Question About Disney Transportion

[1st x dis mom]

Do You Need Your Room Key To Ride Disney Transportation To And From The Parks?
Thanks

 

[CarolB]

No you don't need your room key. You are supposed to be a park guest (have a park ticket) or a resort guest (have a resort room key) to ride, but of all the trips I have ever taken, I have never been asked to show a key or park ticket to ride.

 

[brentalex]

No, they do not ask for any identification to ride the buses or monorail.

 

[KyDerbyMan]

No room key needed but seems there's a slight bit of debate about who gets to/should ride WDW transportation.

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1329296


Why, I have no idea.

 

[Von Drake]

Growing up, I remember having to show resort ID to ride. Then, the practice seemed to fade away. First, ID checks became sporadic, then non-existent.
Technically, I think the rule is still in effect, but it is not enforced. Think about it: WDW advertises the 'perk' of staying on site as 'use of WDW transportation' - implying that guests without a Park Hopping option or Resort ID are not permitted to ride.

 

[2Princes2Princesses]

Someone in the above mentioned thread dug up a blurb from the WDW website which says guests staying onsite, as well as offsite/local guests with a multiday park hopper are entitled to ride the buses.

However, they still do not allow parking at DTD to go to the parks. And that is no matter where you are staying.

 

[ducklite]

Growing up, I remember having to show resort ID to ride. Then, the practice seemed to fade away. First, ID checks became sporadic, then non-existent.

Up until about 1996, WDW sold a $3 a week "pass" to ride WDW transportation to non-resort guests. Then they smartened up and realized that if they just let people use the transportation, they would go to the resorts and spend a lot more then $3 in a weeks time, so that pass was elimiated and all transportation was made accessible to anyone who wanted to ride, for free.

Technically, I think the rule is still in effect, but it is not enforced. Think about it: WDW advertises the 'perk' of staying on site as 'use of WDW transportation' - implying that guests without a Park Hopping option or Resort ID are not permitted to ride.

They advertise it, but not as an "exclusive perk." They realized their mistake in the mid 90's and did away with charging non-resort guests to ride the bus. The fact that they did away with the bus pass fee, and the fact that they indeed at one point had one, should show that ANYONE can ride any WDW transportation that they choose.

one other thing to point out, a guest who takes a LYNX bus to WDW has to then transfer to a WDW bus to get to MGM and AK from the TTC. That guest might only be buying a one day pass. So again, it's not practical to deny access to the transportation to day guests.

Anne

ETA: I just looked it up in some old literature I had. The "WDW Transportation Ticket" was sold at a cost of $2.50 per day and extended use of all WDW transportation to the purchaser. This was in my 1995 literature. It had been eliminated by 1997.

 

[seashoreCM]

It's a perk for Disney resort guests because it doesn't go out to, say, the Motel 6 or to Howard Johnsons or to the Fairfield at Bonnet Creek or to the Doubletree Club to pick up and drop off guests there.

There have been a few reported (here) incidents of prioritizing, for example the resort monorail attendant telling day guests to use the (more crowded at the time) paralleling express monorail, or boat captains loading guests staying at particular resorts first.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

 

[goofy4tink]

The question has been answered..no more debate is needed. You do NOT need to show any resort ID in order to use any of the WDW transportation.

 

[Lewisc]

The "debate" isn't over WDW transportation. The question is regarding guests who park in DTD or in a resort they're not staying at in order to avoid paying for theme park parking.

No room key needed but seems there's a slight bit of debate about who gets to/should ride WDW transportation.

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1329296


Why, I have no idea.

 

[goofy4tink]

The "debate" isn't over WDW transportation. The question is regarding guests who park in DTD or in a resort they're not staying at in order to avoid paying for theme park parking.

Sorry Lewisc..but the debate was about who can use the WDW transportation system. It may have started as a DTD to parks bus issue, but it turned quickly to who is entitled to use the bus/monorail/boats. The above mentioned thread has been closed now. Hopefully that won't happen to this one also.
There is no debate...transportation is available to anyone with a park pass.

 

[WillCAD]

No, you don't have to show your room key to use the WDW transportation system.

However, if you have left your room and don't have your key with you, you have bigger problems than getting on the bus...

 

[ducklite]

However, if you have left your room and don't have your key with you, you have bigger problems than getting on the bus...

Not that it was funny, but I remember getting on the bus at the BWV with a group of women once. We had pulled out past the guard shack, and everyone of them realized they had left their room keys--with park tickets attached--in the room. The driver refused to stop and let them off, I'm sure it's against policy for safety reasons, so these women had to ride all the way to the MK and back, then back again. Not a goo way to start the day.

Anne

 

[Von Drake]

We had pulled out past the guard shack, and everyone of them realized they had left their room keys--with park tickets attached--in the room. The driver refused to stop and let them off, I'm sure it's against policy for safety reasons, so these women had to ride all the way to the MK and back, then back again. Not a goo way to start the day.


Let's see: Keys, tickets, money, camera, ponchos, phone, water.......
It's amazing that we don't forget our kids....

 

[purplevalentine]

I've never been asked for identification at all. Heck I use to work at the Wyndham Palace a few years back and rode the Disney bus every morning and evening to the TTC to catch the city bus. I was in professional clothing! You should have absolutely no problems.


KAREN