reprinting annual pass?

[mulderxcoltrane]

Does anyone know if an annual pass can be reprinted if we have the card numbers from the bottom of the card with us?

 

[mikelan6]

Yes. They can reissue them at any Guest Services Window with your photo ID.

 

[mrzrich]

You don't even need the numbers, just you ID is fine. I once left mine in a FP machine. I got a new one in just minutes.

 

[FireDancer]

Mine was once turned into pulp on Kali River Rapids. I took what was once my pass along with my ID to guest services and got a shinny new pass.

 

[wishspirit]

Mine was once turned into pulp on Kali River Rapids. I took what was once my pass along with my ID to guest services and got a shinny new pass.

Why they don't have them made out of plastic like Key to the World cards, is beyond me!

I need to get a new one too, since mine got more than a bit crumpled on the way home

 

[FireDancer]

Why they don't have them made out of plastic like Key to the World cards, is beyond me!

Yeah, I always found that odd. Back when I had a Cedar Point annual pass (a local amusement park in Ohio) they were plastic and included your picture. I was always surprised at how flimsy they were.

 

[doconeill]

Mine was once turned into pulp on Kali River Rapids. I took what was once my pass along with my ID to guest services and got a shinny new pass.

Egads, I can't imaging what happened to it...they are actually pretty waterproof!

Why they don't have them made out of plastic like Key to the World cards, is beyond me!

Statements from CMs indicate that they actually have far fewer problems by percentage with the Tyvek tickets than plastic. It is also cheaper (both in the media and the equipment to print them) than plastic.

The so called "paper" tickets are actually a material called Tyvek, and is very strong and waterproof. Strong enough that you may have heard of it before...they wrap houses in the stuff to protect it before putting on the siding.

CMs have reported that they have LESS issues with the Tyvek cards than plastic, especially with regards to the magnetic stripe.

Reasonable care should make them last perfectly fine. If it was a problem, Annual Passes wouldn't be issued on them.

That said, any ticket you get at WDW other than a KTTW card will generally be Tyvek.

It appears that tickets purchased and mailed to you are plastic. This may be due to them standing up better in the mail.

I've also gotten plastic tickets from AAA, but have also heard of them issuing Tyvek tickets as well.

If you have ANY ticket issues, you should be able to get them reissued. Having copies of the backs of the tickets may make it faster.

 

[dvczerfs]

Egads, I can't imaging what happened to it...they are actually pretty waterproof!



Statements from CMs indicate that they actually have far fewer problems by percentage with the Tyvek tickets than plastic. It is also cheaper (both in the media and the equipment to print them) than plastic.

The so called "paper" tickets are actually a material called Tyvek, and is very strong and waterproof. Strong enough that you may have heard of it before...they wrap houses in the stuff to protect it before putting on the siding.

CMs have reported that they have LESS issues with the Tyvek cards than plastic, especially with regards to the magnetic stripe.

Reasonable care should make them last perfectly fine. If it was a problem, Annual Passes wouldn't be issued on them.

That said, any ticket you get at WDW other than a KTTW card will generally be Tyvek.

It appears that tickets purchased and mailed to you are plastic. This may be due to them standing up better in the mail.

I've also gotten plastic tickets from AAA, but have also heard of them issuing Tyvek tickets as well.

If you have ANY ticket issues, you should be able to get them reissued. Having copies of the backs of the tickets may make it faster.

the only problem we had w/ our aps being tyvek is your wdw room key will erase them. so, when your at the park for the am emh and the cm wants to see a resort id. you have to hold the resort ids in one hand and your aps in the other, and dont put them near each other or a cell phone or anything that may have a magnet while 200 people behind you try to push up to the ticket machine.

 

[doconeill]

the only problem we had w/ our aps being tyvek is your wdw room key will erase them. so, when your at the park for the am emh and the cm wants to see a resort id. you have to hold the resort ids in one hand and your aps in the other, and dont put them near each other or a cell phone or anything that may have a magnet while 200 people behind you try to push up to the ticket machine.

The same rules generally apply to the plastic cards as well - even your credit cards (although those are generally better magnetically imprinted). Always keep the cards back to front so that the magstrips never contact each other. That is generally sufficient. A little extra protection would be to give each a half turn so the magstrips aren't all in the same orientation.

 

[Cyrano]

AP for DLP is a plastic photo pass

 

[dvczerfs]

The same rules generally apply to the plastic cards as well - even your credit cards (although those are generally better magnetically imprinted). Always keep the cards back to front so that the magstrips never contact each other. That is generally sufficient. A little extra protection would be to give each a half turn so the magstrips aren't all in the same orientation.

dw has a leather bus. card holder that she keeps the aps in. when we each go thru the turnstiles, she collects them. life use to be simple, the cm would stand there w/ a date stamp and stamped your ticket and your room key was a key. im gettin old!!! starting to sound like my father!

 

[PrincessBelle39]

DH had his issued at Guest Services with only personal ID. We had come throught the gates at the MK and he put his card through, then went to push the stroller through and the person in front of him picked it up and walked off into the crowd. We went to guest services about 2 hours later (we had a Pirates League appointment we were late for) and they did it there and then.

 

[dvczerfs]

DH had his issued at Guest Services with only personal ID. We had come throught the gates at the MK and he put his card through, then went to push the stroller through and the person in front of him picked it up and walked off into the crowd. We went to guest services about 2 hours later (we had a Pirates League appointment we were late for) and they did it there and then.

they must change the bar code or something so the other pass that was taken cant be used? we just came back this past sat from wdw for 2 weeks and i would say about half the time the cm had to scan our pass by hand. other times it went thru. very odd.

 

[doconeill]

they must change the bar code or something so the other pass that was taken cant be used? we just came back this past sat from wdw for 2 weeks and i would say about half the time the cm had to scan our pass by hand. other times it went thru. very odd.

They will invalidate the existing ticket and then reissue a new ticket (with a new ID and barcode) with identical entitlements to what remained on the previous one.

 

[dvczerfs]

They will invalidate the existing ticket and then reissue a new ticket (with a new ID and barcode) with identical entitlements to what remained on the previous one.

 

[kaligal]

Yup - and you don't need the numbers. You could just forget the thing at home and show up and they'd give you a new one. Or so I've heard.

I'm another who doesn't like the paper passes. Mine stopped working after a ride on Kali, too. Didn't shread, but wouldn't work. The kid at the gate asked - and he asked it almost accusingly - "Did you get this wet?" I knew right then that it wasn't going to work and someone had to be blamed and it would be me. Shame on me for riding Kali.

And it stopped working because it was next to a phone or credit card. Or so they said.

It also stopped working after being left alone in a pocket all by itself.

It also stopped working after being held in a plastic thing around my neck all by itself.

They stop working all the time for no real reason. And it is annoying as crap to have to stand in line, find out it doesn't work, walk over to their dumb booth, stand in another line, get a new one...then go back and (you got it) stand in the first line all over again.

I want the plastic ones, too.

 

[wdwfreeksince88]

We live about an hour from the park and have just went over and actually forgot our passes at home, and just told them we forgot them and showed our ids and they replaced them no problem.

 

[tickledtink33]

Yeah, I always found that odd. Back when I had a Cedar Point annual pass (a local amusement park in Ohio) they were plastic and included your picture. I was always surprised at how flimsy they were.

The first annual pass I got at WDW back in 1993 was plastic and had your picture. And yes I have renewed every year since.

 

[dvczerfs]

Yup - and you don't need the numbers. You could just forget the thing at home and show up and they'd give you a new one. Or so I've heard.

I'm another who doesn't like the paper passes. Mine stopped working after a ride on Kali, too. Didn't shread, but wouldn't work. The kid at the gate asked - and he asked it almost accusingly - "Did you get this wet?" I knew right then that it wasn't going to work and someone had to be blamed and it would be me. Shame on me for riding Kali.

And it stopped working because it was next to a phone or credit card. Or so they said.

It also stopped working after being left alone in a pocket all by itself.

It also stopped working after being held in a plastic thing around my neck all by itself.

They stop working all the time for no real reason. And it is annoying as crap to have to stand in line, find out it doesn't work, walk over to their dumb booth, stand in another line, get a new one...then go back and (you got it) stand in the first line all over again.

I want the plastic ones, too.

i feel your pain. and, the cm bends it, licks it, rubs it on there sleeve and than tries it, still dont work. the one time a few years ago, over at mgm, we got miss grumbles at the desk when we had to get new cards. that was intresting. it was like going thru tourture training in the usmc again. i just smiled and said thank you for your trouble, have a nice day.