Fast Pass for whole Family?

[seajay]

If you have yourself, husband and two kids do each of you have to scan your ticket? What if you get different return times? Does one fast pass let the family go together on the ride?

Thanks in advance,
Seajay

 

[longtimedisneylurker]

Each individual ticketholder has to have a fastpass to use the fastpass entrance for a ride or attraction. Guests under 3 years old don't have tickets so don't need a fastpass to use the fastpass line with their party, but they, of course, have to meet minimum height requirements if applicable. One person in your party could take everyone's tickets and get everyone's fastpasses for efficiency, but each ticket must be scanned for a fastpass. One fastpass does not let a family ride together. You will need to hand over four fastpasses for all four of you to ride.

 

[Luckymommatoo]

You will each have an admission ticket. When you get to a FP station, you insert the ticket in, it pops back out, and the FP pops out below (it's also a paper ticket). So, using your family's four admission tickets, you get four separate FPs. Fastpasses move in increments of 5 minutes generally. So, say, 10:35-11:35 would be a FP window, and then the next window is 10:40-11:40. So there's no way your four FP could NOT overlap if you get them at the same time.

One person can carry all four tickets and go get the FPs without the rest of your family.

 

[disneyfirsttimer18]

When we were there this last week, DH just took all of our tickets to get fast-passes. All of our return times were the same.

 

[longtimedisneylurker]

Yes, every once in a while the fastpass return time will change while in the process of getting the fastpasses. The CMs will probably let your whole group board as long as you are within the window of one of the group's fastpasses in a situation like that since the fastpasses only move forward 5 minutes at a time. We have never cut it so close as to test this though at the end of a fastpass window.

 

[seajay]

Thanks for the info. It makes me feel a lot better.

Seajay

 

[Eeee-va]

If by chance you are getting a Fastpass to get viewing for any sort of show (World of Color, Fantasmic!, and probably even the Anna and Elsa shows), make sure that you are all given a Fastpass to the same section/showtime. It must be very rare for someone in your party to get a different showtime/section than the others, but unless they've made changes to the system, it's possible.

A few years back, our party of 3 who all went in to get our FPs for World of Color at the same time ended up with FPs for 2 different sections! They must have just switched from distributing blue to yellow. We saw the problem while we were still within sight of the FP distribution, so Cast Members at the distribution area easily swapped out 1 or 2 of our FPs so we all had the same section. But it it might have been awkward if we'd not noticed until close to showtime and tried to get help from a busy crowd control CM at the show.