Can I go to the “No Bags Security” with a tiny purse?

[SG131]

I’m bumping because this is a great question! I carry a very small sling bag to hold my Hydroflask, but have a couple of those water bottle slings. Never thought about that instead...

= bag line.

I actually regularly go through the bagless line with a sling bag. I purposely bought a sling bag with no metal on it and wear capris with nice deep pockets. I put the bag in my pocket empty until I go through security and other small items like my pills and sunglasses in my pocket. I look silly for about 5 minutes then after I'm through security I transfer everything to the bag.

 

[1lilspark]

When I don’t bring a backpack I normally cary an iPhone wristlet normally if I keep the one zipper unzipped showing my cards and tilt my phone up so they see that nothing else is in the narrow phone pocket I’m okay in the no bag line .... have only ever been told to go to the bag line once with that bag at Epcot during food and wine season

 

[kiddo76]

I actually regularly go through the bagless line with a sling bag. I purposely bought a sling bag with no metal on it and wear capris with nice deep pockets. I put the bag in my pocket empty until I go through security and other small items like my pills and sunglasses in my pocket. I look silly for about 5 minutes then after I'm through security I transfer everything to the bag.

It sounds like it would be easier just to put everything in the sling bag to begin with and go through the bag line.

 

[kiford]

I think if it's in your pocket then you should be OK going thru the bag-less line.

I've seen them pull people aside trying to go through the bagless line if they think there's a lot of stuff in the pockets - both male and female. Sometimes they're sent through the metal detector, other times they've been directed to the bag check line. It's not consistent, but it's not a given that stuff in pockets means bagless line.

 

[SG131]

I've seen them pull people aside trying to go through the bagless line if they think there's a lot of stuff in the pockets - both male and female. Sometimes they're sent through the metal detector, other times they've been directed to the bag check line. It's not consistent, but it's not a given that stuff in pockets means bagless line.

AK was the only park that the security guards were a bit skeptical, but they didn't send me back. I do end up through the metal detector sometimes, but I have my metallic stuff all in one pocket so it's a pretty quick process.

 

[CampbellzSoup]

A knife can fit in a pocket too.

And...?

 

[Disneylover99]

They should have a pocketless shirt/pant security line.

 

[ErinsMommy]

And...?

The post questioned if OP can go through security with a tiny bag and you responded you can put a knife in a tiny bag - so what does that have to do with whether she can pass through bagless security with a tiny bag or not if she can just as easily put a knife in her pocket?

 

[JennyDrake]

I really think it depends on the particular security person. About a month ago, at AK, I went through the no-bag line (I truly wasn’t carrying anything). At the same time, a woman with something small, as described by OP, also went through that same no-bag line. She held the wallet up, spread wide-open, and the security person nodded and waved her through. I was very surprised, as I had thought, like PPs, that any bag had to go through bag-check.

EXACTLY. I've carried a string wallet (which is what you re describing for 5 years). As a rule, I *always* go through the bag line and I'd say 20% of the time the security person just waves through or even looks annoyed that I'm in THAT line......

IF you can put it in a pocket, then by all means do so...

 

[JennyDrake]

I really think it depends on the particular security person. About a month ago, at AK, I went through the no-bag line (I truly wasn’t carrying anything). At the same time, a woman with something small, as described by OP, also went through that same no-bag line. She held the wallet up, spread wide-open, and the security person nodded and waved her through. I was very surprised, as I had thought, like PPs, that any bag had to go through bag-check.

EXACTLY. I've carried a string wallet (which is what you re describing for 5 years). As a rule, I *always* go through the bag line and I'd say 20% of the time the security person just waves through or even looks annoyed that I'm in THAT line......

IF you can put it in a pocket, then by all means do so...

 

[Princess Mulan]

It depends upon the security person. At WDW and other venues, I use a phone carrier that will fit only an iPhone and a credit card. If I wait in the bag check line, sometimes the security guard will tell me I should’ve gone through the bagless line. If I go to the bagless gate, sometimes the guard will send me to the back of the bag check line.

 

[DWillowBay]

NOPE. If it's not a pocket, it's a bag!

 

[Jennasis]

I use something like this

It has a snap/clip on the ring . When I get to bag check, it goes in my pocket like a wallet and I go through the no-bag line. After, I take it out and clip it to my belt loop.

 

[cgattis]

= bag line.

Yes, I know. Wondered if I could use the sling instead and it NOT be considered a bag.

 

[cgattis]

Why not carry the water bottle in your hand and the strap in your pocket? Then just put it together once through the gates.

Ah—genius. Next trip where I don’t a camera or “girl stuff,” I’m SO doing this.

 

[prisjoyce]

In Dec I carried a small handheld wallet through the IG into Epcot. The wallet was so small I couldn’t fit my iPhone in it, but I had no pockets, so it was in my hand. The security guard not only insisted I go through the bag line, he opened the wallet & searched through it. I was a little surprised by the search, considering that has never happened to my husband, whose wallet is of comparable size.
I would say better safe than sorry- either fit it in a pocket or head to bag check.
Enjoy your trip!

 

[CT Disney]

I think they really do lack consistency with how they treat women’s wallets vs men’s wallets.

Also, when we were there last week, every time we had our bags checked they took out our glasses cases, opened them and looked inside. First of all, I don’t love them touching my sunglasses for sanitary reasons. But also, doesn’t that mean than everyone who enters with a glasses case should go through the bag line too? Why should my glasses case get opened up, but not the guy who shoves his glasses case in a pocket??

 

[okilydokily]

I used to go through the no bag line with a fanny pack on all the time. Nobody ever said anything. But it also seems they are more stringent these days.

 

[mckennarose]

I've gone through the no bag line with my empty popcorn bucket. I just had the top off so they could see inside.

I have done this with an empty popcorn bucket also. I asked the guard standing in front of bag check at AK and he waved me through to the no bag line.

I think they really do lack consistency with how they treat women’s wallets vs men’s wallets.

Also, when we were there last week, every time we had our bags checked they took out our glasses cases, opened them and looked inside. First of all, I don’t love them touching my sunglasses for sanitary reasons. But also, doesn’t that mean than everyone who enters with a glasses case should go through the bag line too? Why should my glasses case get opened up, but not the guy who shoves his glasses case in a pocket??

I always open my glasses case and hold it open to show the bag checker as soon as I put my bag on the table. I've done it for years since they first started the intense bag checking and I was asked the first time to open it.

 

[ChimneyJim]

I can put more in my cargo shorts than many of these bags that get searched.