Quick question on re-entry

[DisneyShack]

Just double checking - I'll be down in Orlando on a business trip later this week and plan to go to Epcot on Friday. Will I be allowed to leave the park and re-enter with a one-day ticket (assuming I get my hand stamped)? Thanks.

 

[Ocean Springs Mom]

Yes.

 

[safetymom]

Not a problem. Just be sure to bring your ticket with you. I can't tell you how many times I have seen people turned away because they didn't bring their tickets for re entry.

 

[golfgal]

To briefly hijack this thread, how does reentry work with a park-hopper ticket either to the same park or to a different park. Do you still need your hand stamped or do you just scan your ticket again?

 

[safetymom]

You need to have your hand stamped and your ticket to gain reentry to any of the parks with your hopper ticket.

 

[alien]

With the old park hopper tickets, you needed to have your hand stamped on the way out of a park. To enter another park, you needed your ticket and sometimes they would check your hand (ultraviolet light) but not always. I'm not sure with the new MYW tickets. I understand you will need the finger bioscan - maybe with that, you won't need to have a hand stamp.

 

[safetymom]

Still need a hand stamp with the MYW tickets. You insert your fingers and the cast member may move your hand around to see the stamp.

 

[Local_Girl]

We were just there last week (using the MYW tickets) and had a CM tell us that we didn't need a hand stamp with the biometric scans. This after several days of us getting hand stamps (and not having anyone check them when we re-entered!)...so for a few days after that we did not get hand stamps and had no problems park hopping. BUT...I would have been really mad if we were denied entry without a hand stamp after the CM told us it wasn't needed.

 

[GoldenOldie]

Hand stamps can be seen by the gate CMs who look for them as you go through the turnstile area. You don't have to specifically show them your hand for it to be seen.

The purpose of the hand stamp is two fold. First it proves that it was you who used the ticket at the park that day. Second, and this is really the primary purpose now, is that it is a backup in case the computer system at the gate goes down (and it does on occasion). The hand stamp proves that you've been in a park when biometric scanning or ticket reading is not possible.

I understand that a CM may have told you that it wasn't needed. Unfortunately it isn't the first time a CM gave out incorrect information. Always better to be safe than sorry.