I just got back yesterday from WDW with a good news story for you all. Like many of you here on this thread, I got a 7-day Canadian Resident pass from Air Miles, and had planned to use it to upgrade to an AP for this trip. Knowing I would be credited with $295.54 (thanks to the information from this thread
) instead of $436.65 which is the value of a full priced 7-day pass, I was prepared to pay $534.10 US to upgrade to an AP. Considering I would have paid $548.10 for a 10-day park hopper anyway, and the Air Miles pass was "free" I thought this was a good use of my Air Miles and I could benefit from the AP discounts on food and merchandise (currently 20%) and the included Memory Maker, and I could talk myself into another trip or two within the year to really get my money's worth out of the pass. In short, I was really working the Disney math
When I got to Guest Services at MK with my Air Miles pass and my passport, the nice fellow at the window did some Disney math of his own and told me the balance would be $371 to upgrade that pass to an AP. I quickly gave him my VISA and signed it before he could change his mind, lol. I checked the VISA statement and that is really what I was charged, and I checked MyDisneyExperience account and I do indeed have a Platinum AP valid until Sept 2018. I don't know where he got the value that he credited me for that pass, I can't find anything worth $458 anywhere in the current price list
I realize that this was an anomaly and no one should take what happened to me as routine but I just had to share my good fortune with you all. Thanks for the help with my Air Miles collecting