gwilliamc
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Jul 20, 2013
Well, I have been to WDW way too many times to keep track. I am a DVC member and a FL resident and a PAP holder. I am currently at the parks/resort and have not had the best FP+ and magic band linking with passes experience. I have 6 more trips planned this year alone.
Let me preface by saying my bands and my children's bands seemed to work fine, but my friend who travels with me 80% of the time with her two little ones had the worst day yesterday and I was caught up in the in magical mess since they needed my info to try to link FP+ Etc... She couldn't make dining choices, her passes would not show up as active and so we couldn't link the FP choices so we could vacation together. She left the FL keys at 4am to arrive at AKV at 9am.
I'm not even going to get into my 2 hr wait at the front desk the previous day to get rooms close together (all points from my DVC account) to find out the girl didn't do what she said she did and then wait another 1+ hours for them to try again. They got them closer but not as they were the previous day.
Anyway, so she tries to activate her tickets FL AP so we can link FP choices and she was going to upgrade to the DVC PAP tickets. The hotel can't do this so she was told (she was going to blizzard beach) they could do all this there. Upon arrival and a 2 hour attempt the woman couldn't figure out what to do. Well, they sent her on her way to DTD (all taking magical transportation and 3 kids in tow) to upgrade the tickets there and link FP. The lady at BB didn't return her DVC membership card. After a long wait (for some reason BB "lost" their tickets in the system too) they got them up and running and waived the $23 it would have cost to upgrade for the hassle. Well, they take the first water park bus, this one to TL just so her kids could go swimming. They go in just long enough to change into bathing suits and her eldest step daughter (13) well let's just say she became a woman, so here she goes again with 3 I tow back to AKV. At this point it's 3pm. I arrive back from the park to meet up and head to DTD for diner reservations and head back to guest relations to try to figure out what's going on with the ticket FP situation. We go and they have to take the problem in the back room and they still couldn't see that she had valid tickets in the computer (even though she entered TL). So the people are trying to help but they can't link the FP choices because the times I have are no longer available for her. It's now 10:30pm and we are still at the guest relations and decide to give them my number to "fix" the problem and they will call me. It's after midnight and they call but they moved our FP times around so we could all go together not taking into account my dining reservations so now we are out a ride that falls at the same time as dining. Well, they said due to the inconvenience of losing an entire day they will give us 3 extra fast passes per person to use tomorrow - we are going to HS tomorrow and they gave us 3 free extra choices at MK, and we are really down to 2 FP choices because the one is at our dining time, and if I skip the dining the credit card gets charged. So, one day lost and I fear the worst today. Looking at the FP choices assigned we are now all over the place in different parks then we have planned, and nothing I had planned 60 days ago are the same. The worst part is the times are still not all linked correctly. Something tells me it will be another long day at guest relations. I'll let ya know what happens.
Let me preface by saying my bands and my children's bands seemed to work fine, but my friend who travels with me 80% of the time with her two little ones had the worst day yesterday and I was caught up in the in magical mess since they needed my info to try to link FP+ Etc... She couldn't make dining choices, her passes would not show up as active and so we couldn't link the FP choices so we could vacation together. She left the FL keys at 4am to arrive at AKV at 9am.
I'm not even going to get into my 2 hr wait at the front desk the previous day to get rooms close together (all points from my DVC account) to find out the girl didn't do what she said she did and then wait another 1+ hours for them to try again. They got them closer but not as they were the previous day.
Anyway, so she tries to activate her tickets FL AP so we can link FP choices and she was going to upgrade to the DVC PAP tickets. The hotel can't do this so she was told (she was going to blizzard beach) they could do all this there. Upon arrival and a 2 hour attempt the woman couldn't figure out what to do. Well, they sent her on her way to DTD (all taking magical transportation and 3 kids in tow) to upgrade the tickets there and link FP. The lady at BB didn't return her DVC membership card. After a long wait (for some reason BB "lost" their tickets in the system too) they got them up and running and waived the $23 it would have cost to upgrade for the hassle. Well, they take the first water park bus, this one to TL just so her kids could go swimming. They go in just long enough to change into bathing suits and her eldest step daughter (13) well let's just say she became a woman, so here she goes again with 3 I tow back to AKV. At this point it's 3pm. I arrive back from the park to meet up and head to DTD for diner reservations and head back to guest relations to try to figure out what's going on with the ticket FP situation. We go and they have to take the problem in the back room and they still couldn't see that she had valid tickets in the computer (even though she entered TL). So the people are trying to help but they can't link the FP choices because the times I have are no longer available for her. It's now 10:30pm and we are still at the guest relations and decide to give them my number to "fix" the problem and they will call me. It's after midnight and they call but they moved our FP times around so we could all go together not taking into account my dining reservations so now we are out a ride that falls at the same time as dining. Well, they said due to the inconvenience of losing an entire day they will give us 3 extra fast passes per person to use tomorrow - we are going to HS tomorrow and they gave us 3 free extra choices at MK, and we are really down to 2 FP choices because the one is at our dining time, and if I skip the dining the credit card gets charged. So, one day lost and I fear the worst today. Looking at the FP choices assigned we are now all over the place in different parks then we have planned, and nothing I had planned 60 days ago are the same. The worst part is the times are still not all linked correctly. Something tells me it will be another long day at guest relations. I'll let ya know what happens.