Is is a functioning security entrance open to all guests, regardless of where they are staying.
Thank you @LKing - I had seen that thread however it's now quite out-dated and I remember reading a comment saying that dedicating it to DLH guests was a future possibility. That is why I was asking for recent experience. Have you been a guest at DLH recently and used the entrance? Or, just used the entrance recently as a non-guest?
Yes @LKing - I'm referring to Entrance 2. The last time we stayed in November 2022 we were at the Disneyland Hotel and that was, I believe, the only entrance from that end. #3 might have been there but #1 certainly wasn't. With 1 & 3 now open, I suppose 2 by default becomes DLH's entrance, even if 1 is probably closer for many DLH guests.
Not necessarily. #3 is used primarily for DTD employees. While anyone can walk through that security, it is a bit out of the way for hotel guests. That's why I'm wondering if it is less crowded for EE.
Thanks for sharing. Was this for EE or were you asked to show a room key throughout the day?
This was early entry-I didn’t try going back later.
Are you talking about "Entrance 2" as marked on the visual above. Is this now a dedicated entrance for the Disneyland Hotel.
As the OP and following all the answers here I'm going to say that recent experience with EE at Entrance #2 (Sorcerer's Hat) is dedicated entrance for Disneyland Hotel. Yay!
This is not fact. Your statement is based off of one person saying that they were asked to show a key for EE. Before a statement like this is made, one needs to know if people without keys were actually turned away. And, would keys from PP or GCH be allowed to pass through or is it, as you claim, for DLH only?
Thanks LKing for the photos and info. Its funny isn't it because when all this first started (closure of original gate and construction) there was a lot of talk that this would be become a dedicated hotel entrance. I always thought that the entrance was going to somehow be erected in a fenced area that surrounded the Disneyland Hotel so that the guests there would have more privacy/security and an added perk of their own dedicated entrance to the DTD area. I realise the hotel should still be open to the public so they can come and go to the restaurants etc but I thought for the high price of staying there you wouldn't have to contend with the general public to gain entrance. I mean the price to stay here is only a few dollars less than GCH and they have their own security gates. I also still wish they had dedicated hotel guest entrance gates at the parks. I can't understand why they don't have that at all. Every other Disney park in the world has them. It is just really odd. I don't want to come off as elitist and I understand that DL is predominantly a locals park but there are still a lot of people paying big bucks to stay on property and it should mean just that: "on property". Just sayin.I was at the parks today. I parked in Mickey & Friends/Pixar Pals parking structure and walked to the DTD entrances to see if they changed their policy.
At 8:15 am, this is what entrance #3 looked like.
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I walked in entrance #2. No one asked for a key. I asked both the person checking my bag and the person watching me walk through the scanner if the entrance is ever restricted to hotel guests only. They both said "no." One said that, in the morning, there are a lot of people coming from DLH. I asked if they check keys to make sure people are from the DLH and he said that they did not. The other said that the entrance is open to everyone.
So... this may be yet another thing where YMMV. This was entrance #2 at 8:20. You can tell why they had time to talk to me.
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Once I was in DTD, I walked over to entrance #1 to see how crowded it was. This photo was taken from inside DTD looking towards DLH.
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All guests can use GCH security entrances to DTD and DCA.
Maybe they consider the monorail to be their entrance to the park.
