Should I purchase my first ever AP??? HELP!

[weesignlanguage]

Hi! My dh, myself and my son (turnign 4) will be going from Sept. 19-28 for Free Dining and have purchased the MYW park hopper. We are definitely going back next fall but probably the same week as we went this year (think it would be Sept. 18-27) and hoping for free dining bounceback when we go next month! Here's my question:

We would love to upgrade our MYW tix from this trip to AP b/c we only live 8 hours away and would go at least two times before next fall's trip. Will our AP expire though on the first day of our next fall trip (Sept. 18.) I know we will have to buy a 1 day base tix for FD if we bounceback. Is there anyway to work this or is it a no go....

Hoping for good news but expecting that I would have to buy new tix for Sept. 19-28, 2009 which would make it pointless to get the AP. Any advice??

 

[raven69david]

We're in the same crunch. I bought an AP for myself and 10 day hoppers for DW and DD3. If you upgrade to AP, your pass will expire 365 days after you convert it to an AP. So this means that your trip next year would have to be the week before so you can get another week out of them, which should help them pay for themselves. There are no grace periods after it expires for the exception of the renewal which give you 30 days to do so. You'd have to go for 3 weeks to get benefit from the AP's, but the perks more than make it for it.

What we're thinking about doing is just upgrading our 10 day PH's to No expiration and then just adding days as we start to use them. We will get the days at whatever price the gate ticket was when we first activated the ticket. So when ticket prices go up next year and so forth, as long as I have at least 1 day left on my PH, I can add days for the price i paid in 2008.

 

[rt2dz]

We're in the same crunch. I bought an AP for myself and 10 day hoppers for DW and DD3. If you upgrade to AP, your pass will expire 365 days after you convert it to an AP. So this means that your trip next year would have to be the week before so you can get another week out of them, which should help them pay for themselves. There are no grace periods after it expires for the exception of the renewal which give you 30 days to do so. You'd have to go for 3 weeks to get benefit from the AP's, but the perks more than make it for it.

What we're thinking about doing is just upgrading our 10 day PH's to No expiration and then just adding days as we start to use them. We will get the days at whatever price the gate ticket was when we first activated the ticket. So when ticket prices go up next year and so forth, as long as I have at least 1 day left on my PH, I can add days for the price i paid in 2008.

I’m not sure I’m understanding you, but you can’t add more than 10 days to your ticket, I believe. So if you have a 10 day ticket, you can’t use some days and then add more days to make it a 10 day ticket again.

I also KNOW you will not add days at the old price. What would happen is that your old ticket would become the current gate price. For example, if you had a 7 day PH, it would be the price of a current 7 day PH regardless of how many days were left on it, and you’d add days at the current price.

Also, any upgrades must be done within 14 days of first use.

An upgraded AP will expire 365 days from the first day you use the original ticket media, not the day you upgrade it. If you plan on using it on a trip the next year, your trip must end the day your AP was used in order to use your AP for that trip.

Check out this sticky.

OP--The cost break even with an AP is more than 11 days (assuming park hopper) within a 365 day time period. There are a ton of perks with an AP that can make it worthwhile if you don’t use it that many days. It sounds as though you will use it at least 13 days however. You may also want to just move your trip up for 2009 a week.

BTW—We find the DDE card with an AP discounts costs less than rack rate on a room with free dining.