visit (bc we only have the Gold AP). We called Disney to see if we could upgrade our AP, only to find out that we can only upgrade at the park. We live in Boston so that is not going to happen...so we are trying to figure out if it makes sense. One option is just to gamble and try to get FP when we arrive on 12/30 and talk with guest relations, explain the above situation and hope they take pity on us...or buy tickets (with no intention to actually use them for entry this trip) so that we can book our FP in advance.

So I guess our questions are, if we buy a 3 or 4 day premium tickets so we can book our FPs and we use them toward upgrading our Gold to Platinum we will have a huge surplus in cost difference, what happens to this cost difference? Is it just lost, do we just keep the remaining tickets?

Or do we just buy a 3 or 4 day pass link them for purposes of booking FP then see if they can un-link them when we upgrade out AP separately at the park. We are worried if we do this that we risk them getting activated somehow and be out the cash. Also it is not ideal to have that money tied up until we visit the park again (after our AP expires). Then we can use the 3 or 4 day pass in a future trip.

I hope this all makes sense, we are open to any other suggestions!

 

[china mom]

I'm sorry, I got distracted when you said you live in Boston and have Florida Resident AP's. What was the questions again?

 

[vnovabri]

We dont have Florida Resident APs? We have Gold Passes. We have DVC so gold is an option, if this is your confusion?

 

[Robo]

1. if we buy a 3 or 4 day premium tickets so we can book our FPs and we use them toward upgrading our Gold to Platinum we will have a huge surplus in cost difference,
2. what happens to this cost difference? Is it just lost,
3. do we just keep the remaining tickets?
4. do we just buy a 3 or 4 day pass link them for purposes of booking FP then see if they can un-link them when we upgrade out AP separately at the park.
5. We are worried if we do this that we risk them getting activated somehow and be out the cash.
6. Also it is not ideal to have that money tied up until we visit the park again (after our AP expires).
7. Then we can use the 3 or 4 day pass in a future trip.

1. Don't do that.
2. Yup.
3. Hold them for future use or upgrade.
4. YOU can unlink them. Create "fake names" in your MDE account and move those tickets to those names until such time as you want to move those tickets back under your real names.
5. They won't, but even if they DID, the erroneous situation could be fixed by Disney.
(Disney has to fix "messed up" tickets all the time due to their own "messed up" ticketing systems.)
6. Yup. But, since FP+ is what we have, that's what you are stuck with.
7. Yup.

 

[china mom]

Out of state APs don't have black out dates

 

[erionm]

Out of state APs don't have black out dates

The Gold Passes do and those are also available to DVC Members regardless of where they live.

 

[china mom]

We dont have Florida Resident APs? We have Gold Passes. We have DVC so gold is an option, if this is your confusion?

Aaaahhh, sorry, that does explain it. I thought I had missed a deal somewhere.

I agree with above. It looks like your best option is to but tickets and then unlink them and save them for your next AP purchase.

 

[Accident]

Do you plan to renew your passes and will you be on property when it's time to renew them (within 60 days prior or 30 days after the renewal date)? you can apply the cost of unused tickets to the renewal or save them for a future trip.

fastpasses and aps are getting better but still has some quirks in the system.

 

[vnovabri]

Thanks for all the great info guys, it sounds like you confirmed what I had thought and what the best option is.

 

[vnovabri]

Do you plan to renew your passes and will you be on property when it's time to renew them (within 60 days prior or 30 days after the renewal date)? you can apply the cost of unused tickets to the renewal or save them for a future trip.

fastpasses and aps are getting better but still has some quirks in the system.

It wont be within those time periods, but we will be there again in march which will be within 60 days, so that is definitely something to keep in mind.