Phasing out paper tickets

[Disney Irish]

Or better yet, before you leave on your trip print out a backup ticket from the website on paper and take it with you as a final backup to all the other backups. I still see just as many people go to the gates in the morning with paper print-outs as those who use the app. Nothing has to change in that regard.

As far as I know, whether you purchase your ticket through the website or app (or even undercover tourist) you get a confirmation email with a link to a PDF you can print. That won't (or shouldn't) change.

Good point. That is until Disney decides to forgo all paper tickets even self-printed ones like the NFL as I mentioned.

As I said Disney is giving many options here. Its just physical tickets are no longer the default as they were in the past. And Disney is no rebel here, this is the way a majority of large venues are going now.

 

[Parteecia]

I've narrowed my question down to any entry but lost/broken/inaccessible phone. Assuming went all digital for original entry then something happened. Would this be like losing your paper ticket in the old days? I never did that so I don't know how it was handled. I suppose now is easier because you're in the system with a reservation.

 

[Disney Irish]

I've narrowed my question down to any entry but lost/broken/inaccessible phone. Assuming went all digital for original entry then something happened. Would this be like losing your paper ticket in the old days? I never did that so I don't know how it was handled. I suppose now is easier because you're in the system with a reservation.

Answered here, hasn't been updated yet for MB+ or all digital:

https://plandisney.disney.go.com/question/ticket-lost-488080/

But yes just like losing your paper ticket, you'd go the ticket booth with your ID.

 

[Emmanuel]

In 2022 any traveler on vacation that doesn't have a portable battery charger is just asking for their phone to die. They are so smaller now they can fit your pocket alongside your phone and gives a couple full charges. Heck Disney used to (they may still) sell the refillable Fuelrods for just this reason.

However with that said, back in July I went the whole day opening to closing while being in the app all the time for DAS and my phone lasted the whole day never once dying. So it is possible to do it, some may not want to but it is possible to have a phone last the entire day.

Yep they still have those fuel rods that you can swap out for a fully charged one at a kiosk.

I usually bring a power brick with me with enough power to last the day.

 

[truecoat]

Older people have a problem with technology. Go to any bank in the morning and you'll be in line with 10 old people wanting to do transactions anyone could do with an ATM, phone, or computer.

 

[Phroobar]

Older people have a problem with technology. Go to any bank in the morning and you'll be in line with 10 old people wanting to do transactions anyone could do with an ATM, phone, or computer.

Young people have problems with technology too. If it is anything beyond Tic Tok video uploads, they can't do it. Ask any of them to copy/paste a file on a computer and they get confused.

 

[truecoat]

Young people have problems with technology too. If it is anything beyond Tic Tok video uploads, they can't do it. Ask any of them to copy/paste a file on a computer and they get confused.

My company employs some older/retired people and we can't text all of them with information as they don't know or use text.

 

[Disney Irish]

Young people have problems with technology too. If it is anything beyond Tic Tok video uploads, they can't do it. Ask any of them to copy/paste a file on a computer and they get confused.

My company employs some older/retired people and we can't text all of them with information as they don't know or use text.

If only there was a free video sharing service where you could have them sit down and watch a video on how to use text or other mobile phone and computer features.....

 

[truecoat]

If only there was a free video sharing service where you could have them sit down and watch a video on how to use text or other mobile phone and computer features.....

That's a good one. Lol!

 

[CaptinEO]

If only there was a free video sharing service where you could have them sit down and watch a video on how to use text or other mobile phone and computer features.....

Have fun getting them to access an online video.

 

[Disney Irish]

Have fun getting them to access an online video.

Hmm....

Send them an email with the link to the video with clear instructions on how to click on the link.
Or if that doesn't work, sit them down in front of a computer and open the video for them and ask them to watch and follow along with their own device.

Honestly having worked with many older generations over the years providing Tech assistance its really not that hard to teach them how to do something on a computer. If I can teach my 97 year old grandmother before she died how to access and open a Youtube video I'm pretty sure a company like truecoat's can do the same for someone in their 60s or 70s.

 

[Parteecia]

Hmm....

Send them an email with the link to the video with clear instructions on how to click on the link.
Or if that doesn't work, sit them down in front of a computer and open the video for them and ask them to watch and follow along with their own device.

Honestly having worked with many older generations over the years providing Tech assistance its really not that hard to teach them how to do something on a computer. If I can teach my 97 year old grandmother before she died how to access and open a Youtube video I'm pretty sure a company like truecoat's can do the same for someone in their 60s or 70s.

I worked in IT. I honestly believe some people just have a hole in that part of the brain. I had a user with a PhD in Clinical Chemistry ask me if she might've caught a virus from her computer.

I considered asking her the mechanism under which that might occur but thought better of it.

 

[Disney Irish]

I worked in IT. I honestly believe some people just have a hole in that part of the brain. I had a user with a PhD in Clinical Chemistry ask me if she might've caught a virus from her computer.

I considered asking her the mechanism under which that might occur but thought better of it.

I'm very sure there are technologically inept people out there, there are a few in my own family. However that doesn't mean they can't be taught, its all in how you present them the material.

 

[Parteecia]

In terms of a visit to the parks, someone in the group has to be savvy enough to get the tickets and reservations. I don't know if anyone is so disconnected nowadays that they show up at a ticket booth with cash expecting to get in.

 

[Disney Irish]

In terms of a visit to the parks, someone in the group has to be savvy enough to get the tickets and reservations. I don't know if anyone is so disconnected nowadays that they show up at a ticket booth with cash expecting to get in.

Do the ticket booths even accept cash anymore? I honestly don't know the answer.

 

[CaptinEO]

I worked in IT. I honestly believe some people just have a hole in that part of the brain. I had a user with a PhD in Clinical Chemistry ask me if she might've caught a virus from her computer.

I considered asking her the mechanism under which that might occur but thought better of it.

This

 

[Consumer]

I'm a luddite. Technology is confusing. The only tablet I use is stone. I don't even write on this website, I have a carrier pigeon that delivers notes to my editor who types up these posts.

 

[aaronml]

Do the ticket booths even accept cash anymore? I honestly don't know the answer.

AFAIK they do accept cash.

 

[Disney Irish]

AFAIK they do accept cash.

I wonder how long before they stop doing that. Again using the NFL as an example they've started going to all digital no cash systems. They have machines you can swap cash for a prepaid card.

 

[Phroobar]

I'm very sure there are technologically inept people out there, there are a few in my own family. However that doesn't mean they can't be taught, its all in how you present them the material.

I do believe there are technologically cursed people though.
A person like this can easily crash the computer just by following a well defined process or moving their mouse wrong. The typically always have car trouble. Their tv remote never seems to work, etc. I've seen it happen many times.