Flex Pass Superthread: Disneyland Resort Introduces New Annual Passport that Combines Value and Flexibility

[Evita_W]

Sunday 1/19 now unavailable at Disneyland

Yeah, I would expect that for a while on the weekends since Rise of the Resistance opens next weekend. Probably best to book a reservation 30 days out and cancel it if you need to.

 

[Kender]

They changed the pass design from the Mickey and friends to just an old school looking Mickey logo on it. Also! I bought the passes last month but when we picked up our passes the cast member changed our experation date to 1/28/2021

Is this a typo? Or did the CM really give you an extra 2+ weeks? This expiration would normally be for passes activated January 29, 2020. If you activated them the day before your post, your expiration should be January 7, 2021.

If this is the actual expiration date, you got hugely pixie dusted with a bit more than a full year . Congrats! And to think I felt lucky getting an extra 3 days once! (in 2014 a CM gave me an expiration date of the day I upgraded, not when I activated my multi day tickets as she was supposed to, but I think this was because the system glitched and said my pass expired that day and year I was upgrading so she just switched the year to the correct one). Pretty cool getting over half a month extra

 

[MagicalMike]

Is this a typo? Or did the CM really give you an extra 2+ weeks? This expiration would normally be for passes activated January 29, 2020. If you activated them the day before your post, your expiration should be January 7, 2021.

If this is the actual expiration date, you got hugely pixie dusted with a bit more than a full year . Congrats! And to think I felt lucky getting an extra 3 days once! (in 2014 a CM gave me an expiration date of the day I upgraded, not when I activated my multi day tickets as she was supposed to, but I think this was because the system glitched and said my pass expired that day and year I was upgrading so she just switched the year to the correct one). Pretty cool getting over half a month extra

Oohh you're right it was a typo LOL!

Yeah it is 1/7/2021

BUT for everyone wondering about buying passes online and then getting to the park, they correct the EXP date

 

[Kender]

Oohh you're right it was a typo LOL!

Yeah it is 1/7/2021

BUT for everyone wondering about buying passes online and then getting to the park, they correct the EXP date

That would have been an epic pixie dust moment, though

 

[Nikkinotnicole]

Someone mentioned in an earlier post (that now I can't find) that you can use the value of all the tickets you have purchased to upgrade any tickets on your app to annual passes. Does anyone else have experience with this?
I plan to purchase 7 three day park hopper tickets in February, and will upgrade 5 of them to annual pass on our last day (sister and boyfriend are coming on February trip, but don't want annual pass). Can I use the value of the last 2 tickets to offset the cost of upgrading the 5?

 

[CastAStone]

Can I use the value of the last 2 tickets to offset the cost of upgrading the 5?

No, for two reasons: They will only apply the cost for the same individual’s pass to their upgrade, and also because its 1 ticket per upgrade (e.g. even if you had two tickets that were yours you could only upgrade 1).

 

[MonocularVision]

Someone mentioned in an earlier post (that now I can't find) that you can use the value of all the tickets you have purchased to upgrade any tickets on your app to annual passes. Does anyone else have experience with this?
I plan to purchase 7 three day park hopper tickets in February, and will upgrade 5 of them to annual pass on our last day (sister and boyfriend are coming on February trip, but don't want annual pass). Can I use the value of the last 2 tickets to offset the cost of upgrading the 5?

When I upgraded our tickets to passes in the app, I was given the option to apply multiple tickets to an upgrade. I didn’t do that because we were upgraded all of our tickets but it surprised me.

 

[Nikkinotnicole]

When I upgraded our tickets to passes in the app, I was given the option to apply multiple tickets to an upgrade. I didn’t do that because we were upgraded all of our tickets but it surprised me.

This would be the ideal scenario for me, since I would be able to use the additional money spent on those 2 extra tickets. Did you buy your tickets directly from Disney? Wondering if that makes a difference.
I'd love to confirm if this is actually possible from someone that has done it. If it is possible, I will wait to buy my flex pass until I have used a 3 day park hopper. Otherwise, it's not worth risking a possible pass cost increase by waiting until I am in the park to upgrade.

 

[MonocularVision]

I bought my original tickets from GetAwayToday.

 

[twodogs]

Posting a little update from our trip this weekend. We were there Friday night, Sat, Sun, and part of today (Monday). Every day but Friday was Reservations Required, so I was only able to book Saturday and Sunday in advance of course. Since it was a holiday weekend, I was concerned about getting Monday. We scanned in Saturday, and after going through the crazy of getting a BG for ROTR, I went to book for Monday. But the entire ticketing system crashed that morning due to the ROTR BGs process. So I could not book Monday. The “make a reservation” stayed grayed out. Since it looked like reservations were available, and we were going through a very busy day, I decided to wait it out until MN, assuming that the system would roll over, and I would be able to book Monday. I woke up at 2am, button was still grayed out. UGH. I tried to do it on the app and on the website, but no go. Nothing I could do at that point, so rechecked at 6am when I got up, and it let me make the reservation for Monday.

I think this was an issue due to ROTR crashing the ticketing system (no one could book Max Passes for over an hour Saturday morning, did not recognize anyone’s tickets etc). The next day, when I scanned in for Sunday, it fairly immediately changed to allow me to make another reservation. Of course at that point, I didn’t need another reservation, ha ha!

One last thing, we did an upgrade of tickets in October from our tickets, and had a long stint at GS doing this. No idea why this took 45 minutes at the window, but it did. One DD was not with us, so we bought her FP on the app about a month ago. We had to go to GS to get the plastic card, and this took less than one minute. So I wish we could have upgraded in the app in October, but it would not apply the value of our tickets to the FP, as others have experienced. The CM at GS did volunteer to change the expiration date on DD FP that I bought through the app to one year from first use (it said one year from purchase when I bought it).

 

[Rich M]

As we approach the renewal dates for this passes does anyone else believe that the price will go up?

 

[twodogs]

As we approach the renewal dates for this passes does anyone else believe that the price will go up?

I wish it would give the option to pay more for this pass and reserve 3 days in a 30 day period instead of only 2. Would be much better for those who have to fly in, like me, and want to do 3 days over a weekend/holiday which are typically reservations required.

 

[Tylerrog94]

Are dates ever hard to book? Seriously thinking about upgrading to this pass instead of just buying tickets every time we go.

 

[ardanxela]

Does anyone know how long you have to activate an annual pass? Thanks.

 

[Rich M]

Are dates ever hard to book? Seriously thinking about upgrading to this pass instead of just buying tickets every time we go.

I have only booked my dates 30 days in advance and have never had to get a last minute one (Live in Northern California) but I have never not gotten my dates. We upgraded our tickets when these first went on sale and have not regretted. We are going on our 4th trip on our pass in a couple weeks.

 

[twodogs]

Are dates ever hard to book? Seriously thinking about upgrading to this pass instead of just buying tickets every time we go.

Some dates do become unavailable, and then people might cancel and they become available again for a short time. Some dates never come back available (we saw this during October and some 3 day holiday weekends). We just went this weekend, and Sat, Sun, and Monday were all "reservations required" but we could only book Sat and Sunday at 30 days out. Monday remained available the whole time, but Saturday and Sunday were booked at various times during the month for DL (but DCA was available). If you are not going at a busy time, at least right now, your chances are good. If you go at a busy time, you may be only able to get into one park or neither. That is the "flex" in flex pass; you have to be flexible if your dates are booked up. If you only go on "good to go" dates, or only do 2 day trips, this pass should work well based on prior experience (only one OP that I have seen on these boards was unable to get a date she wanted (I think it was a holiday weekend in October) at 30 days, but then she was able to eventually get it).

 

[Evita_W]

Right now, all dates seem to be booking at 30 days out, not sure how fast after opening, but my guess is it is related to ROTR.

 

[Erin M]

Right now, all dates seem to be booking at 30 days out, not sure how fast after opening, but my guess is it is related to ROTR.

I can see that the 25th is now no longer available, but other days in the 30 days window are open?

 

[twodogs]

I can see that the 25th is now no longer available, but other days in the 30 days window are open?

I see the same as you.

 

[Evita_W]

I can see that the 25th is now no longer available, but other days in the 30 days window are open?

Strange, they were all showing unavailable earlier today and last night. Thank you for getting me to look again.