Buying AP Well Before Arriving.

[SMS55]

Hey everyone. Normally I'll renew my seasonals when they expire or if I know I won't be going for a while, I'll let them expire and buy them again just before I go. Since I am in real estate I have irregular income. I will be closing on an investment and have a nice chunk of change coming my way, which I will reinvest. I was thinking of just paying my tickets in full on the spot. My only issue is that I will be having my closing in about 3 weeks, but won't be going to Disney for about two months. Do I have to use them for the first time within a certain amount of time? In the past I buy them just a few days before I head up and the date of the ticket is the day I picked them up at the parks, but since I have such a gap between purchasing them and first use I am wondering if there's an issue. Thanks.

 

[Rob562]

As long as you're purchasing them online or from a Disney Store (i.e. *not* purchasing them on-site at WDW), you'll just get a voucher that you'll turn in for the actual AP and the 1-year countdown won't start until you do. There's no problem buying them months ahead of time. In fact, doing so would protect you in the event the price is raised between now and the time you turn the vouchers in.

-Rob

 

[coachwnh]

"Santa" brought our APs for Christmas in 2011. We did not use them unitl July 26 of 2012. They arent activated until you trade in the cards ("Santa" got them at the Disney Store) at WDW.