Oh, one more thing I forgot! This past year, Disney made the Dining Plan available to AP holders. So, you can get the room discount -when it's offered--and get the dining plan that others get when they book a package.
Just for clarification - hotel room discounts of a sort are offered 365 days a year with APs. With the APs for DLR (and for WDW, too, I think), you get
a discount on the hotels year-round. It's just that they perodically come out with the "AP rates" (AP8, AP9, AP10, etc.), which offer great savings, and those rates are much lower than the usual discounts. But if there are no "AP8" or "AP10" rates or whatever happening during a designated period to offer the great discounts, you will
still get hotel room discounts of, I think, 10% 365 days a year, with the Premier, Premium, Deluxe, etc.
From everything I am interpreting from what has been posted here by Glendalais, etc., about what comes with the Premier AP, unless I overlooked something, I think the
best way to explain the benefits of the Premier is to say that any previous DLR or WDW Premium AP Holders will
not lose any of the benefits they previously had - and that includes any and all discounts on food, hotels and merchandise, parking, and 365-day a year access to the parks, as well as the Backstage Pass magazine, etc. The way I am reading it is that the Premier AP offers
all the same stuff that the DLR PAP or the WDW version of the PAP offered - just combined into one big Super Pass!! In other words, no one is losing anything they would be getting with the Premium AP. In fact, they're getting all the same stuff that was already offered plus
more benefits, more parks to visit - more, more, more!! That's why I think the $700 price is such a steal for everything you get with it.
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