FP's being compared to Park Ticket on Re-entry?

[egritz]

I have a friend in DL this week and she just messaged me this morning that at MULTIPLE rides (RSR, Splash Mtn, Haunted Mansion) she has had to present BOTH her FP and her park ticket to have them matched up (like they used to do with the Anna & Elsa M&G last year when we visited).

Anyone else at the parks currently experiencing this?

 

[5forMickey]

I have a friend in DL this week and she just messaged me this morning that at MULTIPLE rides (RSR, Splash Mtn, Haunted Mansion) she has had to present BOTH her FP and her park ticket to have them matched up (like they used to do with the Anna & Elsa M&G last year when we visited).

Anyone else at the parks currently experiencing this?

I hope not, seems like that would slow down the whole process.

 

[SMD]

Is she using just FPs, or is there a wheelchairs, stroller as wheelchair or DAS in her party? If it's just FP, they are running a test on scanning FP at Space this week. Maybe they're also running a test on checking tickets or using the hand scanner on tickets too.

 

[GlitteryOtters]

I have a friend in DL this week and she just messaged me this morning that at MULTIPLE rides (RSR, Splash Mtn, Haunted Mansion) she has had to present BOTH her FP and her park ticket to have them matched up (like they used to do with the Anna & Elsa M&G last year when we visited).

Anyone else at the parks currently experiencing this?

I have been here all week long, using multiple Fastpasses per day, and have not experienced this at all.

 

[egritz]

Is she using just FPs, or is there a wheelchairs, stroller as wheelchair or DAS in her party? If it's just FP, they are running a test on scanning FP at Space this week. Maybe they're also running a test on checking tickets or using the hand scanner on tickets too.

Nothing special, just regular park hopper tickets and fast passes. My thought was something to do with the Space Mountain test I've read about, but she mentioned the other rides.

I have been here all week long, using multiple Fastpasses per day, and have not experienced this at all.

Interesting (and glad to hear it too!)

 

[GatorChris]

They're checking to see if you have an AP. If you do, they'll automatically charge you an extra $50 to stay in the parks for the rest of the day. If you wait to pay, it'll go up by the end of the evening.

 

[starshine514]

That sounds inconvenient. I send my family on FP rides without me while I keep the APs while sitting out with the baby. If I'm not with, my group wouldn't have their tickets on them...

 

[egritz]

That sounds inconvenient. I send my family on FP rides without me while I keep the APs while sitting out with the baby. If I'm not with, my group wouldn't have their tickets on them...

We do the same. My kids are little, but even with older kids (elementary school age) no way I would trust them with their ticket or AP!

and since no one here during this past week experienced the same I asked her to confirm and she said on both HM and Splash she had to present both her FP and her ticket for both herself and her daughter (almost 5YO)

 

[Ofred]

What do you mean that they are charging an extra 50 bucks if u have an annual pass

 

[egritz]

What do you mean that they are charging an extra 50 bucks if u have an annual pass

I believe he was just making a joke.

 

[Astylla]

We were there this weekend and never saw this or had it happen to us. Yes it was a joke from the other poster lol.

 

[Malcon10t]

Had friends with APs there yesterday opening to close. Wasn't happening to them.

 

[bumbershoot]

I have a friend in DL this week and she just messaged me this morning that at MULTIPLE rides (RSR, Splash Mtn, Haunted Mansion) she has had to present BOTH her FP and her park ticket to have them matched up (like they used to do with the Anna & Elsa M&G last year when we visited).

Anyone else at the parks currently experiencing this?

What's on the FPs to match up???

They're checking to see if you have an AP. If you do, they'll automatically charge you an extra $50 to stay in the parks for the rest of the day. If you wait to pay, it'll go up by the end of the evening.

Ha!

 

[egritz]

What's on the FPs to match up???

If it is like what they used to do with the Anna & Elsa Meet & Greet, they scan the FastPass AND the Park Ticket (or AP) to ensure that the FP was issued to that ticket. Prevents people from giving the FP away (and probably their intention is that it prevents trying to "sell" the FP).

Doesn't quite work if you have a big group and one person holds on to everything or is a FP runner...I've gone a few times with large groups (10+ people) and I was always the runner who would take everyone's park tickets to get FastPasses, after getting the fastpasses I don't know how the heck I would have known who give which FP's to which person.

 

[Okwecan]

I was there all last week (returned home yesterday) and this never happened to me.

 

[GatorChris]

Doesn't quite work if you have a big group and one person holds on to everything or is a FP runner...I've gone a few times with large groups (10+ people) and I was always the runner who would take everyone's park tickets to get FastPasses, after getting the fastpasses I don't know how the heck I would have known who give which FP's to which person.

This is a good point. I'm the runner. If we're eating lunch, I'll finish early, go grab a FP and head back. At that point, who knows who got what. That' will quickly turn a FastPass into a Slow Pass.

 

[bumbershoot]

Since we haven't met A&E I had no idea they are doing that.

Weirdly, when I'm the runner I tend to put admission and FP right next to each other as I go, so I might actually be able to do it, but it would be by accident!

 

[longtimedisneylurker]

This would be annoying if it actually became a practice. There are rides I don't do with my family, such as Tower of Terror and California Screamin' and usually Space Mountain. While they go off to use their fastpasses for those rides, I am often elsewhere with all of our APs collecting fastpasses for another ride.

 

[taniahappy]

Never in my Disney life

 

[RnbwSktles]

Tickets have to be "activated" for the day to get a FP right? It's been a while since I've used them.

My initial thought was that maybe they are just scanning tickets to make sure someone entered the park with it, but then I remembered that you probably can't even get a FP to begin with if the ticket did not have an entry for that day.