Room Keys / Ticket Cards - have hole?

[LSUwest]

Do the cards have a hole in them so you can wear them around your neck after threading them thru a ring and holder(the same way as a ski pass)?

Sorry if that doesnt make sense... I just reread it. Hopefully you know what I'm talking about.

 

[T-i-double-g-err]

No hole in the room keys our last trip (11/2003). We used lanyards with plastic card holders to keep them with us.

 

[Disneyrsh]

I punch a hole in mine with my leatherman micra.

 

[Donald-n-Daisy]

I ask someone at the resort front desk to punch holes in the passes.
They usually have an industial strength hole punch that works nicely.
I have made this request this several times without any problem.

 

[seashoreCM]

You can punch a hole in a park pass or room key but not through the magnetic strip.

It may be cumbersome detaching the pass from the lanyard to insert into fast pass machines.

I have had good results with a Water Wallet (tm) in the size just big enough for the park pass, the Water Wallet safety pinned just inside my pants pocket.

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

 

[cmonroe]

I didn't know they allowed that, what a great idea!
And the plastic doesn't crack?

 

[goofy4tink]

Ah, not such a great idea people. I was just talking to a CM this past week and was told that punching a hole in your cards can jam up the card readers!! They will get somewhat mangled and then you'll have to get a new card anyway. I wouldn't suggest punching a hole in any of your park media. Just going on what I was told by a turnstyle CM!!

 

[julielovestigger]

T-i-double-g-err:

Where do you get lanyards and plastic card holders? It doesn't sound any more cumbersome to pull it out of there versus out of my fanny sack. Plus, it is really easy to see if you have it!

Thanks!

 

[Disneyrsh]

Ah, not such a great idea people. I was just talking to a CM this past week and was told that punching a hole in your cards can jam up the card readers!! They will get somewhat mangled and then you'll have to get a new card anyway. I wouldn't suggest punching a hole in any of your park media. Just going on what I was told by a turnstyle CM!!

Our tickets are not on our room keys, so they never go through the card readers at the parks.

The paper tickets we have stay safely unpunched in our lanyards.

Incidentally, I usually punch a hole in the room keys once we are done with them and get back from the parks. The girls like to put them on their bookbags, sort of like the ski tags people wear on their jackets-sort of a look where we've been kinda thing.

Don't worry, none of the cards have tickets or room charging on them; I don't think they'll get taken...

 

[Disneyrsh]

T-i-double-g-err:

Where do you get lanyards and plastic card holders? It doesn't sound any more cumbersome to pull it out of there versus out of my fanny sack. Plus, it is really easy to see if you have it!

Thanks!

You can buy the lanyards at the parks, we attached plastic card holders to ours, one of them came with a plastic card holder already attached.

Then we discovered we had to buy pins to decorate the lanyards, but that's a whole other thread.

 

[2tinksmom]

I found little plastic sleeves with a zip-lock top (perfect for SM!) at our local Wal-Mart. They were in the hunting/fishing department. They are made to hold fishing licenses and keep them dry. I think they were less than .50 and they come with a hole at the top so it's easy to put them on a lanyard!
Michele

 

[julielovestigger]

Thanks!

 

[goofy4tink]

Our tickets are not on our room keys, so they never go through the card readers at the parks.

The paper tickets we have stay safely unpunched in our lanyards.

Incidentally, I usually punch a hole in the room keys once we are done with them and get back from the parks. The girls like to put them on their bookbags, sort of like the ski tags people wear on their jackets-sort of a look where we've been kinda thing.

Don't worry, none of the cards have tickets or room charging on them; I don't think they'll get taken...

What a great idea!!! My dd would love that also. I'll have to start a new 'tradition'!!!!!

 

[julielovestigger]

Again and again the DIS Rocks! I found the plastic card holders in the fishing/hunting department and the lanyards in the jewelry area at Wal-Mart. I love it here.

 

[d4est]

How do you know if your tickets will be "on" your room card? I like punch the hole thing. We did it at Universal last year & it worked great. Just a flash of that card & we were thru the express line.

 

[Disneyrsh]

How do you know if your tickets will be "on" your room card? I like punch the hole thing. We did it at Universal last year & it worked great. Just a flash of that card & we were thru the express line.

Well, we have annual passes, and they're just paper tickets that say annual pass on the back. When we check in to our hotel (usually okw), we get the room key cards, and I think some people have length of stay passes activated on them and room charging privileges on them.

Ours are just 'get into the room' cards.

I think you get to choose what to put on them...

 

[PandyPaws]

Just stressing....please, please ...do not put a hole through your ticket media. Doing so does tend to jam-up the turnstyle reader, (and technically speaking it's considered destroying/voiding your ticket ) Please use the lanyard holders instead. Doing so serves a dual purpose as it keeps tickets safe from demagnetizing which happens when they're kept near a cell phone, camera, batteries, magnets, etc

 

[disneypap]

I've read that Wal-Mart is a good place to get the lanyard and card holders. How large are the park passes and plastic charge cards? Will a "credit card" size card holder be large enough, or should we get something larger? Also, a dumb question...but when you buy the lanyards at Wal Mart or where ever, is that the neck strap only, or the neck strap plus the plastic card holder? Also, I remember reading elsewhere that some of the office supply stores, like office max or staples, may have them?? Any insight?? Thanks so much! We're leaving in exactly 3 months! Can't wait.

 

[subtchr]

-- Credit card size is plenty big

-- Office supply stores do have different types of badge holders with and without lanyards; check out all the options

-- I have also always been the "keeper" of the passes, including fastpasses. I have several pairs of quick-drying shorts by Columbia (I get them, along with 90% of the clothing my family wears, at Kohl's) that have a small zipper cargo-type pocket along the side of the leg. My family always refers to those pockets as mom's "fastpass pocket" even when we're not at WDW!

-- We now have water wallets (won in a trivia game on a Royal Caribbean cruise last summer!), so I will bring those and use one of them when I know we'll go on water rides, etc. They are the kind made of hard plastic that are on a lanyard to wear around the neck, so I won't use it all the time, but it will be nice to have.

-- We are going to Universal for the last two days of our vacation, staying at Hard Rock, so we might switch strategies there so everyone has a pass visible or at least easily accessible for the express lines. Can't wait for that!

Good luck and have fun ~

 

[Dale-n-Chip]

Didn't see anyone mention these at WDW, but I can't imagine DL has them and WDW doesn't!

We bought ($7) a designated "Fast Pass Holder" at DL. It's not exactly a lanyard, as it's more of a heavy-duty nylon shoestring like you'd see on a bolo tie than a flat lanyard for pins. At any rate, it's got a cloisonne/enamel "buckle" (for lack of a better term) and hanging from the bottom is a heavy duty plastic zippered pouch about credit card size. It easily held five paper tickets and 10 fast passes at a time. The plastic part sounds a lot like what folks are describing finding in Wal-Mart's hunting/fishing department. The DL version had Sleeping Beauty Castle as the "buckle."

If I could figure out how to put a photo in here, I'd be glad to show you one of my many photos from our trip, where I was ALWAYS wearing it!

Like I said, I bought mine at DL (they were EVERYWHERE!), but I can't imagine DL has them and WDW wouldn't.

Happy planning!