School trip/FP advice or ideas needed.

[HuskerFaninIL]

The 8th grade has the opportunity to go on a Disney Trip at the end of the year.

The principal always links the tickets to the kids name under her (as if she has 100 children).

Most kids have zero clue what fastpasses even are, so the past several years the kids get to park and go to kiosk and get day of passes. Some opt to not get any.

This year a few kids are in the know and I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible for them or their parents (at home) to get advance FP?

The principal will not give out numbers and they will be linked to her.

If a child (ex. Bill) makes their own MDE account and friends the principal will MDE see it as the same Bill?

I’ve thought of a few ways it might work, but I can’t test any, I don’t have a kid going, but a friend does.

Any tips or tricks?

 

[tamerbelles]

Ok, have a suggestion ... On our last trip, I had made everyone's profiles in MDE and linked tickets, reservations, etc. Then my mother-in-law wanted to be able to login and see our PhotoPass pictures on her own phone. Rather than giving her MY login information, I went to MDE and invited her to make an account. You go to the person's name, click Update, then "Invite to Connect."

The principal would have to be willing to add your/your son's email so he can get the invitation and set up his account. I don't *think* he could do anything stupid even if he tried. Plus, it sounds like you trust him to know what he's doing. She could even uncheck the box for PhotoPass so he can't see everyone's photos (in case she's worried about student privacy).

 

[disneyfan150]

Our band went to WDW last year. I offered to have an after school tutorial to show people how to make an account and/or set up FPs. They did not take me up on my offer. I think that with the number of people involved, it was better for the band planners to keep it simple. My feelings were hurt at the time. In looking back, it worked out fine. They didn't get their ticket numbers until it was time to leave. So I wasn't able to add DDs ticket to our account. They had fun just being together as a band anyway. It was hard for the commando planner for me to let go.

 

[Wood Nymph]

Our daughter is a teacher and organized a trip for more than 40 students last year. She created MDE accounts for each of the adult "leaders" and created profiles for each student in a leaders' group. Any parents who joined the group had to buy their own tickets and set up their own MDE accounts. My daughter made all the fp's for the entire group and then let each parent know what fp's their children had. At first she had allowed the parents to know the password for the account that their children were under so that the parent could match their fp's to the children's, but when one of the mothers deleted my daughter's fastpasses, she quickly changed the password and locked them out.

The whole thing was incredibly time consuming for our daughter and I think the reason it worked so well for her school was because our daughter had been going to WDW since she was a baby. It would be hard for someone who hasn't been to WDW lately to know how to set this up so that the kids got fp's ahead of time.

ETA: Disney didn't give the ticket numbers out until about three weeks ahead of the trip date, so that limited what rides they could do.