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We're taking the kids and grandkids to OKW for Christmas week 😱, and we're staying in a GV for the first time. I understand that the GVs are almost all second-floor entrances. My DW and possibly one or two others will have a scooter. She/they can go up a flight of stairs to the entrance, so...

Thanks, @gharter. That will take care of my voucher. Hopefully I can renew DW's pass before we go and turn it into a Sorcerer's pass also. It's good to know about the free Photopass too, since the official Disney page says Photopass is an extra-price add-on.

That's what tripped me up. I made the park reservations months ago, and then realized yesterday that they were during the blockout dates. Apparently the system only checks to see that you have a pass, but doesn't check what type of pass or what the blockout dates are. Back when I was an IT...

This is probably the wrong place to ask, but I've done some searches without any results, so here goes.:-) I have a voice that voice menu systems, including Disney's, never understand. Even my Yes and No are almost always interpreted the opposite way. This morning I tried calling V.I.PASSHOLDER...

What did you find out? We're in a similar situation -- I have a Gold AP renewal voucher, and DW's Gold AP is within its renewal window. We have a trip scheduled for next month's Gold AP blockout dates, which are not blocked out for the Sorcerer's AP. (I tried calling V.I.PASSHOLDER this morning...

It may be a case of different company entities handling the DVC and non-DVC reservations, so that only DVC MS can give the DVC discount. I ran into that when renewing DW's Gold AP. The passholder line resolved a problem and set it up to be renewable, but they could not renew it. I had to call...

Thanks for that heads-up, Carol. It worked! The MS CM says they are only allowing early renewals if you have an existing DVC reservation that falls after your AP expires. No DVC reservation, no early renewal. Apparently this is a very fluid policy. You should try again! Ask for Damien, since he...

They are allowing normal Gold AP renewals, since I renewed DW's a few weeks ago. We had had it extended rather than canceled while Disney was closed, and it was renewed just at the 30 day limit after the extended expiration date. This morning the CM at V.I.PASSHOLDER specifically told me that...

My current Gold AP expires a week before our next trip to AKL in October. In order to make park reservations now, I'm planning to buy a 10-day single-park pass, use it to make park reservations, then upgrade it to my Gold AP renewal at Guest services when we arrive. However, the cost of the...

We have a trip scheduled in October. DW's AP is still valid then, but my AP expires a week before we go. Because of that, I can't schedule park days for myself. Since I can't renew my AP until 60 days before it expires (I think that's the limit), is there any way I can schedule park days for...

For the watch, open the Watch app on your iPhone, scroll down and tap Wallet and Apple Pay. Tap the Disney MagicMobile Pass. The Express Mode setting is below the barcode.

That sounds like it will slow down the lines tremendously. I can picture most people getting all the way up to the readers before they start fumbling to take out their phone or set up their watch, while herding kids, holding bags, etc.

Thanks for the great suggestions! Parking at TTC and using To Go sounds like the way to go.

Do you have to open Apple Pay? Disney's information states “This pass works automatically without FaceID or your passcode. Just hold your iPhone or Apple Watch near a reader." and "You don’t need to pull anything up or have the screen displayed in order to use MagicMobile."

I can't wait to try out my watch in May! I wear my MagicBand on my "wrong" wrist, so I'm always trying to tap my watch to the reader anyway 🤪. Our only problem is that we're in a mixed marriage... I'm Apple, and DW is Android. Hopefully the Android version will be available next month, but we're...

We've had breakfast at Kona Cafe many times, but we've always had a reservation. This time I waited too long, and couldn't get a reservation. If we drive up to the Poly, and tell the guard we want to go to Kona but don't have a reservation, will he/she let us in? We're staying at BWV, so we're...

Thanks for the replies. I was able to get into the AP line just now with about a 10 minute hold (woohoo!), and got the reservations I wanted. I can't wait for all this stuff to go away - it sure takes all the fun out of planning. Maybe by our following trip in October it won't be as bad.

I'm having the same problem for a May trip. Our friends who are joining us are FL residents with APs, and they can pick from the AP bucket. We're APs too, but can only pick Epcot or DAK for the entire trip because we come out of the Resort Guest bucket. However, I'm a bit confused by the...

As soon as WDW closed, we rescheduled our May trip to October. Fingers crossed that the furlough isn't quite six months.

I bit the bullet yesterday and canceled our May 7-18 reservation at the Riviera :sad:. We now have a reservation at OKW in October. There wasn't much available at DVC resorts for the whole 11 days, so it'll be interesting to watch the availability and see if everything books up, or everything...