Days In the Sun
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2017
Okay, after seeing the third report on this thread of someone who ordered a child "Canadian Resident Discount" ticket and received a regular child ticket, I cracked and ordered one.
The way I figure it, if I get a regular child ticket (fingers crossed!), it will have an upgrade value of $373 US for 2850 Air Miles redeemed, or 13.1 US cents / AM.
If I am unlucky and actually receive what I ordered, it will have a value somewhere around $255, or about 9 US cents / AM. That's still better than the current "cost" of the adult tickets, which work out to a value of around 8 US cents / AM.
The catch is that I don't really need the ticket. Thanks to the Canadian Resident special, I have a tidy little pile of tickets now (this is the 6th for my family of 4), with no firm plans for their use. We will travel to WDW in March using our current APs, which will be our third trip in just over a year (making use of the 13-month APs!), and we'll likely take an extended break from WDW trips after that. I don't usually like to leave money tied up indefinitely like this, but the potential value here was too good to pass up. We'll find a use for them eventually.
I joined you. We are 10 days away from leaving and I'm short a non-Canadian ticket to add a hopper to. Not sure if redeeming for a child ticket was one of my better decisions, our kids are all in university lol. I think in the very least I'll have lots of information about what we can upgrade and what we can't! If none of our tickets can be upgraded at a reasonable cost, it will be our first trip without hoppers so I thought I might as well increase our options.
Squeaked in the ticket purchase a few minutes ago after my Lowes lightbulb purchases posted, no more "dreaming" for awhile: