My f-i-l bought the military 4 day passes for the entire family but two people in our family are leaving a day early and won't use a day on their pass. I wanted to reassign their extra day to a friend who lives in the Orlando area. Just read on the Disney site that you can't do this. I think Disney has taken this too far. The tickets were paid for and we should be able to pass them on to who we would like! Can someone explain to me why Disney can get away with this and how they justify this policy?
There's too much fraud associated with handing off partially used tickets to another party. Every scam artist and his best friends used to acquire partially used cards cheaply (typically from families gassing up on their way out of town) and reselling them at the gas station to bargain hunting folks for considerable profit. With the advent of plastic ticket media, the person looking for a bargain could pay $$ for a partially used ticket, then find the card was actually totally used up at the WDW gate. Not to mention, the bargain hunter would be in trouble with Disney Security.
Disney came up with the biometric scan with ticket presentation, so this resale couldn't be done. Away went the scammers.
The 4-day Armed Forces Salute tickets are deeply discounted. They are also strictly controlled to head-off fraud. The FIL has to present his military ID and other info to get the tickets. The people receiving tickets from FIL's allocation have to present name, address, city, DOB, phone #. Disney records this info. Then each person goes thru the biometric scan at entry. If your FIL's ticket was presented fraudulently at the gate, it might reflect on your FIL's future privileges. Something to think about.
Also, a person in Orlando has WDW Florida Resident discounts available that the typical Military WDW visitor doesn't have. So, not a great need there.
The AFS tickets are good for approx one year. In 2015, the expiration date was extended from Oct 3rd to Dec 20th, and the max ticket purchase was increased from 6 tickets to 12 tickets. This gives the military person, or family/friends who have been given this ticket, more time to use it up.
The military passes are, I believe, to be used only by members of the immediate family of a serviceman/woman.
If the person you want to give the ticket to is in the military then they could get their own passes based on the criteria set forth by both the armed services and Disney at the discounted rate. However, if they are not and attempted to use the pass anyway, they would not be allowed to.
The basic ticket is also not transferable but I think more people actually can slide past that.
Actually, the 4-day AFS military tickets can be used by family and friends. The military member or spouse has to personally request the tickets and show military ID for their activation. As posted above, each person receiving a ticket has to give Disney their name, address, city, DOB and phone #.
