FP+ for future AP buyers

[MouseDaddy]

Planning an visit in summer at an offsite condo. We are AP holders but our APs expire next week. With 4 months in between now and our trip, we would not normally buy new APs until we arrive.

Does that leave us out of luck for FP+ until we get the APs? Does getting an AP voucher in advance (if they still exist) allow us to reserve some FP+ without having to activate APs before we would use them?

 

[Robo]

Planning an visit in summer at an offsite condo. We are AP holders but our APs expire next week. With 4 months in between now and our trip, we would not normally buy new APs until we arrive.

Does that leave us out of luck for FP+ until we get the APs?

Does getting an AP voucher in advance (if they still exist) allow us to reserve some FP+ without having to activate APs before we would use them?

Maybe.
Have you stayed at an on-site WDW resort and gotten MagicBands, yet?

(And, we have no idea what the situation for AP holders and FP+ will be by the time of your trip.)

 

[MouseDaddy]

No we do not have bands yet. We do have AP tickets that expire in a few days.

 

[ucfknight]

Since you are staying offsite and don't have MagicBands, you couldn't pre-book your FP+ even if you had an annual pass that was valid for your summer visit.

At least that is the qualification at this time. Subject to change without notice if/when Disney decides to send MagicBands to everyone with an AP.

 

[ArwenMarie]

Since you are staying offsite and don't have MagicBands, you couldn't pre-book your FP+ even if you had an annual pass that was valid for your summer visit.

At least that is the qualification at this time. Subject to change without notice if/when Disney decides to send MagicBands to everyone with an AP.

Yep to this.

You might want to think about booking a night on the front of your stay at a value and then linking your AP voucher if APs don't get access before your trip.

 

[KalamityJane]

You could do what we are doing, buy tickets from Undercover Tourist and upgrade the tickets when you get there to an AP. I'm not 100% on if this will mess up FP+ or not when you upgraded, but it would give you access earlier.

 

[Robo]

1- You could do what we are doing, buy tickets from Undercover Tourist and upgrade the tickets when you get there to an AP.

2- I'm not 100% on if this will mess up FP+ or not when you upgraded,

3- but it would give you access earlier.

1- Yes, that will work.

2- It won't hurt FP+,
however, at this point the OP can't make FP+ reservations because their party is not staying at a WDW resort.

3- Another option is to order an AP voucher and use that voucher number in MDE.
That will immediately grant access to FP+ (but, again, only if the guest is registered at an on-site WDW resort.)

 

[ArwenMarie]

I thought he was staying offsite so linking tickets wouldnt work? Just trying to understand to alleviate my own confusion..

 

[Robo]

I thought he was staying offsite so linking tickets wouldnt work?

They won't.


(Although, again, we don't know if or when that will change as FP+ "evolves.")