How/where do you keep your AP?

[cdorval]

Got my first AP's for the family last week. They came as paper passes in a paper sleeve with the AP benefits booklet included. Where do folks keep there AP's? In the papaer sleeve? I was kind of disapointed in the papaer passes and would have prefered a plastic pass. Also I carry my money in a magnetic money clip. As soon as the passes come within the vicinity of my monety clip, I have to get another AP, (happened twice in 4 days). Any ideas from imaginative folks on how/what they keep and carry their AP's in? Thanks .....

 

[WDWguruDH]

We have little fanny-pack type things, very flat so it does not stick out and won't be in the way on rides(available at most travel stores in the mall). There is a little pocket that holds credit cards, room keys, AP and some money. When at home, we keep the APs in the fanny pack with other little items - sunblock stick, Advil, etc - that way we don't forget any of it.
I actually prefer the paper ticket - my AP at Disneyland is hard plastic, but does not go through the ticket machine, thus extra time and effort. WDW AP slides right through with everyone else's.

 

[JimC]

We keep our APs in the paper sleeve that they came in and that in our park packs. I agree with you about getting the paper APs. I can't guess the number of plastic room/ID/media cards that they use in a year for people there for just a few days and an annual pass that must last a whole year is in paper - go figure.

Also not to keen on the mystery quarterly newsletter we are supposed to get. Its been 7 months on these passes and no newsletter yet.

 

[Lexxiefern]

I have a pooh backpack and Dh has a fanny pack that we got on our first trip together to Disney. We only use them at Disney. We keep the AP's in the sleeve and in the zipper pocket in the backpack (DH carries his in his fanny pack ONLY when we are at Disney - as soon as we come home I take it and put it in my backpack with mine)

I agree about the paper ticket. The park hopper tickets are plastic - so why aren't AP's?

 

[msdis]

Ours just expired and we have new vouchers. Did they just change the material ap's are made of? Ours were always a flexible vinyl material. The vouchers used to be paper, but the actual ap's were not.

 

[Ohanamom]

I bought one of those ID Holder/Lanyards at Wal Mart for $0.97 in the jewelry department. I left the pass inside the paper sleeve and then slipped the whole thing inside the plastic ID Holder. It was just the right size to hold the whole thing. That way I can get to it easy when entering the parks or getting a FastPass.

I have heard a lot of people complaining about how the AP should be laminated or something to make them stronger.

 

[CaliforniaDreaming]

I keep mine in the credit card section of my wallet. I've never had a problem with it there.

 

[skiwee1]

Originally posted by cdorval
Got my first AP's for the family last week. They came as paper passes in a paper sleeve with the AP benefits booklet included. Where do folks keep there AP's? In the papaer sleeve? I was kind of disapointed in the papaer passes and would have prefered a plastic pass. Also I carry my money in a magnetic money clip. As soon as the passes come within the vicinity of my monety clip, I have to get another AP, (happened twice in 4 days). Any ideas from imaginative folks on how/what they keep and carry their AP's in? Thanks .....

First off I would get rid of the magnetic money clip! That will stop half of your problems right there. I carry our APs in their sleeves in the front pocket of my fanny pack. They even stay there after we return home from trips. They have survived 35 park days and not a wrinkle, wet mark, or tear.

 

[skiwee1]

Originally posted by msdis
Ours just expired and we have new vouchers. Did they just change the material ap's are made of? Ours were always a flexible vinyl material. The vouchers used to be paper, but the actual ap's were not.

They have been paper for the last couple of years if not longer. The park hoppers are plastic but not the actual AP. That is made of a cheap grade of paper stock. Were your recently expired APs made of plastic? As a matter of fact my vouchers were made off plastic but my AP was made of paper. We just renewed our APs last week and it is the same old paper. Different picture though.

 

[Momto8]

We've been getting PAPs since 1998 and the vouchers and passes have always been made of paper. I, too, wish they were made of plastic.

 

[AMClvsMKY]

I just upgraded from a AP tp a PAP and still have paper ones. Plastic would be sooo much better, imo.

Anyway, I have a MIckey fanny pack with an outside part for license, credit cards and money. I keep them and also fast passes there for easy access when we are at the park. I rarely use the fanny pack otherwise so the passes stay in there all the time.

 

[WDWguru]

The APs are actually made from plastic fibers, so we get the best of both worlds. They have the flexibility of paper (so they can't snap or have the lettering worn off like a rigid plastic pass) and the strength of the plastic material (so they can go through the wash, get dropped in the rain, etc). The sleeve may get ruined, as it is paper, but the pass itself will not. If you doubt the material, next time you renew, just try ripping your old pass in half with your hands.

 

[Maridw]

When we are at home, our passes stay in our passporter (our Disney bible so to speak). The passporter goes with us everytrip to put maps etc into, so that is where the AP's go automatically at the end of each trip.

While at the park I am usually the one in charge of them. So they go into the front pocket of my fanny pack. This last trip for some reason I did not grab them out of the passporter on the first day and we got all the way to Epcot before I remembered them.

Normally someone says, "Do we have everything, passes, id's etc?". This time no one said that. So we had to go all the way back to the resort and get them. What a way to start the day.

 

[Gillian]

Because APs are coded with your name & address, guest services can easily issue replacements for you, even if you just left them in the room. This happened to me once too, and we were able to get new ones. Saved us a trip back to the room!

Of course, you need id that matches your AP. If that was in the room too, you'd be out of luck.

 

[twinmomplus2]

Ours to are kept in the fanny pack, that I use when at Disney, I never use it outside of Disney. So I unpack and put it on the top closet shelf until the next trip.