Diseny Salute Tickets

[mackmack]

I know Annual Passes are not available yet. When they are, assuming they cost $1200. Can anyone here tell me if the Salute Veterans ticket discount would apply and if so what the cost would be. Thank you.

 

[lanejudy]

I believe you can look up Salute ticket prices on the Shades of Green website.

I'm moving this post to the TPAS forum.

 

[mackmack]

The shades of green site only give the 4 and 5 day hopper prices. There is no mention of annual pass discounts with the salute program.

 

[DLgal]

There is no military discount on annual passes under the Armed Forces Salute program.

Also, it's not something that all veterans are eligible for (Salute Tickets).

 

[mackmack]

I am 100% P&T.

Any Disney Armed Forces Salute ticket can be upgraded to any pass.
At Walt Disney World, if you’d like to upgrade to one of the many different annual passes you can go to any WDW ticket location and pay the price difference between the Salute ticket and the desired pass plus tax.

What I dont understand is "pay the difference". So if I got a $315 5 day hopper via Salute, I could convert that to an annaul pass? I dont understand what the means or the best way to take advantage of getting a discount on annual pass.

 

[auralia]

I am 100% P&T.

Any Disney Armed Forces Salute ticket can be upgraded to any pass.
At Walt Disney World, if you’d like to upgrade to one of the many different annual passes you can go to any WDW ticket location and pay the price difference between the Salute ticket and the desired pass plus tax.

What I dont understand is "pay the difference". So if I got a $315 5 day hopper via Salute, I could convert that to an annaul pass? I dont understand what the means or the best way to take advantage of getting a discount on annual pass.

They will apply what ever you paid for the military ticket to the pass so if the pass is 1200$ and you were trading up from the 315$ ticket you would owe 885$. No actually discount on the annual pass just an option to upgrade the ticket you have for the value paid.

 

[mackmack]

That's what I thought but it makes no sense. You are still paying $1200 either way? So there is no monetary advantage to doing that, this is simply a way to convert them because the tickets are non-refundable?

 

[starry_solo]

That's what I thought but it makes no sense. You are still paying $1200 either way? So there is no monetary advantage to doing that, this is simply a way to convert them because the tickets are non-refundable?

Yes, for those tickets Disney knows what they sell them at (it's on the website) so you lose the discount when upgrading to an AP

 

[subtchr]

That's what I thought but it makes no sense. You are still paying $1200 either way? So there is no monetary advantage to doing that, this is simply a way to convert them because the tickets are non-refundable?

Correct. There is no military discount on annual passes.

Whether you use the value of a salute or any other type of ticket toward the purchase of an AP, or buy it outright, you still pay the same total.

Shades of Green used to sell annual passes at what worked out to be a slight discount. You saved the sales tax, and only paid a slight service fee (which was less than the sales tax would have been). So it was about a $50 savings on a platinum AP. But they stopped selling APs a couple of years ago.

I am an out of state platinum passholder from a military family. I have my AP because my company pays for it (I’m a group tour director), but my family uses salute tickets. Even when I purchased my first AP about 5 years ago, I saved more money using Disney gift cards I had purchased at a discount, to buy it directly from Disney, than I would have purchasing it from SoG.

But those salute tickets are the best!