Sam's has a small discount on the gift cards, not sure about Costco. I seem to recall people mentioning that Target would no longer give you the discount for gift cards but am not certain.
According to their own website, RedCard still gives 5% on Disney gift cards.
That's great, I also recall that at times they had an extra 5% discount special.According to their own website, RedCard still gives 5% on Disney gift cards.
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You don't pay for them. I had a January reservation that I was able to cancel with no fees.
I think you just show up with your tickets to Guest Services and pay the difference between what you have and the current price. But if FP+ comes back, you wont be able to get any until you upgrade, which you have to do in person.
Here’s the Tickets sticky from DISboards: https://www.disboards.com/threads/tickets-how-to-upgrade.3570721/. I’ve read about changing dates on tickets, and it does involve paying the difference between Disney’s online price the day you bought them (no matter where you bought them) and the price the day you get replacements with different dates, but I’m not sure when you need to go to GR and when you can do it over the phone in advance by calling Disney Ticketing.
Just a suggestion that I read about, if you decide to try again on this trip...
Currently the standby lines are marked to separate groups by 6’, and the word is that they can’t operate FP lines and maintain social distancing for both. The FP lines are used as entries for guests with Disability Access passes, guest recovery passes (ride broke down, guest given pass to return later) and Club 33 members. Whether FP will return in its earlier form when the need for social distancing ends is the subject of much speculation.
I think that the issue is that the FP line requires people to walk directly past people in the standby lines. So you would often pass within 6' of someone when going through FP lines.
Yes, that’s exactly it. The two lines frequently run adjacent to each other, and in normal times the FP line can stop moving for a short time. It’s difficult enough maintaining distance in single lines with switchbacks, where two markers are farther apart than usual to allow for a marker in between them but on the other side of the rail — many people don’t recognize the issue and fill in the space, bringing two groups too close together. Also, some standby queues are so long that they use areas normally used by the FP lines.
We were down in the fall and the wait times listed were consistently about 1.5 to 2 times the actual waits. I suspect they have locations keyed in and have not adjusted those routinely to account for the social distancing. As for passes I think one can anticipate having then again in the future. I'm not sure I'd renew now just to keep a pass active I wouldn't need for another year or more.We have been in Disney for five days. It's been easy to stand in line for 20-40 minutes for each ride. I don't mind the waits. I am glad there is no FP+. Peter Pan in 20 minutes, I will take that. Seven Dwarfs Mine train in 50 minutes (longest wait we had), that was just fine by me.
I miss the People Mover and don't know why they aren't running it, except maybe they don't want us to see Tron.
Buzz Lightyear is one of our granddaughter's favorite rides, and we get in line, and the wait is about 10-15 minutes, even if the wait says 30 minutes. The wait times show as much higher than the wait actually is. That is why we have the Touring Plans subscription and apps on our phones. You report actual wait times to Touring Plans. I love the information provided by that company.
There are some things that are concerning to me about Disney's new policies. I never used Magical Express, but we bought annual passes and would skip a year then use them constantly for a year, then skip a year. With AP's no longer for sale, we feel we really must renew our passes. I don't like being forced to renew them, but we will. Anything to keep us from losing that benefit, so I guess Disney is in our future.
The People Mover, one of our favorites too, suffered frequent breakdowns the last several years and was due for a refurb. They closed it in the fall and announced it would reopen at some date in the fall, then they’ve pushed the reopening date back several times. It seems that they decided to do a full rebuild. There are hopes it will reopen toward the end of January, but I’m not holding my breath.
I’m in the camp that believes they will start selling new APs after the COVID-19 restrictions can be eased and Disney can increase the number of guests they allow into the parks. Not only have they allowed AP renewals, people who cancelled their APs during the closure have been allowed to purchase new AP vouchers that can be activated years from now. So if you truly don’t expect to return for close to a year, you might want to wait and not renew. OTOH, our APs expire mid-March, and we were thinking we’d buy new ones for our fall trip (which will probably be November or December). Then we checked prices, and the cheapest 5 day park hoppers for the dates we’d probably go are only about $20 less than renewing our DVC Gold APs, and 7 day hoppers are more expensive. So we’re going to renew!There are some things that are concerning to me about Disney's new policies. I never used Magical Express, but we bought annual passes and would skip a year then use them constantly for a year, then skip a year. With AP's no longer for sale, we feel we really must renew our passes. I don't like being forced to renew them, but we will. Anything to keep us from losing that benefit, so I guess Disney is in our future.
