If you lose your tickets?

[crabmeal]

What happens if you lose your tickets in the park? I know to photocopy them but does Disney put a block so no one else can use them? On our last trip I almost lost them a few times when getting FAst passes. Are the new MYW tickets any heavier than the old tickets?

 

[pparm]

We lost one 2 years ago. I think DH never got it back out of the FP machine, but we never realized it until hours later, back in room. I had the receipt from when I bought them at the Disney store at home. We went to guest services at Epcot and within 10 minutes we had a replacement. He told us that if we happened to find the other ticket, it would not be usable, as he had disabled it in the system! I cannot tell you how glad I was that the DS CM had told me about keeping the receipts separate from the tickets!!

Paula

 

[Sauria]

dd lost hers 3 hours into the first day. When to the front of the park and had replacement in about 5 minutes. CM was very nice and said it happened all the time.

 

[scubalisa]

We lost one of ours and the CM at POP gave us a new one right away. We did not have to show copies, just the rest of our tickets.

 

[TSR6]

We lost one of ours and the CM at POP gave us a new one right away. We did not have to show copies, just the rest of our tickets.

Lucky.

Just an FYI, the ONLY time they can find a ticket like that without copies is either:

A. There is a name attached to the ticket somehow.
B. They were all sold in the same transaction.

It's still wise to have copies

 

[melaniemiller2002]

I learned the hard way: We went to Disneyland a few years back and had 5-day Park Hopper passes. I left one of the tickets in a FP machine in Toontown and didn't realize it until about 2 hours later. We ran back to the machine (yeah, right) and of course, the ticket was gone. After dealing with Guest Relations, etc., I managed to get them to replace the Park Hopper pass but was told that they were making an exception and usually you were just out of luck.

We are planning a trip to WDW in April for 7 days and you can bet I will be making copies and stashing them away! What a horrible feeling to think I had let my kids down by losing one of their tickets (it was only our 2nd day there!).

Melanie Mouse (my nickname since I fell in love with Mickey 28 years ago)

 

[auntpolly]

We bought our tickets at the Disney Store and they gave us a reciept that they said to keep in a seperate place and that if we lost the tickets, we could get replacement tickets with. I put it in my luggage away from my wallet and it was a nice safeguard.

 

[legalslave]

My daughter lost hers in the MK in March. I went to City Hall, and at first the CM said that all six of us in our party would have to be present so she could tell which ticket was my daughter's (I bought them all at once). Three of our party was at Epcot, so she asked where was my daughter the day before. I told her that my daughter and I were the only ones to have been in the MK the day before and she was able to pull up the right ticket and issue a new one. There are lots of ways to spread pixie dust!!

 

[lacy1101]

What about when you don't get your tickets until check-in and they are put on your room key? Do you ask for a receipt?

 

[marcbelt]

A few years ago I lost my 5 day park hopper in a FP machine. Guest relations, the next day, asked me for the tickets to the rest of my family. He then proceeded to cross check which tickets had been used at park entrances and different FP's. Of course, there was only one other ticket that matched my family's whereabouts. So he cancelled that ticket and issued me a new one. Disney knows exactly where you have been if you did the same stuff as your family...

 

[Worfthedog]

On my last trip I left my ticket in a FP machine in AK and went back when I realised. Obviously it wasn't there but luckily it was my last day left on my old park hopper that I was using before I started my new ticket.

The cast member who was helping me told me that there wasn't a problem and that if I went to Guest Relations before leaving to hop to EPCOT that it would all be sorted out. He also gave me a FP card that could be used for the day.

Anyway I was pretty miserable for the rest of the day thinking that I would not be allowed to hop to EPCOT and that I had lost all my plus options that remained on the ticket.

On the way out I called into Guest Reataions to see if my ticket had been handed in (no - obviously), but the cast member asked if I had any other tickets and I explained about this being the last day before I begin my new ticket and she just swiped the other pass (my housemates) and just made me a copy within seconds! I was so surprised that she just took what I'd said to be the truth and just gave me a new ticket. She explained that the database checked my friends ticket (after I had told her they had both been used at the same dates and times) and found a corresponding ticket made a copy and gave it to me it after cancelling the old one.

This was a major lowlight of my holiday until it became one of the highlights a couple of hours later when I realised just how magical WDW can be and how helpful the CMs can be (particulary when you read all the negative posts here lately).

Anyway I guess the problem can be sorted out even easier if you take a copy or a digital pic of the tickets beforehand.

I just wished I'd seen the person who didn't hand my ticket in try to used it after it had been cancelled

I just can't imagine not handing a ticket in if I found one, especially thinking how it could ruin someones holiday if they had lost it.

Paul.

 

[letterdavidman]

What about when you don't get your tickets until check-in and they are put on your room key? Do you ask for a receipt?

Yeah, I'd also like to know, as this is what DW and I will have when we go at the end of August (e.g., it'll be our Key to the World) and we stay at AKL.

Thanks!

 

[JoannaOhio]

Just an FYI, the ONLY time they can find a ticket like that without copies is either:
A. There is a name attached to the ticket somehow.
B. They were all sold in the same transaction.

I bought four adult passes from Ticketmania for our family trip in December. Although I purchased them all on the same order, two of them have sequential numbers, and the other two have sequential numbers - but not in sequence with the first pair. Will the Disney database still view these four passes as a family group? All four of us will enter the same park on the same day at the same time - from the first time we activate them until we leave to come home. BTW, Ticketmania included a one-page photocopy of the backs of all four passes - and I intend to make several more copies before we go. That way one of us can carry a copy separate from the person who will carry all four passes - and we'll have the extra copies back at our villa in case we need them.