Park Tickets Biometric?

[CTPacky]

Are the Disney Theme Park Tickets biometric? In other words, are they guest specific? You know, the 2 finger thing? I am going with my daughter next month for 5 days, but the 7 day tickets are a much better deal. I want to get hopper, and no expiration option on them. So what does that mean when I want to go with my son in a few months and burn up the rest of the days on the passes. TIA

 

[jann1033]

Are the Disney Theme Park Tickets biometric? In other words, are they guest specific? You know, the 2 finger thing? I am going with my daughter next month for 5 days, but the 7 day tickets are a much better deal. I want to get hopper, and no expiration option on them. So what does that mean when I want to go with my son in a few months and burn up the rest of the days on the passes. TIA

they are biometric and they also have the owner's name on them. have heard that if the bio thing doesn't work you have to show id with the proper name. as far as i know ( since 20 some yrs ) they have always been non- tranferable

 

[DeeDeeDis]

Purchased 10 day non expiring park hopping passes in August, yes they did have my sons put thier fingers in the machine but there are NO name on these passes, and the design on both is the same (happy celebration....) so come dec we may be guessing whos pass is whos on our first day back to the parks.

 

[safetymom]

The new tickets they have you sign on the back. They are ticket tagged so the same person has to use them until they are used up.

 

[dizplanner]

And they expire after 14 days unless you pay extra for the no expiration option.

 

[TSR6]

All Disney ticket media is non-transferable. It must be used by the same person on any and all days on the ticket.

So no, You cannot do what you want to do. Biometrics is just disney's way of enforcing the non-transferablility.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

oh please don't tell me they make children do the finger thing now too. What a pain that will be in line!

 

[maliboomer]

I'm not sure of this, but don't they measue the distance between fingers, not fingerprints?

 

[NewEnglandDisney]

I'm not sure of this, but don't they measue the distance between fingers, not fingerprints?

This is correct. Huge difference.

I'm a big privacy advocate, but this isn't independently identifiable information, and all it does is keep our ticket costs down. I know when these discussions come up some people get worried, but Disney has far more useful information about you already in their databanks than this.

aw:
N.E.D.

 

[Letsbgoofy]

I never signed my ticket. I personally don't think most of the cms care about this rule. I used the ticket 4 days, multiple visits to the parks, and never once was my ticket even looked at.

 

[mvav269]

We were at WDW at the end of August. The adults in the group, myself, DH and DD (12), had to put our fingers in the machine. Our DD, (9), only had to enter her card in the machine and enter throught the turnstile. Hope this helps.

 

[maliboomer]

I think signing it is for self regognition.

Edit: That came out wrong, by self regognition I mean that if you have five people in your group who are all adults the tickets can easily get confused.

 

[tlev]

There was a family in front of us in line one day at MK whose daughter's card would not work with her fingers. They pulled the family aside and were asking for some identification. I'm not sure what happened because we went in, but it certainly seemed they were taking the enforcement serious. What the OP is trying to do is take advantage of the system, it is because people do this and re-sell tickets that the rest of us have to go through finger scans and slower lines. If people just followed the rules, (NON-TRANSFERABLE TICKETS), none of the extra enforcement would be necessary. It does kind of slow down the line because not everyone knows about the finger thing, or uses a different hand and a CM has to explain everything to them. They should have some signs or something to tell people what to expect when they get to the turnstiles.

 

[Brianne]

They don't do it with the children's tickets, but any child 10 & over will have to do it since they'd be considered adults on an adult ticket.

 

[safetymom]

You are right. The ticket signing is more for you than a CM.

There are signs above the turnstiles telling you how to do it. There are lights on the scanner showing you what to do also.

 

[smjj]

The scanning was still new when we went last May and there were many bugs still around. One day at MK they actually had the scanners turned around and were just having folks incert their cards and walk thru. At EPCOT the next day the line was very long. The scanners were not recongizing many of the scans(our included) and the CM's were having to explain or troubleshoot so many the lines were backing up quite a bit. If they are going to use this imperfect system, they need to properly man them so lines do not get this backed up. Hopefully when we go back this Nov./Dec. most of these bugs will have been worked out. Another problem I had was being a Lefty. I was using my left hand one time and my right the next and sometimes forgot which I last used. I did not see any signs stating to use this hand or not and thought that might be part of the problem with people like me using different hands in the hurry to get into the parks....smjj

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

i am glad they are doing this! DH and i already signed our tickets so we don't get them all confused with eachother and hold up the lines! i HATE when that happens!

 

[mattsdragon]

Yes, they are making the children do the finger scan as well, which is difficult because some of thier little fingers cna't make it far enough into the scanner. But my experience showed that it was the older guests that were having trouble with it, by older I'm talking about people in their late 50's and beyond.

It is making the lines longer, but eventually it will smooth out, like when they started checking bags at the entrance, growing pains.

 

[safetymom]

They have lots of turnstiles open and the long long lines seem to be gone. Also on very busy days they turn the scanners off. You don't know that they are going to do this but it moves the lines.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

Yes, they are making the children do the finger scan as well, which is difficult because some of thier little fingers cna't make it far enough into the scanner. But my experience showed that it was the older guests that were having trouble with it, by older I'm talking about people in their late 50's and beyond.

It is making the lines longer, but eventually it will smooth out, like when they started checking bags at the entrance, growing pains.

Really? When did they start making children do this? (and by children I mean with children tickets ie: under 9yrs old)
I think that's really not wise- considering some tickets do not expire (ever) and using leftover tickets years later can make a significant difference in how their fingers are read... they grow and change obviously.