Fastpass question

[littlele]

I apologize for asking something that has undoubtedly been asked before, but that darn search function won't work for me!

Anyhow.....

Since we are on west coast time and there is no way that my husband or daughter can get up in time for park opening, I am wondering if I can take their tickets with me and get fastpasses without them being there. Would they need to have 'passed through' the entrance first in order for me to use them?

TIA

 

[WTDing]

The ticket needs to activated for the day by passing through the park entrance. Once everyone has entered a park one individual may take all tickets to get fast passes.

 

[PrincessTiffany]

I apologize for asking something that has undoubtedly been asked before, but that darn search function won't work for me!

Anyhow.....

Since we are on west coast time and there is no way that my husband or daughter can get up in time for park opening, I am wondering if I can take their tickets with me and get fastpasses without them being there. Would they need to have 'passed through' the entrance first in order for me to use them?

TIA

Sorry, I don't believe, you can not get their fastpasses unless their ticket and fingerprint have been scanned at the front gate.

 

[BamaFan121s]

Nope. Can't do it. Their tickets will have to have been used at the entrance in order for them to work at a FP machine. You will have to convince them to either get their lazy bums out of bed, or they can wait on you while YOU get to ride.

 

[Sleeping Becca]

Sorry it is not possible, the tickets must be activated at the park turnstiles to be able to get FPs. Disney uses biometrics (finger measurments) to link a person to their ticket, so you would not be able to activate the ticket for them.

Would it be possible to get them to bed early? Then maybe the time difference would not be so harsh. I would hate for you to miss out on prime touring hours.

 

[DebbieB]

Start getting up earlier on the days before you leave for your trip to get acclaimated. If you are going in summer or at a crowded time, you really need to get there in the morning. I frequently travel east coast to west coast and can get acclaimated pretty quick. I always change my watch to my destination time when I get on the plane, I think it helps to adjust.

 

[disneyag]

I would have them plan to get up early and then build in naps if needed during the afternoons. It's a nice break from the hectic parks.

 

[bkreitzel]

ok, so i have never used baby swap so DISer's tell me if this is possible...
Mom does a fastpass for herself for chosen adult-type ride. When DH and DD arrive she rides and they tell CM they are doing child swap, and he rides as soon as she gets off while she waits w/ child?
This doesn't help w/ getting DD on a ride fast, but might get a thrill-ride out of the way quickly?

 

[doconeill]

ok, so i have never used baby swap so DISer's tell me if this is possible...
Mom does a fastpass for herself for chosen adult-type ride. When DH and DD arrive she rides and they tell CM they are doing child swap, and he rides as soon as she gets off while she waits w/ child?
This doesn't help w/ getting DD on a ride fast, but might get a thrill-ride out of the way quickly?

Child swap is a bit of a vague term...

Rider Switch is the name of the pass you can get at a Fastpass attraction if the child does not meet the height requirement. In that case, in theory, yes you could do this. However, there have been reports where CMs have checked that everyone who is riding in the party have a Fastpass if any of the party is going to use the Fastpass line to start. I haven't seen this though.

I'm not sure what you mean by "This doesn't help w/ getting DD on a ride fast" - if your DD is tall enough to ride, you won't get a Rider Switch pass. If you simply mean about getting DD onto a different ride, well then - it gets you what you want, with a minimal wait for DD.

Star Tours is an exception to this - they do not use a Rider Switch pass any longer (I'm 95% certain they used to), and do physical switches as described below.

For other rides, or for rides with children who meet the requirements but "chicken out", it usually involves a physical switch at or near the loading area. This obviously would not work in your case.

 

[JLKennedy]

You are right. The "parent/child swap" (not rider swap), is intended for 1 parent to ride the ride to see if it's too much for their child, parent exits and passes the "pass" (looks similar to fastpass) and other parent & child go on ride. So, yes, you can use your fastpass and the parent swap together, or at least we were able to 2 years ago.

 

[BostonRob]

Here's what you do. Let them stroll into the parks at 11:00 or noon the first day. If you're there at a busy time of year, they'll be horrified by the crowds. Then the next day FORCE them to get up for a rope drop. Let them make their own choices after that.

 

[Marshel]

I'm going to get flamed mightily for suggesting this, but most of the time they have the biometrics shut off at park open to keep the lines moving, so there's a chance you could enter, exit immediately and reenter a couple of times to activate the other tickets; just be prepared for it not to work.
The reason they want tickets associated with an individual is to prevent reselling or park hopping with a non park hopping ticket (using two different days off of one non hopping ticket to hop from park to park; neither of which you are trying to do.

 

[Sleeping Becca]

I'm going to get flamed mightily for suggesting this, but most of the time they have the biometrics shut off at park open to keep the lines moving, so there's a chance you could enter, exit immediately and reenter a couple of times to activate the other tickets; just be prepared for it not to work.
The reason they want tickets associated with an individual is to prevent reselling or park hopping with a non park hopping ticket (using two different days off of one non hopping ticket to hop from park to park; neither of which you are trying to do.

No flames but a handstamp is required for reentry to prevent multiple people from entering the parks using the same ticket. The rest of the party would not have a hand stamp.

 

[littlele]

Sorry it is not possible, the tickets must be activated at the park turnstiles to be able to get FPs. Disney uses biometrics (finger measurments) to link a person to their ticket, so you would not be able to activate the ticket for them.

Would it be possible to get them to bed early? Then maybe the time difference would not be so harsh. I would hate for you to miss out on prime touring hours.

I figured this would be too easy

And I should have specified that my DD really can't get up that early. Last time she did try to get up very early (4am our time) and got physically ill (my apologies to whoever had to clean up that mess....). She has a tendency to not feel too well when her 'time clock' is off and has had problems the last two times at Disney, so you can imagine why I'm not going to be getting her up too early

So it looks like we'll be missing out on a few rides, but that's just how it goes sometimes with kiddos, right?

 

[Alesia]

No flames but a handstamp is required for reentry to prevent multiple people from entering the parks using the same ticket. The rest of the party would not have a hand stamp.

They haven't used the hand stamp in a couple of years.

 

[doconeill]

I'm going to get flamed mightily for suggesting this, but most of the time they have the biometrics shut off at park open to keep the lines moving, so there's a chance you could enter, exit immediately and reenter a couple of times to activate the other tickets; just be prepared for it not to work.
The reason they want tickets associated with an individual is to prevent reselling or park hopping with a non park hopping ticket (using two different days off of one non hopping ticket to hop from park to park; neither of which you are trying to do.

Ah, but wouldn't someone exiting the park that early, several times, raise suspicion?

AND, if the finger scanners ARE on, and the tickets had not been associated yet, then your other family members would have issues getting in to the parks, except if it was a child's ticket. And if you use that to get into the park, additional red flags would go up...

 

[Robo]

Ah, but wouldn't someone exiting the park that early, several times, raise suspicion?

They don't have any way to tell if you
have exited the park, once, twice, nine times (a Lady... )

And, since that same person would be coming back in with DIFFERENT tickets,
they wouldn't know if (s)he was the same person coming back in again, either.

BUT just assuming that the finger-scanners will be off-line is a big
MAYBE to overcome.

 

[doconeill]

They don't have any way to tell if you
have exited the park, once, twice, nine times (a Lady... )

And, since that same person would be coming back in with DIFFERENT tickets,
they wouldn't know if (s)he was the same person coming back in again, either.

BUT just assuming that the finger-scanners will be off-line is a big
MAYBE to overcome.

They generally have someone watching people exit the park that early, which is usually to one side. Someone would probably SEE someone exiting the park more than once, recognizing them because so few would be doing so at rope drop.

 

[sbell111]

This will solve all of the OP's problems:

 

[littlele]

This will solve all of the OP's problems:

If only it were that easy!