KonaKaiTom
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Good Morning my Grand friends. I hope you all had a Merry Christmas (or a wonderful holiday that you do celebrate). Mine was tough as mom fell at her nursing home around 1am on the 22nd -- and we had to deal with her and her broken hip -- poor woman went through a nightmare -- but we got her back to the nursing home in time for her 93rd birthday, which is Christmas day -- to her that is "home" and she desperately wanted out of the hospital.
Anyhow. To my split stayer friends, can someone confirm the following for me? Two of us are arriving at the GF on the 1st of February, 3 more will be arriving in the early evening on the 4th. On the 5th we leave the GF for the luxury of 2 bathrooms in an AOA family suite in Cars. While I'm diligently attending my conference on the 5th, in order for the vacationers magic bands to work, I assume I need to drive over to AOA when I get up in the morning, and "check in." Once I do that, the kids can get up, go have breakfast (I'm assuming at that point they can't charge to the GF room anymore) and then off to the parks, is that correct?
TIA,
Tom
Anyhow. To my split stayer friends, can someone confirm the following for me? Two of us are arriving at the GF on the 1st of February, 3 more will be arriving in the early evening on the 4th. On the 5th we leave the GF for the luxury of 2 bathrooms in an AOA family suite in Cars. While I'm diligently attending my conference on the 5th, in order for the vacationers magic bands to work, I assume I need to drive over to AOA when I get up in the morning, and "check in." Once I do that, the kids can get up, go have breakfast (I'm assuming at that point they can't charge to the GF room anymore) and then off to the parks, is that correct?
TIA,
Tom
I haven't posted in quite a while either and don't know what's going on with anybody or who's been lately. Hope you get to make plans for 2016 to do so!! 
It's a crap shoot to get a turret room, so I have no idea how I have always been lucky enough to get one with a MK view...except that maybe it's the time of year I go without my kids (a bit slower?). I've always said they should make the turret room a bookable category, but then they would raise the price on those rooms, and it would probably price me out of it
As for the magic band question, that sounds like a very complicated situation! Do you have a different magic band for each hotel? We have AP, so our tickets are tied to every band we own...so we wouldn't bother checking into the other resort until we are ready. But if your tickets for the 5th are tied to the MBs for AOA, that could be a problem. Also, I don't think you can check into AOA until you have checked out of GF which would leave your family without access to the room at GF. If you guys have AP, don't worry about checking into AOA until your family is ready to check out of GF. I know you used to be able to buy 10 days worth of park tickets on a reservation even if you were only staying at the Disney hotel for a few days...you just couldn't have the tickets start before your Disney hotel stay. So, if you don't have AP, maybe all the tickets will be linked to the GF band until you check into AOA...in which case, you would NOT want to check into AOA before your conference. I'm sorry I didn't really answer your question...I guess I was kinda just thinking out loud -LOL. I would definitely call Disney to confirm! Or maybe someone else who doesn't have AP but has done a split stay can better answer your question??
I am not sure about the split stay part. But I think that is correct that you can no longer charge to your room after check-out.
