Possibly the most random/irrelevant question about HoJo you've ever read

[Princess Jes]

I realize this is a ridiculous question and totally not important for the most part, but i was wondering if the HoJo uses room keys still or are they on a card based system?

I just want to make sure I either have an extra plastic pocket for a lanyard or an extra carabiner/key ring thingy to pop a key on.

Cheers!!

 

[Westcoastwild]

Card based, nearly positive I would remember if it was a key. That's a novelty almost now.

 

[disneychrista]

I am not sure ANY hotels use actual keys anymore. I haven't seen one in an over a dozen years.

 

[Westcoastwild]

I am not sure ANY hotels use actual keys anymore. I haven't seen one in an over a dozen years.

They exist primarily outside of the US but I know of one in Seattle that still does physical keys.

 

[Midnightred]

Card for a long time! The haunted hotel we stay at when we drive to Disneyland has a room key, the Copper Queen in Bisbee, AZ (near Tombstone)! So neat, everything is old, old! Also when I go to Truthir Consequences, NM they have vintage room keys. Love that!

Midnightred

 

[bcla]

I am not sure ANY hotels use actual keys anymore. I haven't seen one in an over a dozen years.

Card keys solve a lot of problems. I think the last time I used a real key for any kind of lodging was at a cabin in a national park. Even then I don't think they couldn't go to card keys. They' basically battery powered, so replacing the battery twice a year is no big deal. However, the door itself was kind of rickety, and I'm not sure they could have gone to card keys without new doors. The key itself looked pretty newly cut, but it didn't work very well.

Still - I'm sure even vacation homes use card keys these days. Once I stayed at a rental condo, and they had a whole system set up for the units that would be rented, as well as a rental office that was set up like a hotel front desk. I think some people actually lived in those condos, but again having card keys solved a lot of problems with people illegally copying keys.

 

[Midnightred]

I love the old fashioned keys but not for Hojo.

Midnightred

 

[idle]

I stayed at a hotel in Puerto Rico in 2015 that had this kind of key card.

Hey, at least it'll work if the power went out!

 

[Princess Jes]

Thanks all!!
I just remember listening to a review on the DIS Unplugged or reading here that one of the hotels/motels in the DLR area still had keys, and the review would have been less than 3 years old because I've only gone back that far.

For the record, in Australia, we use cards too ;-)