room key as ticket ?

[wdhinn89]

I have a room only booked. If I add park tickets, is my room key my ticket also like in WDW? TIA

 

[got2travel]

No Disneyland does not add your park tickets to your room key. In fact, you can't even charge to your room key. You are given a little slip of paper that has your charging privileges on it. That charge slip is also your proof of staying onsite so you can get into the early entry. Too many different pieces of media if you ask me. Room key, park ticket and charge slip.

 

[caldisneyfan]

I read an article awhile back on MiceChat that said the room keys and park tickets and charge slips would be combined in the near future. I do not remember a date start being mentioned. I would call guest services at the hotel you are staying at.

 

[wdhinn89]

WOW! Really different from WDW. I would think since it is all the same company that the two Disneys in the same country would have more similar procedures. I thought it was odd how the web-sites were so different but I guess it is all around different.

I found out I could not get tickets through AAA for Disneyland so I guess I will buy on-line now with the Disneyland website discount for our July trip. I am hoping they extend the everybody pays the kids price into the summer.

 

[Sherry E]

No Disneyland does not add your park tickets to your room key. In fact, you can't even charge to your room key. You are given a little slip of paper that has your charging privileges on it. That charge slip is also your proof of staying onsite so you can get into the early entry. Too many different pieces of media if you ask me. Room key, park ticket and charge slip.

I just wanted to throw in that as of August of last year, the new Key to the Magic does, indeed, have charging privileges with it. We stayed at PPH in October and December last year and both times we were given the Key to the Magic and my credit/debit card info was attached to it so we could definitely charge purhcases or food to the Key if we wanted. They no longer give the separate slip of paper. It is much better this way, as everything is more streamlined. And if they are giving you multiple keys for everyone in your party, they will/should ask you if you want your credit card infor attached to all the cards or just one - for safety reasons!

Now if they could only find a way to get the tickets/APs on the Key and the PhotoPass card onto the key, then we could really have one MEGA-card!!

 

[glendalais]

No Disneyland does not add your park tickets to your room key. In fact, you can't even charge to your room key. You are given a little slip of paper that has your charging privileges on it. That charge slip is also your proof of staying onsite so you can get into the early entry. Too many different pieces of media if you ask me. Room key, park ticket and charge slip.

We actually changed this, from about....August of last year, memory serve me right.

Guests staying at the Hotels of the Disneyland Resort will now receive a Key to the Magic Card, which serves as their Room Key, and can be used to charge purchases at the Disneyland Resort Ticket Booths, Guest Relations (for Guided Tours), as well as most Disney owned-and-operated Restaurants and Store locations within Disneyland Park, Disney's California Adventure Park, the Downtown Disney District and the Hotels of the Disneyland Resort.

At this time, they cannot be used to charge purchases at third-party merchants operating on Disney Property (including third-party stores in Disneyland Park and Disney's California Adventure Park), nor can Disneyland Resort Park Tickets be added to them.

 

[got2travel]

Interesting info. Glad to hear they changed it.

But I'm curious as to why my friends had a paper charge slip just last month???

 

[caldisneyfan]

Now if they could only find a way to get the tickets/APs on the Key and the PhotoPass card onto the key, then we could really have one MEGA-card!!

I heard that. Too many cards to handle and they are all the same size. Why not code there system to use the AP for all of the above?

 

[Sherry E]

Interesting info. Glad to hear they changed it.

But I'm curious as to why my friends had a paper charge slip just last month???

I am guessing that either DLR was having some sort of glitch in their computer system that day that prohibited attaching the credit/debit card info to the Key to the Magic, or maybe your friends got confused because they had to sign or initial other documents and they assumed it was a charge slip? Also, I can say that certain Cast Members are more efficient about the process than others. When we went in October of last year, even though my debit card info was attached to my Key, the PPH CM at the desk was not thinking clearly and forgot to ask me if I wanted the card info on both keys or just on mine. She just put it on both. They are supposed to ask you if you want all the keys to have charging privileges or just one key. But when we went in December, that PPH CM was much more on the ball and she asked up front if all the keys would have the charging privileges or just mine.

But yes, the Key to the Magic with charging privileges is in full swing, so I think it must have been a technical fluke when your friends went.

 

[Sherry E]

I heard that. Too many cards to handle and they are all the same size. Why not code there system to use the AP for all of the above?

And sometimes, if you are keeping all of these cards in one place, it is easy to reach in and grab the wrong one! So I am looking for a blue card in my little wallet, and I am supposed to be pulling out my AP but I mistakenly pull out the Key to the Magic instead!! And another time I was trying to hand my PhotoPass card to the PhotoPass photographer and instead I handed them my Key!! Too many cards!!! It seems like in the future, with the way technology is advancing, there has got to be a way to streamline everything into one card and get the tickets or AP info and PhotoPass info in one place with the room key. Like all the DLR hotel guests could check in and the CM at the desk would attach the credit card info to the Key and could ask if you intend to use PhotoPass while at DLR, and if you say yes or maybe, they add that onto the Key, and then when you see a PP photographer you hand them the Key and they scan it when taking your PP pictures. All the non-DLR hotel guests could get that same process done either online or at Guest Services when they arrive. It's just wishful thinking at the moment, but as a rule, people don't want to be bothered with multiple cards and I bet a lot of folks lose or misplace at least one of those cards.

 

[caldisneyfan]

And sometimes, if you are keeping all of these cards in one place, it is easy to reach in and grab the wrong one! So I am looking for a blue card in my little wallet, and I am supposed to be pulling out my AP but I mistakenly pull out the Key to the Magic instead!! And another time I was trying to hand my PhotoPass card to the PhotoPass photographer and instead I handed them my Key!! Too many cards!!! It seems like in the future, with the way technology is advancing, there has got to be a way to streamline everything into one card and get the tickets or AP info and PhotoPass info in one place with the room key. Like all the DLR hotel guests could check in and the CM at the desk would attach the credit card info to the Key and could ask if you intend to use PhotoPass while at DLR, and if you say yes or maybe, they add that onto the Key, and then when you see a PP photographer you hand them the Key and they scan it when taking your PP pictures. All the non-DLR hotel guests could get that same process done either online or at Guest Services when they arrive. It's just wishful thinking at the moment, but as a rule, people don't want to be bothered with multiple cards and I bet a lot of folks lose or misplace at least one of those cards.

I feel your pain as this is the same thing I was going threw each time I reached one of the cards. Well at least I will not have to carry a charge silp that can get wet on Splash or GRR.

 

[bumbershoot]

Interesting info. Glad to hear they changed it.

But I'm curious as to why my friends had a paper charge slip just last month???

Don't know! Did they have the keycard with their names on it (each person has their own card with their own name)? That's all they should have needed to charge!