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[akleos]

How many Passporter's use a lanyard and what do you use it for? Pin collecting? Keep your annual pass to room key in a waterproof pocket attached to it? Clip a water bottle to it?

I saw a lady with short hair wearing a big Passporter badge on her lanyard at MGM during our stay in early December, but I was too shy to approach her. She must have thought I was nuts, though, because I kept staring at her like she was a rock star!!! She looked pretty sassy wearing her lanyard (are you out there, mystery person???)

[Jookiba]

I wear one to store my KTTW card, cash, debit card, fastpasses, etc.

It's really convenient-just gotta hold onto it when riding fast stuff like RnRc, BTMRR, etc.

[koalamom]

We all have the pin lanyards - to collect, not swap. I all of the ones I buy! I only wear mine occasionally though as it is now pretty loaded down and heavy!

We also all have drink lanyards - those that they sell at each park that you can hang your water bottle or Coke bottle from.

[WillCAD]

I don't collect pins, but I have been wearing a lanyard with ID pouch for some years, usually something similar to this:


I use it to carry my park pass, room key, fastpasses, and sometimes gift cards.

Recently I moved the pouch off the lanyard and onto my camera harness, so that it doesn't get tangled, but the pouch is important to carry all that stuff for me.

[valegirl5292]

I use mine to display my pins and I have a plastic holder attached to it to keep my KTTW cards and fast passes.

[piratefreak]

We all wear one in our group...mine has pouch for money, cards etc but we all wear our pins on them. The only bad thing is they are now pretty heavy and then tend to itch my neck when it gets really hot.

[Nala]

DD has one that she wears for pin trading with CMs. However, many times it ends up on DH's neck as she gets tired of wearing it!

[JennyM]

We wear them. I use mine with a pouch to carry our Keys to the World cards & fast passes. I also have some charms on it and maybe a few special pins! I have bought a new one each time since I love the designs and we have only been 3 times! I am using one of my old ones for my keys now. My daughter wears one sometimes with pins but she usually doesn't. My son wears one...sometimes two...depending on how many pins he wants to wear and his are loaded with pins! They must weigh a ton! He will have a very strong neck!

[GoofyMom]

I usually end up carrying my pintrading lanyard and my PassPorter pouch in my little backpack. I don't like having the weight around my neck all day.

[Colexis Mom]

I wear my PP pouch (I'd highly recommend it if you don't have one). I keep our passes, FPs, cash, IDs, and credit cards in it I also wear pin lanyards, depending on the time of year of our trip (not in the summer....too hot)! I wear my PP pin on my PP pouch

[wvugrrrl]

We wear our lanyards to hold the pins we collect, with big lanyard medallions hanging from the end of it. We're like Koalamom - we our pins too, and don't really trade them.
However, inevitably before the end of the day, my neck starts to hurt, or it gets itchy, or I get that burning sensation between my shoulder blades, and the lanyard goes off and either around DBF's neck, or in my backpack.

[happyhedgehogs]

I found some lanyards on Ebay a few weeks ago, which we plan to use when we go in May. They are Disney-themed, and they include a zippered pouch on the end which can be unclipped if needed. I plan to use the lanyards to carry our pins for trading, and the pouches will hold our key cards and the kids' gift cards with the souvenir money they've saved. They were around $6 each; shipping was a bit high but not terribly unreasonable.

On our last trip, we wore the lanyards that hold water bottles. I don't know if we'll bother with these again, or just share one bottle at a time and keep it in the stroller.

[twogirlsmom]

My mom & I wore our PP pouches and at first thought we'd look like big dorks. But after a few days we found out they were SO useful for carrying all the important stuff. I never carried my wallet the whole time- kept it locked in the room safe. I had one lady at Pop Century who was just mesmerized by the fact that I had everything I needed in there and didn't really need much else.

[JoanneS]

The Passporter pouch rocks! I used one for the first time on our last Disney trip just before Christmas. Everything you need (money, fastpasses, key to the world cards, etc.) is all in one easy to access place. It leaves your hands free too. By the second day, I was brave enough not to carry anything else and entering the parks became a breeze without any bags to check. Thank you Passporter!

[jimmymac]

No, not a lanyard person at all