Proof of age for my 2 year old

[DSLRuser]

Hi everyone!

Long time lurker, first time poster!

We're leaving for Disney World in less than a week and my 2.5 year old DD has suddenly shot up over night! ?

I had the opposite. My daughter was 3.5 years old, and i brought her with me to the Animal Kingdom Lodge Lobby to buy her a park hopper (2004). The CM looked at her and said, she passes for under 3, I wouldn't buy a ticket.

I said thanks, but got one anyway. Point is, I think they are pretty easy going on that 3-5 year range.

 

[smiths02]

I had the opposite. My daughter was 3.5 years old, and i brought her with me to the Animal Kingdom Lodge Lobby to buy her a park hopper (2004). The CM looked at her and said, she passes for under 3, I wouldn't buy a ticket.

I said thanks, but got one anyway. Point is, I think they are pretty easy going on that 3-5 year range.

I brought my son for his third birthday (turned 3 on the trip) in 2009, and while he had a birthday, he counted as 2 for park entrance, hotel occupancy and AYCTE meals the entire time. We even went to eat at Crystal Palace ON his birthday and made a big deal of it, and he still was not charged.

I also took my twins when they were nearly 3. We were never questioned. One time (at Crystal Palace actually), I was charged for one of them (my DD is bigger than my DS) but I just told the server and it was fixed.

I quoted the above because we went to 1900 PF the next year when my twins were almost 4 and my oldest had just turned 10...so we should have been charged 3 adults and 2 children. Our server just couldn't believe us about the ages or something-she kept asking are you sure?, but we were charged 2 adults and 2 children. (Since it was our departure day, my DH had a headache, the buffet was crowded and food was not coming out fast enough for about 20 minutes, and I wasn't sure if our server was compensating for the buffet problems or just being nice or actually made a mistake...I didn't make a big fuss about asking to be charged more, but normally I would have corrected it)

 

[melissa723]

We took my daughter when she was a few weeks away from turning 3, and because she looked older than 2 I took a copy of her birth certificate just in case. When we were going through the International Gateway entrance a CM asked me for her ticket, to which I replied she's under the age of 3, however, she must have thought I was trying to work the system because she got a little snarky with me. That was when I asked if she would like to see her birth certificate, which I did in fact take out, but she apologized and never looked at it. I'm a total rule follower, so I was a little offended when she thought I was trying to get my daughter in for free. It never hurts to be prepared.

 

[fastpoint]

I was standing in line with my 2 year old to see Mickey at MK about a year ago. We started chatting with a woman and young daughter behind us to pass the time. She told us quietly her daughter was 3.5 but since no one ever asks, she got away without buying a ticket. People that do that tend to frustrate me.

Heading to Disney next week with my now 3.5 year old and we of course bought her tickets.

 

[FCDub]

We took my daughter when she was a few weeks away from turning 3, and because she looked older than 2 I took a copy of her birth certificate just in case. When we were going through the International Gateway entrance a CM asked me for her ticket, to which I replied she's under the age of 3, however, she must have thought I was trying to work the system because she got a little snarky with me. That was when I asked if she would like to see her birth certificate, which I did in fact take out, but she apologized and never looked at it. I'm a total rule follower, so I was a little offended when she thought I was trying to get my daughter in for free. It never hurts to be prepared.

Don't take offense to it. There are so many people trying to game the system that I think there's a lot of skepticism.

 

[pd1138]

We took my daughter when she was a few weeks away from turning 3, and because she looked older than 2 I took a copy of her birth certificate just in case. When we were going through the International Gateway entrance a CM asked me for her ticket, to which I replied she's under the age of 3, however, she must have thought I was trying to work the system because she got a little snarky with me. That was when I asked if she would like to see her birth certificate, which I did in fact take out, but she apologized and never looked at it. I'm a total rule follower, so I was a little offended when she thought I was trying to get my daughter in for free. It never hurts to be prepared.

I was crazy and I actually brought their passports just so they knew I wasn’t doing anything wrong.....husband thuoght I was nuts! No one ever asked and we went on three trips and it seemed i always had one who was 2.5 yrs. Finally my youngest is three so we don’t have to worry anymore....everyone has a ticket!!

 

[melissa723]

Don't take offense to it. There are so many people trying to game the system that I think there's a lot of skepticism.

Oh, I know there are tons of people out there who try to work the system, so I wasn't offended at all, just a little surprised with her tone. That's the whole reason I brought the copy in the first place.

I was crazy and I actually brought their passports just so they knew I wasn’t doing anything wrong.....husband thuoght I was nuts! No one ever asked and we went on three trips and it seemed i always had one who was 2.5 yrs. Finally my youngest is three so we don’t have to worry anymore....everyone has a ticket!!

Nothing crazy about that at all. Better to be safe!

 

[pkpope]

Hi everyone!

Long time lurker, first time poster!

We're leaving for Disney World in less than a week and my 2.5 year old DD has suddenly shot up over night! That along with her rapidly growing vocabulary makes her easily mistaken for older than she is. Should I come prepared with her birth certificate to prove she's actually 2? I'm not really comfortable bringing a document like that to the parks- too many things could happen to it- but I don't have any other proof of age.

Has anyone experienced going to parks with a precocious 2 year old? Any advice on what, if anything, I should bring?

(Not saying i condone this BUT) my mom and dad got my sisters and I all in without passes until we were well into being 3-4 years old and CMs never said anything except once when my sister was close to 4 years old and they asked my mom how old she was but did not ask for any proof. However that was 20 years ago so maybe now they don’t let it slide as much, but I’ve never seen a CM ask a family to prove the age of one of their children.

 

[Robo]

The simple way to understand that Disney does not require "proof" of age for kids is that nowhere in any
of the info about age levels does Disney mention bringing any "ID" for kids.

Since virtually nobody naturally carries any legal ID for their young kids, it would not be something that families would
be automatically expected to bring... if they were not told, in advance, to do so.

If Disney expected guests to show ID for kids, they would tell guests to bring ID.

 

[BarbieGal457]

My coworker is there now with her 4 yr old and 2 yr old children, both of whom are pretty tall for their ages. Of course her 4 yr old has a ticket but not the 2 yr old, and she told me this week so far she was never asked. She did bring a copy of their birth certificates but more in case an emergency happened or the like. She was concerned about this as well and said that it has been total smooth sailing for her. Whenever we ask him, he does say he's 2, but she said that she hasn't even been asked that once all week (I just talked to her a few minutes ago).

 

[Greg Lembrich]

You won't need any proof. Our daughter was very tall for her age, and we went just 2 weeks before her 3rd birthday. Was never an issue, no questions, no requests for proof, or anything. Have a great trip!

 

[workintheory]

We did this and celebrated DSs 3rd birthday at Disney! We arrived the day before and he was a 41” tall kid who turned 3 and celebrated it for our entire trip without having to pay tab AYCE or for a ticket! And my DD celebrated her 3rd birthday at Disneyland!!!

What a marvelous birthday party idea!

 

[vettegirl]

We never had an issue. My son is now 3, almost 4 in July, and we have a ticket for him for our trip next week. He is so excited to use his Star Wars magic band.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

CMs asked at pretty much every park entrance, sometimes directly asking my daughter how old she was.

I really hate that they would ask a kid directly. My kids are much older now, but at that age they routinely said they were older when asked. My youngest always wanted to be the same age as his brother, so when he was 2 or 3 he always said he was 5 or 6. Now he clearly wasn't, but my point is they should direct the question to the parent not the child.

 

[ghtx]

I took a trip with each of my three kids just a few months before they turned three. Each time I think I had a copy of their birth certificate in my pocket, but I never needed it.

 

[LoKiHB]

You'll be fine. My youngest looked like a 4 year old at 2, and no one questioned it. Not once.