DAS pass window

[Anne5555]

We took our children to WDW for the first time last year. Ds has autism and easily qualified for the paper DAS pass then, and it was so helpful and made the vacation our best one ever anywhere with the kids!We were there on very low crowd days, and could often show our paper pass for lines with attractions at or under 10 minutes and walk right into the FP lane without the CMs needing to sign the paper pass. It also saved so much time and stress on the attractions with longer lines.

I'm nervous about the new digital DAS. Does the system lose your other Fastpasses when the DAS is added due to some glitch, as I read on one thread? If an attraction has a 30 minute wait and they tell you to return in 20 minutes, can you be a few minutes early as you can with a Fastpass? What is the window? Can you use the digital DAS many hours later, or must you use it in a shorter window like a Fastpass? Is it worth using on attractions with a 10 minute listed standby wait or is the procedure always very time consuming?

 

[gap2368]

you do not lose your fast pass and if you do then go to GR and they will fix it for you ( I have recived anytime fast pass and I did lose those and was given it back) yes they do take 10 minutes off your return time
no you can not return 1 second early and it is good until park closing I do not think you can use it for attrition with less then 10 minutes wait

 

[SueM in MN]

The first post in this thread is updated info about DAS

http://www.disboards.com/threads/wd...15-digital-das-on-tickets-magicbands.3178976/

Don't bother reading other posts on that thread - many were written before DAS was started and are rumors OR were soon after it started and things have changed.

 

[stitchlovestink]

The system assigned a time and rarely did it take 10 minutes off when I was there in both may and july. Maybe once out of ten times did it take ten minutes off. MY experience was....if the standby line was 90 minutes, my return time was 90 minutes later, not 80. But again, their computer system assigned the return time, the CM did not "select or enter" it.

 

[cornflkgrl]

We just got back the other day and half the DAS times we got were NOT on the magic band while we were there. I don't know if it was just the particular things he was picking or the days we were there but the digital stuff was not working right anywhere we went. They kept handing us paper cards with a time written on them. And they also were not too strict about when we came back either because we came back early more than once (by 5-10 minutes) and were told to go on ahead. But it was POURING rain most of our trip so maybe that is why stuff wasn't working right and they didn't care so much that we were early. I don't know. The only ride we went on where the DAS functioned as it was supposed to digitally was Peter Pan.

We were also told a couple places we didn't need a DAS -- even though the posted wait time for standby was more than 10 minutes. Not sure what that was about either. They sent us to the standby line at Star Tours when the wait was listed as 20 minutes.

 

[SueM in MN]

We just got back the other day and half the DAS times we got were NOT on the magic band while we were there. I don't know if it was just the particular things he was picking or the days we were there but the digital stuff was not working right anywhere we went. They kept handing us paper cards with a time written on them. And they also were not too strict about when we came back either because we came back early more than once (by 5-10 minutes) and were told to go on ahead. But it was POURING rain most of our trip so maybe that is why stuff wasn't working right and they didn't care so much that we were early. I don't know. The only ride we went on where the DAS functioned as it was supposed to digitally was Peter Pan.

We were also told a couple places we didn't need a DAS -- even though the posted wait time for standby was more than 10 minutes. Not sure what that was about either. They sent us to the standby line at Star Tours when the wait was listed as 20 minutes.

Disney's measure for DAS has been 20 minutes or more since the beginning.
GAC (the old Guest Assistance Card) was also 20 minutes - so if the posted wait for an attraction was 20 minutes or less, guests are directed to the Standby line or can get a DAS Return to use the Fastpass line.

 

[HopperFan]

We took our children to WDW for the first time last year. Ds has autism and easily qualified for the paper DAS pass then, and it was so helpful and made the vacation our best one ever anywhere with the kids!We were there on very low crowd days, and could often show our paper pass for lines with attractions at or under 10 minutes and walk right into the FP lane without the CMs needing to sign the paper pass. It also saved so much time and stress on the attractions with longer lines.

I'm nervous about the new digital DAS. Does the system lose your other Fastpasses when the DAS is added due to some glitch, as I read on one thread? If an attraction has a 30 minute wait and they tell you to return in 20 minutes, can you be a few minutes early as you can with a Fastpass? What is the window? Can you use the digital DAS many hours later, or must you use it in a shorter window like a Fastpass? Is it worth using on attractions with a 10 minute listed standby wait or is the procedure always very time consuming?

DD just returned from working at WDW for last year. Her last half was at one of the most popular attractions and she went through the electronic DAS training and use. She said that at 10 minute SB she would have directed you to get in the SB line. Since the system deducts 10 minutes from the time, that would mean the system would have no time to assign you and she couldn't do it. If she just let you through then at the next checkpoint you would have no way to go through since you wouldn't have a DAS or a FP+. I would plan on entering the SB line with times that short.

 

[Splashboat]

What happens if the standby line is under 20 minutes but the person with the disability isn't with you because you are just going to get the return time for them?
I am asking because we had a situation last year with the paper pass where the CM said the return time was only 10 minutes so we should just get in line. I explained the person with the disability was at the other side of the park. She gave me a return time for 10 minutes. By the time the person reached the attraction the return time had gone up over 30 minutes. The CM laughed and said it was good I got it signed.

 

[gap2368]

You will get a come back time for 10 minutes

 

[SueM in MN]

You will get a come back time for 10 minutes

that's what they did for us too.

 

[SueM in MN]

You will get a come back time for 10 minutes

that's what they did for us too.

 

[Splashboat]

Thanks