Split Stay, Free Dining, Annual Pass Question

[Simba1 come in]

Hi my husband and I are taking a trip in November. I think we got a little too "fancy" with our planning and didn't think everything through. I was wondering if anyone can offer some advice?

We are doing a split stay. First portion is Nov 9th - 14th and offsite. The second part is 14th through 21st onsite with free dining. We purchased tickets as part of the free dining offer. However, we are planning additional trips in the next year and planned on upgrading our tickets to annual passes once we got down to Disney.

I started thinking that this might not work since we will arrive on the 9th and our package doesn't begin until the 14th.

Is there a way where we can have annual passes starting on the 9th and take advantage of free dining?

 

[purple figment]

You can activate your park tickets up to 3 days in advance of the package start date, but Nov 9 is more than 3 days in advance of the Nov 14 package date.

FD starts on Nov 9 so if there is still availibility can you flip your on/off site reservations? Or move the start date of your FD reservation to Nov 12.