Do you get 'free' access to WDW?

[BabyPiglet]

So somebody told me that if you're in the CP, you get free access to the parks while you're not working? Basically like a free pass to the parks for those 4 months or so.

Is this true? And if not, how many of you buy your own tickets for the parks?

 

[DisneyJosh]

Yes, I believe you get an unlimited pass for the duration of your CP. You also get a certain amount of visits for a certain amount of guests, but I don't know the details. Perhaps someone who knows more about it could fill you in.

 

[Joanna71985]

So somebody told me that if you're in the CP, you get free access to the parks while you're not working? Basically like a free pass to the parks for those 4 months or so.

Is this true? And if not, how many of you buy your own tickets for the parks?

Yes it is. Your work ID acts as a ticket for the 4 theme parks. The only thing you would need to get tickets for are the 2 water parks, DQ, ect.

 

[Stitch_lover_Sith]

Yeah you can get onto the park as long as you have not called in sick on that day. Plus for the parks that you have to pay to get into, they sometimes run really nice specials, I won't go into all the details but keep your eye out for signs and stuff. Plus one you get down there the Portal gives you all of this info.
Erin

 

[Sehsun]

Yes, I believe you get an unlimited pass for the duration of your CP. You also get a certain amount of visits for a certain amount of guests, but I don't know the details. Perhaps someone who knows more about it could fill you in.

Yup!

Upon arrival for the CP, you get a blue main entrance pass, which is good for you and up to 3 guests in the duration of your CP. This is a 1-day park hopper, and they give you 6 days of them.

 

[Andrusi]

Basically, you have two things you use to get into parks:

1) Your Disney ID card. This gets you, personally, into MK, Epcot, MGM HS, and AK for free, as often as you like, from the moment you get it until the day it expires (which is also the last day of your CP). This works the same as a normal park hopper pass, so you can get in anytime during normal park hours (but not EMH) and get FPs. As mentioned, you can't call in sick and then use this. Disney's not stupid.

2) Your blue main entrance pass. This one is more restricted: you can only use it six times, and there are blackout dates. Using it basically gets you three free 1-day passes, so you can bring in guests. Unfortunately, they hand your guests the passes after they enter, so you all have to show up at once for the first place you go that day, and they have to be used that day (so there's no way to, say, get three one day and save them, and bring in six people the next day). But I have good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO once you have the passes, they work exactly like normal 1-day Park Hopper passes, so your guests can go to other parks on their own and get FPs and such.

At times Disney may send you a card which is basically an extra day for your blue pass. This will have different blackout dates, and if you're like me, then they will send it to you really late and you won't actually get any use out of it. Despite this glitch, I found that the system overall worked pretty well.

If you want to bring in more guests or bring them in on more days, you can also buy tickets at a discount.