We are coming up on our Sorcerer's Pass renewal. Our only trip planned is a week (6 days) in Sept 2023. All other points have been listed for rent/confirmed reservation. We have no other plans on coming back to Disney until after 2025 due to other family obligations. Not knowing when new AP sales are coming back, I'm scared to drop our current AP. What's everyone doing?
We lucked out in the AP lottery.
We had been buying APs every 3rd year,
Traveling Late Jan in Year 1,
Early Jan in Year 2,
Resort Only in Year 3, wash, rinse, repeat.
Worked well from 2012-2020.
We had a family trip in Jan 2020, for all 9 of us (me/DW/DD/SIL/DS/DIL/+3Grands), so we purchased APs - - then WHAM , we all returned from WDW sick, and are convinced we had COVID before it was labelled as COVID!
DW was so sick that she didn’t even activate her pass on that trip, which led to unplanned luck on our part. When my renewal came around, she still had 6 months left, so I renewed as it was half of what 2 renewals would have cost. (& she basically got a free 6 month extension)We traveled to WDW in Jan 2021, and dealt through all of the Masking & Social Distancing & Mobile Ordering requirements.
We kept the renewals going, with staggered dates, so kept spreading the costs that way. THEN - when activating her AP this last trip (Jan 2023), the CM asked about our staggered dates and, when we explained, he extended my renewal date to match hers, so effectively gave me another 6 months on the same AP. So, through happenstance, we pretty much got 6 months gratis, on each AP. Now our dates are synced again, and we don’t have to renew until 2024. We’re retired now, and visit for longer durations, so we will definitely keep our APs active for as long as we can.