I love credit cards so much!

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After seeing people get park tickets, Universal tickets, and Halloween/Christmas party tickets with URs... I might see if I can use URs for water park tickets (Disney and Volcano Bay). If we go...
 
MrPTato said:
I tried to get the gate price vs the actual price paid on two different days and the evening on the second day I went to DS to the town common, or whatever its called now, and spoke to guest relations about it. They said they now track how much you paid for ticket regardless of what the actual price of admission was because they know you purchased a discounted ticket and also who you bought it from. That was just my experience and I let it be. It wasn't going to throw a wrench in my vacation. Besides...Disney already took enough of our money...whats some more! :worship:

I even tried MK for the first entrance as that is the highest priced park.
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This interests me because I am considering price bridging to AP's when I go to WDW in December. I just found this on the ticket board. I'm guessing you had a pre price increase ticket.

""Price bridging" for Upgrading Tickets has changed in many cases.
Tickets purchased from stock issued before the most recent
price increase of Feb. 11, 2018 (this may or may not necessarily be related to the date that you purchased your tickets) will be bridged only to the price that Disney sold these tickets to the public at that original time.

That means:
There are currently three different ticket upgrade scenarios:

NOTE: The date on which you BOUGHT a ticket from an authorized ticket reseller is not necessarily the date on which the ticket was "minted" (created) by Disney.
(The resellers sell from "old stock" tickets until they need to order "new stock" tickets.)
So, it is quite possible that if you bought tickets from a reseller/discounter a short time after a WDW ticket price increase, the tickets you have will be from the previous year's stock.
That doesn't matter if you use the tickets as-is, but if you intend to upgrade, it can mean
a higher price to do so."
 
Upgraded my Cat 6 to a Cat 9 cert with Marriott. Took less than 20 mins in total, rep was a bit lost said she didn't do this very much but at the very beginning she said she had to find the right code so I figured she'd figure it out. (I about had a heart attack when she told the price was 165k though, she looked into more and said I would be refunded 75k and then they'd pull 165k to pay for the new package bring the total to the expected 90k.) I'm feeling better about the merger now.

I'd attach if I knew when I'd be traveling but this total lack of Cathay partner availability for business class is crushing my soul...
 
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wendow said:
Oh my! I've not heard that. I honestly think it's great...as a homeschooler, I think less time in the classroom and more time to learn outside the classroom is great...However, I can't imagine the headache this will cause working parents!
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Dang, I am so jealous. I'd love my kids to have that schedule. And I totally agree with you on the classroom thing. Frankly, in regards to parent schedules, I couldn't care less. School isn't daycare.
 


vanjust14 said:
This interests me because I am considering price bridging to AP's when I go to WDW in December. I just found this on the ticket board. I'm guessing you had a pre price increase ticket.

""Price bridging" for Upgrading Tickets has changed in many cases.
Tickets purchased from stock issued before the most recent
price increase of Feb. 11, 2018 (this may or may not necessarily be related to the date that you purchased your tickets) will be bridged only to the price that Disney sold these tickets to the public at that original time.

That means:
There are currently three different ticket upgrade scenarios:

NOTE: The date on which you BOUGHT a ticket from an authorized ticket reseller is not necessarily the date on which the ticket was "minted" (created) by Disney.
(The resellers sell from "old stock" tickets until they need to order "new stock" tickets.)
So, it is quite possible that if you bought tickets from a reseller/discounter a short time after a WDW ticket price increase, the tickets you have will be from the previous year's stock.
That doesn't matter if you use the tickets as-is, but if you intend to upgrade, it can mean
a higher price to do so."
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Purchased in the spring os 2017. I hope you have better luck! Seemed pretty hit or miss and maybe how much the CM wants to dig into things. I am not sure what special price overrides or what not that they can perform without a supervisor.
 
Yeesh you guys have been busy today! Made it to my horse show with only a slight delay in ATL this morning. We flew on what looked like a new A320 to ATL that was really nice. After we left our Hilton hotel this morning I sent a message on the app saying that our shower was taking 30 minutes to drain. I got a call about an hour ago from the manager of the hotel to apologize and let me know that he had checked it and had taken the room out service. He verified that I paid with points (20k) and told me he was going to refund me 10k for my trouble. I thought that was more than fair and thanked him for being so attentive! Definitely appreciate the prompt customer service, especially since I’ve never heard back from the Hilton Anaheim.

I also realized what a churning win this trip is. DH’s round trip flight was free, but that was from a previous work trip getting canceled and he had a balance on his Delta account for that amount (really don’t know how that worked, but whatever). DH has enough Delta miles for me to fly free round trip. The Marriott we’re staying in is a cat 1 costing us 30,000 points for our stay. And DH had a pile of Hertz points from when he used to travel for work that he used for our rental car, so we only paid $17 for our car! Somehow he ended up getting gold status (seriously he hasn’t traveled for work in 2 years, how??) and we got upgraded to an SUV.

Now if only there was a way to churn the costs for the horse :rolleyes1 haha just kidding. I love him enough to pay for him, but getting a horse to Oklahoma ain’t cheap!!
 
DisneyMandC said:
Yeesh you guys have been busy today! Made it to my horse show with only a slight delay in ATL this morning. We flew on what looked like a new A320 to ATL that was really nice. After we left our Hilton hotel this morning I sent a message on the app saying that our shower was taking 30 minutes to drain. I got a call about an hour ago from the manager of the hotel to apologize and let me know that he had checked it and had taken the room out service. He verified that I paid with points (20k) and told me he was going to refund me 10k for my trouble. I thought that was more than fair and thanked him for being so attentive! Definitely appreciate the prompt customer service, especially since I’ve never heard back from the Hilton Anaheim.

I also realized what a churning win this trip is. DH’s round trip flight was free, but that was from a previous work trip getting canceled and he had a balance on his Delta account for that amount (really don’t know how that worked, but whatever). DH has enough Delta miles for me to fly free round trip. The Marriott we’re staying in is a cat 1 costing us 30,000 points for our stay. And DH had a pile of Hertz points from when he used to travel for work that he used for our rental car, so we only paid $17 for our car! Somehow he ended up getting gold status (seriously he hasn’t traveled for work in 2 years, how??) and we got upgraded to an SUV.

Now if only there was a way to churn the costs for the horse :rolleyes1 haha just kidding. I love him enough to pay for him, but getting a horse to Oklahoma ain’t cheap!!
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Does the horse's travel at least code as "travel"?
 
Ava said:
Thanks! I’ve been looking at so many hotels lately I couldn’t remember last night if that was one that’s going down in points. I’ll keep an eye on it.


Yeah, the double beds is kind of a bummer, but this hotel seemed the most kid-friendly out of the choices and I want to be on Condado beach. We’ve stayed in double bed rooms before and managed alright.

There is an AC Hotel that has 2-queen rooms but it’s not beach front, and a Courtyard in Isla Verde. If you’re looking for Marriott options in San Juan that have 2-queen rooms. There are also a couple Ritz Carlton properties but I didn’t look at those.
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I have stayed at that Marriott a couple of time for work trips. It’s been a few years though. It was a nice location. I remember there was a rooftop barbecue restaurant there and it had a mechanical bull that people enjoyed riding. I did not attempt it though.

Old San Juan was nice with lots of shopping and little restaurants.

We stopped there on one of our Disney cruises and walked to the Fort with DS. That is a nice, cheap experience.

SW had some awesome prices from BWI 2 years ago in Jan and I had flights and a hotel booked but DH didn’t want DS to miss anymore school days since he had missed some in the fall for vacation and he would be missing a week at Spring Break.

Enjoy your trip!
 
amalone1013 said:
Overall depends on what tickets you want. What is their price on UCT vs Disney? Then decide is 5x UR worth more than 3x UR plus the cash discount? I think CIP plus UCT will be best.

My example: 7 day hoppers for 2 adults
$1043.70 from Disney, $959.78 from UCT ($83.92 less)

If I bought GCs from Walgreens with my Freedom to pay, I'd earn 5218.5 URs worth $78.28 ($1043.70*5*.015cpp)
If I bought from UCT with CIP, I'd earn 2879 URs worth $43.19, plus save $83.92

I would have gone with CIP in this case.

ETA: Have had no trouble linking UCT tickets to MDE
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Thanks so much for doing the math for me. Here are my numbers with 2 parkhoppers for 3 days (not enough! I know!)

3 day hoppers for 2 adults
$788.10 from Disney
$767.46 from UCT ($20.64 less)

If I buy GCs from Walgreens with my Freedom to pay, I'd earn 3940.5 URs worth $59.10 ($788.10*5*.015cpp)

If I buy from UCT with CIP, I'd earn 2302 URs worth $34.53, plus save $20.64
 
Got my SW CP today. :cool1: Applied for the SW biz in July, met the MSR last week. Statement closed Sunday and I've been stalking chase and SW since. RR and the CP finally posted to my SW account today. Woo-hoo! Now off to work on my amex SPG biz $5K MSR, which I just received yesterday... Amex takes me forever, still have 1K left on DH's Hilton biz.
 
MrPTato said:
What I typed was vague looking back on it. I should have said...will a gift card purchase trigger the requirement or should I add on something else small so its not an even amount.
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I have now tried that darn offer twice! I bought a $50 GC and a spiral notebook for a $.25. Both time I could not get that darn offer to kick. I have both DH and my AmEx linked and no dice either time. Thank goodness I was getting the 10% off else I would be really pissed. I’ve decided RMN is a joke. As much as I would to save $10, I have better things to do with my time.
 
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