A Cautionary Tale (and I wanted to see if anyone else has run in to this issue)
We are staying on site and arriving on a Saturday with 7 consecutive park days planned.
Knowing that a 7 day ticket can be used any 7 days over a 10 day period, I found that starting our date-based tix the Wednesday before would save us ~$40/ticket and we would still be able to enter the parks for our 7 consecutive days starting on Saturday. So I bought the tix starting on Wed. and saved the $40/ticket. Are you still with me? Here’s the issue:
I happened to go in to
MDE and do the practice LLMP thing, only to discover that it says I can book our LLMP on the Sunday before we arrive. Wait - what? Shouldn’t that be Saturday before, i.e., 7 days prior to our on site arrival? The LLMP booking date it was giving me was 3 days before the start of the date based tix or only 6 days before on site arrival.
Confused, I called WDW IT to ask about this. They weren’t sure why it was giving that booking date, as the 7 days prior to on site rule should override the 3 day rule. The CM consulted with her team and then another escalated team. They had nor run in to this issue before and could not figure out why this was, nor how to fix/override it.
They offered to change my tix start date, but I’d lose the cheaper pricing. Then they gave a reference number I could use to call in at 7am on the Saturday before (7 days before on site arrival) and they would have notes in my account about the issue and instructions to override the booking start date to that date so I could then book my LLMP.