Thanks so much for helping us all here!What a crazy morning! I can't believe how crazy it was ... running DVC and AP at the same time was definitely surprising. I was in the DVC queue with multiple browsers and NONE of mine were anywhere close to the front of the line - Maybe bad karma from Disney for leaking that DVC link early?
At the same time the DVC queues were loading, I heard the sound that plays to say it is your turn to enter the website, I was going crazy looking through the DVC ones to see which one had loaded and I couldn't find one - and then I saw a post that said the AP previews were also live.
As we were approaching 9am, I happened to load up a bunch of browser windows with the AP link and they were all hitting, telling me it was my turn - I finally figured it out and was able to grab May 8th which just so happens to be the last day I'm at WDW.
Then had to convince the wife to change our flights, extend hotel and rental car ... phew, I hope I didn't forget anything!
I still don't have a confirmation on my AP preview though - but I know it processed because when I tried to go back into the AP Preview link to see what the dates were (I clicked so fast I didn't remember what they all were) - it said I had already registered. I do have a screenshot and PDF of the website confirmation though (thanks to whoever recommended that!)
Been a fun filled last week or so since the original preview email dropped checking every day to see if the preview went live - congrats to everyone who got into the preview - now I'm moving on to trying to get Moonlight Magic at Hollywood Studios, another nail biter but at least I know the date/time ahead of schedule!
I'm exhausted from all of the excitement - I wish I could go take a nap!
We’re going to be in Universal until the 8th, so I added a day at Riverside with the AP discount and changed our flight to the 9th.
I would’ve done a value but didn’t see any. I’m hoping for a last minute dvc rental but we’ll see
You don’t need to swap your days around. You’ll have both park reservations in your accounts and if you got a morning preview time you can go there and then over to HS before 2pmI agree with what everyone else said. I would not have gotten a spot without viewing this thread and already having the registration link. I never received an AP preview email and neither did anyone in my family with an AP. I used other people's methods of having various tabs open (chrome, incognito and my phone) and the chrome one loaded first with a less than a minute wait. It was annoying to have to swap my Epcot and HS days around (RIP my ADRs that I woke up at 6 am for) but I'm still excited regardless. I'm the only one in my group with an AP so to make up for it I'm buying everyone in my group a Remy LL, hopefully that'll soften the blow.
Still never received a confirmation email, so I hope I'll get the one closer to the actual preview. Thanks to everyone here for the helpful tips
this just sounds bitter and rude. nobody here was sitting around waiting for an email,in fact most of us booked before the email even went out because we followed the thread and knew what to do. probably spent 5 minutes a day on this.
I know but I got a 12:30-1pm slot and none of the people I'm going with have a park hopper ticket so I wanted all of us to be able to go to the same park. I wanted a morning but was surprised to see that even at 9:00 am the earliest time wasn't until 11:30-12.
Again thank you, thank you!!
I totally agree the information sharing from Disney was awful! It makes no sense to me why they couldn't have sent out the email BEFORE the queues opened???
I also want to send out a huge thanks to @Liquidice and @Haley R for posting the threads and links and everyone who posted and kept the faith. After many many people mentioned calling DVC and being told that dates hadn't been sent and the links were not valid, I think we have proven that Disney doesn't tell their CMs anything about the special events. Based on that the email receipt 15 minutes after the links dropped - there is NO way I would have been able to go to any preview! Unfortunately the DVC dates didn't work, but I was able to score for me and my hubby for the 21st. My kiddos (all college age) don't arrive until later so too bad for them, lol!! We leave on the 27th, and I was able to get park reservations as soon as they announced the opened date, so I guess we (they) will be rope-dropping for that. Should be loads of fun
