Surprise guest advice

[BreezysMom]

Hello- We are arriving to the Riviera on 1/23 for my daughter's golden birthday celebration (24 on the 24th). I recently fell on ice and healing from a concussion and has been advised to not ride our favorites so we decided to invite a friend to join us as a surprise to my daughter. Does anyone have any advice on how to hide her on MDE. I have not added her to the reservation yet, but I do plan on getting lighting lane etc soon so I am not sure how to add that for the friend without spoiling the surprise. I was thinking of just having the friend put her park ticket on her account and buy her the lighting lane access on her own account and then add her once she arrives. Any thoughts on this?

 

[starry_solo]

Does she check MDE often?
Have you thought about adding the guest to the room under a different name?

 

[Shellyred8]

If you don't buy her lightening lanes with the rest of your family, you will risk not being able to get the same time slots.

 

[Disneydawg74]

Does she check MDE often?
Have you thought about adding the guest to the room under a different name?

It needs to match her named MDE account for buying lightning lanes.

 

[lanejudy]

I was thinking of just having the friend put her park ticket on her account and buy her the lighting lane access on her own account and then add her once she arrives.

The friend needs to have her ticket in her own MDE account profile and you link with her as Friends & Family. Does your daughter check your/her MDE account? If not, that should be easily enough to link up without her knowing.

Is your room reservation a package or room-only? If a room-only you should be able to add the friend now before arrival. That will allow her/you to all buy LL together at the 7-day mark. If a package that makes things more challenging. You can add her to the package, which means the same tickets and meal plan (if any). That may be simplest.

She needs to be linked to a room reservation for the 7-day advanced LL booking. If not, it is highly unlikely that you can get the same LLs unless you wait until the 3-day point.

 

[erinch]

How did this turn out!