News Round Up 2018

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I am sure there is a dedicated thread about this but thought quicker to just ask it here ... if I buy annual passes now, before the prices go up, but don't go until the summer, I get the year from the date we activate, not the date we buy the passes, correct?
 
TheMaxRebo said:
I am sure there is a dedicated thread about this but thought quicker to just ask it here ... if I buy annual passes now, before the prices go up, but don't go until the summer, I get the year from the date we activate, not the date we buy the passes, correct?
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Correct you AP starts when you activate it. I bought mine in October I think and didn’t activate until January. It’s good until next January.
 


rteetz said:
Today in Disney History

The one and only Disney California Adventure opens on this date in 2001!
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And my first visit to DCA was 17 years and some days ago during AP previews. The only thing I remember from the previews was that nearly every major ride had a 2 hour wait.
 


rteetz said:
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Ticket increases are coming Feb. 11th. No word on specifics but some tickets will increase by double digits.
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I fully expected a double digit rise. Then I'd probably expect another just before Star Wars land opens and a 3rd time before the 50th. I imagine we will be at the $150 a day barrier
 
rteetz said:
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Ticket increases are coming Feb. 11th. No word on specifics but some tickets will increase by double digits.
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Need to put some pressure on BIL to give us his wedding weekend schedule, so we know if we want 3 or 4 day Disneyland tickets...

If his wedding was at the end of the year, I'd probably just eat the increase because he might not have details yet. But his wedding is 8 weeks from tomorrow... o_O
 
TheMaxRebo said:
I am sure there is a dedicated thread about this but thought quicker to just ask it here ... if I buy annual passes now, before the prices go up, but don't go until the summer, I get the year from the date we activate, not the date we buy the passes, correct?
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rteetz said:
Correct you AP starts when you activate it. I bought mine in October I think and didn’t activate until January. It’s good until next January.
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Something I thought was interesting, and did not make sense to me, regarding AP's...

Just got off chat with a cast member who said if you let your AP expire and then renew it, it backdates to the previous expiration date. I'm not knowledgeable enough about AP's but that just doesn't make sense to me.

If that is indeed the case, what if the expiration date is April 2018 and you let it expire. Then you decide to buy another AP in March 2019...that means the expiration date of the new AP is going to be April 2019?

Unless I misunderstood what the CM was saying, that's what it sounded like.

This came about because my wife and I are going down in April. We currently have active AP's that are set to expire in March. We can't make FP for April because our AP's won't be active then (thus we don't currently have an active ticket for the dates of the trip). To make the FP's we have to renew our AP's now, and essentially lose 2 months. Unless I'm a dummy and am not understanding something.
 
rteetz said:
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Ticket increases are coming Feb. 11th. No word on specifics but some tickets will increase by double digits.
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We have a trip in December and I'm wondering if it's worth buying the tickets now, even though we aren't ready to book the rooms/package. Does a double digit increase on some tickets mean some SINGLE day tickets, and every added day is also more expensive?

I don't know if that wording makes sense. But say the increase is $10. Does that mean the 1 day price goes from 99 to 109 and a 7 day park hopper goes from 485 to 495? Or would each added day see a slight bump too, so a 7 day PH could end up going up by 20 or 30 dollars instead of 10?
 
mikepizzo said:
Something I thought was interesting, and did not make sense to me, regarding AP's...

Just got off chat with a cast member who said if you let your AP expire and then renew it, it backdates to the previous expiration date. I'm not knowledgeable enough about AP's but that just doesn't make sense to me.

If that is indeed the case, what if the expiration date is April 2018 and you let it expire. Then you decide to buy another AP in March 2019...that means the expiration date of the new AP is going to be April 2019?

Unless I misunderstood what the CM was saying, that's what it sounded like.

This came about because my wife and I are going down in April. We currently have active AP's that are set to expire in March. We can't make FP for April because our AP's won't be active then (thus we don't currently have an active ticket for the dates of the trip). To make the FP's we have to renew our AP's now, and essentially lose 2 months. Unless I'm a dummy and am not understanding something.
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You wouldn't be renewing the next March, you'd just be buying a new AP. The reason for doing a renewal instead of buying a new AP is to get the renewal price, so your expiration date stays the same regardless of when you next use it. Otherwise everyone would get an AP and just renew it the next time they went so they didn't have to pay for the gaps between their trips.
 
wareagle57 said:
You wouldn't be renewing the next March, you'd just be buying a new AP. The reason for doing a renewal instead of buying a new AP is to get the renewal price, so your expiration date stays the same regardless of when you next use it. Otherwise everyone would get an AP and just renew it the next time they went so they didn't have to pay for the gaps between their trips.
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Not sure what my wife read when she said there was no difference in price between renewal vs. new AP.

That's literally the last time I listen to her. ok probably not...
 
wareagle57 said:
We have a trip in December and I'm wondering if it's worth buying the tickets now, even though we aren't ready to book the rooms/package. Does a double digit increase on some tickets mean some SINGLE day tickets, and every added day is also more expensive?

I don't know if that wording makes sense. But say the increase is $10. Does that mean the 1 day price goes from 99 to 109 and a 7 day park hopper goes from 485 to 495? Or would each added day see a slight bump too, so a 7 day PH could end up going up by 20 or 30 dollars instead of 10?
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my guess is the later - that everything will go up by a double digit percentage of their current price (though the exact percentage likely will vary based on what they are trying to push more - shorter or longer ticket lengths .... I forget exactly but I think last year it was like the 3 days went up a lot more %-wise than the 4 day pass or something like that)
 
mikepizzo said:
If that is indeed the case, what if the expiration date is April 2018 and you let it expire. Then you decide to buy another AP in March 2019...that means the expiration date of the new AP is going to be April 2019?
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Since the renewal rate is less expensive than a new AP, that is indeed how you work it. You have to renew within a fixed period of time anyways. From what I can see, you only have 30 days after it expires. After that, you would be buying a new AP.
 
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