Paper tickets are very hit and miss, it is all dependent on the cast member at the gate. There have been reports of no issues to people being told they no longer issue them.
It is possible to have the same tickets showing in multiple Disneyland app accounts. I suggest you have everyone who has a smartphone create an app account and have them add at least their own ticket and your youngest's ticket to their account. If you prefer, have them add all the tickets to each account. As long as your youngest will be with someone who has a phone, they can handle his/her tap-in for Genie+.
I really appreciate this forum...all of these tips are incredibly helpful. I was planning to have my older teens have their own ticket on their phones but had not thought about everyone having the youngest's ticket. Great idea!
The trick would be to make your most recently booked pass the one you can use first- so modify space mountain out until later and later, but once you get to say 11:30, book that pass for something you will use before the other passes, then you can book a new ride once you go on that one... so more intermixing the earlier booked rides with newly booked rides will shorten the window instead of having to wait the 2hours every time.
So in your example you can book another pass at 1:30 or when you use the LL for the ride you had booked at 11:30. And yes, you can stack passes for the afternoon but still have ”slots” that you can then instantly redeem and book another. It truly is a game changer.
I have used my Mband so can‘t answer this. If you have a paper pass I would use that as from my understanding it is tied to the ticket. Hope someone else who doesn’t use a Mband can answer for you.
Dare I say this: it changed in December….
I just realized this accidentally happened to us on Webslingers and I didn’t realize what happened until right now. I had 4 mep’s and 5 LL for webslingers. Our 5 LL’s weren’t until later in the day. I scanned our 4 mep’s at webslingers, no problem. Later in the day we went back for our LL and there was only one available. I was in a panic but noticed the 4 mep’s were still there so quickly scanned those again and they went through. I was confused and figured I screwed something up at some point but now reading sounds like they pulled from my later time LL’s and not my mep’s even though they are what I scanned. Interesting!
Another option: you can have everyone sign into the Disney app as "you" on the app on their phone. That way you don't have to create a new Disney account for each person. Then all the tickets are in the app on everyone's phone. The only trick here is that then any one person can add, change, etc the LLs booked for the others in the party. So you want to make sure your kids understand not to change anything, but just to use it to scan in. IIRC, you can also take a screen shot of the ticket's bar code and then text those to your kids. They can use that to scan in to the LLs. But they will only be able to see the LL reservation times if you have them logged into the actual app (either through your account or their own).
The real question is: after you scanned in the first time for WS, did all 5 MEPs stay on your account? It should have if they actually burned your future LLs in lieu of the MEPs. And if so, this is great because it lets you keep the MEP to use on something else! I think this should have been what happened, based on other reports (ie that when you scanned the first time, you were left with 5 MEPs and 1LL (they "used" 4 LLs and left 5 MEPs and 1unused LL))?
The math here is wonky just because she had 4 MEPs and 5LL, so their first ride used 4 of their LL and left 1, plus the 4 MEPs. That is what is meant by accelerating, and why it can be advantageous to “fish” for a golden tier MEP early in the day. It essentially will accelerate any LL you have, making it a true golden ticket until you use it for a ride you don’t have a LL for, then it goes away. (Hopefully all this talk about it doesn’t have someone notice and remove this glitch, if that is what it is...)
You can modify after it opens until you reach the end of your return window. I’ve modified with 5 minutes to spare… don’t necessarily recommend that cause it would be easy to forget!
