Fastpass+ and multiple one day tickets

[thunderbird1]

We have a bunch of old, unused one day tickets from free dining trips. We were planning to use them on an upcoming trip instead of purchasing a multi-day ticket. But after reading that you have to have a ticket linked to your resort reservation for each day you want to book fastpass+ reservations, I'm wondering how this will work.

Can I link multiple one day tickets to my resort reservation? Do I have to do that for each person in my party? Can I even do this if one of the tickets is still on an old room key? We are short one ticket for our family of 4, and were planning to just add a day on to one of the tickets when we got there - does this mean I can't book any FP+ times in advance for one person for that one day?

Hope this makes sense, and thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Robo]

We have a bunch of old, unused one day tickets from free dining trips.

1- We were planning to use them on an upcoming trip instead of purchasing a multi-day ticket. But after reading that you have to have a ticket linked to your resort reservation for each day you want to book fastpass+ reservations, I'm wondering how this will work.



2- Can I link multiple one day tickets to my resort reservation?

3- Do I have to do that for each person in my party?

4- Can I even do this if one of the tickets is still on an old room key?

5- We are short one ticket for our family of 4, and

6- were planning to just add a day on to one of the tickets when we got there

7- - does this mean I can't book any FP+ times in advance for one person for that one day?

Hope this makes sense, and thanks in advance for your help.

How many days is your trip?

1- That is (in most cases) a really, REALLY bad way to use one-day tickets, financially.

2- Yes, but see #1 above.

3- Whatever tickets a guest has, have to be linked to make FP+ reservations, but see #1 above.

4- Yes.

5- OK.

6- That's what you should do for ALL your guests this time.
Just use ONE 1-day ticket, per person, and UPGRADE to multiple days for this trip.
Then, continue to HOLD the rest of your 1-day tickets and do that upgrade thing again
on additional trips.

7 Yes, that's what it means.

 

[thunderbird1]

Thanks Robo! While I understand the math on adding days, we'd only be using the one day tickets for 2, maybe 3 days. And they were purchased several years ago when tickets were much cheaper, so we'd come out pretty even financially. Especially when you consider the "bird in the hand" factor versus buying completely new tickets.

But it sounds like it's going to be a PITA to add 8 or 12 individual tickets to our reservation. Sigh. I was really hoping to find a way to use up these one day tickets, but it sounds like Disney is working against me.

 

[Robo]

Thanks Robo! While I understand the math on adding days,


1. we'd only be using the one day tickets for 2, maybe 3 days. And they were purchased several years ago when tickets were much cheaper, so we'd come out pretty even financially. Especially when you consider the "bird in the hand" factor versus buying completely new tickets.

2. But it sounds like it's going to be a PITA to add 8 or 12 individual tickets to our reservation. Sigh. I was really hoping to find a way to use up these one day tickets, but it sounds like Disney is working against me.

1. Under those particular circumstances (using only 2 to 3 days at a time)
it won't break your budget using three 1-day tickets for a trip.

2. I'd not sweat adding multiple tickets to MDE for making FP+.
Just make separate "baggies" containing (and keeping track of) a set of tickets for each member
of your group. Then, go about inputting each member's tickets into their individual MDE account.
Connect the accounts and make FP+ reservations.

Sounds like you'd be OK using your older tickets this way.
That's why my first question in my earlier post was regarding the number of days
for your upcoming trip.
Very short trips can change the "conventional wisdom" of ticketing.

 

[ghtx]

But it sounds like it's going to be a PITA to add 8 or 12 individual tickets to our reservation. Sigh. I was really hoping to find a way to use up these one day tickets, but it sounds like Disney is working against me.

I don't think it will be a PITA. I added a couple (not 8 or 12) old tickets per person for my last trip using the MDE app and it wasn't hard. With a smartphone or tablet you can scan in the barcode which makes it easier. These were really old tickets (> 10 years) and it still worked.

 

[asmit4]

I'm a relative newbie when compared to Robo and linking tickets is easy Don't worry about that. You can link them all in about 20 minutes I'd bet. Took me 1 minute to link mine

 

[thunderbird1]

Let me see if I understand this: park tickets are linked to each individual person's MDE account. The FP+ reservations are associated with MDE accounts, not individual tickets, correct? I can then make FP+ reservations for as many days as I have tickets on each account?

I was picturing having to know which park ticket to use for each person for each day. The 8-12 number was figuring 4 people x two or three days. Which I guess is not all that complicated after all; especially if it only take a minute or two to add a ticket to an account.

Talk about feeling like a newbie again - this FP+/MDE thing is like starting all over from scratch! Thanks again for all your help.