Last night we ordered Annual Passes with our ---ta da --- Disney Vacation Club discount! We are going to WDW in August, and again next June, so it made sense to just get the Annual Pass.
Trouble was -- we had a HECK of a time trying to figure out how to get the blasted things!
See, because we closed so late on our DVC, and couldn't get a room at Beach Club, we are staying at Coronado Springs Resort at WDW in August. A couple of weeks ago I found out about a special rate for Annual Passholders, and for just $600 more than we were paying for just the room, we got the Dining Plan for all four of us.
Since we got an Annual Pass rate, we have to show our APs when we check in. We are driving about 11 hours to Disney, and want to have the tickets in-hand when we arrived so we wouldn't have to make a stop at a park or Downtown Disney to buy them. (Annual Passes are about the only tickets that can't be purchased AT the resorts).
Soo...I called DVC Member Services to order tickets, and the lady I spoke with informed me that we would have to pick them up at will-call at one of the parks or Downtown Disney. What?? That didn't sound right to me! I knew I'd read about people having AP vouchers mailed to them that they later had to trade in at the parks, but I'd never heard of people having to pick up their vouchers at the parks!
Luckily, I was right. I went on to the disboards and asked in one of the DVC forums about the tickets. One kind soul told me to look on the DVC member site. Sure enough, there was a link to purchase DVC discounted APs online, which automatically had our member number. We were able to purchase the tickets online with our DVC discount and the vouchers will be mailed to us. That will be good for getting checkd in, then we'll swap them for tickets when we are ready to go to the parks.
Ahh...one less thing to stress about.
Friday, July 11, 2008
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