Armed Forces Salute Renewed for 2014-2015

Tickets need to be used before October 3. They must be used the first time by September 29 at WDW and Sept 30 at Disneyland.

Well, that confuses me more. ITR said 28th but paper she handed us said 24. Now you are saying 29. :confused: Is there a reference where we can get the printed statement from Disney about this?

My bad, the actual date is Sept 30. That is the last day to purchase tickets.

The dates of first use basically line up with the number of days on the ticket. If you are going to WDW, they are 4 day tickets. All days have to be used by Oct 3, so count back 4 days from there. At DL, they are three day tickets.

The Sept 28 date was the first day of the 2014-2015 Armed Forces Salute offer, so Sept 28, 2014 was the first day you could use those tickets. Look at the year...should be 2014 for the Sept date.

Official info is here:

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/special-offers/military-4-day-tickets/details/

Thank you. That is the logical answer, 4 days before they expire. I don't know why we were getting so many different dates yesterday but I will be saying something to the agent when we go to pick our tickets up. She obviously just wasn't thinking (or counting.) Who knows where the 24th came in. We decided to go on the 27th so we should be good.

do you order these from WDW or from Shades of Green

FenwayGirl;2453335 wrote: do you order these from WDW or from Shades of Green

You can order them from many base ticket offices over the phone. You can only buy them in person at WDW or SoG.

You can also order them ahead of time from Shades of Green. Easy peasy. Just did it a few months ago. Give them a call!

Melanie;2453426 wrote: You can also order them ahead of time from Shades of Green. Easy peasy. Just did it a few months ago. Give them a call!

Good to know. I didn't know they did that.

But if you get them at WDW or SOG you can't make FP reservations in advance. You can purchase them at your home base and then link to your Magic Band and get your FP ahead of time. Last year our post ran out so we had to get them at the gate. By that time most FP that we wanted were gone. Better to get them in advance.

pixiesmimi;2453452 wrote: But if you get them at WDW or SOG you can't make FP reservations in advance. You can purchase them at your home base and then link to your Magic Band and get your FP ahead of time. Last year our post ran out so we had to get them at the gate. By that time most FP that we wanted were gone. Better to get them in advance.

You can get them in advance from Shades of Green now though. This is good if you don't have a base nearby.

Unless it is something new, you still have to go there to get them. They won't mail them. I called them last year and they wouldn't mail them. So without having them to link, we still wouldn't be able to do fp.

pixiesmimi;2453591 wrote: Unless it is something new, you still have to go there to get them. They won't mail them. I called them last year and they wouldn't mail them. So without having them to link, we still wouldn't be able to do fp.

I think they now mail them though.

BrerGnat;2453603 wrote: I think they now mail them though.

Yes, they mail them, or actually I think it was FedEx. There is a $10 fee.

Well that is good that they have changed it. I was quite upset in Sept because they wouldn't mail them and we had to wait until we got there to get them at the gate. It was W&FF so lots of people and because of that, didn't get to ride some things we wanted to because FP were all gone. We were also upset that our ITR stopped selling the tickets for that year's promotion early in anticipation of this year's promotion starting. That left a gap of about a month that no armed forces could get tickets from them locally. I complained to them about it this year and they said they they might not have any more after July this year because they won't reorder if they run out. :confused: So if anyone is thinking of going this fall before the promotion ends, they had better get their tickets now or soon. Good to know at least SOG has changed their policy. Thanks for the info.

Many military bases will FedEx tickets to you for a $10 charge. I know Camp Pendleton does. We have ordered tickets from them several times.