I DID NOT KNOW THIS ABOUT GETTING TICKETS PRIOR TO CHECKING IN

[12disneybee]

I FOUND THIS ON A FORUM, I CALLED DISNEY, THEY CONFIRMED. I CHECKED IN ONLINE FOR MY SEPT 9TH TRIP, AND AS OF TODAY, I COULD USE MY TICKETS. THEY OF COURSE EXPIRE WITHIN 14 DAYS OF FIRST USE.


I booked a package with Disney that includes multiday MYW tickets but I will be there several days before my check in date, staying offsite. Is there anyway I can use those tickets before I arrive at the Disney resort?

With the new My Disney Experience, it's very easy to do. Once your tickets are added to your MDE account, you can use your MagicBand to enter a park on any day of your visit.

 

[Lynne M]

Moving this to the Theme Parks board.

 

[AzzySpazbourne]

Is there anyway I can use those tickets before I arrive at the Disney resort?

You should be able to once you've done online check-in, but if you run into issues, you can stop at guest services and have them activated prior to physically checking in.

 

[sunflare]

I booked a package with Disney that includes multiday MYW tickets but I will be there several days before my check in date, staying offsite. Is there anyway I can use those tickets before I arrive at the Disney resort?

As far as I know, you need to have the tickets activated at Guest Services (the DTD one, preferably..they do it a lot) and you can only activate them up to 3 days before your package begins. Not sure about that time frame, though, since I've never done it, but the overwhelming consensus that I've read is 3 days only.

 

[Robo]

As far as I know, you need to have the tickets activated at Guest Services (the DTD one, preferably..they do it a lot) and you can only activate them up to 3 days before your package begins. Not sure about that time frame, though, since I've never done it, but the overwhelming consensus that I've read is 3 days only.

It is now up to TEN days before resort package check in.

 

[hiroMYhero]

Tickets can now be activated up to 10 days in advance. But with the OP's info, it appears completing online check-in activates the tickets. I recall another poster noted that tickets were in his MDE account even though he had a package booked.

@erionm - do you happen to know if online check-in does activate packaged tickets? And if so, can FPs then be booked from the current date through the check-out date?

 

[AzzySpazbourne]

It is now up to TEN days before resort package check in.

That would make sense... They sell 10-day tickets, and if you only wanted to stay on-site for your last day? Makes sense to me.

 

[Robo]

That would make sense... They sell 10-day tickets, and if you only wanted to stay on-site for your last day? Makes sense to me.

It would make more sense (if taking the length of ticket validity into consideration was the issue) that guests could activate
their package tickets up to 14 days before check-in
(since that's the length of time after any use of a MYW ticket would mean that ticket would expire.)

 

[erionm]

@erionm - do you happen to know if online check-in does activate packaged tickets? And if so, can FPs then be booked from the current date through the check-out date?

No idea.

 

[sunflare]

@erionm - do you happen to know if online check-in does activate packaged tickets? And if so, can FPs then be booked from the current date through the check-out date?

I do know that when I did online check in for my one day room only reservation the day before my package began, I could only make FP+ for the days of my package, not the day of the room only. However, I could make those FPs early (before midnight). I fully anticipated not being able to make FPs until 9pm PST on the night of the 5th (because MDE said my FP day was the 6th) but I could make them at 8am on the 5th, right after I did online check in.

 

[hiroMYhero]

No idea.

Thanks!

Maybe someone who is 60 days away from a package stay and who has completed online check-in can check their FP booking window.

I do know that when I did online check in for my one day room only reservation the day before my package began, I could only make FP+ for the days of my package, not the day of the room only. However, I could make those FPs early (before midnight). I fully anticipated not being able to make FPs until 9pm PST on the night of the 5th (because MDE said my FP day was the 6th) but I could make them at 8am on the 5th, right after I did online check in.

Thanks! Did you book your FPs within the last two weeks?

Disney now allows the FP booking to begin with the 1st onsite stay even if the package is with the 2nd onsite stay... but is appears it's only for FPs to be used during the 2nd onsite stay. Interesting!

 

[sunflare]

Thanks! Did you book your FPs within the last two weeks

Yep! Just this weekend over the Labor Day holiday. I was really glad it happened, too, since I was supposed to go to a barbecue that night and didn't really want to interrupt it to go do my fastpasses. ;-)