What format of ticket

[bookgirl]

I'm going to make an exploratory trip out to DLR in May.

(staying off site, will fly in Sunday midmorning and fly out Wednesday midmorning)

I am looking at 3 day park hoppers. (want to buy in advance for the magic morning bonus)

Without FP+ I'm assuming that DLR will not be doing MBs.

Do I get a paper ticket or is it a plastic 'card' type ticket?

Plus do they send them out or do I print out a confirmation and then pick them up at GS on arrival?

 

[Diszona]

I'm going to make an exploratory trip out to DLR in May.

(staying off site, will fly in Sunday midmorning and fly out Wednesday midmorning)

I am looking at 3 day park hoppers. (want to buy in advance for the magic morning bonus)

Without FP+ I'm assuming that DLR will not be doing MBs.

Do I get a paper ticket or is it a plastic 'card' type ticket?

Plus do they send them out or do I print out a confirmation and then pick them up at GS on arrival?

The tickets are paper cards, unless you get an e-ticket which you can present at the gate and I believe they will exchange them for the cards the first time you go in (not sure if this part is true, I haven't done the e-tickets myself).

If you are ordering from a place like Orbitz or Cheaptickets (which I highly recommend over going directly through Disney) you will get a voucher which you present at the ticket booths in the Esplanade and they will then give you your tickets. Sometimes, if you order too close to the day of arrival, you won't get anything but a confirmation number, but they will have your name at the ticket booth and you can just show them your ID to get your tickets. We had to do the last method on our last trip and it made me nervous the whole time not having some tangible, physical form of ticket.

 

[squidlet]

If you are buying an e-ticket online from Disney, you will print out a single sheet of paper that is bar-coded. You take that directly to the gate and they will exchange it for a paper ticket (similar to a business card in size and weight). Fast and easy process.

 

[figment_jii]

Most folks will end up with a paper (cardstock) type ticket, but a few will have plastic credit card type tickets. As squidlet said, if you pre-purchase tickets directly from Disneyland and opt for the print at home option, then you will print out one 8.5x11 sheet of paper for each ticket. You will take these papers to the gates and the CM will scan them and then exchange them for credit card sized cardstock tickets.

Check out this thread for more details:
http://www.disboards.com/threads/paper-or-plastic-tickets.3377651/#post-53030892