Digital Key Coming to Walt Disney World Resorts

At Walt Disney World® Resort, the My Disney Experience recently introduced features like mobile order and online check-in that are providing you with additional choices to make your vacation even more enjoyable and convenient. Another exciting app feature has been revealed: a digital key.

This new feature in the My Disney Experience app will allow Guests to quickly unlock their hotel room using a digital key with mobile devices, providing another seamless room entry option that brings added ease and flexibility to your Walt Disney World experience. Disney’s Wilderness Lodge will be the first resort with this new features (and others to follow). 

Guests can also use the digital key to unlock the hotel entrance gate and common area doors requiring a key, which may include pools, fitness centers, elevators and club level lounges. Arriving travel parties that have checked in online may even use their digital key to bypass the need to visit the front desk, giving them the opportunity to go directly to their room when it is ready and start their vacation even faster. (If you prefer, you cans till use your MagicBand to enter your room during your stay).

So how does it work? To use the digital key, Guests can opt in and activate the feature on their check-in day through a brief set up process in the app. To enter their room, Guests tap the “Unlock Door” button and then simply hold their phone against the door lock. Check out the video below to see a sneak peek of the feature in action.

Bluetooth®-enabled mobile devices with the latest version of the My Disney Experience app are required to take advantage of a digital key for room entry.

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Mobile Ordering Now at 15 Walt Disney World Resort Locations

Now, it’s easier than ever to personalize your Walt Disney World® Resort experience through the My Disney Experience app. My Disney Experience continues to add new features – including the new Mobile Order and Online Mobile Check-in at Disney Resort hotels – while still helping you plan your vacation experience and make changes on the go through helpful tools like FastPass+, Disney PhotoPass and more.

The Mobile Order service is now available at 15 locations throughout Walt Disney World theme parks and at Disney Springs®. The new service saves you time when ordering meals at quick-service restaurants by allowing you to order on demand, pay in advance and skip the line, and not have mealtime interfere with time spent enjoying all of the other attractions and experiences throughout the resort. Check our this video for a closer look.

To use Mobile Order, sign in to the My Disney Experience app and tap the “Order Food” button, which lists restaurants that offer the service. Browse restaurant menus, select items, customize your order and prepay, all right through the app. Then, when you arrive at the restaurant, they simply tap “I’m Here, Prepare My Order” in the app, which notifies the kitchen to prepare their meal. When it’s ready, a notification will alert you to pick up your meal from the “Mobile Order Pick Up” area in the restaurant. 

Here are the 15 restaurants that currently offer Mobile Order:

Magic Kingdom® Park:
Columbia Harbour House
Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café
Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn & Cafe
Pinocchio Village Haus
Tomorrowland Terrace Restaurant*

Epcot®:
Electric Umbrella
Liberty Inn

Disney’s Hollywood Studios®:
ABC Commissary
Backlot Express
PizzeRizzo

Disney’s Animal Kingdom® Theme Park:
Flame Tree Barbecue
Pizzafari
Restaurantosaurus
Satu’li Canteen

Disney Springs®:
D-Luxe Burger

*Location operates seasonally.

The only form of payment currently accepted through Mobile Order is credit card, but hopefully more payment options are added soon. Please note, that anyone with special dietary restrictions, or those who want to use discounts or redeem dining plan entitlements must place their order with a cashier.

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I'm a Disney Vacation Planner with hundreds of satisfied clients and I want to help you plan a magical vacation for your family at no extra charge! You won't pay one penny more to book with me but you'll get personalized help, tips, advice and much more (which you're not going to get if you booked on your own).  

Just a few of the few things I'll do for you for FREE: help to find you the perfect Walt Disney World Resort; I'll make your Advance Dining Reservations and Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique Reservations; make your FastPass+ selections; and send you tips and tricks!  

My Disney App has new "Get Directions" Feature!

As of this week, the My Disney Experience app has a brand new feature! You can now navigate Walt Disney World® Resort with the help of the “Get Directions” feature!  

The “Get Directions” feature will help you to conveniently navigate to your Walt Disney World destination whether walking or taking Walt Disney World Resort Transportation. Using GPS navigation, this new feature provides Guests with turn-by-turn walking directions to destinations across the Walt Disney World Resort including Theme Parks, Water Parks, select Walt Disney World Resort Hotels, Disney Springs and many other locations such as Restrooms, Guest Services, shopping locations and more.

So you can now feel free to book that restaurant you've been hesitant to book in the past because you weren't sure of how to get there!  This brand new feature will help you get there! All you have to do is search for where you want to go in the app - for example I picked The California Grill a signature restaurant located at Disney's Contemporary Resort.   

First step: Search for where you're going.

The search feature will pull up a list of places matching what you have searched. Select the place you want to go. For my search, the California Grill was listed first.

My search results.

When it opens up the locations page, there is a new icon "Get Directions" with a walking-man figure. 

Locations now show the 'Get Directions' feature helping you find your way!

When you hit the "Get Directions" options, it will take you to a page where you'll have to enter your current location or turn on your location services. 

Add your starting point.

Then the "Get Directions" feature will tell you how to get there! 

Once your starting point is added, you'll get your directions!

From the Walt Disney World Swan I need to take a bus to Magic Kingdom then a Monorail to Disney's Contemporary! 

Directions on how to get to the California Grill from Walt Disney World Swan.

Just be sure to look up from your phone to avoid an accidents!

Another cool aspect of the “Get Directions” feature is that it will provides transportation route information to and from Parks and select Walt Disney World Resort Hotels, along with bus, monorail and watercraft transit options.
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*Availability subject to device limitations and features may vary by device or service provider. Guests must enable location services on their device to use the functionality.   Message, data and roaming rates may apply.  Coverage and app stores not available everywhere.  If you’re under 18, get your parent’s permission first.  Valid Theme Park and online registration required. 

Memory Maker One Day!

Starting Dec. 15, 2015, a new standalone $59 Memory Maker One Day entitlement product became available for purchase in the My Disney Experience mobile app only, allowing guests to enjoy the benefits of Memory Maker for one day Walt Disney World® Theme Park visits.

Memory Maker One Day can only be purchased during or after your vacation and only if there are Disney PhotoPass photos present in your account.