That's what I figured. Thank you!
Interesting. Sounds like it depends on which CM you get at the turnstiles. Thanks!
so I plan on using that day to get settled in room, go to guest relations to get my real ticket, then I can go back to hotel and put away passport. I don't want to waste time our first park day to be dealing with guest relations and carrying around passport.
We're there for 6 days and I was thinking of doing the same thing but my email from Disney says to go to the turnstiles to get my actual tickets, not the ticket booth like I've done previous trips. I wonder if it matters? I'm still considering making our arrival day a park day since we'll still have 8 hours of park time when we get there so I'd have to pack around my passports for that time but I don't want to waste the time going back to the room when we could be in the parks!! I guess I'll just have to be extra careful with my park bag that day.Our arrival day at DL is a no park day. I'll be there a week, but longest ticket is 5 days
I'd feel better if DL sent a voucher but all I have is a print out from my computer.
So they expected you to pack your passport around even after you were issued your paper tickets?
That's ridiculous!! You should only have to show the passport once and not be forced to carry them around with you the whole trip! After you receive the paper ticket it shouldn't matter.
Thanks so much for the heads up, I'll be sure to take pictures of them and perhaps even have photocopies of them to have on hand.
Yes, I think my tickets do show up, but I printed anyway. Never did this so wasn't sure what I'll need.
That IS ridiculous!! Once should be enough. I'll be sure to take passport photo too!That's ridiculous!! You should only have to show the passport once and not be forced to carry them around with you the whole trip! After you receive the paper ticket it shouldn't matter.
Yes we'll get paper tickets when we get there and they scan our eticket bar code. In the past I've purchased my tickets through Ares travel and you get a voucher that had to be exchanged for the paper tickets at the ticket booth so this turnstile business is new to me too! I guess we just take everything we have and hope they let us in!!
I'll be sure to ask when we initially show our passport to see what the CM says about needing it every day but it just seems excessive to need it after the first day. Again, I guess it will all depend on the CM. I really don't want to have to pack it around all week.
Can you tell me how it works? Do you go to Guest Relations to get a paper ticket first? Then use paper ticket to go thru turnstiles? Great idea about having passport photo on phone! We should prob do that anyway in case of loss.
We were leaving the next morning. They said they couldn't retrieve bag until late evening when park closed. And there was no way to get bag to her that night. If her passport was in it, we would have been in a lot of trouble. As it was her cell phone, wallet and glasses were in bag. WDW sent it to us at home.
Be sure to post what you find out!!
This is all new to me. Haven't been to DL in 33 yrs!!
33 years, wow!! It was 13 years between my first and second visit and I couldn't believe the changes even then! You're going to love DCA!!Be sure to post what you find out!!
I'd be too afraid of loosing passport. My daughter already had an experience of purse flying off a ride once.
Really excited! Going in Sept. I'm lucky that I have an LA friend to show me around!
