Just got back yesterday from an 8-night trip. Going into the trip I had a couple hypotheses I wanted to try out to see if the MDE system operated the way I presumed it did.
One of these was to see if our admission tickets would work to get into the room, since they show as RFID cards linked to our MDE profiles, and having a "pointer" to the profile was all that was needed. Sure enough, they did. All the park tickets (purchased from a ticket reseller) worked for both of our rooms at both resorts we stayed at. It also worked for the RFID card left over from my AP that expired a year ago.
The only oddity was that the park ticket for my friend who left a few days earlier than the rest of us didn't work on our departure day. It *might* be because it was only a 5-day ticket and all the days had been used up, whereas the rest of us still had one more day left on our tickets to be used that day, but I'm not sure.
Now that those tickets have been fully used up, I'll be interested to see if I can use those tickets to get into the rooms on future trips or not.
So the bottom line is that people wanting to get an RFID card from the hotel to use instead of the MagicBand may not have to deal with asking the front desk to do that in the first place, as long as they have another RFID card linked to their profile.
-Rob
One of these was to see if our admission tickets would work to get into the room, since they show as RFID cards linked to our MDE profiles, and having a "pointer" to the profile was all that was needed. Sure enough, they did. All the park tickets (purchased from a ticket reseller) worked for both of our rooms at both resorts we stayed at. It also worked for the RFID card left over from my AP that expired a year ago.
The only oddity was that the park ticket for my friend who left a few days earlier than the rest of us didn't work on our departure day. It *might* be because it was only a 5-day ticket and all the days had been used up, whereas the rest of us still had one more day left on our tickets to be used that day, but I'm not sure.
Now that those tickets have been fully used up, I'll be interested to see if I can use those tickets to get into the rooms on future trips or not.
So the bottom line is that people wanting to get an RFID card from the hotel to use instead of the MagicBand may not have to deal with asking the front desk to do that in the first place, as long as they have another RFID card linked to their profile.
-Rob