Canadian Resident 7-day Park Hopper no Memory Maker: $439.85
Canadian Resident 7-day Park Hopper w/ Memory Maker: $608.85
Platinum AP: $904.19
Dining discounts at most table service restaurants are 10%, not including alcohol, and not all restaurants participate. Usually no discount at counter service locations. If you think you're going to spend several thousand dollars in merchandise or at restaurants, and assuming you'd buy Memory Maker anyway, you *might* break even on
one AP on a single trip. There is no world in which it makes financial sense to have two APs for a single 7-day trip. If you're planning two long-ish trips, the equation changes. Then you probably do break even on ticket prices, or very nearly, and anything you save on discounts or memory maker is a bonus. So IMO what it comes down to is how certain you are about that second trip. Would you rather take the risk of overpaying for a single trip, or spending more than you might have across two trips combined?
There's also the new ticket pricing model to consider. No one quite knows what that's going to mean for prices yet, but it's a safe bet that they'll go up for peak periods at least. If you're buying tickets now (whether AP or regular tickets), it shouldn't matter for your first trip, but it might impact the cost of any potential second trip if you do choose not to buy the AP.
As for DDP, for most people it's more expensive than paying out of pocket anyway, so any discounts just make the DDP an even worse financial value.
Hmmm interesting! So you can put $1000 plus dollars on a gift card?
Max $1000 on a single gift card. You can, of course, buy multiple gift cards.