Sorcerer's Pass questions

[ClaraOswald]

Dang...this is tricky.

Take the $738 gamble or not. I asked my husband and he's also on the fence about it. I guess we have time to think about it. Though if we don't want to buy the Sorcerer's pass, I would probably book our 2027 trip for late January to save points (since February is more.) And we wouldn't want to do a week earlier than that in January 2028 because it would be MLK weekend.

So I guess I do need to decide fairly soon since the 11-month window will be opening soon.

 

[ClaraOswald]

There isn't a DVC discount on a Disneyland AP though, right? I googled and the ai result said something about $20 off but I couldn't find anything on that. Just discounts on weekday hoppers.

We plan to do 7 nights, 6 days for our Disneyland trips. You can't get more than a 5-day hopper there so we would just use our 6th day as a "break." But if we had an AP, I could see us going to the park in the evening on our break day. And possibly the evening of arrival day too.

But not sure if it's worth the price with no discount. (And again, we'd probably be doing the trips almost exactly 12 months apart like with WDW. So a risk again.

Too bad we don't live closer/go more often.

 

[eticketplease]

There isn't a DVC discount on a Disneyland AP though, right? I googled and the ai result said something about $20 off but I couldn't find anything on that. Just discounts on weekday hoppers.

We plan to do 7 nights, 6 days for our Disneyland trips. You can't get more than a 5-day hopper there so we would just use our 6th day as a "break." But if we had an AP, I could see us going to the park in the evening on our break day. And possibly the evening of arrival day too.

But not sure if it's worth the price with no discount. (And again, we'd probably be doing the trips almost exactly 12 months apart like with WDW. So a risk again.

Too bad we don't live closer/go more often.

No there isn’t a discount on Magic Keys as far as I’m aware of and the discount you are finding from google is probably the MMB tickets.

 

[muppets3d]

If you do go in January and decide you want an annual pass, you can stop by a ticket booth or call DVC member services and ask they upgrade your 6-day park hopper to an annual pass and you just pay the difference. You can do this any time before the ticket expires, even if you've used some or all of the days of admission on the ticket.

 

[airjay75]

If you do go in January and decide you want an annual pass, you can stop by a ticket booth or call DVC member services and ask they upgrade your 6-day park hopper to an annual pass and you just pay the difference. You can do this any time before the ticket expires, even if you've used some or all of the days of admission on the ticket.

That is a very important thing to keep in mind - you don't have to decide in advance.

 

[muppets3d]

That is a very important thing to keep in mind - you don't have to decide in advance.

The only reason you may wish to buy the AP now (or at least before October) and not activate it until January 2027 is they historically raise the prices of tickets and annual passes in October shortly after the new fiscal year begins, so if you wait until January to upgrade your ticket you will likely pay a little more than if you bought it now. Last year the Sorcerer pass went up $20, so it's not like they go up a huge amount typically.

 

[muppets3d]

No there isn’t a discount on Magic Keys as far as I’m aware of and the discount you are finding from google is probably the MMB tickets.

Strictly speaking, there isn't a DVC discount on WDW annual passes either. We are simply allowed to buy the Sorcerer pass if we are DVC-Y despite not being Florida residents, while typically non-residents can only purchase the Incredipass.

 

[Steelers0854]

If you went ahead and did the park hopper tickets you would buy them in advance correct? Even if you bought the tickets a week before you left you are still taking a risk that something will happen and you cant go. Given the park hopper tickets over 2 trips will cost you more than the annual pass it seems to be a no brainer that the AP is the better way to go.

Also consider with the AP you can get memory maker for about $100ish for the entire year if thats something you will benefit from, we love this option.

 

[Brian Noble]

The difference is small enough that I would probably not change my plans to fit two trips into one AP year. A few hundred bucks is not that much, and the risk you are taking on is non-zero.

Most of the time when I buy an AP, the plans work out, but over the years there have been a couple of APs that ended up wasting some money. On balance I'm still in the black vs. buying individual tickets, but by less than I probably would have hoped.

 

[ClaraOswald]

If you went ahead and did the park hopper tickets you would buy them in advance correct? Even if you bought the tickets a week before you left you are still taking a risk that something will happen and you cant go. Given the park hopper tickets over 2 trips will cost you more than the annual pass it seems to be a no brainer that the AP is the better way to go.

Also consider with the AP you can get memory maker for about $100ish for the entire year if thats something you will benefit from, we love this option.

We usually buy our park hoppers from getaway today and it's fairly easy to change the dates if we would need to reschedule. Even if it's a year later, I think we just pay whatever the price difference is so we aren't really losing anything if we have to change our plans.

The difference is small enough that I would probably not change my plans to fit two trips into one AP year. A few hundred bucks is not that much, and the risk you are taking on is non-zero.

Most of the time when I buy an AP, the plans work out, but over the years there have been a couple of APs that ended up wasting some money. On balance I'm still in the black vs. buying individual tickets, but by less than I probably would have hoped.

So you think I should just do park hoppers instead then? Or am I reading this wrong?