Hello there Ian! Wow, what an exciting family trip you have coming up!
I just chatted with a friendly Cast Member, and they recommend managing your
theme park tickets and
theme park reservations in groups of 10 in your
Disneyland app. You could definitely give your family a paper ticket to manage and scan as they enter the parks, but I would recommend having another person link tickets to their account so you won't have to worry about managing all of the tickets on one account. If you each have 10 tickets to handle, that seems much more manageable! To link tickets to the Disneyland app, you can navigate to the three horizontal bar line icon in the bottom right-hand corner and tap "Tickets and Passes." You can then tap "Link Tickets and Passes" and you can scan the barcodes or enter in the ticket numbers manually.
This will definitely be helpful if you're looking to purchase
Disney Genie+ Service, and the Cast Member let me know that the maximum number of tickets to manage and book Lightning Lane entrances with is 10 per Disneyland app. I always recommend to purchase Disney Genie+ Service since it will save you valuable time throughout the day with access to
Lightning Lane entrances. You can definitely coordinate with the other person managing the tickets so you can secure return times for your Lightning Lane entrances as close together as possible. How fun if you all could fill up the majority of a train on
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in
Disneyland Park!
Another perk of Disney Genie+ Service is that you'll receive unlimited
Disney PhotoPass digital downloads from the day that you purchase the service. That includes select attractions as well as some great photo opportunities so you will always have those memories, and everyone will be in the photo together! Look for the hard working photographers in some of my favorite locations such as in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland Park, and on Route 66 in Cars Land in
Disney California Adventure Park.
Best of luck getting all of your tickets and plans coordinated, Ian! If we can help with any other questions for your exciting trip,
please come back and ask!
Have a magical day,
Melissa