Hi Tink, Buying the cheaper special offer Annual Passports is indeed more difficult now. One of our forum posters bought them from Promoparcs as e-tickets and exchanged them with no problem, but they had already paid the joining fee before the rules changed. They were a bit concerned about changing them, but the CMs in the AP Office were not worried about how they had bought them, and the fact they were not French or living in France. Now Promoparcs have a much higher joining fee, and have said this is really for French companies and their employees to buy the cheaper tickets. CEMulti-avantages can also no longer post the cheaper special offer tickets or APs outside France, and will not accept payment for these with a non French bank or credit card. One of our posters joined CEM and asked for the tickets to be posted to a friend in France, (to be sent on to them) but then received an email from Alice Dias saying she was cancelling the order as they had not paid with a French card. She can sell the ordinary priced park tickets and APs to people living outside France, but not the special offer ones. So I think the only way around this is for a friend or relative living in France to join CEM and buy the tickets / APs, paying with their own card, then posting them to you when they arrive. As they are not e-tickets, they are not named (nominatif) so should have no problem using them to enter the park and exchange at the AP Office. The problem is buying them, not exchanging them, as far as we can tell so far. Yes - if you buy a one day ticket at the park entrance they will deduct this from the cost of your AP if you buy one on the day at the AP Office. You can be sponsored by another AP holder to get 10% off, or get 20% off if buying 5 or more APs for family members living at the same address. It is also worth checking this site
www.discount-ticket-store.com Would be useful to know if anyone else has some alternative suggestions. Losing the option of buying the special offer tickets and APs from Promoparcs or CEM has been a big blow to many people.