Metal detectors to check into resorts???

[NYDisneyKid]

Will it happen? What about DTD?? (yes I'm old-schooled)

 

[stinkpickle]

I doubt it.

 

[wilkeliza]

I could see it at Disney springs but not just to go to the resorts.

 

[NYDisneyKid]

So resorts aren't terrorists targets

 

[Hopefully]

So resorts aren't terrorists targets

So what do you think? Are you being sarcastic?
In my opinion, in todays world everything is a potential target. But I continue to choose to live my life to the fullest.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

So resorts aren't terrorists targets

So how would you check people going to resorts? Search my car? For what? Knives? I pack those for the room. Banned items in the park? I don't take those items to the park, I use them at the resort and on my trip up and back.

I'm not seeing what you mean.

 

[msjprincess]

Sorry but if I had to go through a bag search/metal detector every time I came back to the resort I'd be selling my DVC and be done with WDW.

 

[Dayzy]

I don't know how that would work at all. There's a ton of metal items that I pack when I check into a hotel. Just imagining that backup of people who have can openers, nail clippers, metal nail files, etc.

 

[AngiTN]

So resorts aren't terrorists targets

No

 

[maxiesmom]

I'm more worried at work ( I work in a mall) then I am at WDW. How on earth would you propose they screen people, and know they are screened at the resorts? Set up road blocks and do a search of all the cars? Not let you on a bus when you leave the park until you are checked? Not let you on the monorail at all without being searched?

There has to be some balance. They can't go crazy and make it so horrible that no one wants to deal with being screened and people stay home instead. But they do what they can that is not horribly invasive and doesn't cost people a ton of time.

 

[Lynne M]

Let's break down how this would work in practice at, say, GF.

Screening guests who are checking in would require a thorough hand inspection of each guest's luggage, since as others have said, guests legitimately carry all sorts of metal stuff when they travel.

The bigger problem, though, is that if you only screen guests at check-in, you're only catching terrorists who have reservations. So, we'd need to set up metal detectors at the following points of entry:

-parking lot
-bus depot
-monorail station
-marina
-dock for boats that go to Poly and MK

But wait - GF doesn't have a fence around it, so anyone could walk in from the surrounding area, at any point around the resort perimeter. Or, come in by boat from Seven Seas Lagoon. In order to make metal detectors effective, you'd have to put a fence around the entire resort, including the areas that face the lagoon.

Now multiply that cost and effort by 30 resorts. And you still wouldn't have completely prevented a terrorist attack, because you don't need metal to make a weapon.

Are the resorts terrorist targets? Of course. Every public gathering place is potentially a target. But when you're running a vacation resort, you have to strike a balance, because if your resorts have the ambiance of a supermax prison, guests will stop booking rooms there.

 

[IrishNYC]

So resorts aren't terrorists targets

Much less so than a crowded park, and no more than any other hotel in the world.

 

[NS8VN]

Perhaps the could put the entire Orlando Metro area under a giant dome for protection. And then to protect that giant dome, another giant dome!

 

[NYDisneyKid]

Perhaps the could put the entire Orlando Metro area under a giant dome for protection. And then to protect that giant dome, another giant dome!

That may work

 

[FelisLachesis]

Perhaps the could put the entire Orlando Metro area under a giant dome for protection. And then to protect that giant dome, another giant dome!

Will that finally stop the rain?

 

[DVC_Dad_Canada]

So resorts aren't terrorists targets

As a person who works in the security industry, nothing that Disney is doing actually makes people safer. It's attempting to ease the FEAR.

Technically and statistically, the world has never been safer. Unfortunately, due mainly to the onset of the 24 hour news channels and social media, Americans have never FELT more fearful. People in general tend to vastly overestimate the likelihood of highly unlikely but catastrophic events, and vastly underestimate the likelihood of routine and mundane threats. As an example, the most dangerous part of a flight is the drive to the airport.

Disney, however, must appeal to not only the ACTUAL safety of the guests, but the PERCEIVED risk factor. Attendance will drop if enough people feel that WDW is an unsafe place to visit, hence the increased security. It's 100% about perception, and not about actual safety. Yes, these measures may catch someone with something untoward in a bag or on their person, but it would not stop an actual catastrophic event from happening.

 

[goofy4tink]

To the best of my knowledge, Disney is trying to eliminate those huge crowds prior to bagcheck. On busy days, that crowd can go back to the monorail walkway and to the ferry dock. It would be a perfect spot for a mass attack.
By splitting up bag check areas, Disney eliminates those huge crowds, just standing around.

 

[AngiTN]

To the best of my knowledge, Disney is trying to eliminate those huge crowds prior to bagcheck. On busy days, that crowd can go back to the monorail walkway and to the ferry dock. It would be a perfect spot for a mass attack.
By splitting up bag check areas, Disney eliminates those huge crowds, just standing around.

And it eliminates annoying guests who are standing around waiting in lines just to get in the park. Lines for rides are bad enough. Lines to get in worse (only line worse is a line for the bathroom)