ProfGoofy
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A comment in another thread (Fastpass Superuser at WDW?) inspired this "Has this ever happened to you?"
We honeymooned at BWI during Sept 1999. It was a lot of fun. However, every time we returned to our room, on went the Weather Channel so we could view the latest tracking of Hurricane Floyd, which was churning off the coast of Florida. We were also being constantly updated on WDW operating status through memos being slid under our door. Finally the announcement came that for the first time in its history, WDW was shutting down. Which meant an end to our theme park touring for our last two days at WDW (WDW was followed by a cruise on the Wonder. However, no stop at Castaway Cay because Hurricane Floyd wrecked it, but thats another story).
So, last day in the parks which were all closing at 3 PM. We wanted pictures of us in front of the centerpiece of each park, so first thing in the morning, Epcot and a picture of Spaceship Earth. On the monorail to MK, picture in front of Cindys Castle. Next stop TTC and a bus ride to MGM, snap-snap in front of GMR. After that, got on a boat and headed back to Epcot for lunch (skipped AK).
We did all of this in less than 3 hours, which must have set off some security alarm because when we got to IG, our passes wouldnt work. The cast member asked us if we had just visited another park and we told him what we had done. He understood what had happened and mentioned something about security measure to insure multiple people werent using the same pass to visit multiple parks. Anyway, he opened the gate for us, which meant our passes werent registered at Epcot.
Lunch at Biergarten and when we went to pay with our roomcard, it came back with an error message, invalid card. Our cast member server thought it was Floyds fault and since they were in a hurry to close shop and batten down the hatches, free lunch. We accepted graciously though at the time we didnt understand why are cards didn't work and were worried that we werent going to be able to get back into our room, which wasnt the case.
On the other thread, ukcatfan mentioned that onetime they were waved through the gate and therefore their seasonal pass didnt work on the fastpass system. Now that would be a problem.
So, has anyone else been a Disney Free Roaming Spirit, there, but not really there. What happened and did you try to solve it?
PS: I am by no means condoning this as a way to get complimentary meals.
We honeymooned at BWI during Sept 1999. It was a lot of fun. However, every time we returned to our room, on went the Weather Channel so we could view the latest tracking of Hurricane Floyd, which was churning off the coast of Florida. We were also being constantly updated on WDW operating status through memos being slid under our door. Finally the announcement came that for the first time in its history, WDW was shutting down. Which meant an end to our theme park touring for our last two days at WDW (WDW was followed by a cruise on the Wonder. However, no stop at Castaway Cay because Hurricane Floyd wrecked it, but thats another story).
So, last day in the parks which were all closing at 3 PM. We wanted pictures of us in front of the centerpiece of each park, so first thing in the morning, Epcot and a picture of Spaceship Earth. On the monorail to MK, picture in front of Cindys Castle. Next stop TTC and a bus ride to MGM, snap-snap in front of GMR. After that, got on a boat and headed back to Epcot for lunch (skipped AK).
We did all of this in less than 3 hours, which must have set off some security alarm because when we got to IG, our passes wouldnt work. The cast member asked us if we had just visited another park and we told him what we had done. He understood what had happened and mentioned something about security measure to insure multiple people werent using the same pass to visit multiple parks. Anyway, he opened the gate for us, which meant our passes werent registered at Epcot.
Lunch at Biergarten and when we went to pay with our roomcard, it came back with an error message, invalid card. Our cast member server thought it was Floyds fault and since they were in a hurry to close shop and batten down the hatches, free lunch. We accepted graciously though at the time we didnt understand why are cards didn't work and were worried that we werent going to be able to get back into our room, which wasnt the case.
On the other thread, ukcatfan mentioned that onetime they were waved through the gate and therefore their seasonal pass didnt work on the fastpass system. Now that would be a problem.
So, has anyone else been a Disney Free Roaming Spirit, there, but not really there. What happened and did you try to solve it?
PS: I am by no means condoning this as a way to get complimentary meals.