You will see the photopass photographers all over the parks. When you want a picture taken, they will swipe a photopass card through their machine when they have finished taking the pictures. Then, the next time you see a photog and want to get pictures, you hand them the card and they do the same thing.
In reality, if you are all together, then you could use 1 photopass card. But if you separate at any time, or there are multiple photogs at any one spot, using the same card might be difficult.
We have at times had up to 3 or 4 different cards going (I had one from my walking through the park, dh got one when he and ds were somewhere, thought I lost one so got another, etc.). We went to the camera shop in one of the parks and had them combine the cards. So you might not have to share a card and can combine the pictures at a later time.
That way, you can pool the pictures if you decide you want to buy the CD, making the cost per picture much lower. Then you own them and can print them out at home for each family whenever you want.