Day guest at EPCOT meeting us at the Beach Club - Where to park?

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We are staying at BCV and have a friend who wants to drive from Sarasota, Fl to hang with us for a day. We'd like him to meet us at BCV so we can all enter through the IG together. Is there guest parking at Beach Club without a room reservation? Should we have him park at Disney Springs and bus to BCV to meet us? Any better ideas would be greatly appreciated.
 
Options:
1. Meet him outside the gate and ride in with him. You can park for free, but he can't.
2. Park at Hollywood Studios and walk/boat/skyliner over
3. Park at Epcot and walk through the park
4. Park at Disney Springs and bus over
 
We had friends coming from Tarpon Springs last Friday. We stayed at BWV, and told them our room number. They were allowed to park at BWV for the day. They are AP holders and HA, so I don’t know if either of those things anything to do with it. They often visit us.
 
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We are staying at BCV and have a friend who wants to drive from Sarasota, Fl to hang with us for a day. We'd like him to meet us at BCV so we can all enter through the IG together. Is there guest parking at Beach Club without a room reservation? Should we have him park at Disney Springs and bus to BCV to meet us? Any better ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Do you have room to add one of them to your reservation? If so, the easiest way would be to add them to your room reservation. If they have a MagicBand linked to their MDE account and you're linked via friends and family, they can come right in and park for the day. Bonus: if you can add all of them, they can use SAB because they would be registered guests.

If there's no room to add even one of them, then the next easiest way would be to meet them outside of the BCV gate and drive in with them, using your MagicBand to open the gate.
 

Do you have room to add one of them to your reservation? If so, the easiest way would be to add them to your room reservation. If they have a MagicBand linked to their MDE account and you're linked via friends and family, they can come right in and park for the day. Bonus: if you can add all of them, they can use SAB because they would be registered guests.

If there's no room to add even one of them, then the next easiest way would be to meet them outside of the BCV gate and drive in with them, using your MagicBand to open the gate.

We do have a room to add them to. This may be the way to go.
 
Do you have room to add one of them to your reservation? If so, the easiest way would be to add them to your room reservation. If they have a MagicBand linked to their MDE account and you're linked via friends and family, they can come right in and park for the day. Bonus: if you can add all of them, they can use SAB because they would be registered guests.

If there's no room to add even one of them, then the next easiest way would be to meet them outside of the BCV gate and drive in with them, using your MagicBand to open the gate.

What happens now with no Magic Bands? He will not likely have one, but will have MDE.
 
What happens now with no Magic Bands? He will not likely have one, but will have MDE.
Any old MagicBand on his profile will work. If he doesn't have one, a physical ticket attached to his profile should act like a MB. Otherwise, pulling up to the guard shack and identifying himself as a registered guest staying under your name should be sufficient.
 
Any old MagicBand on his profile will work. If he doesn't have one, a physical ticket attached to his profile should act like a MB. Otherwise, pulling up to the guard shack and identifying himself as a registered guest staying under your name should be sufficient.

Perfect thanks!
 
They can stop at the check in desk and get a room key card. This will also get them into the pool area.
 
My best friend used to live in Florida and come hang poolside with me when we were in town (which I’m sure was not allowed back then, but this was a while ago). I used to just call down to the front desk that morning and give them her name, and I gave her my room number, and they always let her in to park for free.
 
We had friends coming from Tarpon Springs last Friday. We stayed at BWV, and told them our room number. They were allowed to park at BCV for the day. They are AP holders and HA, so I don’t know if either of those things anything to do with it. They often visit us.
Not to throw stones, but as an owner at BCV I think it is unfair that they were able to park at a resort none of you were staying at(HA and AP have no bearing on this unless you re talking about BWV or eating at a restaurant in BC which would have a time limit )! I have no problem with them having been given parking at BWV but they should not have been able to park at BCV! We have our own parking problems!
 
Not to throw stones, but as an owner at BCV I think it is unfair that they were able to park at a resort none of you were staying at(HA and AP have no bearing on this unless you re talking about BWV or eating at a restaurant in BC which would have a time limit )! I have no problem with them having been given parking at BWV but they should not have been able to park at BCV! We have our own parking problems!
My mistake, they parked at BWV, where we were staying last week. I fixed my post. The next time we come we are all staying at BCV, I got them a room. I guess my mind was on the next stay when I posted!
 
We are staying at BCV and have a friend who wants to drive from Sarasota, Fl to hang with us for a day. We'd like him to meet us at BCV so we can all enter through the IG together. Is there guest parking at Beach Club without a room reservation? Should we have him park at Disney Springs and bus to BCV to meet us? Any better ideas would be greatly appreciated.
at check in, tell them what day he is coming, they will put him on a list and you can get him a day parking pass. This was how we did it 5 yrs ago. alot has changed sense then. add him to your room for that day is another option, but you can also do that at check in.
 

















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