Oh jeez. The guest passes really need to go. DL does not use them at all. (I know they handle ILL differently) I struggle with them with
DAS, becasue they cannot be linked to a person either, so I need to get a new DAS every day.
Even though I use DAS for my son, I WAS hoping to buy ILL for some of the popular rides.
I am confused about the spouse MEP though, as that is definitely linked to a specific person.
Yeah, they are a real pain!
For the spouse pass, when I look in
MDE, under 'Tickets & Passes', my MEP, 3 GP's and my husband's spouse pass are all listed there...spouse pass is listed as "PARTNER*******" (**'s in place of our last name). In the "Assigned To" column there, it says the same thing "PARTNER******" and then it's designated as non-transferrable, just like our MEP and GP's. So, it's not linked in MDE to a specific identity (in this case my husband) that you would be able to choose as a person on the room reservation...if that makes sense? Even though we all know that pass is only for one specific person and their name is printed on the back, in MDE it's not really recognized as being linked to a person...it's just treated like the GP's in that sense. It really makes no sense to me...unless mine is just messed up for some reason? Do other's SPs look differently in MDE?
I also don't understand why if all of the passes - MEP, GP's and Spouse pass - are listed under my identity in MDE when I look in the Magic Bands & Cards area and the Tickets & Passes area, why it wouldn't automatically then recognize all of them as resort guests if I am a resort guest during a stay.
I hate complaining considering the perks that we do get, but I mean, we would have probably spent MORE $$ if the GP's weren't causing this issue. Instead, we linked just enough comps for my husband for a couple of days to get around the problem and do what we really REALLY wanted to do and then decided a couple of other rides we also really like weren't worth having to burn more comp tickets on to be able to use the resort perk and book at 7am before they sold out so we didn't even bother buying G+ for those last few days. If we could have done it on the GP, we would have bought G+ and ILL on more days. Comps are more valuable to us now that I know we'll probably have to keep using them for this even if there are no block-outs when we're there.
Hopefully you'll still be able to get some ILL. Not ALL of the ILL rides sold out before park open, but many did. I do know we were able to get 7DMT at park open - it was for a later afternoon time, but it was something! I don't think Space Mtn sold out before park open either. RotR & Avatar literally sold out in 3 minutes or less every day we were there. I think M&M Runaway Railway went pretty quick as well. Also, not ILL, but G+ times for Slinky Dog Dash go in minutes too, which makes HS days hard if you want to do both Slinky and RotR on the same day. The week we were there, it was impossible to get both on same day - by the time you finished scheduling one the other was already gone. And I have one more vent for ILL, lol. On a couple of occasions, I was at the ready to buy, chose the first time that came up avail - say 10:30am for example - and by the time I was finished clicking the button to confirm the party and confirm the purchase, when it was all said and done (in just seconds), I actually ended up with a time in the 2pm hour. You don't see this or find out though until AFTER the ILL purchase is complete! It really stinks because you may not get what you think you're getting and you can't get refunds if it conflicts with say a dining reservation you have for the day or if you just weren't planning to be at the park that long, etc.
Just alot of new frustrations.
