Warning about using DVC 4 day tickets

supersnoop said:

The "confusion" reason has been used for the past few years to explain why the option was removed from the pricing boards and online sales.

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You are probably correct. I have been home sick, and have passed the time by reading so many threads on the DIS boards, I obviously can't keep them all straight.

dismedvc said:

When you are logged in to your MDE account, in the family and friends section, in the upper right, you can add a guest, and you manage the account and all the plans for that guest. I just added myself again, adding the letters NE to the end of my first name. I will try to insert a screenshot below.

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So to be clear when you say second profile, you do not mean a second MDE account. Rather you add your name again in your existing MDE with NE at the end. Example: John Smith and John Smith NE along with all other family members and friends. I guess you would do this for each family member who regularly travels with you.

montrealdisneylovers said:

So to be clear when you say second profile, you do not mean a second MDE account. Rather you add your name again in your existing MDE with NE at the end. Example: John Smith and John Smith NE along with all other family members and friends. I guess you would do this for each family member who regularly travels with you.

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We are really just talking semantics. You are correct they are all in one MDE account, but if set up a profile for my son inside my MDE login, I control that "account" and all the entitlements associated with that account, and I can link him/his account to a specific resort reservation and a specific admission ticket. I was considering that a second account.

In your example, I would set up JohnNE Smith, because I am not sure you can link a room reservation to a MDE profile if the last name on the room reservation does not match the last name on the profile, although it might still allow that. (you can use any nickname you want in your MDE profile, so it might let you link it even with a different last name.) However, I do know for sure you can link room reservations with a different first name, since the room reservation might be under Jonathan Smith as the name appears on his drivers license, but his MDE profile might use the name John Smith or JohnNE Smith. If you had set up two profiles, when you tried to link the reservation it would ask which one you actually wanted to link to that reservation.

Note: if one of your profile names exactly matches the name on the reservation, it will "autolink" and you would not have the option to select or change that. In the example above, if the reservation was under Jonathan Smith, and one of the profiles used the name Jonathan Smith, it would autolink. However, by having one profile John Smith and the other on JohnNE Smith it would not autolink and you would get to select which profile to attach to that reservation.

good luck but that sounds right

dismedvc said:

I read a post, about a week ago, where someone had emailed Disney about being disappointed that non-expiring tickets were being discontinued, and the email reply they received from Disney indicated the reason those tickets were being discontinued was because they caused too much confusion. (They posted the full reply from Disney, and others posted to that thread that they had received the exact same "generic" reply.)
However I can't find that post again. If anyone knows where it is, or received the same explanation please let me know. It is driving me crazy that I can't find it.

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WOULD LOVE to see the 4 day ticket introduced again! We used it this past December and it worked perfectly for us! Had a 4 night/5 day trip, so it worked fine.

Thank you dismedvc. It may only be semantics to you but I am going to have to think about this for a while.

montrealdisneylovers said:

Thank you dismedvc. It may only be semantics to you but I am going to have to think about this for a while.

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You actually were correct in asking for clarification. It may be more than just semantics.

I actually tried to set up an NE person in MDE as a subaccount that I manage yesterday, and it appeared to work fine, including the option to invite friends. However, when I sent an email to my wife for her to connect to that new NE person in her separate MDE account, when she accepted, it actually reconnected her to my original "main" MDE name, and the new NE person disappeared from my account. (If I would have attached any entitlements to that new NE account, I assume it would not have disappeared, but it appears that subaccounts can no longer be connected to other family in friends anymore.)

We therefore ended up setting up our NE names in new MDE accounts, using different email addresses, and then we could connect both of those new NE accounts to both of our original accounts.

I think the subaccount method would work if you put all your families NE accounts under one MDE profile, but you would not be able to connect those subaccounts with other family and friends.
FYI: Last year I set up subaccounts for family members that were age 18+, who did not want their own MDE accounts, and I was able to have other family members, who had their own separate MDE accounts, connect to those subaccounts. In the FAQ of MDE it indicates that subaccounts for children age 13 or under cannot be connected to other family and friends, however, it now seems that even when the age is 14 or older, those subaccounts can no longer be connected. I also noticed that the option to add friends from "a list of people I may know", basically friends of friends does not work. Taking away those functions must be programing "enhancements" since last year.

p.s. When you send an email invite to connect, when the invited person clicks on the accept button imbedded in the email they receive, it generates a error message. To actually accept, they need to log into their MDE account, hold the curser over the "my Disney experience" wording at the upper right, and in the dropdown that appears click on the red notification icon. It actually says in the email, directly below the accept/decline buttons that are imbedded in the email (that do not work), that you need to log into your MDE account, but those imbedded buttons make it somewhat confusing. Also, it does not tell you in the email exactly where you need to look for the invitation once you log into your MDE account.

Once again, dismedvc you are making my head spin. Your responses are leading me to ask more and more questions and I feel I am deviating far from this thread. I decided to start a new thread about MDE in general.

montrealdisneylovers said:

Once again, dismedvc you are making my head spin. Your responses are leading me to ask more and more questions and I feel I am deviating far from this thread. I decided to start a new thread about MDE in general.

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I like your new thread, especially the thread title, and I'm following the responses. It is good to have just that discussion in one place. I am sorry my post above "made your head spin". After you get more responses to your thread, you might want to reread my above post, and hopefully it will not seem so weird. I am one of those people who tries to look at every possible contingency, including many that would probably never be an issue for most people. However, even if it probably will not happen to you, I feel it is good to be aware of what could happen.

We have NE tickets with days remaining from over 5 years ago. However, when Disney changed its pricing so that a 5 day expiring ticket was only slightly more than a 4 day expiring ticket (currently $10 per day for each day over 4 days, but at one time only $3 more per day after 4 days) we have purchased expiring tickets for the past 5 years. We are saving the NE tickets for future trips where we might only go for 1 or 2 days. Prior to MDE and FP+ we planned on just inserting those NE tickets into the park entry scanner, and would know that was the only time they could ever be used. However, with MDE and the requirement to link tickets to access FP+ I became worried that after I linked the remaining days on our NE tickets, those days might get used accidently. That is when I began posting about possible solutions, which included separate profiles to "house" the NE tickets.

I also have some NE tickets with 5 days remaining on each. They were actually linked to a resort at check in so I saved the cards. These were from about 5 years ago. I am just going to keep them until there is a trip with only a few days and not link to MDE before then. I also have 2 more thst hat have not been used at all. To complicate things further one of them was for my son when he was 9 years old. So now I don't even have a 9 and under to use it on! Maybe I will wait until I have a grandchild to use that ticket!

disfanforlife said:

I also have some NE tickets with 5 days remaining on each. They were actually linked to a resort at check in so I saved the cards. These were from about 5 years ago. I am just going to keep them until there is a trip with only a few days and not link to MDE before then. I also have 2 more thst hat have not been used at all. To complicate things further one of them was for my son when he was 9 years old. So now I don't even have a 9 and under to use it on! Maybe I will wait until I have a grandchild to use that ticket!

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As long as your son used the ticket while he was 9, Disney will upgrade it to an Adult ticket for free. You don't get penalized for growing older.

Unfortunately no, my sons ticket is one of the 2 that I have that has never been used.

Hi Jean!
So happy to hear that you made it to WDW. Hope that you had a fantastic trip!

Does anyone know: can you just use the actual ticket to get into Disney (ie, NOT use the magic band)? That way you are assured which ticket gets used?

You don't need a MB, you can use the actual ticket. We switch on and off with our APs. You don't need to link your tickets to MDE, unless you want advanced FP.

Ah ok. Yes I suppose we do want to use fp plus.