Question regarding how to get on AP lists???

[DisneySuiteFreak]

We bought APs for the first time. I was wondering how long it will take to get on any DL AP lists like for email or newsletters? Were we supposed to sign up gor anything? When we were at the park, the lines for APs were so long that they were basically just asking us what our names were and date of birth. I'm not sure what the procedure normally is for getting on these lists, and after waiting in that long line to activate our passes for 2 days straight, we didn't think to ask about it. Do any of you know?
Thanks!

 

[mama2twoluvbugs]

try registering your ap at disneyland.com...

 

[Sherry E]

I also just got my first AP (Premium) recently (at the very beginning of October). A few weeks into October, I received a Welcome greeting card from DLR, thanking me for becoming an AP holder or some such thing. I don't know how long it is supposed to take to get on mailing lists and such, but I got my first newsletter/magazine (the Winter edition) in the mail within the first few weeks of December. As I am sure you saw, there was another thread going for a while where people were stating they had not received their Winter magazines even after Christmas. Apparently it is not an obligation for DLR to send out the newsletters quarterly (I didn't know if they came with being an AP holder or not, but I got one in the mail!). At first I thought that maybe they send them out to the Premiuim AP holders and not the Deluxe AP holders or lower level AP holders, but some of the people on that thread were Premium AP holders and still hadn't gotten their newsletters!

So now I am thinking maybe Disney just sends out one magazine (whichever one is the newest one after you become an AP holder) just to get you started and then doesn't send out anymore! I have no idea how it works! I am still trying to figure out the rhyme and reason behind who gets the PIN code hotel offers and why some of them are different than others and why some folks don't get them at all!!

 

[pixiewings71]

Just register online, that's it. Disneyland.com and click on the AP section, you just register the AP there.

 

[bumbershoot]

Yep, register online. Everywhere you can possibly put your email and mailing address, do so. There are a couple places, though I can't begin to tell you where.

As for the magazine/thingie, we got them all of last year, then missed the Winter one (which should actually be called the "deals and "news" that mainly ended or weren't news before it became Winter so we're quite useless and behind" newsletter/magazine).

Most things, however, I find out about by checking into the disneyland.com AP site and clicking around the specials/offers area. Or from others doing the same and posting the info here.

 

[Canyon girl]

We got our APs in Oct. We got the welcome card that Sherry E was talking about, but never got our magazine either. I wonder if they don't make it a priority to send it to us out of state people. I called around Christmas (after everyone was saying that they had gotten theirs) to ask if we would get one. They said to come in and get one. Great service!!! Then they said it would eventually arrive. Not yet. Maybe it will be here by summer. You can see that I am cynical about this issue. I paid the same rate as the CA people.

 

[Sherry E]

We got our APs in Oct. We got the welcome card that Sherry E was talking about, but never got our magazine either. I wonder if they don't make it a priority to send it to us out of state people. I called around Christmas (after everyone was saying that they had gotten theirs) to ask if we would get one. They said to come in and get one. Great service!!! Then they said it would eventually arrive. Not yet. Maybe it will be here by summer. You can see that I am cynical about this issue. I paid the same rate as the CA people.

Yeah, that's not right at all. I can totally understand if DLR is under no obligation to mail out the newsletters/magazines to us and doesn't want to mail them, but then if that's the case they shouldn't mail them out to anybody (I got one in the mail and I am still saying that!!). All or nothing - either everybody who is an AP Holder gets them or nobody gets them, but it doesn't seem logical or fair the way they are currently doing it. You don't want to get your Winter issue in Summer!!

 

[bumbershoot]

Canyon, I'm in WA but we got them for a full year. So unless something just changed it's not a state thing. And there were people from CA who didn't get theirs.

I think the important thing is that it's an extra, not part of the cost of the AP. I've read that a few times on something official that I have, I can't remember where it is, but I'm scrapbooking and am putting hands on all official things I have from them, and as soon as I find it I'll post the source for that.

Don't forget you can read the *exact same thing*, as the printed skinny little magazine, on their website.

 

[Canyon girl]

Bumbershoot, I know. The only trouble is that my computer doesn't belong in my kitchen when I am cooking. I finally broke down and copied the recipes to my Textedit and copied them off. That's what I tried to explain to the CM on the phone. I understand the PIN codes being random, but I don't thing the AP magazines should be.

 

[PinkBudgie]

Wait, are these paper magazines? I only got a welcome card, but nothing else in the mail. I get the email newsletter things. I also noticed they have a place where an address label would go if it was mailed, so maybe it is all the same.

 

[Vala]

I never even got the welcome card. But then again I am overseas...

 

[bumbershoot]

Bumbershoot, I know. The only trouble is that my computer doesn't belong in my kitchen when I am cooking. I finally broke down and copied the recipes to my Textedit and copied them off. That's what I tried to explain to the CM on the phone. I understand the PIN codes being random, but I don't thing the AP magazines should be.

Just print the pdf, canyon!

It took me awhile to deal with not getting the Winter one, but after reading its vast uselessness I was OK with it. Wasn't worth the paper printed on, IMO.

Wait, what recipes? Oh the pumpkin bar thing...did that work for you? I read that ther was something wrong with the recipe b/c it never set up for someone.... And the muffin was just straight from the Ap site. Printed strangely though, but that's what ya get from a disney site. Ugh.

Wait, are these paper magazines? I only got a welcome card, but nothing else in the mail. I get the email newsletter things. I also noticed they have a place where an address label would go if it was mailed, so maybe it is all the same.

Yes, paper magazines, sometimes. The info is exactly the same as the link from the AP pages to the newsletter.

 

[Sherry E]

Wait, are these paper magazines? I only got a welcome card, but nothing else in the mail. I get the email newsletter things. I also noticed they have a place where an address label would go if it was mailed, so maybe it is all the same.

Budgie, If you don't receive one of the newsletters/magazines in the mail but still want something tangible rather than just the online version, the next time you are in DL, stop by the Bank on Main Street. They have a lot of the AP magazines there for people to take. I personally like having something to hold in my hands and thumb through, so I appreciate the magazine (useless though it may be) but I am not going to count on getting it in the mail every season, given the randomness of who seems to be getting them now!

I don't have a problem with DLR not sending out the AP magazines to anyone, since it is not part of the membership. I just think it should be all or nothing - either send them to everyone who has an AP or don't send them to anyone. Right now, it seems too arbitrary, who gets them and who doesn't and for which season.

 

[LavenderPeach]

I haven't gotten any newsletter in the mail either (and for the record, i'm in CA). I got the welcome card but nothing else. I don't think we got any type of newsletter the last time we had APs either which was about 6 years ago. It's strange that they send them out to some people and not to others. It's not that big of a deal but it would be nice to receive a little bit of Disney magic in the mail every once in a while.

 

[LavenderPeach]

Okay, I just got the e-mail version of the AP newsletter. Strange since I just posted today about not receiving anything like that. Still no "real" newsletter in the mail but an e-mail is a step in the right direction.

 

[Sherry E]

Okay, I just got the e-mail version of the AP newsletter. Strange since I just posted today about not receiving anything like that. Still no "real" newsletter in the mail but an e-mail is a step in the right direction.

I seem to get a lot of e-mails from Disney, but since many of them contain PIN codes for WDW, which I cannot use at this moment, I don't study them too much at first. Sometimes I will get back to them later. I know Disney Destinations is the place that sends out the monthly e-mails and usually the PIN codes too, with links to the DLR wensite. And then I also get something called the Disney Insider, which I was getting even before I got my AP. So where/who does the AP e-mail come from, because I am not sure I have gotten that yet??

 

[LavenderPeach]

I seem to get a lot of e-mails from Disney, but since many of them contain PIN codes for WDW, which I cannot use at this moment, I don't study them too much at first. Sometimes I will get back to them later. I know Disney Destinations is the place that sends out the monthly e-mails and usually the PIN codes too, with links to the DLR wensite. And then I also get something called the Disney Insider, which I was getting even before I got my AP. So where/who does the AP e-mail come from, because I am not sure I have gotten that yet??

Yeah, I've been getting the Disney Insider ones for awhile now from signing up on Disney's website. This new one I got is called "Extra" and then below says "Disneyland Annual Passport". So I'm assuming that it's the same info as the ones they send in the mail? Now that I look at it again, it says it's from Disney Destinations so maybe that's the same one you already got. You get that monthly? I've had my AP since November and this is the first one I've gotten.

 

[Sherry E]

Yeah, I've been getting the Disney Insider ones for awhile now from signing up on Disney's website. This new one I got is called "Extra" and then below says "Disneyland Annual Passport". So I'm assuming that it's the same info as the ones they send in the mail? Now that I look at it again, it says it's from Disney Destinations so maybe that's the same one you already got. You get that monthly? I've had my AP since November and this is the first one I've gotten.

Yeah, I was getting e-mails from Disney Destinations a long time ago, waaaaaaay before I ever got an AP, and they tend to come about once a month - maybe every other month, but usually once a month. I started getting them a few years ago, even. They send updates about what's new at DLR with links to the DLR website, or they send PIN codes for WDW (rarely for DLR, darn it). But I have never gotten any e-mail that referenced anything about the Annual Pass, strangely. See, it's all very random and weird and scattered the way they handle these mail-outs or mass e-mailings!! I can't figure it out!

 

[bumbershoot]

Yeah, I've been getting the Disney Insider ones for awhile now from signing up on Disney's website. This new one I got is called "Extra" and then below says "Disneyland Annual Passport". So I'm assuming that it's the same info as the ones they send in the mail? Now that I look at it again, it says it's from Disney Destinations so maybe that's the same one you already got. You get that monthly? I've had my AP since November and this is the first one I've gotten.

No, I got that one today and I didn't notice the info given in the mailed magazine which is the same as the PDF link from the AP site. It's extra and newer information.


What's funny is that I get that to my gmail, which is linked to hubby's AP account. I get the Insider to my hotmail, and I've gotten that simply based on having an account with disneyland.com. I also get PIN codes to BOTH gmail and hotmail, from WDW and occasionally DLR.

 

[LavenderPeach]

No, I got that one today and I didn't notice the info given in the mailed magazine which is the same as the PDF link from the AP site. It's extra and newer information.


What's funny is that I get that to my gmail, which is linked to hubby's AP account. I get the Insider to my hotmail, and I've gotten that simply based on having an account with disneyland.com. I also get PIN codes to BOTH gmail and hotmail, from WDW and occasionally DLR.

Hmm......curiouser and curiouser.......who knows what the logic is behind all these newsletters and e-mails.