RebelHawk
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- Aug 13, 2004
I think that we might be in a fairly unique situation, but I wanted to pass along an incredibly helpful tip in case someone has a similar situation. Back in the day when Disney announced that they were going to stop selling the non-expiring park hopping passes my wife and I each bought four 10-day tickets. Our intention is to hold onto those for as long as we can and use them as our VGF DVC member is ending and Disney is charging $1000 a day for a park ticket.
After those tickets stopped being sold we switched over to APs. The issue that we had in the early days is our non-expiring tickets were always being flagged as the first option when we bought a new AP. When scanning into a park our non-expiring tickets were used instead of the new AP and we had to go to guest services to be issued a “file number” to reference that Disney owes us a day to be used at a future date. After going through this we always asked that Disney make sure everything was prioritized correctly with our APs. Unfortunately, we ran into this same issue two additional times as the years progressed. These days Disney’s systems can correctly accommodate for this sort of situation but we are continuously paranoid and always watching our tickets to make sure they are correct.
Just renewing our APs and upgrading from Sorcerer to IncrediPass as we have a Christmas trip planned for this year we were on the phone with Guest Services. They suggested that we create a new name under our My Disney Experience and move those non-expiring tickets to those names. Now we no longer need to worry about our old tickets being used. When we’re ready to use them we can either get a new magic band associated with those names or call Guest Services and ask that they move them back to our original names. This is such a massive load off of our minds every time we renew our APs and we wanted to share if anyone else has a similar situation.
After those tickets stopped being sold we switched over to APs. The issue that we had in the early days is our non-expiring tickets were always being flagged as the first option when we bought a new AP. When scanning into a park our non-expiring tickets were used instead of the new AP and we had to go to guest services to be issued a “file number” to reference that Disney owes us a day to be used at a future date. After going through this we always asked that Disney make sure everything was prioritized correctly with our APs. Unfortunately, we ran into this same issue two additional times as the years progressed. These days Disney’s systems can correctly accommodate for this sort of situation but we are continuously paranoid and always watching our tickets to make sure they are correct.
Just renewing our APs and upgrading from Sorcerer to IncrediPass as we have a Christmas trip planned for this year we were on the phone with Guest Services. They suggested that we create a new name under our My Disney Experience and move those non-expiring tickets to those names. Now we no longer need to worry about our old tickets being used. When we’re ready to use them we can either get a new magic band associated with those names or call Guest Services and ask that they move them back to our original names. This is such a massive load off of our minds every time we renew our APs and we wanted to share if anyone else has a similar situation.