New clause in rumored 4/7 deal stinks for AP holders

[raven69david]

Have you considered upgrading to a pool view room at AKL? It would only be about $10 more per night.

We always book standard view at AKL and then get the free upgrade. We have gotten it 100% of the time during the last 4 years as we only go during value season. Since DD4 is still not in school, we can pretty much go whenever we want, although this will be our final year with this.

I know we shouldn't rely on the free upgrade, but if we don't get it it's not that big of a deal. We know exactly where to go to view the animals and AKL is our home resort so as long as we're there, we're "home."

I guess 4/3 works good for you, but definetly does not work for us. Free dining is a joke to us. Somewhere on here I have a breakdown on how much we would lose by going with FD which I believe is like staying a whole other week at 40% off at AKL.

EDIT: here is my post

my trip at AKL for 7 days:

With AP rate: $938.00 including tax
With FD: $1863.00 including tax - also includes 1 day base ticket for each of us (3) - It would be $2634.00 with 6 day base tickets

room #2 ASMo (for in-laws) LOL

With AP rate: $338.00 including tax
With FD: $786.27 including tax w/1 day base tickets - It would be $1241.02 w/tax with 6 day base tickets

Room #1 savings: $1696 w/6 day tickets or $925.00 w/1 day tickets (we haven't spent that much on food in 3 trips)
Room #2 savings: $903.02 w/6 day tickets or $448.27 w/1 day tickets (these are only QS meals; can't eat $450.00 in QS meals - unless I eat for 2 weeks at Flame Tree BBQ YUMMY)

Please note that all of these figures are for MY family and YMMV. DW and I always split our plates because we just can't eat that much food. That's why I can say FD isn't free, for me.

This is another post that shows how much we paid to eat during our trip last month:

My wife and I shared our meals as we cannot eat 1 entire portion without leaving alot of food left over on each plate. We hate wasting food so we share each plate, which leaves us feeling full for quite some time. DD4 eats from the childs menu so we pay less than $7.00 per meal for her each day plus a snack here & there. We did a split stay and only charged food on our room card. First bill from POFQ was $86.00 and the bill from WL was $111.00 (please note that we were WL Club Level so we had snacks and light meals to keep us filled up most of the time). I can tell you we ate at 9 dragons, cosmic rays, casey's, Le Cellier and a few other snacks in between.

 

[swald91]

My thoughts are unless you take advantage of the full 7 days-the 4/3 deal is not that great. If that is what it's going to be- we won't go & we were planning to try to go in January....Free dining is better for us but we can't stay the full 7 days...just not worth the money for us...

 

[discorsner]

Hi, I just had this conversation about buyng tickets when I am a passholder. I said, "What do I do with all of the extra tickets?" She said you can take the value of the tickets and apply it to your next annual pass, save the tickets or use them in california.

What do you mean by use them in California? Can the MYW tickets be used at DL? I have never been out to the west coast but I have been thinking about it. So if we got a 4/3 deal and we are all APs and we don't need the 7 day tickets then we could use them at DL?

If so, how long would we have to use them? Forever? Or would they expire? Also if I didn't want to use them towards my AP upgrade this year but wanted to get another AP in say 2011, could I use the 7 day tickets toward that purchase or would they be expired? Would I get the current value for them or what I paid at the time?

Thanks!

 

[mousiemom]

hang in there, i know that this latest deal is no good for AP holders but maybe they will release some great ap room rates. This past year we were able to book the 4/3 deal but we didn't have to buy but a 1 day base ticket that we can deal with doing but we could never buy a 6 day hopper for each family member. No Way!!! like you said, we pay a lot of the AP. just over this past year, we had to purchase the 1 day base tickets but we were able to get the free dining, way worth it. we now have (4) 1 day base tickets built up to buy our tickets for next sept trip.

good luck!!

 

[helenk]

If this comes to be, it really not new, its just going back to the way it use to be a few years ago.
Until recently, when you bought a package you had to buy tickets for your entire length of stay, so those of with the APs were not able to enjoy the deals that were coming out e.g "Free Dining". Then they changed that rule and you only had to buy a 1 day ticket.
I suppose that Disney has decided this "loop hole" is not benefical for them. It would be nice though to go back to the discounts that we as AP holders would get, like the 45% off the room rate.

 

[Figment1990]

Can anyone confirm that if you have an AP, the minimum number of MYW day ticket you have to buy is 4day base ticket, regardless of your length of stay? What if I'm staying for 8 nights, or 9 nights. Can i still buy only a 4day ticket or do I now have to buy a 5 or 6 day base ticket to meet the requirements of 4/3?

 

[mddisneyfamily]

Darn, it's true!!!


Buy a 4-night/4 day vacation package at a MODERATE, DELUXE or DELUXE VILLA resort, get a 7-night/7-day package. That's 3 FREE hotel nights and 3 extra days on your theme park admission tickets, equivalent to a 43% discount on your room and tickets! You must buy a package that includes at least 4 nights' accommodations at a Walt Disney World Resort hotel plus minimum 4-day Magic Your Way Base Tickets to qualify for the 3 FREE nights and the 3 extra days on your tickets.

Buy a 5-night/5 day vacation package at a VALUE resort, get a 7-night/7-day package. That's 2 FREE hotel nights and 2 extra days on your theme park admission tickets, equivalent to a 29% discount on your room and tickets! You must buy a package that includes at least 5 nights' accommodations at a Walt Disney World Resort hotel plus minimum 5-day Magic Your Way Base Tickets to qualify for the 2 FREE nights and the 2 extra days on your tickets.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Not only does it hurt AP holders it hurts those of us who do a longer stay. We do a two week stay in the summer. This year I booked two one weeks consecutive trips with the 7/4 offer (one day tickets). I was able to get 14 nights hotel for the price of 8. We already had APs so I just saved the two one day park tickets.

I think buying two 5 days passes is a lot higher than one 10 day MYW pass.

 

[Caitsmama]

Just read about this -- i am very bummed. We are AP holders, and are going for 10 days in March -- (and 9 in November) this deal could have really worked for us, but i can't see how it would now with the clause thrown in..

Really stinks.

 

[chicagoshannon]

I agree it stinks! I hope they come out with an AP discount.