Using Someone Else's FastPass

[B3rlingirl]

I am probably the biggest rule follower ever... I am literally afraid to break any rules up to a point even my rule following mother urges me to loosen up a bit...
So I am also a little in doubt about using a FP from my mother/dad myself... I did it once because my mother found out she doesn’t like BTMR at night and I just love it...
The CM don’t actually know which ticket you scan so there is no way any one would know that you used a FP from someone out of your group (only if the CM recognizes you riding twice)...at least that’s my information on that...
there is just that green light and that’s it...

 

[Fred M]

I think it's fine and I'm a stickler for the rules!

 

[theluckyrabbit]

I think there's a big difference between using tickets that are from members of your own group/family and using tickets from people outside your group/family, e.g. asking/panhandling others to use their tickets for a FP. One seems perfectly natural (e.g. if Grandma isn't going to use her FP to ride GOTG, can Grandson use it? Why not?). The other does not seem natural, right, or fair. (And it does happen -- we've seen it and heard about it -- people can be so strange!)

 

[tarheelalum]

Plip use all the fast passes you can get and have a great time. They don't have a name on them.

 

[POTCfan]

I think it is fine. You using your wife and daughters fast pass is at the expense of your wife and daughter not being able to use their fast pass. In fact, to some degree I feel you are more entitled to it because your wife and daughter paid for the day to be at the park and they are not going to be there - making the park less crowded for others. I would do it if I could, but my wife and daughter never want to leave the park.

 

[bethwc101]

I think there's a big difference between using tickets that are from members of your own group/family and using tickets from people outside your group/family, e.g. asking/panhandling others to use their tickets for a FP. One seems perfectly natural (e.g. if Grandma isn't going to use her FP to ride GOTG, can Grandson use it? Why not?). The other does not seem natural, right, or fair. (And it does happen -- we've seen it and heard about it -- people can be so strange!)

Thankfully I have never seen the second one happen in real life. Does it really happen at DLR? Seems so silly.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

Thankfully I have never seen the second one happen in real life. Does it really happen at DLR? Seems so silly.

Yep, but thankfully it seems to happen rarely. Would it surprise you that the same young couple we saw try this most recently was also the same young couple who we saw walking around empty tables at CO eating the leftover food on people's trays? And they were laughing about it, very pleased with themselves -- score! (Like I said, some people are so strange.)

 

[bethwc101]

Yep, but thankfully it seems to happen rarely. Would it surprise you that the same young couple we saw try this most recently was also the same young couple who we saw walking around empty tables at CO eating the leftover food on people's trays? And they were laughing about it, very pleased with themselves -- score! (Like I said, some people are so strange.)

I can't even stomach the thought. Were they trying to get people to hand over their paper fastpasses or use their maxpass on them?
One isn't better, just curious.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

I can't even stomach the thought. Were they trying to get people to hand over their paper fastpasses or use their maxpass on them?
One isn't better, just curious.

They were "panhandling" to borrow tickets to get more FPs at the kiosks as people were walking by and asking for extra FPs. And laughing about it.

 

[bethwc101]

They were "panhandling" to borrow tickets to get more FPs at the kiosks as people were walking by and asking for extra FPs. And laughing about it.

I'm surprised CMs or security didn't get involved.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

I'm surprised CMs or security didn't get involved.

They might have, but we didn't hang around to find out.

 

[KateDrake]

I think for me, if the FPs have already been pulled, someone might as well be using them? It's too bad that you can't cancel them and make them available for someone else now that they are digital. We always loved giving our unused passes to someone else back in the paper days.

 

[Skyegirl1999]

I think for me, if the FPs have already been pulled, someone might as well be using them? It's too bad that you can't cancel them and make them available for someone else now that they are digital. We always loved giving our unused passes to someone else back in the paper days.

You can cancel them on the app (whether you have Maxpass or not), and other people can then book them. (You have to cancel before your return window opens, though.)

 

[Bossy22]

You paid for those maxpasses, my opinion is use them!

 

[DLgal]

They were "panhandling" to borrow tickets to get more FPs at the kiosks as people were walking by and asking for extra FPs. And laughing about it.

Well, hold on here. At Disneyland, you have to scan your theme park admission ticket to redeem a fastpass, not the little paper ticket that comes out of the FP machine. That thing is worthless. It is just a reminder card. So, how were they "panhandling" asking for people's tickets? They would have to take their ACTUAL ticket. Who would hand over their admission ticket to a stranger?

 

[bethwc101]

Well, hold on here. At Disneyland, you have to scan your theme park admission ticket to redeem a fastpass, not the little paper ticket that comes out of the FP machine. That thing is worthless. It is just a reminder card. So, how were they "panhandling" asking for people's tickets? They would have to take their ACTUAL ticket. Who would hand over their admission ticket to a stranger?

Maybe they were just being obnoxious on purpose to annoy people thinking they were funny, or it could be pre digital fastpasses?

 

[theluckyrabbit]

Well, hold on here. At Disneyland, you have to scan your theme park admission ticket to redeem a fastpass, not the little paper ticket that comes out of the FP machine. That thing is worthless. It is just a reminder card. So, how were they "panhandling" asking for people's tickets? They would have to take their ACTUAL ticket. Who would hand over their admission ticket to a stranger?

Are you questioning the "logic" of people who thought it was fine to go from table to table eating total strangers' leftover food?

Maybe they were just being obnoxious on purpose to annoy people thinking they were funny, or it could be pre digital fastpasses?

This would be my vote based on the behavior described above!

 

[mfleeting]

Our kids have used ours before with no issues

 

[Disney_Alli]

I think you're 100% fine to use their tickets for MaxPass when they're on break. On our trip last year one member of our party didn't want to ride GotG. We usually booked her a MaxPass anyway to keep everyone's window the same and if we'd decided to I wouldn't have felt even a smidgen of guilt using her fastpass to go back on had I wanted to. I didn't but I totally would have if I'd wanted to.

 

[WonkaKid]

Yep, but thankfully it seems to happen rarely. Would it surprise you that the same young couple we saw try this most recently was also the same young couple who we saw walking around empty tables at CO eating the leftover food on people's trays? And they were laughing about it, very pleased with themselves -- score! (Like I said, some people are so strange.)

Wow. Wow! I’ve been to DL easily 100+ times and have never seen either thing — guests trying to panhandle FPs or eating other people’s leftovers. I suspect security would have intervened in either situation, had they been aware.

Now: I don’t approve of either thing at DL. However, it’s possible that, with respect to the food, they were “freegans.” A “freegan” is someone who believes that food is a fundamental right and that it’s wrong to charge or pay for it. I’ve only ever met two (knowingly) in my life. These are often the people that will go dumpster diving. They’re also why many stores now lock their dumpsters: to stop people from recovering the expired food that’s been thrown away. I don’t mean to rationalize or excuse the behavior. I’m just trying to make it perhaps easier to understand. I have an ex gf that who disapproved of consumer culture and for a full year wouldn’t buy anything new. Things were either bought secondhand or given to her.