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We are going to Disney in August and have paper tickets that we purchased through Undercover Tourist. When we get to Disney, will we have to exchange these tickets for a different type of card? Will they be able to apply the park tickets directly to our room key? I know that these things have changed recently so I wanted to see what experiences others have had recently. Thanks!
I'm tagging too - when we went in 2010, my Dad changed some old tickets (from the 80's) and they put them on a plastic card but not the room key (they'd purchased a one day ticket which was on their room key). He said when we return next summer, he's got a couple of older tickets he'd like to change in again.
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We just got Undercover Tourist tickets too. Paper version of tickets. I'm assuming that they will load them on to my KTTW card or bracelet (not sure what they're calling these) when we check in at the resort.
We'll likely be doing the same thing for our January trip. The answer to this interests me; I assume it'll work the same as it used to, if you wanted your ticket tied to your KttW card. But it'd be nice to know for certain.
We were just there in May and they transferred our park tickets (from Undercover Tourist) to our KTTW card with no problem. The card was already printed so it said room only but we had no problems using them to get into any or the parks.
I also lost my card at EPCOT one day so I had to go to guest services and they replaced my card with no problems.
Since the "paper" tickets have always been able to be transferred to the resort account and onto the Keys to the Kingdom card, I see no reason they won't be able to transfer that onto the RFID cards/wristbands.
The only thing I'm not 100% sure about is whether annual passes will be transferable to the RFID cards/wristbands.
We just got back from a trip to Disney and had tickets from Undercover Tourist for my family.
Unfortunately, we were not able to transfer the tickets to the room key. There was a problem at ASMu and they couldn't do it.
I have to admit it did cause an issue with my husband because twice he tried to use his room key to get into a park and of course it didn't work since he had a seperate ticket.
Both times the teens and I had already gotten into the park so I held up my AP so he could see the character on it and that's when he remembered he had a seperate ticket.
My teens remembered easily so I'm not sure why he didn't but it did cause me to chuckle a bit.
We did stop at Guest Relations at Epcot and they easily changed those tickets to RFID so we could all use the RFID turnstyles.
Now if only people would remember what finger they used on the finger scan, entering the parks would go much faster.
The only thing I'm not 100% sure about is whether annual passes will be transferable to the RFID cards/wristbands.
When I was at WDW in March, I converted my regular AP to a new AP card with the RFID. This was my last day in the park so I did not get a chance to test it. When we go down next month, we will convert my wife's AP and hopefully convert DGD's 10 day pass over to a RFID card. We are not staying on property so Kthe TTW cards are not an issue but the free parking with the AP is. The new RFID AP card has a red stripe along the bottom which is supposed to allow entry into the parking lots more easily. We will see in a few weeks.
That's good news. With what I've read about the wristbands having a "lifespan" of about two years, it seems like a no-brainer to have the AP transferable to the wristband.
Thanks for the responses everyone! It sounds like they should be able to add the tickets to the kttw card, that will make it nice- one less card/ticket to carry around and keep track of! Thanks!!
Since the "paper" tickets have always been able to be transferred to the resort account and onto the Keys to the Kingdom card, I see no reason they won't be able to transfer that onto the RFID cards/wristbands.
The only thing I'm not 100% sure about is whether annual passes will be transferable to the RFID cards/wristbands.
We just transferred our APs to the RFID cards at WDW. In fact, after entering Epcot for AM EMH, we were asked to do so as soon as possible.
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