park pass and fastpass?

[eddieras]

i have a question- we were at WDW last week- we changed rooms and later that day i inserted the old room key into a fastpass machine and got what i thought was a fastpass - i did this with 2 old keys (my kids keys) but it didn't give me anything when i inserted either of the two old adult keys. but later when i went to use the two 'fastpasses' i noticed it said NOT A VALID FASTPASS -'see a cast member'. they were nice enough and let us on the attraction anyway.

my question is, is the fastpass system linked to the entry system to the park itself?? eg - if you don't slide your park ticket thru at the turnstyle would you still get fastpassses?
just wondering why the old adult room keys didn't give anything from the fastpass while the old child keys printed this 'not a valid fastpass' thing out.

 

[rascalmom]

The FastPass machines are linked to your admission media. You have to have used that admission media on that day in order to be able to receive a valid FastPass. For example, we have Annual Passes - we have to use them to enter the park on that day to be able to get a FastPass with them. Last summer we had trouble with my dd(13)'s Annual Pass - the biometric scanner wasn't working for her. After a few tries the CM gave up, pushed a few buttons on the Entry Gate & let her thru the turnstyle. Later that day when we tried to get a FP for something, the FP machine gave us a "rejection" slip. I don't remember exactly what it said, but the CM said we needed to go to Guest Services to get the problem fixed. After that we were able to get FP's with no problem for all 4 our us.

 

[marcbelt]

Disney's computer system is incredible. Two years ago I lost my Park Hopper, so Guest Services asked me to give them my family's tickets. With those, they tracked every entrance and Fastpass that we had obtained, cross ref-ed with the only other ticket that had the same entrances/Fastpass' times, and issued me a replacement ticket.