?? About MDE/magic bands for one person with two park tickets?

[edk35]

We are taking a friend with us in June. We have AP's and he will have two military tickets. One ticket will be for 4 day water parks (nonhopping) and the other a 5 day hopper. Can I link two tickets just for him? Will this pose a problem making fp ressies? Does MDE let one person have two park tickets at the same time? Will the fast passes be attached to a specific ticket? Or will it recognize these tickets as 9 days and load onto one magic band? Also how will him not having hopping on one ticket work with magic band? I know we need to stay in the same park for those four days but how will that work with magic band? TIA

 

[Robo]

A guest can have multiple tickets in MDE.
FPs are not attached to tickets.
Tickets do not load to MBs.
Tickets stay in MDE.
MDE files are accessed by a MB.

 

[compshu]

If your friend's tickets are the Armed Forces Salute tickets, which they sound like they are, then they would need to be activated on property before they can be used to enter the parks. Since that has to be done at Guest Services, they will assist with making sure everything is set up properly. As far as I know, only one set can be activated at a time, so they would use one (say, the 5-day hopper) and then go back to GS to activate the 4-day base. For FP+, both tickets can be linked in MDE and they'd be able to make 9 days worth of FP+.

 

[edk35]

A guest can have multiple tickets in MDE.
FPs are not attached to tickets.
Tickets do not load to MBs.
Tickets stay in MDE.
MDE files are accessed by a MB.

So don't you have to have your tickets loaded into MDE before making fast passes??

 

[edk35]

If your friend's tickets are the Armed Forces Salute tickets, which they sound like they are, then they would need to be activated on property before they can be used to enter the parks. Since that has to be done at Guest Services, they will assist with making sure everything is set up properly. As far as I know, only one set can be activated at a time, so they would use one (say, the 5-day hopper) and then go back to GS to activate the 4-day base. For FP+, both tickets can be linked in MDE and they'd be able to make 9 days worth of FP+.

Before magic bands and fp+ we could activate all of them. If we were going into a park and not hopping we would use the 4 day non hopper. If we were hopping we would use the other ticket for that day. Now with the bands and all not sure how it will work.

 

[BrianL]

So don't you have to have your tickets loaded into MDE before making fast passes??

You do have to have some kind of tickets in MDE in order to make Fast Pass selections, but the Fast Passes themselves are not attached to a particular ticket. So say for whatever reason you wanted to save your original tickets and use a different one, you can link the new ticket and the Fast Passes will not be affected for those same days.

 

[TinkLoverSam]

So don't you have to have your tickets loaded into MDE before making fast passes??

He's just saying they aren't "on" a band the band accesses MDE where the tickets are loaded. Yes you can assign two tickets to one person in MDE. I'm not military so I don't know about activating them however if you can activate both (which I suspect is the case) you will have to go to guest services before you enter the parks each time you want to use a different ticket.

For example: Day 1 activate both tickets and tell them you want to use the base ticket as you're staying in one park. If on day 2 you want to hop you'll have to have them prioritize the hopper so a base ticket Day isn't used.

 

[compshu]

Since the bands connect back to the MDE account, and you wouldn't have the cards anymore, I would think that one would need to be activated at a time. That may be a question for the GS cast member. We are a family of 5, so we could only ever get one set of AFS tickets per year (since you are limited to a total of 6 tickets/year). So I'm not too familiar with using multiple sets. I would want to make sure that I wasn't having a park hopper ticket being used on a day that I don't hop. I'd probably want to activate one set, use those, and then activate the other to make sure everything worked out the way I want it to.

 

[Robo]

1. Since the bands connect back to the MDE account, and you wouldn't have the cards anymore,
2. I would think that one would need to be activated at a time.
3. I would want to make sure that I wasn't having a park hopper ticket being used on a day that I don't hop.
4. I'd probably want to activate one set, use those, and then activate the other to make sure everything worked out the way I want it to.

1. There would be no reason not to keep the original cards, even after assigning them to MDE.
Guests do not have to surrender their hard tickets when adding them to MDE.
2. I don't think that's correct.
3. A trip to Guest Relations before entering a park will get which ticket you want to use "next" set to the highest priority.
4. That's a choice,if the guest wants to do so...
but if the guest wants to park-hop on certain days and/or go to a Water Park on other days, interspersed throughout days at WDW,
both activated tickets can be in the MDE at the same time.

 

[compshu]

1. There would be no reason not to keep the original cards, even after assigning them to MDE.
2. I don't think that's correct.

1. They receive a ticket "voucher" when they purchase the ticket. This can be linked to their MDE in order to make FP+ selections. This gets turned into GS upon activation, which then becomes a normal ticket linked in their MDE account. They no longer turn them into ticket cards unless the guest doesn't have a Magicband. Now, they may be able to request an rfid ticket card at that point, which would be a way to control which ticket they use each day.

2. As I said, I've only ever used one set of AFS tickets/year, so I don't have experience activating 2 sets at once. It may or may not be possible to have them both going at once. They do have separate benefits (one is PH, the other is a base) so I'd be concerned about using a PH ticket on a day in which I didn't hop and intended to use a base day. The two ways I can think of to prevent this would be either requesting a card ticket, or only activating one at a time.

 

[TinkLoverSam]

1. They receive a ticket "voucher" when they purchase the ticket. This can be linked to their MDE in order to make FP+ selections. This gets turned into GS upon activation, which then becomes a normal ticket linked in their MDE account. They no longer turn them into ticket cards unless the guest doesn't have a Magicband. Now, they may be able to request an rfid ticket card at that point, which would be a way to control which ticket they use each day.

2. As I said, I've only ever used one set of AFS tickets/year, so I don't have experience activating 2 sets at once. It may or may not be possible to have them both going at once. They do have separate benefits (one is PH, the other is a base) so I'd be concerned about using a PH ticket on a day in which I didn't hop and intended to use a base day. The two ways I can think of to prevent this would be either requesting a card ticket, or only activating one at a time.

Even requesting an RFID ticket doesn't ensure this if both tickets are active as the RFID ticket, like a magic band, can access all linked tickets from MDE

 

[Robo]

They do have separate benefits (one is PH, the other is a base) so I'd be concerned about using a PH ticket on a day in which I didn't hop and intended to use a base day. The two ways I can think of to prevent this would be either requesting a card ticket, or only activating one at a time.

A trip to Guest Relations before entering a park will get which ticket you want to use "next" set to the highest priority.
This is a standard WDW procedure.

 

[edk35]

I think I'll just get both hoppers and add the water park once we get there! That will make it easier.

 

[bumbershoot]

I think I'll just get both hoppers and add the water park once we get there! That will make it easier.

How will it make it easier? Won't he still have two tickets?

 

[edk35]

You can add water parks for 37 plus tax or you can get the ticket that has it. According to all the websites. You would have to add it at Disney.

 

[edk35]

How will it make it easier? Won't he still have two tickets?

Then I don't have to worry about 4 days being a non hopper. I would add the water parks to the ticket we would use for that part of my trip. Getting down there first will help determine that.

 

[TinkLoverSam]

Then I don't have to worry about 4 days being a non hopper. I would add the water parks to the ticket we would use for that part of my trip. Getting down there first will help determine that.

If you add WPF&M to either ticket the WP gates will automatically use the correct ticket even if it hasn't been used for parks yet or if it has all its Theme Park entitlements used

 

[edk35]

Then I don't have to worry about 4 days being a non hopper.

How will it make it easier? Won't he still have two tickets?

I would rather add the water parks down there

If you add WPF&M to either ticket the WP gates will automatically use the correct ticket even if it hasn't been used for parks yet or if it has all its Theme Park entitlements used

ok

 

[edk35]

So...... before MDE and magic bands we could get the cheaper base ticket and one hopper of the military tickets. Then we got the cards so it was easy to keep track. If we were going into Epcot day/night we would use the base ticket if we were going to AK or HS we used the hopper ticket. We marked them in sharpie. It was a way to save a bit on tickets without getting park hopping added because we didn't usually hop on MK or Ep days. Soooooooo to me....it will just be easier to get the 5 day hopper and 4 days hopper and add water parks to one of them. That way every day is a hopper. Less to keep track of. Am I right in my thinking????

 

[Robo]

So...... before MDE and magic bands we could get the cheaper base ticket and one hopper of the military tickets. Then we got the cards so it was easy to keep track. If we were going into Epcot day/night we would use the base ticket if we were going to AK or HS we used the hopper ticket. We marked them in sharpie. It was a way to save a bit on tickets without getting park hopping added because we didn't usually hop on MK or Ep days. Soooooooo to me....it will just be easier to get the 5 day hopper and 4 days hopper and add water parks to one of them. That way every day is a hopper. Less to keep track of. Am I right in my thinking????

You can still do what you did before.
It just requires a stop by Guest Relations to set up which ticket you want to use "NEXT"
before you enter the park gates.
Next time, if you THEN want to change to another ticket for the next entry... that's another stop by Guest Relations
to have that ticket's priority set.
This is all standard ticket procedure. Nothing difficult for Guest Relations to take care of.