Spiffy MacSpiff
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2017
That is a good question...and I don’t have an answer! All I can say is my phone case has the plastic case plus the material (fake leather) of the attached wallet between the phone and the card, and I never had any issues. Someone else may know exactly what kind of tech is in the card and if that can interfere with phones.
I just don't know where all you non-lanyard types keep your pins for trading...
If you are doing lots of photos with characters, keep in mind that you will need to pull out your card frequently. Not just show it, but hand it to the photographer to scan - so it had to be out of the plastic sleeve. It was easier for me to just keep handy in my small purse.
We just got off the Fantasy a week ago. Sometimes they would just ask for room number, but at character greets in particular they always asked for the card.Which ship? When? On the Magic in Sept 2019 we only needed to say our room number.
Getting ready for our first cruise on February 3rd and trying to decide if a lanyard is a life-saver or a pain in the neck (literally and figuratively) for the KTTW cards.
Honestly, I have never understood the appeal of lanyards. Does one really save any meaningful amount of time or energy swiping/scanning a KTTW card around their neck vs. just pulling it out of their pocket?
If you don't have any pockets on what you're wearing, then sure. But otherwise, I find lanyards distracting and completely unnecessary.
This is actually why I like having it on a lanyard (or a wrist thing - I didn't think of that for our cruise and wish I had!) by default. I don't have to worry about it if I change into something without pockets, or my swim suit or what have you. And if I do have pockets, I can just stick the lanyard in my pocket (assuming they're big enough - women's pants pockets often aren't).
I wonder how long before DCL joins the wristband key "cards"? I'd upgrade for $5-10.
Radio-Frequency IDs are small chips you can break physically. Old school keycards are magnetic strips (raise your hand if your old enough to know what a cassette tape is) that can be de-magnetized via proximity to certain things.Seconding that the cards have an RFID chip in them. I've had some hotel key cards like it, but the older ones (that you should keep away from phones) are different. These only get wiped out if hit REALLY REALLY HARD.
I only know this because mine somehow got wiped out on our WDW day, and I had to get a new one when we got back to the cruise ship. I asked the guy if it could've been b/c of how I was storing it (by my phone, with other cards, etc) and he said absolutely not - they only stop working if they're hit hard. So I guess it was in a bad place on one of the bumpier rides I went on? Who knows.