AP Holder...Staying OnSite...Future Question...

[TwoCortWort]

My dad and I are staying All-Stars Sports in March for my birthday and we are out of state AP holders and so our bands will be linked to our AP (assuming I understood the CM I talked to about this). BUT in the future, will we be able to use our bands assuming the AP will eventually switch over? My mom is not coming on this trip and this just got me to thinking. They can't even tell us WHEN the switch is coming over and IF we can use our AP cards for ticket FP's. LOL This is all confusing!

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

My dad and I are staying All-Stars Sports in March for my birthday and we are out of state AP holders and so our bands will be linked to our AP (assuming I understood the CM I talked to about this). BUT in the future, will we be able to use our bands assuming the AP will eventually switch over? My mom is not coming on this trip and this just got me to thinking. They can't even tell us WHEN the switch is coming over and IF we can use our AP cards for ticket FP's. LOL This is all confusing!

I'm not really sure what you are asking. Your AP is linked to your band. You use your bad to get into the parks. It already switched over.

 

[bumbershoot]

Yes this has already happened. While planning for our October trip I linked APs to mydisneyexperience. We had an onsite stay with MBs. Our MBs from that trip are still active. We just had a trip this month, got more MBs (we had four separate reservations so got four MBs for each of us) and every MB is active and able to be used for admission and getting FP+s. I'm not onsite now but I could make FP+ reservations for tomorrow if I felt like it. Once you have that onsite stay its all good. That's how it is working now at least!

 

[MOM POPPINS]

Do your old magic bands remain active even when they issue another one? So you actually have 2 magic bands to use?

 

[jimandami]

Do your old magic bands remain active even when they issue another one? So you actually have 2 magic bands to use?

Yes

 

[WDWChloe]

Do your old magic bands remain active even when they issue another one? So you actually have 2 magic bands to use?

yes, you my login into MDE and activate/deactivate which band you'd like to use that day.

 

[jimandami]

yes, you my login into MDE and activate/deactivate which band you'd like to use that day.

No, you don't have to do that at all. You can just use them all interchangeably.

 

[MelissathePooh]

The only conistent thing we were told this past weekend was that we (AP holders) would be getting our own AP designated Magic Bands sometime soon. We could then link our future resort reservations to those new bands.

If that doesn't happen before you go be sure to bring you actual hard ticket AP. Once it is on the band you don't need it for anything except discounts and none of the places that take discounts are set up to pull that information off the band. At least none that we went to.

The Emporium CM actually argued with us that we didn't have AP's - all we had on our wrist was our room key. He refused to believe that we were AP holders and had used our bands as our tickets. Luckily my aunt was near by and showed her pass for our discount.

When we stopped at a store in AK the next day a FP+ CM created a new hard ticket AP for us to use for discounts. That was great until we went to pay using our bands and they no longer worked. The computer showed everything was active according to the computer. That is nice for the computer, but ended up wasting 45 minutes of our time trying to fix things and it never resolved. We now had an AP ticket for discounts, but had no charging feature on our bands.

All they kept saying was we shouldn't have linked our passes to our bands??? If you want to pre-book that is your only option. They ended up comping all the merchandise we had picked out - which we didn't ask for and wasn't necessary - but was nice. It really did suck up about 45 min and we lost the convenience of charging on our bands.

 

[WDWChloe]

No, you don't have to do that at all. You can just use them all interchangeably.

Oh, that makes kept easy! Sorry, I was going by what a CM told me over the phone ^_^

 

[jimandami]

Oh, that makes kept easy! Sorry, I was going by what a CM told me over the phone ^_^

No problem! You know, I think that might be one of the most frustrating parts of this entire process...so much misinformation by CMs. I completely understand it isn't their fault, but Disney should really try to do a better a job at educating them. The other day, I called to change something and the CM told me to be sure I did online check-in TEN days before my trip!! Um....it's been 60 days for what seems like a LONG time now. Not that it's a big deal either way, but that's just one small example.

 

[Robo]

1- The only conistent thing we were told this past weekend was that we (AP holders) would be getting our own AP designated Magic Bands sometime soon.
2- We could then link our future resort reservations to those new bands.

3- If that doesn't happen before you go be sure to bring you actual hard ticket AP. Once it is on the band you don't need it for anything except discounts and none of the places that take discounts are set up to pull that information off the band. At least none that we went to.

4- The Emporium CM actually argued with us that we didn't have AP's - all we had on our wrist was our room key.

5- He refused to believe that we were AP holders and had used our bands as our tickets.

6- Luckily my aunt was near by and showed her pass for our discount.

7- When we stopped at a store in AK the next day a FP+ CM created a new hard ticket AP for us to use for discounts.

8- That was great until we went to pay using our bands and they no longer worked. The computer showed everything was active according to the computer. That is nice for the computer,

9- but ended up wasting 45 minutes of our time trying to fix things and it never resolved.

10- We now had an AP ticket for discounts, but had no charging feature on our bands.

11- All they kept saying was we shouldn't have linked our passes to our bands???

12- If you want to pre-book that is your only option.

13- They ended up comping all the merchandise we had picked out - which we didn't ask for and wasn't necessary - but was nice.

14- It really did suck up about 45 min and we lost the convenience of charging on our bands.

The list below is not a reflection on you, Melissa.
So sorry that you had problems.

I'm breaking things out to try to keep straight so many
important issues that your post brings up.

1- Time will tell.
2- Unnecessary, in itself, but OK.
3- True that you DO need the plastic AP card for AP perks and discounts.
4- CM misinformation, there.
5- CM ignorance, there.
6- It was fortunate that they took her card for your purchase.
7- Yup.
8- CM data entry error, or MDE glitch.
9- Sad that these (should be) simple things eat so much time.
10- Again, CM data entry error, or MDE glitch.
11- CM misinformation and ignorance of the systems.
12- Correct.
13- At least there's that.
14- The system and many CM's are not ready to handle these "improvements."