Can APs be used as room keys?

[sbkline]

On our next trip, we decided not to do the MYW room & ticket package with dining plan. Instead, we decided to get APs to use for our next two annual trips and get a TiW card for dining. So the downside of that is that it seems we will have alot more cards to keep track of. When it was just my wife, my son and I, we had a total of 3 cards. Next year, we will be taking our daughter, but she will be young enough to get into the parks free.

If I'm counting correctly, we will have a total of 6 cards to keep track of:

3 Annual Passes
2 Room Key Cards (I don't imagine my 5 year old son has any need for his own room key card LOL)
1 Table in Wonderland Card

Rather than have to keep track of all those cards, is it possible to encode the room key part onto our APs, thus eliminating two of the cards?

 

[maxairmike]

Do you constantly put them right up against handheld electronics or the stripes facing and touching each other? It isn't going to happen anywhere close to every time, but those situations can result in the mag strips going bad. It is odd though that the paper mag strips seem to hold up better than their plastic counterparts.

 

[Zummi Gummi]

The first time I ever got an AP, I was disappointed it was just a piece of paper. I wanted a fancy plastic pass!! Heck, growing up, even Six Flags season passes were plastic and had your picture on it!

However, I've never had an issue with mine in all the years I've had it. It holds up remarkably well. I even "tested" my old pass one year- tried ripping it, putting it in the bathtub, etc. It survived every test I gave it.

 

[menamechris]

The first time I ever got an AP, I was disappointed it was just a piece of paper. I wanted a fancy plastic pass!! Heck, growing up, even Six Flags season passes were plastic and had your picture on it!

I thought so too the first year I was a passholder. Then one year I I realized at the turnstile I had accidently left my pass at home. I was blown away how easy it was to just show the cast member at guest relations my license and a new pass popped out. It has been a lifesaver on several occasions for me that Disney goes the simplest, easiest route on this..

 

[TOTGuy]

It can be done, and I have seen it with my own eyes. There is a catch, you have to be staying Concierge level at deluxe resort. The concierge in the concierge lounge is able to put AP on your key to the world card.

No the system will not allow Annual Passes to be put onto room keys. Even if it did work it wouldn't display anything that states its an AP so you can't get a discount by showing it.

They are working towards being able to purchase APs at resorts. Right now the front desk system doesn't talk to the ticketing system enough to pass the information obtained at a resort concierge to the main database. AKA if you lost your AP they wouldn't be able to look it up.

The advantage for having the paper ones is that Disney does not charge to replace APs unlike another Orlando park...:lookaroun

 

[Master Yoda]

Do you constantly put them right up against handheld electronics or the stripes facing and touching each other? It isn't going to happen anywhere close to every time, but those situations can result in the mag strips going bad. It is odd though that the paper mag strips seem to hold up better than their plastic counterparts.

I don't treat them any different than the myriad of other cards I have.

 

[Jeffxz]

It can be done, and I have seen it with my own eyes. There is a catch, you have to be staying Concierge level at deluxe resort. The concierge in the concierge lounge is able to put AP on your key to the world card.

This is not limited to the Concierge level. You can take your paper AP ticket to any resort ticket desk and they can transfer it to a plastic card. It is the same plastic card as the KTTW key, but your AP and room key cannot be combined on the same card.