When do your Resort ID cards deactivate on your checkout day?

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

My family & I had always thought since checkout of the Walt Disney World Resort Hotels is 11:00 AM, (if you did not ask for a later checkout) that's when your Resort ID cards would deactivate. However when we have tried to see this for ourselves when it's after 11:00 AM & we are on our out with our suitcases, the cards were still working. So I was just wondering when do your Resort ID cards officially deactivate? My best guess is that once the housekeeper was cleaned your room, they send a message to the front desk that says the room is clean & you have already checked out of the Resort. Or am I wrong & it's something else they do to deactivate the cards?

 

[fla4fun]

It depends on what you mean by deactivated. As far as your room goes, once it's been cleaned and released back to inventory, even if that is prior to 11am, your key will no longer work in the door. So if you get all your stull out and leave it with bell services at 8am, you won't have access to the room once housekeepting cleans it. If you leave your stuff in there until check out time of 11am, you will have access to the room up until check out time. I've never stayed there until the very last minute, so I don't know how strict they are (I'm usually out either really early, or about 10am, depending on whether I'm going home or straight to work). However, you can still use park admission on your room key until it expires (14 days from first use without the no expiration option). You can also use the resort pool and go to evening EMH, and use any remaining dining credits, up until midnight of check out day. So it's sort of a rolling deactivation.

 

[1000th happy haunt]

We tested this during our last trip. On the day we checked out, we were still able to charge lunch and some purchases at DTD on our room key before leaving for the airport.

 

[CleveRocks]

That one card can do many things. As far as your resort room door, the card is automatically deactivated at 11:00 a.m., meaning it will no longer work that door. However, the card is not totally inactive -- anything else that card does, it will still do after check-out time, EXCEPT operate your room door.

At any halfway decent hotel in the USA, guests are entitled to all of the amenities of the property on the entire day of check-out, regardless of when they actually check out. In other words, at a hotel where a room key needs to be swiped in order to enter a locked health club, that card will still activate THAT door at 8:00 p.m. on the day of check-out, even though that card will not operate the door of the hotel room that was checked out of at 11:00 a.m.

Disney resorts are no different than anyhalfway decent hotel in the USA, in that regard.

 

[rodkenrich]

It depends on what you mean by deactivated. As far as your room goes, once it's been cleaned and released back to inventory, even if that is prior to 11am, your key will no longer work in the door. So if you get all your stull out and leave it with bell services at 8am, you won't have access to the room once housekeepting cleans it. If you leave your stuff in there until check out time of 11am, you will have access to the room up until check out time. I've never stayed there until the very last minute, so I don't know how strict they are (I'm usually out either really early, or about 10am, depending on whether I'm going home or straight to work). However, you can still use park admission on your room key until it expires (14 days from first use without the no expiration option). You can also use the resort pool and go to evening EMH, and use any remaining dining credits, up until midnight of check out day. So it's sort of a rolling deactivation.

Very Good, but there are exceptions to that rule (e.g., Housekeeping are behind in getting all of the rooms in a timely manner, which would allow guests to re-enter the room(s) to fetch belongings left behind.