What steps do I need to go through?

[Trekkie]

Basic situation:

I'm an Annual Passholder, long time Disney visitor. My brother is coming from Denver to Orlando for a conference. He wants to bring his new wife, and some of her kids, for some Disney time. My Mom and I are also going to be there.

Looks like the travel plans, for his group, is three days, two nights, in Contemporary. his room is going to have two adults and two kids, ages 14 and 10.

I have successfully booked a room for them. (Although they have the wrong last name for one of the kids. Assume that's going to take another half hour phone call, to correct.) (It took two phone calls, more than an hour and a half total, and a total of three reservations, to get it right. Because the reservations web pages have been failing to work for over a week.)

I have created a Disney ID for my brother. And successfully linked his hotel reservation to that ID.

It still will not allow "him" (actually me, using the ID I just created for him) to create any FastPass selections. (I really want him and the family to get started making FastPass reservations. To enhance anticipation, to encourage planning, and maybe to encourage a few more of the kids to go.)

Am I going to have to create Disney IDs for each individual one of them? So they can make FastPass selections for four people? If so, am I going to have to have four, unique, email addresses for them?

My brother can't even make FastPass selections for himself. I assume that's because he doesn't have tickets, yet. Am I going to have to buy tickets for each of them, now, and get the tickets shipped to them (or to me), so I can read the code numbers off of the tickets, and then link those four tickets to the four Disney IDs, and THEN they can start planning which things they want to do?

 

[Eeyore's My Favorite]

Basic situation: I'm an Annual Passholder, long time Disney visitor. My brother is coming from Denver to Orlando for a conference. He wants to bring his new wife, and some of her kids, for some Disney time. My Mom and I are also going to be there. Looks like the travel plans, for his group, is three days, two nights, in Contemporary. his room is going to have two adults and two kids, ages 14 and 10. I have successfully booked a room for them. (Although they have the wrong last name for one of the kids. Assume that's going to take another half hour phone call, to correct.) (It took two phone calls, more than an hour and a half total, and a total of three reservations, to get it right. Because the reservations web pages have been failing to work for over a week.) I have created a Disney ID for my brother. And successfully linked his hotel reservation to that ID. It still will not allow "him" (actually me, using the ID I just created for him) to create any FastPass selections. (I really want him and the family to get started making FastPass reservations. To enhance anticipation, to encourage planning, and maybe to encourage a few more of the kids to go.) Am I going to have to create Disney IDs for each individual one of them? So they can make FastPass selections for four people? If so, am I going to have to have four, unique, email addresses for them? My brother can't even make FastPass selections for himself. I assume that's because he doesn't have tickets, yet. Am I going to have to buy tickets for each of them, now, and get the tickets shipped to them (or to me), so I can read the code numbers off of the tickets, and then link those four tickets to the four Disney IDs, and THEN they can start planning which things they want to do?

There's tons of threads on here about FPs but you do have to have tickets or vouchers linked to MDE before making any FP selections. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong through......

 

[ajwolfe]

In my experience not all people under the reservation have to have a unique id. You can set someone to be the the one that is able to make the FP for the entire group.

 

[lanejudy]

There's tons of threads on here about FPs but you do have to have tickets or vouchers linked to MDE before making any FP selections. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong through......

Correct... it sounds like OP's brother and his family do not have tickets yet, therefore they are unable to schedule FP+ until they have valid tickets for park entry. If he is getting his tickets through the conference, he may or may not be able to get ticket numbers to link to MDE. If purchasing the tickets separately, they'll need to be purchased prior to arrival if you want to schedule FP+.

Enjoy your vacation!