Dvc free park parking? Family members ?

[NandP]

Does WDW still offer free park parking for dvc members ? Do they check your ID at the gate? Let's say a family member is holding on to your card while they park?

 

[erionm]

Does WDW still offer free park parking for dvc members ?

Parking at the theme parks is not (and has never been) a member perk.

Free parking at the theme parks is a benefit of staying at a Disney Resort or having an Annual Pass.

 

[NandP]

I am pretty sure I used my card on the past for parking.

 

[supersnoop]

I am pretty sure I used my card on the past for parking.

Then the attendant either didn’t know what they were doing or assumed you were showing your AP card or room key indicating an on-site stay. Parking is an on-site perk, not a member perk. It’s also an AP perk.

 

[wuzzles]

How do they check the hotel reservations? Staying on site but planning to head right to the parks before check in the 1st day so won't have a hotel parking pass to display, but will have magic bands.

 

[bumbershoot]

How do they check the hotel reservations? Staying on site but planning to head right to the parks before check in the 1st day so won't have a hotel parking pass to display, but will have magic bands.

They’ll check the magic bands.

Very few hotels are giving paper parking passes anymore. And the ones that are sometimes don’t lol.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

They’ll check the magic bands.

Very few hotels are giving paper parking passes anymore. And the ones that are sometimes don’t lol.

I so wish they would though - it was faster. This October was the first time we didn't get a paper pass - had been getting them thru April every time even though many had long been reporting they weren't getting them.

 

[crisi]

They’ll check the magic bands.

Very few hotels are giving paper parking passes anymore. And the ones that are sometimes don’t lol.

One of the big advantages to Magicbands to Disney, and one of the reasons they are giving out a relatively expensive piece of equipment, is that they can encode a lot of information that keeps mistakes from being made (as well as fraudulent activity). You can encode DVC resale or direct purchase information. You can encode your AP pass or DVC discounts. Now the system can determine if the band is entitled to the perk (and for some perks, looking at your picture ID might become part of it).

It used to be easy to park using an old hotel key card or an expired annual pass - or a DVC card. The parking attendants were really looking for you to flash a card - very few of them would look closely.

 

[bumbershoot]

But Dvc cards and a room keycard weren’t what they were looking at back to 2010. They were looking at the piece of paper on the dashboard.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

One of the big advantages to Magicbands to Disney, and one of the reasons they are giving out a relatively expensive piece of equipment, is that they can encode a lot of information that keeps mistakes from being made (as well as fraudulent activity). You can encode DVC resale or direct purchase information. You can encode your AP pass or DVC discounts. Now the system can determine if the band is entitled to the perk (and for some perks, looking at your picture ID might become part of it).

It used to be easy to park using an old hotel key card or an expired annual pass - or a DVC card. The parking attendants were really looking for you to flash a card - very few of them would look closely.

The key cards had expiration dates too and if ever used to gain any perk the CM's usually looked at the dates although for hotel guests they were using the paper passes - which of course could be reproduced as well should someone wish to.

A Magic band can also be handed to anyone.

 

[crisi]

The key cards had expiration dates too and if ever used to gain any perk the CM's usually looked at the dates although for hotel guests they were using the paper passes - which of course could be reproduced as well should someone wish to.

A Magic band can also be handed to anyone.

They did, but they weren't scanned. And while we've seldom driven, when we have, no one ever looked at our cards or passes closely.

The magic band can be handed to anyone, but you are handing that person your credit card information as well. And when you scan the MB, you know that the stay is current.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

They did, but they weren't scanned. And while we've seldom driven, when we have, no one ever looked at our cards or passes closely.

The magic band can be handed to anyone, but you are handing that person your credit card information as well. And when you scan the MB, you know that the stay is current.

Purchases require a pin though so it isn't exactly like handing over a credit card. One would also likely just be giving it to a close friend or family who was staying offsite as it would have to be during a time some of the party was onsite.

Just noting that all routes for verifying free parking will have gaps unless they get into photo's linked to your MB's or passes and verified against ID's.

 

[crisi]

Purchases require a pin though so it isn't exactly like handing over a credit card. One would also likely just be giving it to a close friend or family who was staying offsite as it would have to be during a time some of the party was onsite.

Just noting that all routes for verifying free parking will have gaps unless they get into photo's linked to your MB's or passes and verified against ID's.

Yeah, it will, but this makes it harder. No system is perfect, but if scanning a MB is required, parking attendants have less opportunity to wave people through who flash - well anything that looks like it might be an AP or a Disney room key.

(And parking lines get long, and it gets hot out there, and what does the attendant care if Disney puts $20 (or whatever exorbitant fee there is for parking now) into its pocket? They don't make enough to argue with guests. I suspect a lot of Disney's inconsistent application of policy comes down to "CMs don't get paid enough to argue with guests")

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Yeah, it will, but this makes it harder. No system is perfect, but if scanning a MB is required, parking attendants have less opportunity to wave people through who flash - well anything that looks like it might be an AP or a Disney room key.

(And parking lines get long, and it gets hot out there, and what does the attendant care if Disney puts $20 (or whatever exorbitant fee there is for parking now) into its pocket? They don't make enough to argue with guests. I suspect a lot of Disney's inconsistent application of policy comes down to "CMs don't get paid enough to argue with guests")

Here's the other kink though - attendants do still wave people thru. We had that done going into AK during October. Saw the band and waved us thru! There would be the chance that they would scan of course.

 

[crisi]

Here's the other kink though - attendants do still wave people thru. We had that done going into AK during October. Saw the band and waved us thru! There would be the chance that they would scan of course.

My guess is that eventually your MB will be scanned or their must be a cash/credit transaction for the car to be let through (you'll probably still get waved through, but they will put technology in place to make sure that the numbers of cars going through = mb scanned + cash/credit transactions - and if that number doesn't match - with a little give for tech issues - the CM will find themselves unemployed.) Disney isn't going to leave money on the table, and missed parking fees will pay for that technology pretty quickly.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

MB do have short range broadcast if the batteries are okay. That is how ride ohotos work. So it could work for parking scan.

 

[holden]

We received a paper parking pass in June at GF. Displayed it in the dash and we were waived in everywhere.

 

[MinnieGi]

We just returned yesterday from BWV and had a paper resort pass for our car. Had no idea some resorts, we're doing away with that.