Good evening everyone.
No problem PiO.
It was exciting last night to hear that my relatives are interested in going to Florida. I was surprise to hear that they want to go during the F&W Festival which is something they are very interested in. It was a month ago when I talked to them about WDW and the F&W Festival. They are my grandparents that want to see WDW while they are still mobile. My uncle had hip surgery a few years ago and is still able to walk with no problem. They will have problems walking all day at the parks so there is an option of having a wheelchair just in case if they can't walk a whole day. It is exciting to go to WDW during the Halloween season since I have only seen the DLR during the Halloween season the last two years. I have heard that the Halloween season at WDW is nice and it would be interesting to compare both WDW and the DLR during the Halloween season.
I looked on Touringplans crowd level during our visit and it is about 5/10 on average for all the days we are there in Florida. Saturday of course is the heaviest while the others are 5/10 or 2/10. I am hoping that it won't be that crowded, but I am always prepare for any crowds on any days.
This is the trickiest of upgrading to the Premier AP. I did have the Premier AP for DL & WDW the last two years since I was going to WDW. I did have to pay full price for the Premier the last two times. This time when I renewed my DL Premium AP I only had to pay $479 for the renewal before the price increase went to $649. If I do upgrade to the Premier AP, I have to pay about another $400+ to get the Premier. That is a lot of money just to upgrade to the Premier with a Premium. I didn't think I was going back to WDW this year after everything has been going on with my families. But they decided at the last second that they wanted to go and now I am in a awkward situation if I should upgrade to the Premier and pay over $400 or go with MYW PH tickets. I am leaning towards upgrading to the Premier since parking will be helpful and the merchandise discount since we are not staying onsite. They haven't decided where to stay, I suggest to them that I use my RCI points and stay at the Sheraton Vistana Resort like the last two times I have stayed. I also have the TiW card that I bought last year when I went to the Holiday season and is good until January 2013. So I don't have to worry about the restaurants. The parking, food and merchandise discount will come into play if I do get the Premier.
I was planning on upgrading my DL Premium AP to the Premier at the Guest Relations at the DLR when I go in a couple of weeks since I won't have to upgrade the AP at WDW. This is the part of when I should upgrade to the Premier at the DLR. I was thinking of upgrading on the last day of my DL trip in a few weeks instead of upgrading on the first two days of the trip. Last time when I upgraded to the Premier from my Premium AP at DL in 2010, I was denied to get a FP for the rides and WoC showpass. I would assume that all the kinks have been worked out since then. I'm just hoping that I won't go through a repeat process back in 2010.
How does the upgrade option to covert to a full year works PiO. I did ask a similar question when the Premier started in 2010 and told me that if I do upgrade to the Premier AP from the Premium, the expiration date will be the same as the original date of the Premium AP. I am getting confuse about this.
Can't wait to hear what you are going to do during the F&W Festival. I really want to meet Robert Irvine, but his date is on the 26th and that is the day that we arrive from California to Florida. It said that it would start at 10am to 12pm so that is out of the question. Do you know how many people they take in for these events? After I saw Buddy Valastro name on the list, I was shocked to hear that the star of "Cake Boss" was going to be at the F&W Festival.
