Park Re-entry question...

[kates4u]

Gosh I guess I have a lot of questions today! I went to Disneyland with my family yesterday and me being the household Disney-know-it-all I'm bombarded with questions about the park all the time. So here's a question that my family wanted to know that neither I nor the CM we asked could answer. Why do you need a handstamp when you exit the park when you have to swipe your pass to get back in again anyway. I know that it's to prevent people from copying the stamps and putting them on fellow friends and family but what's the point of getting a stamp in the first place if you have to use your park pass again anyway. Thanks for the info!

[Soda]

haha, good question!

[GreenLantern13]

If they didn't stamp your hand with a unique stamp each day, you could just hand your ticket off to someone else on the way out and they get in for the rest of the day for free.

For APs, since they look at your picture on the ticket, the hand stamp isn't checked.

[CA Screamin Dude]

The handstamp is to make sure that you were already in the park that day, and is used with the ticket to prevent against illegal entries to either park. A guest with a Ticket Only either: has just purchased a ticket for the day and thus has not been in the park yet (a guest going through the Main Entrance with this ticket would enter without incident), or has been handed a ticket already used for entry. In this second case, when scanned, the ticket will come back as already used, and a prompt will appear: "Check Handstamp." With no handstamp, there is no guarantee that the guest paid for a park ticket, and will be denied admission. If a guest only has a handstamp, they might have not even had a ticket in the first place, and there is no way for the computer to know a guest has entered the park (the number of swings of the turnstile will conflict with the number of tickets scanned.

[Fantasmike!]

IF you have a Annual pass, you do not need a handstamp becuase your pass has a picture of you on it. Many people still get hand stamps though. Even if you are a cast member and you are playing in the park, you must present your ticket( they give you a blue ticket at main gate) your disney ID, and your hand stamp... Many is the time i got into arguments at main gate becuase i did not show get a hand stamp, and they would threaten to not let me in... But this is dumb considering i could have just checked in backstage, and walked into the park (though you are in reality, not supposed to do that)

Regular tickets need a handstamp upon exiting to get back in...
Annual passes DO NOT need a hand stamp as long as you have a pic on your AP.

[The Forbidden Eye]

IF you have a Annual pass, you do not need a handstamp becuase your pass has a picture of you on it. Many people still get hand stamps though. Even if you are a cast member and you are playing in the park, you must present your ticket( they give you a blue ticket at main gate) your disney ID, and your hand stamp... Many is the time i got into arguments at main gate becuase i did not show get a hand stamp, and they would threaten to not let me in... But this is dumb considering i could have just checked in backstage, and walked into the park (though you are in reality, not supposed to do that)

Regular tickets need a handstamp upon exiting to get back in...
Annual passes DO NOT need a hand stamp as long as you have a pic on your AP.

I'm a premium passholder. I still do the handstamp.

[PeoplemoverMatt]

APs have their choice. I never get the handstamp as I'm impatient & dont want to wait in the line for it. :smile:

-- PMM :cool: