Disney eTicket

[hookem81]

Any issues from anyone using the e-mail tickets ordered online from disneyland.com? I suppose they give you a fastpass card each day when you enter?

 

[PigletGurl]

We bought a 5 -day hopper online, and printed it. You don't have to do anything. Just make the line, when you reach the turnstile the CM there will exchange your paper and give you a real ticket. It's really fast and doesnt slow you down at all!

 

[slruud]

Not aware of a fastpass card. Anyone in the park with a ticket can get a fastpass within the time limitations.

 

[S. S. Columbia]

Any issues from anyone using the e-mail tickets ordered online from disneyland.com?

Hi, Hook,

The only real issue is whether or not your computer can display a PDF file. Also, you will need access to a printer.

I used the eTicket for the first time two weeks ago, in order to avoid the ticket booths and go straight to the turnstiles, and it was great.

If you buy the eTicket, you will be sent an e-mail with a PDF file attachment. When you print out the PDF file it will print out a bar-code onto 8.5" x 11" paper. (The print-out actually displays the same bar-code twice; once at the top of the paper and once to the side of the paper.)

Just take the print-out to the turnstiles and hand it to the CM. The CM will scan the bar-code, and within seconds your actual ticket will be printed.

Getting through the turnstiles will probably take you less than a minute.

Re FastPasses:

Check out the "HydroGuy Tips Compilation" sticky at the top of this board, especially the links that are listed under "FASTPASS AT DLR."

Read the following two links first:

HydroGuy's "FastPass for Dummies and Smarties -- A Photographic Explanation" at http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1186052

HydroGuy's "Getting the Most Out of FastPass During High Season" at http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=885132

 

[Hound 109]

Hi, Hook,

The only real issue is whether or not your computer can display a PDF file. Also, you will need access to a printer.

I used the eTicket for the first time two weeks ago, in order to avoid the ticket booths and go straight to the turnstiles, and it was great.

If you buy the eTicket, you will be sent an e-mail with a PDF file attachment. When you print out the PDF file it will print out a bar-code onto 8.5" x 11" paper. (The print-out actually displays the same bar-code twice; once at the top of the paper and once to the side of the paper.)

Just take the print-out to the turnstiles and hand it to the CM. The CM will scan the bar-code, and within seconds your actual ticket will be printed.

Getting through the turnstiles will probably take you less than a minute.

Re FastPasses:

Check out the "HydroGuy Tips Compilation" sticky at the top of this board, especially the links that are listed under "FASTPASS AT DLR."

Read the following two links first:

HydroGuy's "FastPass for Dummies and Smarties -- A Photographic Explanation" at http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1186052

HydroGuy's "Getting the Most Out of FastPass During High Season" at http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=885132

Great post.

Follow these instructions from SS Columbia....

....& anyone not intimately familiar with how FP works AT DisneyLAND should read & understand those links.

 

[Danauk]

If you order the tickets to be posted instead of the eticket do you get the plastic ticket like at WDW or is it the same type of paper ticket you get given at the enterence when you hand your eticket reciept over? I remember ages ago some people were reporting being sent plastic tickets as a trial but not sure if this is still the case.

 

[samkj]

If you order the tickets to be posted instead of the eticket do you get the plastic ticket like at WDW or is it the same type of paper ticket you get given at the enterence when you hand your eticket reciept over? I remember ages ago some people were reporting being sent plastic tickets as a trial but not sure if this is still the case.

I know the WDTC pakages, have what they call "souvenir tickets" that are plastic. I don't know if you can get them from the website or not.

 

[Chicago526]

If the etickets still make you nervous, you can pay just $2 and have them wating for you at the Will Call office, located just outside the entrance for California Adventure. DH and I decided to do that rather than risk a problem with the etickets (I get very nervous about stuff like that and would spend the whole time between now and Tuesday worrying that'd there be a problem!).

 

[nurse.darcy]

First off, the E-Ticket works great. HOWEVER, the exchange at the turnstiles is for a "paper" ticket. . .If you get this ticket wet at a water ride, the ink will run and you will need to go to customer service to exchange it for another "paper" ticket in order to keep getting fast passes. My favorite thing to do for those in our party that do not have annual passes is to go to the Disneystore and get "plastic" tickets. . .no moisture issues with plastic tickets.

Good luck to you and enjoy your trip. . .

 

[S. S. Columbia]

If you order the tickets to be posted instead of the eticket do you get the plastic ticket like at WDW or is it the same type of paper ticket you get given at the enterence when you hand your eticket reciept over? I remember ages ago some people were reporting being sent plastic tickets as a trial but not sure if this is still the case.

I had tickets mailed to me a couple of months ago, and I received paper tickets. The paper tickets that Disney mails to you, and the paper tickets that are printed at the turnstiles (after you hand them the eTicket print-out) are the same type of paper ticket.

Others may know more, but it appears that the plastic tickets (at DLR) didn't pass the trial test.

I hope this helps.

 

[garate55]

We ordered ours about a month ago and we got the plastic version.

 

[S. S. Columbia]

This paper ticket was a 3-Day Park Hopper ticket, and it was mailed to me in mid-July 2007. It was ordered at the Disney web-site.
We stayed off-site in August.

This paper ticket was a 5-Day Park Hopper ticket, and it was printed out at the turnstile at the end of October 2007. We handed them the eTicket print-out and this was the paper ticket that was printed.
We stayed off-site in October.

 

[garate55]

We bought our trip package through Costco, maybe it depends who you buy your trip through.(which style of ticket you will get) This is the first plastic pass we have had, all others were paper like yours S.S..