Anyone in December getting FP+ and MB

[jb68]

Am waiting with interest to see if anyone checking in Dec 21st onwards is offered MB/FP+ as I read there was a rumour that Disney were going to suspend the trial over the busy Christmas/New Year period
I guess maybe we'll know by the end of next week?

 

[fabulousfive]

My arrival is the first week of Dec. I found Fantasmic but no Wishes or parades. Has anyone found those for Dec2-9 yet?

No, only Fantasmic! as well.

 

[lylone]

45 Days out and we got the option to personalize magic bands today! Woohoo

 

[WANNABE@WDW]

We arrive on December 28th at BWV for 5 nights and then change to BC on Jan 2nd thru the 5th. I was able to customize MB yesterday. I am waiting on pins and needles to see if we can do FP+ after I do online check-in (we are still 71 days out)

 

[Wood Nymph]

I am happy with what I was able to get however really jones-ing for a fp+ for BoG. Really hoping the option pops up at some point. A little frustrated that I have to keep looking for it. Every time I go in to check I'm paranoid I will loose all that I have.

Very excited that I get to try this out.

Where do you have to check for the BOG fp+ will it be listed in the same area as the rides? We are going Dec 7-14 and have most our fp in place but would love to do that!

You have to go to a different website for BOG reservations.

https://beourguestlunch.disney.go.com

I was able to get Nov 30th but none of the December dates were open yet. I've heard that they open 30 days out.

How did you get illuminations? Did you have to start from scratch to see it?

I think that fp+ for Illuminations is only offered for the weekends.

My arrival is the first week of Dec. I found Fantasmic but no Wishes or parades. Has anyone found those for Dec2-9 yet?

We have Nov 30 to Dec 5th and haven't seen Wishes or parades yet, either. Maybe it will open on Nov 1st.

Hi!

You have to do online check in I think for the magic band option to pop up.

But you can always call ahead with your room requests. Online check in doesn't have a bearing on that. We've done that before and I got what I wanted.

I know that I didn't have to do online check in for our Nov 30th date, but it seems like a lot of December people haven't been able to customize their MB's unless they modify check in. I wonder if Disney changed things a bit for this December roll out.

 

[erionm]

We arrive on December 28th at BWV for 5 nights and then change to BC on Jan 2nd thru the 5th. I was able to customize MB yesterday. I am waiting on pins and needles to see if we can do FP+ after I do online check-in (we are still 71 days out)

You do not need to complete on-line check-in to be able to make FP+ selections. You only need to have park admission linked for each person (ages 3 and up) linked in MDX to make FP+ selections.

 

[DvF Diva]

I see the option to customize MBs for a DVC trip I have reserved for June.
Neither my March nor my January trips show up.

I called MDE a few days ago to see if they could help me figure out what was going on. CM logged into my account.
After I (we) confirmed my shipping address on the MB page, I was sent to a page to customize said June MBs, but the only color option shown was grey. The CM took my customization info, colors and names, for Jan trip MBs and told me they'd set it up.

I got an email the following day that my MBs were ready to customize for my beginning of Jan trip. When I logged into MDE, I confirmed shipping address for Jan MBs, but still was only given grey color options when I clicked on "Customize". I call MDE back and they don't know why it is happening, so they reopened the trouble ticket. They also said they'd look into why March trip is not showing, since June is later and already showing.

All three reservations (Jan, Mar, Jun) are linked to my MDE account, so it is weird that MB info only shows up for the June trip.

They are all sorts of IT problems with MDE. I've been using MDE for almost a year now and it has never worked properly. There were major dining reservation problems yesterday, too, where I'd make a reservation, system would crash, time slot was gone, I'd see a confirmation number on my MDE page, then reservation disappeared. I called and after 30 min, someone picked up. MDE somehow made and cancelled those reservations within minutes of each other. WHAT is going on?!?!? At least we were able to rebook the lost reservations.
*sigh*

 

[LauraLap]

Am waiting with interest to see if anyone checking in Dec 21st onwards is offered MB/FP+ as I read there was a rumour that Disney were going to suspend the trial over the busy Christmas/New Year period
I guess maybe we'll know by the end of next week?

Man, I will be so sad if this is true

 

[buni88]

Ok so stupid question. I am on the website for the BOG fast pass and it asks for the resort reservation ID. Where do I find this? We are at the Poly. (I don't think I have had enough coffee this morning!) Thanks!

 

[pouncingpluto]

Unless something has changed in the last few days, you do not need to do online checkin in order to get magicbands.

I have two sets of MB's from two different trips and I did not do online checkin for either trip.

I did have to. I was able to select FP+ but not to customize magic bands. I asked on here if that was strange and someone told me to try checking in online. I did that, and immediately I was able to customize magic bands for both of our check-ins (12/12 and 12/14).

 

[mgrayar]

Ok so stupid question. I am on the website for the BOG fast pass and it asks for the resort reservation ID. Where do I find this? We are at the Poly. (I don't think I have had enough coffee this morning!) Thanks!

Look on you MDE account and go to my reservations. It may also be on MExp tags or you can use you MB confirmation.

 

[IlovePumbaa]

I'm 12/15 - 12/16 so maybe not loaded yet.

I got 12/14... Hope you get it.

 

[dsnydaddy]

So, it appears that the online checkin now does have something to do with MB's. Yesterday, I was 70 days out and nothing. Today I am 69 days out and Magically, Edna's intro video pops up on the MDE page. Cool. The site seems to be prepping me for that 60 day timeframe

 

[buni88]

Look on you MDE account and go to my reservations. It may also be on MExp tags or you can use you MB confirmation.

Thank you! I would have never found it! Had to go into MB to find it.

 

[MouseMomx2]

We arrive on December 28th at BWV for 5 nights and then change to BC on Jan 2nd thru the 5th. I was able to customize MB yesterday. I am waiting on pins and needles to see if we can do FP+ after I do online check-in (we are still 71 days out)

That is interesting. We check in to BWV on 12/27 and do not have the ability to customize MBs yet. I wonder if anyone else checking in more than 60 days out can customize yet.

Perhaps Disney is starting to send out bands only for those that don't already have them. We all have at least one band already so it will be interesting to see if we are prompted to customize more at our 60 day mark.

 

[erionm]

Perhaps Disney is starting to send out bands only for those that don't already have them. We all have at least one band already so it will be interesting to see if we are prompted to customize more at our 60 day mark.

Have MagicBands from a 10/3 stay and I have an open order for MagicBands for our 12/6 check-in at SSR.

Posts on another board from a person who's spouse works for Disney says that Disney will continue to send out new MagicBands for each reservation.

 

[patman2011]

Posts on another board from a person who's spouse works for Disney says that Disney will continue to send out new MagicBands for each reservation.

Man for the amount of money I am plunking down for this vacation I should be getting a platinum band every time I show up.

 

[dpuck1998]

We arrive on December 28th at BWV for 5 nights and then change to BC on Jan 2nd thru the 5th. I was able to customize MB yesterday. I am waiting on pins and needles to see if we can do FP+ after I do online check-in (we are still 71 days out)

Are you staying on DVC points? I arrive the 21st and dont' see anywhere to customize bands. I have my APs linked already but if I click on magic bands it just shows me my APs.

 

[Donald_Quackers]

Are you staying on DVC points? I arrive the 21st and dont' see anywhere to customize bands. I have my APs linked already but if I click on magic bands it just shows me my APs.

I'm staying on points, arrive 12/6 and was able to setup magicbands and FP+.

 

[WANNABE@WDW]

We are booked directly through Disney for BWV (not points). When I first made the reservation, I was not able to do anything special (mb or fp+). I just happened to be messing around last night on MDE and I saw the customize MB. I clicked on it expecting one of the messages about "linking friends/ family" or "one of your party has to be in the allowed time...", but it actually let me customize and order all four of our bands. I have until Nov 27 to modify the order. I was surprised it let me do all four, because the friend of dd's doesn't have a ticket linked yet (we, (2) dd's and I are are PAP holders and our new vouchers were linked two weeks ago but the friend will just be purchasing an 8 day hopper). The MB must be linked directly to our room reservation, not the ticket medium, because it let me order for all four people listed on our reservation.