Please help with AP Exchange Certificate ?

[CarolinaChick]

Leaving next Friday (11/24) for our first stay at the WL. We have purchased APs for this trip and also booked the room with an AP discount. Here are my questions:

Do we need to exchange the certificates prior to check-in so our AP room rate is valid? (pretty sure answer to this is yes)

Where do we exchange the certificates? It says any WDW ticket window on the letter that the certificates arrived with. Can you do it at the WL or do we actually need to go to a park ticket window? If not at the WL, could someone please advise the easiest place to exchange. We'll have been in the car for 10-hours that day and I'll be impatient to get to WL!!

Thanks for your help!

 

[tjmw2727]

I have checked in twice on an AP rate with just the voucher. Both times I was advised to return and show the AP after I activated it. The CM at the BW told me if I didn't return I would loose the AP discount and be charged rack rate. Needless to say I stopped at the front desk the next day with the activated AP and all was well

You can only exchange the voucher for the actual AP at the parks or DTD not at the resorts. Depending on your plans I would just activate it at the first park and then stop back in the front desk after to show your AP.

TJ

 

[disnut8]

Do we need to exchange the certificates prior to check-in so our AP room rate is valid? (pretty sure answer to this is yes)

Where do we exchange the certificates?

Thanks for your help!

Actually, the answer to your question is no. As tmjw2727 stated, you can check in with just the voucher. Then activate it at any guest services at the four parks main entrances, the International Gateway entrance at Epcot, or Downtown Disney. The closest place for you from Wilderness Lodge would be Magic Kingdom. You can take a boat over there. Just remember that every adult will need photo ID to exchange the vouchers and every member in your party that is getting an AP will have to be there.