Are old PH tickets now biometric?

[Pootle]

Sorry if this has been asked before; I did a search but maybe didn't ask the right question.

A few weeks ago we took some friends with us on a touring vacation which included a few days in Orlando. We knew we would only be doing 1 day in the parks and as I have a supply of old 7-day Park Hopper tickets (I stocked up before the change) I decided to give them a day each as a gift.

When they returned, I discovered to my surprise that they too had gone through the finger recognition system.

Eek, does that mean that these tickets can now only be used by my friends - who I know will never return to Florida again?

 

[Disney Debbie]

I don't know for a fact - but I don't think so. We have some old ones that only have pluses left that we've let various people use with no problem.

 

[SSDonut]

I have the exact same question--we have a few PHs with a few days left. Last year, I gave one to my DF for one day and they did the biometrics. Next year we're taking my DM--can I use the same ticket? I hope so!!

What would the biometrics do if not tie the ticket to that individual??

 

[Disney Debbie]

I think they just have everyone do it whether they need to or not - just procedure. I say that because my Mom & I had to do it with these blank looking white tickets that they gave us at Disneyland to use for the day (we'd used our WDW Parkhoppers and they took a day off each and put it on those white tickets) But we kept them together - in other words I didn't know which belonged to either of us - and we did that biometric stuff because they asked us to - I don't think it made any difference.

 

[Dopey Sharon]

I'm pretty sure that once a ticket was used, with the finger scan, it's only able to be used by that person.

That's probably why Disney started using the finger scan for everyone.

 

[safetymom]

All tickets now require the finger scan. More than likely they will be the only ones able to use those tickets now.