What Security is in Place?

[emgilmartin]

I was just wondering what security is in place for:

Disney Parks

Disney Springs

Disney Resorts

I know some things are secret, but what is known about the security at each place? With all the terrorism, I want to know everything that can be done is being done to make our upcoming trip as safe as possible.

TIA!

Funny you should bring this up. I was recently reading an article on this issue and was very impressed with the fact that Disney is being proactive on this. Here's the link www.worldofwalt.com/disney-world-doubles-outside-security-budget-for-2018.html

 

[BarbieGal457]

I feel pretty safe in Disney parks and hotels. I have pretty severe anxiety, but I'm working on letting go of worrying about things I can't control. I work and live in a major city with major historical significance, and realistically I'm probably more "in the line of danger" daily than I am overall at Disney (although obviously it makes sense that danger exists anywhere). Heck - I'm taking way more of a risk just by driving with my dad to work in the mornings! I keep my eyes and ears open there still and take normal safety precautions when in my room, but I try to let go of the stress of daily life. I trust that Disney has me way more covered than I'll ever know! I try to stay aware, worry about only what I can control, and enjoy eating my Mickey Bar! Disney is my happy, relaxing place!

 

[KarenP64]

I was also wondering if the CMs have a way of contacting security from their stations or if they have to leave them to get help....

 

[DWillowBay]

I was just wondering what security is in place for:

Disney Parks

Disney Springs

Disney Resorts

I know some things are secret, but what is known about the security at each place? With all the terrorism, I want to know everything that can be done is being done to make our upcoming trip as safe as possible.

TIA!

.....where do you go that you know 'how safe' you are? Do you go grocery shopping, to the post office, to the dry cleaners, to a gym, to a place of worship, to a shopping mall..... Get up. Live your life. Choose Joy not fear.

 

[hiroMYhero]

Dropping in to remind everyone the OP’s topic of interest is:

“...what security is in place for:

Disney Parks

Disney Springs

Disney Resorts”

Also a reminder that posts with filter violations and off-topic posts do get removed per DIS policy.

 

[3kidsdad]

Well, my wife is a cast member at a park and she just reaffirmed that if she saw something suspicious, she can directly contact security who would show in seconds.

I would like to add that all five of us in our family went to DHS yesterday and walked through the non bag line and not one of us was asked to go through a metal detector and we drove to the park from our home and self parked in the DHS lot. Was a little surprised by this one.

My two sons and I we're at DS early in the morning yesterday and noticed two security guards at the ramp from the orange garage to the crosswalk. Also noticed two different patrols of Orange County Deputies walking around the West end of DS.

Two years ago the wife and I were at Food and Wine Festival on a weekday morning and she spotted a backpack left in the seating area in front of The American Pavilion seating area with no one else around. She told me sorry, I have to say something and within 60 seconds the area was corrdeoned off by cast members, 90 seconds plain clothes security was on sight and within three minutes there was a K-9 sniffing the bag who had come out from near the bathrooms on the left side of the pavilion.

I run a restaurant for a living and one of my old server's husband's worked undercover security for Disney and remember him telling me that I wouldn't believe how many undercover security personnel there are in the park.

In all fairness, as someone who goes on property and the parks a lot, I feel safer at Disney than in my tourist based restaurant near Disney where there can be over 300 people in it at one time.

 

[zebrastreyepz]

Disney Springs seemed to missing something in the way of security. Fish in a barrel was my thought. Could they have cameras everywhere? Sure. But then they would have to man those screens. And to have educated, trained people doing that isn't cheap. Think about that when Disney makes another cost cutting measure.

Resorts seem like they are better. But they had no idea who I was when I went in. And our car was packed to gills. We could have brought anything into the room.

The problem is, it is very difficult to stop someone that doesn't mind dying for their cause.

When we were there last March, we stopped walking to get our map and bearings and immediately were being told to move away from the backpack sitting there all by itself.

The man was plain clothes and I wouldn't have ever made him for security if he hadn't approached us.

 

[hertamaniac]

Disney Springs seemed to missing something in the way of security. Fish in a barrel was my thought.

This is our concern when we visit DS as well. The parking garages are not secure in my opinion. What is to prevent someone from having a backpack full of "bad things" and going into one of the many and full establishments? At least at City Walk, I believe they screen guests before entering that area. Is DS going to consider this same tactic?

 

[AngiTN]

This is our concern when we visit DS as well. The parking garages are not secure in my opinion. What is to prevent someone from having a backpack full of "bad things" and going into one of the many and full establishments? At least at City Walk, I believe they screen guests before entering that area. Is DS going to consider this same tactic?

Is your local shopping mall? Not sure why DS would be different. Do we really want to go through metal detectors any where we go?
I don't know why CityWalk is, other than that just happens to be where Universal opted to do theirs, instead of at the park entrance

 

[ZephyrHawk]

I have never once worried about my safety at Disney World.

This. I'm actually annoyed by the security theatre. But, I deal with it. Just as I do at the airport, and at the football stadium.

 

[hertamaniac]

Is your local shopping mall? Not sure why DS would be different. Do we really want to go through metal detectors any where we go?
I don't know why CityWalk is, other than that just happens to be where Universal opted to do theirs, instead of at the park entrance

Our local shopping mall doesn't have the same crowd levels that DS does at night (let alone weekends/holidays). But, even our local movie theater does do purse/backpack searches.

I don't know either, but I could envision them employing something similar. Of course, who would pay for that implementation and staffing? All of us visitors.

 

[AngiTN]

Our local shopping mall doesn't have the same crowd levels that DS does at night (let alone weekends/holidays). But, even our local movie theater does do purse/backpack searches.

I don't know either, but I could envision them employing something similar. Of course, who would pay for that implementation and staffing? All of us visitors.

Really? Wow. That is not something that is done here. And we were at the movies as recently as Friday night.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

Is your local shopping mall? Not sure why DS would be different. Do we really want to go through metal detectors any where we go?

No shopping mall in my area holds a candle in comparison to that of the madhouse that is DS ...apples to bananas, IMO.

For the record, when I was smashed like a sardine into DS in early Oct I was extra watchful of my surroundings specifically because I felt like a sitting duck.

 

[Csaks]

Our local shopping mall doesn't have the same crowd levels that DS does at night (let alone weekends/holidays). But, even our local movie theater does do purse/backpack searches.

I don't know either, but I could envision them employing something similar. Of course, who would pay for that implementation and staffing? All of us visitors.

Your theater is looking for illegal snacks being smuggled in. They need to sell you that 20 dollar bag of popcorn and drink combo......

 

[hertamaniac]

Your theater is looking for illegal snacks being smuggled in.

Looks like we'll just have to smuggle legal snacks.

 

[Sepo]

I want to preface this by saying I mean to be very careful about not getting political which is against Disboard rules and my own, frankly.

I am carefully adding that I feel safer at Disney bc the “value” of attacking a place that is particularly geared to children and families is below zero to any group intending to send a message. It’s suicide for that entity to any people they would hope to emotionally recruit. I actually feel *more safe* at Disney than at an indiscriminant high traffic location, or especially a political or military one.

Of course it’s no guarantee. The main threat is a solitary crazy psychopath with no agenda, like the tragedy in LV.

Overall, Disney, to me, is like holy ground in a sense in the apolitical nonideological appeal to goodness that anyone would aim for in the world.

 

[mickeyluv'r]

This is one of those threads that seems more about confirming an opinion than anything else.

The folks who post here go to WDW, so they've already answered this question for themselves.

Second, we all want to feel safe, so we're all biased in that direction. It is necessary for our survival, isn't it?

In truth, any place that's as crowded as WDW poses a danger. Crowds of people are dangerous, because the risk of a stampede is always a possibility. It just is.

That said, Maybe the better question to consider is, "How we can be as safe as possible at WDW?"

How many of us pay attention to the location of emergency exits? In hotels? In attractions? Do your children? Do they even know what an emergency exit sign looks like? Do they know about calling 911? Have they memorized your cell phone number? Their address? How to report a suspicious person?

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

NO security check at MK late this afternoon. We were shocked. We left Epcot, took the monorail outside of Epcot to the TTC and took the ferry over to MK. Didn’t see security anywhere outside MK.

So it’s changed? In the past on arrival to MK there was security outside. And on arrival to EPCOT via the monorail. Big discussion about this tonight while waiting for Once Upon a Time!

Yes! Thank you. We were last here in March. No one tells me anything.

I’ll have to take note of what’s where. We were at Dolphin and now BWV, so we go through the International Gateway to Epcot. Tonight we went to Epcot, then took the monorail over to TTC. Nothing looked different to me until we got to MK, but I wasn’t really paying attention.

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If you'd like more information on what happened you can see this thread:
https://www.disboards.com/threads/n...e-12-post-222-live-reports-pgs-18-20.3594176/

It was announced late March 2017 starting April 3rd.

There is also this story (linked in the OP of the thread linked above): http://www.orlandosentinel.com/busi...ket-transportation-center-20170328-story.html

 

[JadeDarkstar]

I have been worried but sadly that is just me. I know how my mind works so I know that normal ppl would not see every little thing I see, or think about what I might. But must say reading this thread has calmed some of my worries. I also would be just fine walking through a metal detector each and every time if this is what they were to put in place. I do wish some things could be taken care of a little easier. Maybe the security bubble getting bigger is a part of those plans.
Also hay you want to put my bags in some kind of bag xray (as long as its safely done) when I check in, I may be in the minority but go ahead and do so. I have nothing to hide. I'd rather be safe. Now in no way will I start a political debate here, I'd end up banned and then I couldn't live without dis (joking) but. I don't think politics should be in the security of Disney. Just make us as safe as you can and the rest. We just have to hope there are enough eyes open watching for those bad apples of the bunch.

Oh, also at my graduation this year, my husband had to go back to the car three times. Once for his parents, once for him to put his cane away, and then he gets back to come in (i was inside getting ready, I heard about this after) my son went up to him and said: "they said I can't take my water bottle in." I said are you kidding me? We live in AZ and we, unlike some ppl, make sure we have water, I had my water bottle checked and was told ok, but my 14-year-old son is told he can't have his. Yes, I was P.O'ed only because we had a hospital problem one year from my son not drinking enough water.
Now thinking about this it could be same security reasons for a plane. But I thought I'd share this with you. Security is bumped way up everywhere.