Will deactivating a park ticket in MDE affect my fast pass selections?

[Marvin1968]

I have multiple tickets linked to my magic bands (I needed to do this to get fast pass for all my days). 1 ticket is a hopper pass and the other single park. I wanted to deactivate the hopper if we're going to one park per day and vise versa if we are hopping. Now if I do this will the fast passes for that ticket disappear?

Thanks in advance

 

[paxsarah]

I don't have firsthand experience with this but this is as I understand it. The number of days of FP+ selections you can make is tied to the number of park days/person in the MDE account. For instance, I have 6 days of FP+ selections made for my husband, and assigned to him in my MDE account is 2 remaining days on a NE ticket, a 2-day unused park hopper, and 2 1-day MYW tickets. Now, when we show up at WDW, we'll need to go to Guest Services to prioritize which ticket actually gets used for him (and we're planning on upgrading one of the unused tickets for this trip after we've entered a park). I won't lose any of his FP+ selections by changing which ticket has priority, because the same number of park days is still available for him in the account (and will be a greater number of park days once we do the upgrade). If he was switching back and forth between tickets, we would go to Guest Services again to have them prioritize a different ticket for him each time we needed it.

 

[PeterPanic]

I have multiple tickets linked to my magic bands (I needed to do this to get fast pass for all my days). 1 ticket is a hopper pass and the other single park. I wanted to deactivate the hopper if we're going to one park per day and vise versa if we are hopping. Now if I do this will the fast passes for that ticket disappear?

Thanks in advance

I'm not sure that I completely understand your question. What do you mean by deactivate the ticket? The whole ticket or just the Hopper part? Either way, I don't think that the hopper part can be deactivated and it surely wouldn't gain anything by doing so. If you are not going to hop, just don't hop, I'm pretty sure there will be no refund of the money spent to add it to the ticket.

I'm not sure but I think you can swap out the ticket for a matching new one but the hopper will still be on that anyway, and I don't see how it will affect your fastpasses or change anything. If it's to upgrade to the remaining to hoppers, then I don't think it will affect anything that is already established for those tickets, including FP reservations.

 

[Marvin1968]

No, you have the option to deactivate the ticket in MDE so it doesn't get scanned at park entry and the one that's activated does. Reason being I don't want the hopper scanned if we are staying at one park all day which we will for SWW. I want the save the hopper for the days we hop. From what I understand the scanner cant differentiate the tickets and I don't want to spend everyday at ticket services prioritizing them. I just wanted to make sure my fast pass selections don't disappear when I deactivate.

 

[paxsarah]

I am fairly sure you need to have Guest Services change the priority. I would not rely on using the activate/deactivate function in MDE on the card to change the ticket priority. As I interpret it in MDE, deactivating a card will make it so that card cannot be used for park entry, but I am not convinced that it will also deactivate (or deprioritize) the ticket that was once attached to that card. Again, this is my interpretation and I may be wrong, but look at it in terms of magic bands - I have 4 magic bands that are currently active. Any one of them will allow me entry with the ticket that's currently "on top" in my account - my AP. If I deactivate the one that was originally from the package with the ticket I upgraded to AP, any of the remaining bands will still allow me entry with the AP.

Again, I'm not 100% sure this works the same way with cards in MDE, but I am wary enough that I would want to go to Guest Services before entering the park regardless, just to make sure the correct ticket is "on top."

Regardless, you don't have to worry about FP+ selections. As I said earlier, they are based on ticket days/person in the MDE account. Unless you completely have them unlink a ticket from MDE, it doesn't matter which ticket is prioritized, the system sees the total number of admissions available to that person in MDE and allows that number of days of FP.