Fastpass Abuse

[Sam02]

Just the other day at Soarin' a kid in front of us was abusing the system. I guess if you are stayig on the property and use your "Key to the Wold" card as your ticket, just ask for more room keys and keep shoving them into the machine to get more Fast Passes. :fork:

I'm not defending this kid because I wasn't there, but he may have had all his family members keys and getting the whole family fastpasses. This is the stategy we plan on using. We head towards one ride while our 14 year old goes and gets fastpasses for another ride. We wait for him, then enter the line of the first ride. Our son can move faster than either of us so it only makes sense to send him and we are not taking up the line for the fastpass kiosk.

 

[raven]

I'm not defending this kid because I wasn't there, but he may have had all his family members keys and getting the whole family fastpasses. This is the stategy we plan on using. We head towards one ride while our 14 year old goes and gets fastpasses for another ride. We wait for him, then enter the line of the first ride. Our son can move faster than either of us so it only makes sense to send him and we are not taking up the line for the fastpass kiosk.

Possibly, but he got 16 FP's from that machine and he was only with 4 other people. I understand this strategy and it's fine for the most part. But when we were at Soarin' last April the same thing happened. Only that time the rest of the family went in line as the other person got the FP's. Then, the kid tried to skip ahead of everyone to catch up to the rest of his family. That part is wrong.

The other thing that irritates me is the people who hover around the Fast Pass Return until their time pops up. Often they block the entrance and you can't get to it without asking people to move aside. Obviously they don't understand that the purpose of a FP is to let you go and do other things until the time comes around.

 

[mrerk]

Just the other day at Soarin' a kid in front of us was abusing the system. I guess if you are stayig on the property and use your "Key to the Wold" card as your ticket, just ask for more room keys and keep shoving them into the machine to get more Fast Passes. :fork:

I don't think you can get more KTTW cards than you have people in the room. Otherwise that would open up even more abuse of things like EMH.

 

[no1swfanindy]

I admit it, it was me and some friends.

Just kidding, but what a great idea. A group of 4 could now go get four completely different FPs at the same time and everyone could ride it. WDW's policies just keep getting better and better!

I honestly have to admit I considered this. Why should we all get a fastpass for one ride when each of us could get one for different rides and all still ride together.

Unfortunatley, with my luck, it won't work and we'll be turned away.

BTY, love your icon!!

 

[durangojim]

I honestly have to admit I considered this. Why should we all get a fastpass for one ride when each of us could get one for different rides and all still ride together.

Unfortunatley, with my luck, it won't work and we'll be turned away.

BTY, love your icon!!

Thanks!:wave:

 

[tirian]

The only yellow slip of paper I've ever seen are hand written passes that are available for various reasons from guest services. No way, no how are those used by regular cast members working ride lines though.

Those pads of paper are distributed to more places than just GR, but I don't think they'd be in an attraction queue.

 

[HeatherK]

When I was at the Studios, there was 4 of us, and some guy gave us 3 FP for RnRC because his family changed their mind apparently, so my friend told the CM what happened, and she gave us one more FP for the last person, but there were no yellow slips like the OP had said. She gave us a FP that looked like the rest of them.

 

[Tink313]

You can not get a fp without using the same kttw card you entered the park with. In our last trip we spilt are vacation in two to get free dinning. So we had 8 kttw cards, 4 for the first half which had our tickest on it and 4 for the 2nd half which was our new room keys & creidts for the dinning.
My daughter mistakingly took the wrong set (dinning) to get fps for mt everest which we didnt use to get into the park, & the machine said the card wasnt activated in the park today please use a different one or contact a cm.
After seeing that she realized her mistake and had to run back to us and get the good set of cards and run back and wait in line again (eveing magic hours long lines)
she wasted a total of 20mins to get fps to ride everest :ROFLOL:but at the end of it all she was happy.:lol:

 

[Dwarful]

Last summer I took 36 people with a Girl Scout troop from Illinois...mostly 11 yr old girls and various family members....I took the 3 fastest and most responsible people with me to get the fastpasses many times. We would line up and let people know.."we're each getting 9 fastpasses"..because the one time I made the mistake of getting all 36 I almost got the crap beat out of me! The poor CM working the area couldn't make the guy understand I wasn't breaking any laws or cheating any system. Even with four of us we got plenty of snide remarks about hogging fast passes....some people didn't understand that if we were getting 36 fast passes we had 36 people with us.
You can only use actual theme park tickets..the paper AP's or the plastic KTTK cards. So if you see someone with 10-40 tickets..they are probably with a big group and decided to send 1 (or more) person to get the fast passes. We did this using 4 people because at any of the fast pass ticket area's there just isn't that much room. No reason to have 32 other people standing around waiting for us to get the tickets.

 

[disneydata]

Child Swap procedures differ depending on the attraction. Most usually have an area close to the load/unload area and don't make you wait outside the attraction.

Any attraction with a height requirement will not allow a child not tall enough to enter the line. That is why the rider switch pass is used.

 

[disneydata]

The only yellow slip of paper I've ever seen are hand written passes that are available for various reasons from guest services. No way, no how are those used by regular cast members working ride lines though.

Yes, they are. Most attractions keep this tool at certain locations where there might be situations warranting its use.

 

[Mori Anne]

You get keys to the world just for staying at a WDW resort? I have always stayed on site and never once gotten keys to the world......:shrug:

 

[durangojim]

You get keys to the world just for staying at a WDW resort? I have always stayed on site and never once gotten keys to the world......:shrug:

The key to the world card is the same thing as your room key. If you look closely on it it says something like "Your Key to the World"

BTW, that's not my card, just one I found on the internet, and my name isn't Jeffery Bowers.

 

[Laura]

Child Swap procedures differ depending on the attraction. Most usually have an area close to the load/unload area and don't make you wait outside the attraction.

Are you sure about that? I cannot think of a single attraction where the children were allowed to go through the queue with us, which I found very disappointing when they were younger. It seemed like we were spending half of our "family vacation" separated. Universal has a way better system in place for child swapping...complete with waiting rooms and televisions right up by the load areas!

Hrrrmmm... I guess you could call this abuse if it weren't for the inconvenience that the couple can't ride any of these rides together in the first place and it takes them twice as long to visit all the attractions because one of them always has to stay with the kid. Yeah, I'm guessing the sheer inconvenience of traveling with the kid sort of evens out the whole "abuse" of child swap thing. If it IS abuse at all.

Oh we've certainly "abused" that. Especially with 2 attractions next to each other. He'd get a FP for Rock N Rollercoaster and I'd get one for Tower of Terror and the other of us would use the Child Swap Pass. But like you said, everything took twice as long to do with having to take turns so being able to get 2 at a time helped us be a lot more efficient.

 

[SleepingMonk]

Yes, they are. Most attractions keep this tool at certain locations where there might be situations warranting its use.

WDW needs to work on better training for it's CMs then. We just tried to use a pass this weekend at Test Track and the CM working the FastPass line had to call his supervisor because he had never seen the yellow passes before.

 

[kennygman]

The key to the world card is the same thing as your room key. If you look closely on it it says something like "Your Key to the World"

BTW, that's not my card, just one I found on the internet, and my name isn't Jeffery Bowers.

Sure! So exactly where were you on March 4, 2006 at 9 AM? :ROFLOL: