Calling all FASTPASS experts...

[allgoodgifts]

Is it possible to have someone get fastpasses for the group, without the entire group actually entering the park?

Here's the situation. We're going to Disney around Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving day, I was planning to stay in our rental house for the morning with the kids and make turkey. We'd have an early dinner and then go to, say, the Animal Kingdom for the afternoon. I was thinking I'd send a runner into the parks sometime in the morning to get FASTPASSES for Kilimanjaro Safaris for the entire group, so that when we got to the park we wouldn't have to wait in a long line.

But that person's entry card would be the only one that actually went through the turnstiles. Can he put the rest of the group's cards into the FASTPASS machine? Or would the FASTPASS machine reject them because they don't show that we've actually entered the park? Or perhaps the FASTPASS machine doesn't actually keep track of such things?

Your advice, please.

 

[vicki_c]

No sorry, you can't do that for the exact reason you said. The card has to be used for park entry by the holder, with the finger scan, to allow it to be used for FPs.

 

[stitch09]

Is it possible to have someone get fastpasses for the group, without the entire group actually entering the park?

Here's the situation. We're going to Disney around Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving day, I was planning to stay in our rental house for the morning with the kids and make turkey. We'd have an early dinner and then go to, say, the Animal Kingdom for the afternoon. I was thinking I'd send a runner into the parks sometime in the morning to get FASTPASSES for Kilimanjaro Safaris for the entire group, so that when we got to the park we wouldn't have to wait in a long line.

But that person's entry card would be the only one that actually went through the turnstiles. Can he put the rest of the group's cards into the FASTPASS machine? Or would the FASTPASS machine reject them because they don't show that we've actually entered the park? Or perhaps the FASTPASS machine doesn't actually keep track of such things?

Your advice, please.

No, it is not possible.

In order to get FPs, all of the tickets must have been activated in that park for that day. Sending the tickets through the FP machines will not work without being activated.

Here's what we did this summer: We had 10:30 ADRs at Ohana. There were 15 of us at WDW this trip, and we wanted a day to sleep in. So, we slept in, and then we left for MK. Before boarding the monorail, we had all of us enter the park with our park tickets. Then, my cousin and I took all of the tickets to BTMR to get FPs while the rest of the family exited the park and hopped on the monorail to the Polynesian. That way, we were able to use the FPs after our breakfast was over.