Did we find an answer to this?? I would love to upgrade to the Premier Passport for
Disneyland!
I do have an answer. I talked to Guest Services when I was there in November. The long answer to my original question is YES it can be upgraded. However, the easier answer is NO. Ill try to share the long answer and you can decide for yourself what you want to do.
As many have stated, Disney Fairytale Weddings is its own operating unit within the Walt Disney Company. Even within the Parks and Resorts Division of Disney, the individual units operate almost as separate businesses. You would think the Cruise Line, DVC, Resorts, Theme Parks would all be one company but they do not operate that way.
On to the AP. Guest Services said I could upgrade to the Premium AP, but I would only get a credit for what DFTW paid for the AP which I believe was ~ $235 and I could apply that to the upgrade. So in order to do a $125 upgrade, I would have to pay ~ $500. As a Disney customer, to me an AP is an AP and why should I care that DFTW got it for a discount when they gave it to me? That infuriated me and I wish they would just say the AP is a special DFTW AP and cannot be upgraded.
I had a very similar situation a few months ago when I talked to my planner about swapping my standard free room block room at the GF for a standard DVC room at GFV. Even though the rooms cost almost exactly the same, the best they could do is give me a credit for what DFTW paid the resort for the room (~ $290) and I could apply that credit to a DVC room (~$600). Thanks but no thanks. I am not paying $300 for a free room. Just tell me it cannot be swapped and I would have not given it a second thought.
I work for a large corporation and I understand how internal charge backs work. So in both cases, I just dropped it. But I bet another guest, who really makes a big stink about it, could make a good argument against their logic of a free AP or room.
