I have been to WDW many, many, many times, and I live in Orlando and know many more people who are park regulars and none of them have ever herd of this, and I promise it is true.
I was at WDW this weekend. My mother and I went to EPCOT mid-afternoon, and we entered through the Int. Gateway. My mother was ahead of me and went to the shorter of the two lines. Something occured with the party in front of us and there was a discussion between them and two CMs. They were eventually admitted through a handicap/stroller gate, not through a turnstyle. My Mother just followed them with her ticket out, and I was expecting her to be directed to insert her ticket into the adjacent turnstyle, but insted the CM just looked at her ticket and said go on, and allowed her to pass through the gate. I was behind with my ticket also out and was told to do the same. I assumed the turnstyle had malfunctioned and they were going to take our tickets or something but it quickly became clear that we had been admitted into the park. Our tickets were not scanned, and thus we basically got into the park without media. I am just curious to see if anyone has ever herd of this, and I also want to make a few points so as to prevent this from becomming an attack of my gaining free admission.
1) My ticket was an annual pass so I didn't actually get in free, although my mom did intend to burn a day on a 4 day park-hopper with no exp. date.
2) We have been to Disney countless times and always stay on property, and I am a shareholder, so I don't feel we duped the company.
3) We are not con-artists.
Oh and one last thing, we did not try to utilyze FP at all, in case you were curious.
I was at WDW this weekend. My mother and I went to EPCOT mid-afternoon, and we entered through the Int. Gateway. My mother was ahead of me and went to the shorter of the two lines. Something occured with the party in front of us and there was a discussion between them and two CMs. They were eventually admitted through a handicap/stroller gate, not through a turnstyle. My Mother just followed them with her ticket out, and I was expecting her to be directed to insert her ticket into the adjacent turnstyle, but insted the CM just looked at her ticket and said go on, and allowed her to pass through the gate. I was behind with my ticket also out and was told to do the same. I assumed the turnstyle had malfunctioned and they were going to take our tickets or something but it quickly became clear that we had been admitted into the park. Our tickets were not scanned, and thus we basically got into the park without media. I am just curious to see if anyone has ever herd of this, and I also want to make a few points so as to prevent this from becomming an attack of my gaining free admission.
1) My ticket was an annual pass so I didn't actually get in free, although my mom did intend to burn a day on a 4 day park-hopper with no exp. date.
2) We have been to Disney countless times and always stay on property, and I am a shareholder, so I don't feel we duped the company.
3) We are not con-artists.
Oh and one last thing, we did not try to utilyze FP at all, in case you were curious.
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