...are no longer accepted at
Disneyland Resort. We found this out the hard way.
I am a pretty avid reader of this board (not just the FP+ threads) and I haven't read anything that stated that has changed. It's still posted on Mousesavers that WDW tickets are valid at DLR.
We had used our NE Park Hoppers at DL on trips past and had planned on doing the same this past week. Wrong. Thankfully I had the foresight to ask a CM at GR the day we arrived and before our first morning in the parks. He explained to me that WDW tickets were never accepted at DL and was insistent about it. OK...well I have done it multiple trips, but OK.
Knowing the track record/accuracy of CM information, I press on to the Concierge at our resort. She insists that the tickets are good and that we just need to enter the parks like normal. On past trips we would show up at the gates and they would take our WDW tickets and disappear...then come back with new tickets that were printed to look like DLR tickets (no mag strip). She insisted that DLR never did that. OK...well they did do it on multiple trips, but OK.
Not satisfied, I insist that we walk over to the gates to get yet another answer, so off we go. I find a CM outside the gates directing guest traffic and ask him about tickets. He informs me that they no longer accept WDW tickets at all. Uhhhhh.....
Surely THIS guy can't be right!? So off we go to the GR/Ticket Sales building outside the gates. Sure enough....a delightful, older CM asks to see our tickets and explains to us that they suddenly stopped accepting all tickets from WDW. She told us that they stopped accepting them sometime at the end of November/beginning of December. She explained that there was no announcement why and nothing was published for the public. She felt bad for us but was more than willing to sell us tickets for the week.
So yeah....the Mouse sucker punched me one last time for good measure. Karma. But we had one more for him, too. We started to pull FPs like they were money. These are just the ones we
brought home from the first two days of our trip. We just pretended they were $20s. We were getting our money back....