Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[flower_petals]

I wonder if they would let me modify the flex option to park hoppers today. I'm not cancelling the ticket just changing one of the non-discounted options. Any thoughts?

Can't hurt to try! Especially since it's a non-discounted one. The sale ending won't really affect pricing. It's just more of a swap.

 

[mort1331]

Can't hurt to try! Especially since it's a non-discounted one. The sale ending won't really affect pricing. It's just more of a swap.

Count me in on trying. Just seeing this now so will call tomorrow.

 

[dancin Disney style]

4th week in a row I’ve got the 110/$115 from Sobeys. I went today and first went to customer service to buy a $200 gift card for the Bonus Boom offer...I wanted to keep things separate so that I didn’t mess up. Well the cashier had the Blue Jay cards and I got the 110 miles on that purchase.

 

[mort1331]

Darn missed it by one day..cant change them...good job on those that did.

 

[ottawamom]

Sorry to hear that mort. I've been going back and forth with myself all day trying to decide if we would really use the park hoppers. I've been trying to tour these last few trips without them (as Airmiles doesn't offer hoppers). The only day I think we would use it would be our last day. It would have been nice to be able to do one or two rides in a different park.

I was going to call tomorrow and see but I wasn't really holding out much hope given that the sale was over. When I calculated what it would mean if they assigned a value to the CDN flex tickets and I then purchase a hopper, it would have been an extra $93 ish before tax to add the hoppers. Not worth it for 1 park day.

I will have to file this away as a possibility for next time. Congrats to those who managed it.

 

[AngelDisney]

Yes,,Murphy has left the building!!!!
I booked a new trip for Disney for Next Dec ,,so happy!!!

And my son was able to sell my Oct 15 expiring Universal ticket I got from Airmiles,
for $185.00,,so happy someone is going to get to use it and that I got some money for it too.

Time to make a big pot of tea and celebrate!!
Hugs
Mel

Yay! This is exciting news!! I am going next December too, Dec. 19-29. Waiting for Airmiles to open up the return flight from MCO tomorrow. Then everything is done except for ADRs and FPs.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Yay! This is exciting news!! I am going next December too, Dec. 19-29. Waiting for Airmiles to open up the return flight from MCO tomorrow. Then everything is done except for ADRs and FPs.

And MVMCP tickets?

 

[AngelDisney]

And MVMCP tickets?

Thanks for reminding! Yes, yes, if they offer it on Dec. 20, last Sunday before Christmas like this year. I would probably buy tickets directly from Disney rather than using Airmiles. Just got my return flights using AM. I think the best use of AM is on getting flights and I need to build my AM for our trip to Shanghai.

 

[AngelDisney]

Sorry about missing the chance to add park hopper! Is it a thing to worry about missing anything out after a sale? My dates of travel are set in stone with DVC and flight booking done. But still I have been thinking if I should get the flex date tickets instead in the past two days .
I have always got park hoppers since the first time DD and I went on our own in 2010. We had unused non-expired hopper tickets from a previous trip so I bought extra tickets with no park hopper in order to save money. I planned our days to visit all the parks, some more than once with park hopper. We stayed at Coronado Springs on that trip. On our last day without park hopper, DD saw the Tower of Terror on the bus enroute to another park. She asked if she could go on Tower of Terror again as that’s her most favourite ride. It broke my heart to tell her no because we didn’t have park hopper and we still had another park to visit. We didn’t know we would be visiting again in 2011 at that time. I thought it was our last time visiting WDW, and we must follow our plan. Who knew we would get hooked! Luckily, it’s always just DD and I going on Disney trips so getting park hopper doesn’t cost an arm for us, but I can imagine how it adds up for a bigger family. To me, it gives us flexibility now to hop to Epcot for a lunch before going back to the hotel for a rest especially in the summer heat.
No AM hunting this weekend for me! Maybe trying to hit Rexall for 200 AM Beautiful Thursday. I saw some bath comb gift sets on sale in one Rexall store last week. Thinking of stocking up for donating to school prom as prizes.

 

[damo]

All these people talking about Disney changing their tickets....were these base Canadian Promo tickets that you got from Air Miles?

I tried several times to do that and was told emphatically no over the phone and then given a crazy price to do it in the parks.

 

[TammyLynn33]

I did the bonus boom yesterday between foodland shell and rexall . Bonus 50 for three boxes of Cheerios used BMO mastercard there for gas and did the 50 at rexall plus the difference between the 200 and what I spent on a Disney gift card as just needed to hit threshold .
it is getting harder and harder

 

[momof2gr8kids]

All these people talking about Disney changing their tickets....were these base Canadian Promo tickets that you got from Air Miles?

I tried several times to do that and was told emphatically no over the phone and then given a crazy price to do it in the parks.

Reading a few posts back it looks like it was the AM Canadian Promo tickets.
People have been told for years that you can't upgrade 3rd party tickets until you're at Disney at Guest Services.
Very disappointed I didn't see this earlier. I would definately have added the park hoppers and Water Park feature.

 

[mort1331]

All these people talking about Disney changing their tickets....were these base Canadian Promo tickets that you got from Air Miles?

I tried several times to do that and was told emphatically no over the phone and then given a crazy price to do it in the parks.

Reading a few posts back it looks like it was the AM Canadian Promo tickets.
People have been told for years that you can't upgrade 3rd party tickets until you're at Disney at Guest Services.
Very disappointed I didn't see this earlier. I would definately have added the park hoppers and Water Park feature.

So what the change is, or was that I missed out, the new tickets were the new flex date tickets. These came out when Disney started dynamic pricing with different pricing for different days. But as some were lucky, and smarter than me, to have confirmed dates, call Disney and change those tickets and then apply the credit towards either hoppers, or water parks.
I give credit to all those who did, and the saying always is, if you dont ask you wont know the right answer.

 

[ottawamom]

All these people talking about Disney changing their tickets....were these base Canadian Promo tickets that you got from Air Miles?

I tried several times to do that and was told emphatically no over the phone and then given a crazy price to do it in the parks.

Ditto what mort said. I'm kicking myself because I usually do a quick scan of recent posts before heading to bed. I was caught up with a show on tv and didn't do that. Saturday morning, it was too late. It may well have been that the OP got a little extra pixie dust sprinkled her way. Unfortunately with the offer over there is no way of knowing if this would have worked for others. We'll just have to try next time.

 

[Raimiette]

So what the change is, or was that I missed out, the new tickets were the new flex date tickets. These came out when Disney started dynamic pricing with different pricing for different days. But as some were lucky, and smarter than me, to have confirmed dates, call Disney and change those tickets and then apply the credit towards either hoppers, or water parks.
I give credit to all those who did, and the saying always is, if you dont ask you wont know the right answer.

Just fyi, this doesn't work for everyone. It looks like this may have just been a nice CSR (1 time pixie dust type thing).

I can tell you that I tried this myself (CDN airmiles flex ticket, last year in December) I got just one to try (was advised here it probably wouldn't work) and called in 4 times speaking to different CSRs (I thought I might be able to find someone who would bend the rules lol) and was told in no uncertain terms with each of them that it couldn't be done unless I lost the discount entirely.

I ended up giving that flex ticket to a friend and purchasing 2 date specific park hopper tickets from the personal shopper. It was about 3500 more airmiles. I'm going to be so upset if they've changed the rules and I wasted those.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Now that I think about it, amending them would cost me more money for something I don't really need this trip. We are not planning on water parks, nor are we hopping. The tickets are still free for us.

 

[AngelDisney]

I bought my PH tickets from Disney, not using miles. I thought upgrades have to be done in person.

 

[ottawamom]

I thought so too. It's been a great time dreaming of the possibilities (through this discussion). Oh well back to reality and park planning.

 

[damo]

Reading a few posts back it looks like it was the AM Canadian Promo tickets.
People have been told for years that you can't upgrade 3rd party tickets until you're at Disney at Guest Services.
Very disappointed I didn't see this earlier. I would definately have added the park hoppers and Water Park feature.

I had those tickets and was told repeatedly in December that I couldn't do it without a big up-charge, so I think the person who was able to, got some pixie dust. Over the phone, I was told that they could not do anything because the tickets were from Air Miles. If I had bought them from Disney, it wouldn't have been a problem. In person, I was told that because it was just an online offer, they couldn't do anything.

So unless something changed between December and now, I think there was a lot of pixie dust involved.

 

[bababear_50]

Anyone know how much the Red Bull 4 pkg drink at Shell is,,the one where you get $25 Airmiles(Bonus Boom)?
Can I double dip on Feb 12--1 airmile for every $1.00 spent?

Thanks Mel