What do the APs look like??

[MemoryMakers2669]

Just got my friends park passes in the mail and they are so cool! Love the Soarin ones. Her son got a Cinderella one though...LOL!

What do the APs look like?

 

[Disneyrsh]

Just like the normal tickets.

 

[MemoryMakers2669]

Ok, so I could get a Soarin one as well, like the ones I jsut got in the mail? I know, silly thing to think about.

 

[rangebob]

I think there are 6 different passes that you can land up with.

 

[Ilovestitch]

There's:

Animal Kingdom one w/Everest
MGM one w/Lights Motors Action Extreme Stunt Show
Epcot with Soarin (i think this one looks the nicest)
Cinderellabration Magic Kingdom

 

[SqueakyMouse]

I didn't even notice anything particularly interesting about our passes until I saw this post. Both our AP's and our PAP's (ugraded on our 3rd day) had Cinderellabration on the front. I can't say that they're anything special. I really wish WDW would switch to a more durable pass. Even though we were very careful with ours, they've gotten bent.

 

[MemoryMakers2669]

I am just glad they are different. I have enough Mickey, Minnie and Donald passes around here! And for our 4, 5, 9 and 11 years old, what is on them will be something special!

 

[rangebob]

I thought there was something for Downtown and the water park. I might be wrong though or was it talked about at some time.

 

[darlene9947]

Just got back from our trip on Sunday. We had 5 8-day PH passes. Had to have one replaced after 4 days...de-magnified. On the 6th day we had to have 2 more replaced...it seems they don't hold up too well in a washer!! LOL

I did see other guests in the parks who appeared to have the plastic credit card type admission media. Does anyone know if that's what they still issue if you stay onsite?? We were offsite this time and ordered our tickets thru Ticketmania with a MouseSavers code. the 8 day ticket was $1 cheaper than the 7 day ticket. Go figure. But I got an extra day to spend in the parks!!! YIPPEE!!!

 

[MemoryMakers2669]

The passes I just got are hard plastic, exactly like a credit card! Have the strip on the back. Last time we were there they were flimsy paper like ones.

 

[darlene9947]

MemoryMakers2669,

Are you staying onsite or offsite?? Where did you get your tickets??

 

[MemoryMakers2669]

We are onsite and I just ordered them from the website! The Disney website that is.

 

[jenjen212]

The passes I just got are hard plastic, exactly like a credit card! Have the strip on the back. Last time we were there they were flimsy paper like ones.

if you got something in the mail for annual passes, that is most likely just a plastic voucher, i think that they are usually green. you have to turn it in at the gate of one of the parks or at guest services, and then they will give you one of the "paper" passes.

the ones that people are carrying that are plastic cards, are regular passes (not annual passes) that people purchased at the disney resort that they are staying at. when you buy them there, they put your tickets on your room card key.... which they also changed. it used to have tinker bell on it, now it is light blue has a picture of the castle on it.

i really wish they would make them plastic, i am always worried that i will rip mine or something will happen to it.

jen

 

[rangebob]

MemoryMakers, I'm guessing you were staying on site. If you are at a Disney resort and purchase your tickets through the websiter or CRO with your hotel reservation, they put the admission tickets on your room key, or a seperate room type key. I've never done it myself but know that they do have them on a room type of key. If you are offsite you will get the cheap paper/plastic ticket. I had to have my annual pass changed 4 times last year due to the use that I had on it. With the amount of times that it went swimming with me I would have expected more.

 

[Disneyrsh]

Be careful with those bright green vouchers stuck to the paper-if you lose them, you're outta luck; they're NOT replaceable. The AP's are, but the vouchers are basically cash stuck to the paper they came on. Guard them with your life!

Our AP's have always been paper, we keep them in one lanyard with the plastic sleeve on the bottom (my lanyard, Ms. Anal Retentive) I've seen people getting into the park with their room key and can't figure out how the heck THAT's supposed to work. I also wish they were more durable....

 

[GoldenOldie]

MemoryMakers, I'm guessing you were staying on site. If you are at a Disney resort and purchase your tickets through the websiter or CRO with your hotel reservation, they put the admission tickets on your room key, or a seperate room type key...

Not true with AP's though. AP/PAP/SP's cannot be put on resort ID's. They must be bought, picked up or voucher exchanged at a ticket booth or Guest Relations where they will be on the mylar paper stock.

The resorts (who have the plastic ticket/ID stock) cannot do AP's and the ticket booths/Guest Relations who can do AP's do not have the plastic stock. So AP/PAP/SP's will always be on the mylar paper.

 

[WillCAD]

Disney APs are a mylar stock that is much more durable than it looks. It's not really paper all the way through, it's got a flexible mylar substrate that's darn near indesructable.

However, Universal recently started issueing APs that are hard-laminated cards, with your photo on them, that are as solid as a drivers license. I was shocked and gratified to see it; not only are Uni APs much cheaper than WDW APs ($183 incl. tax as opposed to $421 inc. tax), but they also offer far better discounts (20% off most merchandise IN THE PARKS, and dining discounts at most of the Uni restaurants), and now the card itself is a hundred times nicer than the WDW AP.

I hope that WDW wises up and follows suit on this one; people have been complaining about the flimsy feel of the WDW APs for years!