Questions about discounted DVC AP's?

[Cajun28]

Due to a tremendous boo-boo on my part, I have an unused AP voucher. I bought one for my son about 10 yrs ago, and realized when when arrived that I had forgotten the voucher at home and I had to buy another. Great way to start a vacation....LOL! I would like to buy another voucher, so that when the time comes that my wife and I could utilize them, we would have one for each of us.

When you buy an AP using your DVC discount, do you get a voucher? If so, can you hold the voucher and use it years down the road or do you need to use it within certain period of time?

Another question - If you can buy the voucher now and use it later, is there a limit to how many you can buy now and hold for future use. The reason I ask this is that our long range "Disney Plan" includes buying more points as we can afford them and buying tickets (10-day or AP's) to use once we are working less and able to travel more. We figure if we have rooms and tickets pre-paid, our travel costs will be less when we are on lower or fixed incomes. I'm assuming the money I save by buying tickets now and avoiding price increases will offset any or at least part of the cost of putting money out now for tickets. (for all you accountants out there)

Sorry for the long winded question and any help would be appreciated.

 

[dianeschlicht]

Due to a tremendous boo-boo on my part, I have an unused AP voucher. I bought one for my son about 10 yrs ago, and realized when when arrived that I had forgotten the voucher at home and I had to buy another. Great way to start a vacation....LOL! I would like to buy another voucher, so that when the time comes that my wife and I could utilize them, we would have one for each of us.

When you buy an AP using your DVC discount, do you get a voucher? If so, can you hold the voucher and use it years down the road or do you need to use it within certain period of time?
YES, if you order it from the website. We do this all the time, and the clock doesn't start ticking until the first day of use if you do this.

Another question - If you can buy the voucher now and use it later, is there a limit to how many you can buy now and hold for future use. The reason I ask this is that our long range "Disney Plan" includes buying more points as we can afford them and buying tickets (10-day or AP's) to use once we are working less and able to travel more. We figure if we have rooms and tickets pre-paid, our travel costs will be less when we are on lower or fixed incomes. I'm assuming the money I save by buying tickets now and avoiding price increases will offset any or at least part of the cost of putting money out now for tickets. (for all you accountants out there)
Yes, and we do this all the time. We do this as a hedge against the rising AP costs.

Sorry for the long winded question and any help would be appreciated.

I've answered in the quote.

 

[disneynutz]

We have also used the pre-pay strategy and have some vouchers as we speak.

One thought that I would like to pass on though. We find that the more we vacation at WDW the less time we are spending in the parks. We now seem to enjoy the resorts, lakes, Boardwalk, and DTD more as time goes on. Depending on how many times we visit the parks, having a AP is looking like less of a good value.

 

[Marc A.]

Where can you buy them online using the DVC discount??
Cant seem to find this.

 

[bumbershoot]

dvcmember dot com, then Perks, then WDW, and a few more clicks until you get to the disney page with the discount that shows up on it.

 

[Cajun28]

Thank you, Diane, for your quick response

We have also used the pre-pay strategy and have some vouchers as we speak.

One thought that I would like to pass on though. We find that the more we vacation at WDW the less time we are spending in the parks. We now seem to enjoy the resorts, lakes, Boardwalk, and DTD more as time goes on. Depending on how many times we visit the parks, having a AP is looking like less of a good value.

Dizneynutz, I have found the same thing. That is why we will probably buy some 10 day Non-expiring passes also. Those could last 2 years if the parks aren't visited too often. Matter of fact, on our last trip we only spent 2 days in the parks and rode a total of 2 rides the entire time we were there. Thanks for the response.

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

Where can you buy them online using the DVC discount??
Cant seem to find this.

It's really hidden on the member site. I have to re-discover the exact location every time.

Member Privileges link at the top of the home page.

Member Perks from the drop-down list.

Walt Disney World Resort link

Walt Disney World Annual Pass Savings and More Disney Magic link

Walt Disney World Annual Pass Savings link (at the very top of the column)

Walt Disney World Ticket Store link about half way down the page