Paper maps and Season Pass cards

I'll be printing mine in a business card format and laminating it. I hate that they've gotten rid of the plastic cards...but I'll find away :)

MagnumXL-200:

I'll be printing mine in a business card format and laminating it.

Is the park even going to accept this? I know I'd be sideeyeing any homemade season passes if I were an entry team member.

Are there really that many people out there adamant about not taking your phone into the park?

I would think that as long as the QR code is present a printed, laminated card shouldn't be treated any differently than a Google or Apple Wallet card.

We take our phones into the park every time we go, but we still have to carry our physical cards with us, since the phone app usually sucks. We have had to use our physical card many times for meals or discounts.

Once our physical card is no longer usable (it is the original Platinum Pass card) we will need to find an alternate hard copy.

Cartwright:

Is the park even going to accept this? I know I'd be sideeyeing any homemade season passes if I were an entry team member.

Are there really that many people out there adamant about not taking your phone into the park?

People use QR codes all of the time. No difference in taking a screenshot to use on the phone or printing it out. I take my phone in the park....but the app is buggy....I read someone's post that said the app had their pass in it one day and the next day it was completely gone and couldn't be retrieved. I personally like to have a physical pass. It's easier for me to pull it out of my wallet than fighting with the Wifi or cell service trying to pull the app up. A printed QR code on a business card is no different than someone printing their ticket off to be used at the front gate.

I think I'll try the screen-shot method as I've had phone issues several times. Nothing worse than attempting to use the Dining Pass to get some mouth watering hand breaded chicken tenders and you can't access the app.

Since your picture is tied to the pass which is now a QR / bar code there is no reason a printed or laminated one should not be accepted. I think it is rather ironic for a place that pushes everyone to not take cell phones on rides (and rightfully so) is also pushing everyone to use their cellphones for everything else with no other park provided options.

jimmyburke....that is the way to go if you take your phone in.

Bring it up on the app and take a picture.

When you need it, you can get to it without dealing with a flaky app or poor wifi.

Apple Wallet integration is table stakes in 2025. Does the CP app not support this? Android users should be banned entry into the park, that should cut down on the riff-raff ;)

Google Wallet can accommodate anything with any kind of scannable code, as well as Ticketmaster tickets and Disney passes. I even scanned our gift card (printed in a plastic card, used for easier F&W purchases) into my phone. I imagine Apple's implementation can do the same thing. And bonus, the same functionality works on any site that implements G-Pay, which is most these days.

I still use a physical credit card for everything vs. the Apple / Google Pay stuff. Might have to switch soon or folks will start sighing at me like I sigh when someone whips out their checkbook at the grocery store.

One thing I wish the parks would start utilizing is the online ordering for food locations. Seems like that would help with the lines at some places like Coasters, Frontier Inn, and Hugo's as the usual bottle neck is the check out counter rather than the food ordering line.

My CP pass has been in my Apple wallet for years.

Anyone ever tried telling them you forgot your phone, just to see what happens?

We just purchased a Cleveland Zoo family membership. I immediately learned that they do not issue cards any more, but rather, I had to download the Google Wallet app that Jeff spoke of, and the pass is nicely displayed there. Sadly, I am now considered "riff-raff" as designated by POW, as I do not have Apple. Sour grapes.....

You don't have to give Tim Apple a grand every year to be cool. Phones should easily last three years these days.

JUnderhill:

I still use a physical credit card for everything vs. the Apple / Google Pay stuff. Might have to switch soon or folks will start sighing at me like I sigh when someone whips out their checkbook at the grocery store.

The interesting thing is that the phone wallet systems are actually more secure. They use virtual, ephemeral numbers, instead of the constant one on a physical card. Granted, PCI systems are so heavily regulated by the industry that it's unlikely any middle-man in an all-electronic system would have access to the number anyway. Even when you buy a CoasterBuzz membership, for example, my code never sees the number, as it goes straight to the processor and instead I get a token that's useless for anything else.

In the US, it's still common for restaurant servers to disappear somewhere with your physical card, which is where much fraud takes place. In Europe, everywhere I went they brought a device to the table that you could tap.

Jeff:

In Europe, everywhere I went they brought a device to the table that you could tap.

Yep. Just spent 3 weeks in England. Those little portable readers that were used everywhere were nice. I even commented to my wife when I got back home that I do not understand why those are not everywhere over here.

Because we're exceptional in mostly not good ways.

Maybe if we become your 51st state we can share that technology with you, which we've been using for many years. 🙄

I saw those in Europe too. Some places though didn't have enough so you had to wait for one to be available. Couple places had banks of them and the wait staff would walk you over to it and let you check yourself out. To me, those were the most efficient. Though restaurants in Europe I saw weren't really interested in efficiency. A lot of them expected dinner to be 3-4 hour event. All good unless its not what you are looking for.

I took a screenshot of my pass in the app, zoomed in on the QR code and Cropped it. I made the cropped photo the lock screen wallpaper - Bimbo no need for internets, we-fee or anything!