ID for age at parks?
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ID for age at parks?
| Tue, 09-05-2006 - 4:25pm |
I was reading a post below about pools and I notice the issue of age and tickets came up...We planned our trip based on ages to save money. Our trip is begins November 18 and ends the 28. My two year old (free) turns 3 Dec. 10th....Our 9 year old (child ticket) turns 10 November 30...Should I bring birth certificates to avoid a problem? I really dislike the idea of toting birth certificate around for 10 days.
Our 2 year old is tall (95th percentile). Our oldest who's almost 10 I guess is average size. Ages of all children at the time of trip will be 9,8,6,2 and 14 months. Do you think we will draw attention? We already have all of our passes.
TIA
Tera


I have been to Disney 13 times with various family members and not once was ever questioned about ages, nor have I ever seen anyone questioned. I don't think you'll have a problem at all.
Lisa
I have a very large middle child. He is going to be 5, but looks 7. We went when he was 2 and 3 and never had any questions asked.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Sarah
It's my post you're referring to. Disney does not hassle you about it, and whether or not the age is even brought up depends on the cast member at the turnstile (much like how well your bag is searched depends on the security gaurd, we've had everything from pulling things out to touch/see the bottom of the bag to glancing *at* but not *in* the bag and everything in between.) If the cast member thinks your child is older than the ticket (or lack of) suggests all they do is talk to the child. And not in a way that would make anyone uncomfortable. Stuff like "Good morning princess! how are you? Are you excited to be here?" etc and draw them into conversation. Most people would never even consider this asking for proof of age. They can tell approx age by the conversation of the little ones and if you think about it how often do complete strangers at the mall, the grocery store, the library, the park etc ask your children how old they are? It's absolutely nothing to worry about and I didn't mean to alarm anyone. If you're following the rules you're totally fine, no worries, Hakuna Mattata. If you are attempting to blatenly pass off a 4 yo as a 2 yo it's going to be obvious in everyone's body language, parents jumping in and not allowing the child to answer, or correcting a child's answer "no sweetie you're not 4 *yet* remember, you're only 2, (nervous laugh)" stuff like that.
Thank you. I was starting to worry because we're cutting it so close on the ages.
Again, as Sonya said, I wouldn't worry about
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