Military Salute tickets and FP+, staying onsite, my experience booking

[twodogs]

I just wanted to post this as I found conflicting and limited information about this, even on the Disney-specific military site (which I love and use often!!). We bought the Military Salute tickets at our base, and linked them to our resort reservation (at AKL) on MDE. The tickets are 4 big park days and 4 "water parks and more" days. To my initial reading, I thought that even though we have 6 onsite resort days, since my tickets only officially have 4 big park days, I would only be able to book FP+ at 60 days out for the first 4 days of our reservation (which would have sucked because we were going to do 3 park days the first three days, then a water park day (no FP+ needed that day), then a final park day). I had read somewhere that you could book at 60 days mark for the number of days on your resort reservation OR the number of park days on your tickets, whichever is FEWER. That would have meant that I couldn't book that last park day (day 5 of our trip) until 30 days out, since we only have 4 total park days on the tickets. I was super bummed because that 5th day of the stay (4th park day) is our MK day and I wanted to get Anna/Elsa, 7DMT, etc for that day for a party of 6. Probably not happening at 30 days....

So I was feeling pessimistic when my 60 day window opened tonight. However, it allowed me to choose dates from the full length of the resort stay, not just the first 4 days. So, at least based on my experience tonight, it seems that (at least for Military Salute tickets and staying onsite) it lets you book until the end of your resort stay, EVEN if your stay is longer than 4 days. It did, however, only let me book FP+ for 4 individual days of the 6 days I had to choose from (since my tickets only have 4 park days on them, not including water parks). This made sense to me.

So, just to be more clear:

AKL reservation: 5/13-5/18 (Wednesday-Monday)
60 FP+ window opened 3/14 at Midnight (night of 3/13)
Last day open to me for FP+ booking at 60 days out: 5/18
Total # major park days on tickets: 4
Total # individual days allowed to book FP+: 4 (NON-sequential allowed: I did 5/13, 5/14, 5/16, 5/17).

Hope this helps others using the Military Salute tickets!!

 

[mesaboy2]

Correct, you cannot book FPs for more days than you have tickets for, but those days do not need to be consecutive.

Similar info can be found on the green link in my signature.

 

[twodogs]

Hi Mesaboy! I read your WONDERFUL thread and got so much fantastic information from it. It helped me so much tonight, my first time doing FP+. I did not see specific mention on there of how the days of tickets worked for Military Salute but maybe I missed it. I thought I read it was the length of your resort stay or the number of days on your tickets, whichever was LESS. That would have meant it only lets me book the first 4 days of my stay, even though I"m staying longer at AKL, because my tickets only have 4 park days. But it let me choose from the entire 6 days of my stay, just limiting me to ANY 4 days in that time. So I guess I didn't understand how it worked, but I'm glad I was incorrect and it let me choose from all 6 days!!

Thanks again for all of your great information! I used your ranking charts for what to choose and it all worked out great!

 

[mesaboy2]

Happy to help!

Yeah, I've not seen any different rules for MS tickets as far as booking FPs go, so I don't specifically mention them in the FAQ. I would certainly hope they would be treated the same at least. It would be nice if SOG guests could qualify for the 60-day booking window like Swan/Dolphin guests do.