upgrading annual passes

[tupper]

Hi. I can order 7 day park hopper plus tickets through my visa rewards program in Canada, but they are telling me that I can't upgrade them to annual passes. I talked to Disney and they said that I could upgrade.

However, since the passes are supplied through a "discount consolidator", do they have a code or something that would prevent me from upgrading them to annual passes?

I asked this on the Canadian site and they suggested I try here to see if anyone could help me with the info.

I don't want to spend the points if I can't upgrade to the tickets I want. They will not let me use my points for annual passes. But I can only use the points with the company they purchase passes from.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

 

[Amberle3]

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion about what can and can't be done with passes. The travel agency I used to work for was the top-selling Disney agency in the city, and our top "specialist" always told people that you couldn't upgrade to an annual pass. In fact as far as I know she still thinks that Canadians aren't allowed to have annual passes.

The only concern I would have with upgrading the Visa Rewards tickets would be the fact that you're turning in points for them instead of actually paying for them. Since Disney applies the value of the tickets toward the APs, I would be concerned that they would say that the passes don't have a dollar value because they were "free". And unfortunately the answers that you get on the phone aren't always the same ones you're going to get at the gate.

As a travel agent I purchased Disneyland passes from our consolidator last year and upgraded them for annual passes with no problem.

(just thought I'd add to the confusion)