POR - shares facilities with FQ so I'm counting them as one.
Then you are wrong. They may be sister resorts, but they are not the
same resort. They used to have one General Manager, now they have one each and completely separate management teams. Dog policies that apply to POR do
not apply to POFQ.
Can you ask your source to speak with Exec team etc. to start getting this communicated to CMs? Everyone is being told differently.
I already did. The situation today is far different than what was envisaged when they announced this program last week, and sadly the level of CM consistency (especially at the call centers) of even long-standing policies is patchy at best. Also, people here are quoting conversations that may have taken place several days ago and may no longer be valid anyway. Equally, things may have changed time and time again by the time you actually get there.
Even that's not fully accurate. Andre said they would try to limit it but if someone came and had booked another room category, they would honor that. So effective policy is a dog can be anywhere.
No, it is NOT "the policy" that a dog can be anywhere. The new policy seems to be that bookings for guests who ask to bring dogs with them are being limited to Standard and Garden View rooms so they can assign those guests to building 24. However that policy was not in place until a few days ago, so people who booked room categories before then, or via online/TA/Expedia/etc which take a while to get updated, or who have not since called the dog-friendly assistance line as requested, could potentially turn up with a dog and thus need accommodating within the buildings that were originally intended to be used (as per the map released last week). My guess is that POR will keep aside a few extra specific rooms in the original 15, 80 and 95 to support any such guests if necessary. However that is not an intended course of action, and may indeed never happen, but it would be negligent for anyone to completely rule the possibility out.
MagicBands are all clones of each other. All a MB does is relay the information in the
MDE account.
Not quite. Each magic band has a unique code number which it transmits to the door lock, turnstile, etc. Those unique numbers are symbolically linked to your My Disney Experience account, which is s how you can link and unlink specific bands from your account (which would not be possible if each band was an exact clone). Whenever any band that has been linked to your master account is detected, the system knows it is you. Off-topic here, but when you check in at the resort, the codes of every valid/linked band that you own are transmitted to the internal storage memory in your room's door-lock, so it can let you into the room without having to connect to the central system every time you tap to enter. This actually started to become an issue when people were amassing tons of bands on one account as the doorlocks only have a finite amount of local storage space and could start to run out of capacity to retain enough band codes at one time.
Andre