I called the passholder line yesterday and while the lady was pleasant, she knew shockingly little about APs to be answering that line. So I found this thread, and though I would find out if my thinking for our situation is correct. It's a little complicated, but who's issue isn't right now!
My DH and 2 kids had platinum APs with an original expiration of June 11th. They are now showing as expiring on October 6th. We have a reservation booked for August 6-15 with a 7 day PH due to the FD recovery offer after our April trip was cancelled. I am thinking these are my 2 choices, and I need to decide which is a better idea for us.
1. Take the partial refund on the APs and use the 7 day PHs to upgrade to new gold APs during our August stay (we bought into DVC in Feb so are now eligible for gold).
2. Keep the APs with the October expiration date and use the 7 day PH towards the renewal during our August trip. In August we will be within 60 days, so we should be able to renew, correct? We can also renew to a different pass, right (platinum to gold in this case)?
The CM on the passholder line didn't know if we could put the 7 day PH ticket toward a renewal, she only knew you could put a ticket toward a new AP, but I'm pretty sure you can, right? In addition, if we let the tickets expire as they would have in June and take the refund, we can't renew in August since it's after 30 days, is that correct? I thought I remembered something about them extending the renewal window, but wasn't sure what that meant. So I need to know the value of the 7 day PH which seems to be a state secret at this time, the cost of a gold AP renewal, and the cost of a new gold AP and do the math to see which is better, correct?
Then she pointed out a new problem I hadn't thought of. My pass had expired last October and I didn't renew, so I planned to put this 7 day PH toward a gold pass and get on schedule with the rest of my family. We also have twin 3 yr olds who turned 3 after our last trip, so have never had a pass before. I was going to use their 7 day PHs toward gold APs also. But if they aren't selling new tickets, will we be able to do that?? If not, that's a huge issue since in my mind we're pretty much wasting the money on the 7 day ticket for me and the 3 yr olds. we didn't need it, we only did the FD offer since we knew/thought we could use the value of those tickets toward renewing/getting APs. Will we be able to upgrade the tickets to APs in August for the 3 of us who don't currently have an AP?
Does that make sense? Is my line of thinking right, and WWYD?
