Maximum Savings: Dum-DA-DUMM! THE PREQUEL
UPDATE (20JUL2017): I’ve made some changes to how the sheet looks and updated the cheat sheet image in this post below…
I haven’t looked into adding the DVC and other possible AP discounts yet, nor some other suggestions, like creating the sheet for whispers… Universal Studios, as I’m trying to round up a lot of things at work and home before we head out on our trip.
But, I did take some time to massage a spreadsheet I had started working on earlier and added it to another tab in the Maximum Savings family of products. This tab is called “Is it Worth It For Me To Upgrade to AP?”
If you are planning on taking multiple trips to WDW within a year, you can enter some basic info about them in this sheet and it will calculate how much you might save (or not) by upgrading to AP on your first trip.
Here’s a simple cheat sheet screen capture for it:
It is a work in progress, so don’t sell old cow Betsy to that weird farmer down the road and take a fistful of proceeds to WDW just yet - but I think it is pretty close to done in the world of Estimationeering.
I think it is important to note: use the ticket type you normally would buy on your trip info - if your family are Base tix kind of people and the thought of hopping from park to park makes your Keens catch on fire, don’t use Park Hoppers here or you will get an artificially positive number in the Savings section.
You can go right to this tab in the sheet using this link: https://goo.gl/p3f5yj
Hope you all find it useful!
POSTSCRIPT: There is a spot in this sheet to enter an estimate for how much your hotel will cost on each trip, and the AP discount can be applied to it. But, with all the possibilities for room discounts at WDW, I am not really convinced that hotel discounts should be a big part of this estimate unless you are booking rooms that are only available at a discount for AP holders at times when there are no other non-AP discounts out there.
But, I left you all a space to enter hotel costs if you like and to make that decision for yourselves, dear readers.