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So, we're headed down to the World in early October for a couple of days of our fall break, including MNSSHP. We have a package beginning on October 8, and since we drive, we generally get a room along the road for the first night. We're dropping off my mom south of Atlanta for a visit with family, and then Joel and I will be traveling on.
I started to look at hotels, and that's when I realized that weekend is a home football game for the Florida Gators. LSU is in Gainesville that weekend, so all the hotels are sky high. There's availability, but I'd rather drive on past the throng of football fans that will occupy north central Florida that evening, October 7.
So, I checked, and for literally $5 more, we can stay at All-Star Music for the night, and it's only two hours farther, so I booked it, room only.
I'm getting to my point. I declined the set of Magic Bands that would've come with the room only. We are getting new bands for our package, which starts the next day at All-Star Movies. I checked on MDE, and they already show as active. I hope this is true. Will they work for the room only at Music and then the next day at Movies, too? Last time we did this kind of thing, we got two sets of bands, but I'm trying to not collect too many this time, and here's my real hope...to be able to go straight to the room at Music and skip the front desk. I want that band to work on the Music door.
Long answer: All MagicBands that are active in your MyDisneyExperience account will access any and all functions, including door locks and room charging when you check into a WDW resort. Doesn't matter where you got any particular MagicBand - whether it came free with the current reservation, or you had it left over from a previous reservation, or you bought it online or at WDW, or you got it free with an Annual Pass. They're all the same, and they all do everything, as long as they're properly linked to your MDX account and are active.
Whether active MB or not I'd think you still need to check in at the desk when you get to ASMu.
Not necessarily. If you have done the online room registration and given them an email or text number, you might be good to go. When the room is ready, they will send you and email and/or text with the information and room number. With that you can go straight to the room. That will not, however, give you a parking pass for your car. You would have to go to guest services to get that.
Not necessarily. If you have done the online room registration and given them an email or text number, you might be good to go. When the room is ready, they will send you and email and/or text with the information and room number. With that you can go straight to the room. That will not, however, give you a parking pass for your car. You would have to go to guest services to get that.
Good point about the parking pass. I hadn't thought of that. I kind of just wanted to park and head to the room, and I did give them my mobile number and a credit card number when I did online checkin.
I'll plan to swing by the desk to get the parking pass. Maybe they can issue that for our entire stay. Here's hopin'.
I was logging on to ask this exact question! We are doing a one night stay at All-Star Sports before moving to AKL because the All-Star room was cheaper than the hotel we usually stay at on the way down. Although, I think we WILL take the extra magic bands - my daughter made the point that it would be great to have extra colors so we can match them to our outfits! I'm not sure where she got the "matching" idea since she is famously mismatched whenever she gets dressed! Maybe she just wants to make sure she doesn't end up accidentally matching
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Good point about the parking pass. I hadn't thought of that. I kind of just wanted to park and head to the room, and I did give them my mobile number and a credit card number when I did online checkin.
I'll plan to swing by the desk to get the parking pass. Maybe they can issue that for our entire stay. Here's hopin'.
My last couple of stays I was given the parking pass when I stopped at the gate and showed my drivers license.
We had room only the night before our package started and the night after it ended. We had to go to the desk and check in after online check in because they didn't send me a text even though I had everything entered. I was told we would then have to come down and check out and then check back in (we got the same room for our package) so our package would be active. The guy said our tickets wouldn't work if we didn't so make sure to come back. I would think they would be able to link everything together a little better. The night after was much smoother.
Not necessarily. If you have done the online room registration and given them an email or text number, you might be good to go. When the room is ready, they will send you and email and/or text with the information and room number. With that you can go straight to the room. That will not, however, give you a parking pass for your car. You would have to go to guest services to get that.
Note for those with an out of country cell phone number... A cast member told me that I needed to check in even though it gave me the option to get a text message because of my cell # being out of country.
(edit) We had to check in to find out our room for our package after we had been to the park and after our 'room only' the previous night. Our 'room only' magic bands got us into the park but a glitch happened and they ended up getting our package magic bands to get us into our room.
Since we're Canadian our bands for both reservations were waiting for us at the resort. (not sure why the system made it so we had to have bands for both reservation but...c'est la vie)
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Note for those with an out of country cell phone number... A cast member told me that I needed to check in even though it gave me the option to get a text message because of my cell # being out of country.
That makes sense plus if you don't have magic bands from a previous trip you will have to pick them up at check in too.
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