unused tickets and annual passes on same band

[smidgy]

I guess this question is mostly for chesire Figment, but whoever has the answer is fine. (as long as you are as knowledgable as CF! lol)

we just purchased annual passes on our trip a couple weeks ago. we have just booked a free dining trip for sept. so we have obviously purchased 2 two day park tickets we don't need.

last year, we left them unused until we were ready to upgrade them to AP.s (using them once that day, to lock in the gate price, )

ok, so now we will have annual passes on our bands (ok, on our my Disney Expereince account), as well as 2 day park tickets (not too mention we still each have about 8 water park tickets from a non-expiration ticket, but.. I digress)

I really dislike this all being "mish mashed" together. what if when we enter a park in sept. .. when we "touch Mickey with Mickey" it uses one of the 2 day tickets we were required to purchase with our "free" dining, instead of using the annual pass?

we want to leave those 2 day tickets unused so we can bridge them to an annual pass next year.

 

[cluvsdisney]

We were concerned about this as well and asked a CM at guest services to move our unused days of a MYW ticket to a hard ticket and just have our annual passes on our bands.

 

[POOHsie]

We were concerned about this as well and asked a CM at guest services to move our unused days of a MYW ticket to a hard ticket and just have our annual passes on our bands.

We've done this, too. Ask a ticketing CM to move the tickets onto separate plastic media cards. We put ours in an envelope, labeled it, and placed it in a drawer at home. There have been posts here from people who did accidentally use the wrong tickets on their Magic Bands. Some had changed the priority of these tickets to a lower ranking, but the tickets mysteriously went back to priority status. They were able to straighten it out, but why go through that? The MDE/Magic Band program is glitchy right now.

 

[1153rsmith]

This is good information to know. We already had 10 day no expire tickets that had 9 days left on them. I had already linked them to our bands before we decided to use the DVC discount and try AP's this year. I won't get the actual AP's until we arrive in 2 weeks. I guess I will get them to pull the no-expire tickets off so we don't accidentally use them. (Especially, since I don't understand the priority thing.)

Thanks for the help.

 

[Disneylover99]

We had our two day tickets removed from MDE because we are also ap holders. Just make sure you have them removed at guest services outside of the park, before you enter for the first time.

 

[ctl]

We did the same thing last year and had the "extra" tickets taken off our magic bands. I didn't realize the band would prioritize them either, but for some reason my daughters band was really glitchy (it was during the test phase) and so the first day in the park she couldn't get through the gate and a kind CM at guest services explained that we had APs and 2 day tickets on our bands,(even though I thought I had deactivated the 2 day passes) so he gave us hard tickets in an envelope and took them off the bands. Things went smoothly after that.