SerenityinPA
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I see a lot of people here have annual passes even though they dont live in FLA. So either they fly down to FLA mult times a year or am I missing something? :shrug:
I see a lot of people here have annual passes even though they dont live in FLA. So either they fly down to FLA mult times a year or am I missing something? :shrug:
I see a lot of people here have annual passes even though they dont live in FLA. So either they fly down to FLA mult times a year or am I missing something? :shrug:
Oh ok thanks everyone, this makes a lot more sense. I was wondering if one trip would be worth getting one, but I see most people say 2 at least.
I did an 8-night stay at Beach Club. I booked room-only using a 40% Annual Passholders' discount and the total savings from the discount entirely covered my AP, my son's 7-day Hopper ticket, the cost of the TiW dining discount card and everything we actually ate while there.
So yes, in certain circumstances a single trip can be worthwhile getting an AP. It does depend where you choose to stay, how long and what discounts are available at the time.
[I did go on to use that AP for a few more trips, but it comfortably paid for itself in the first trip.]
I hope I'm not sounding too argumentative or anything, but at least for the past few years, it has been my observation that there is always a general public discount out anyway. Like on our past April trip. Initially, when the all year long free dining promotion came out, our dates were not included and I was kind of bummed out at first. But sure enough another month or two later, a new round of discounts came out which did include our dates. We got 40% off the Wilderness Lodge. I think it was one of those discounts where you get 25% off the Values, 35% off moderates and 40% off Deluxes.
I don't know what year you went and got that AP discount, or how generous they were with general public discounts at that time, but I seem to notice a pattern in the past few years at least, that they always offer discounts pretty much all year round. So an AP discount, as nice as that is, doesn't really save you any extra if there's just a general public discount out there for the same amount that you can snatch up anyway. That's why in my previous posts in this thread, I didn't really factor in any AP discounts in evaluating the savings, because they usually offer equivalent GP discounts, which makes it pretty much a wash on that front.
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