Just got back from a cruise (Wish from October 13-17). We bought magicbands prior to the cruise.
A couple of comments, in case you are debating this purchase:
1. Loved the convenience of opening stateroom door.
2, Hated that every single time we wanted to charge something to our room (Ie charges for specialty coffee, specialty ice cream, lounges, gift shop, beverages at Castaway Cay etc) the person doing the charge needed to take your hand back with them. It boggles my mind that the band needed to be removed so often. And, my so -in-law gave the Castaway Cay server his band when he ordered a cooler with waters. Then, I was at the chairs, needing to sign off on the receipt, and collect his band (which I had no idea what his band had for character-design).
We were also at the parks prior to the cruise, and bands were used then too. But, I would not purchase bands solely for the cruise, as we had purchased the protector thingy’s which were a pain to readjust once the bands went back on our wrist.
Also…if you get bands, have them activate them when you are checking in at the port. The cast member checking in my husband and me did this for us, so we were ready to go when we got on the ship. My daughter’s experience was different,,,the cast member checking them in asked if they had magic bands, but did not activate them for the cruise, so my daughter’s experience needed to spend an hour in line at guest services to have this done, after we got on the ship.
A couple of comments, in case you are debating this purchase:
1. Loved the convenience of opening stateroom door.
2, Hated that every single time we wanted to charge something to our room (Ie charges for specialty coffee, specialty ice cream, lounges, gift shop, beverages at Castaway Cay etc) the person doing the charge needed to take your hand back with them. It boggles my mind that the band needed to be removed so often. And, my so -in-law gave the Castaway Cay server his band when he ordered a cooler with waters. Then, I was at the chairs, needing to sign off on the receipt, and collect his band (which I had no idea what his band had for character-design).
We were also at the parks prior to the cruise, and bands were used then too. But, I would not purchase bands solely for the cruise, as we had purchased the protector thingy’s which were a pain to readjust once the bands went back on our wrist.
Also…if you get bands, have them activate them when you are checking in at the port. The cast member checking in my husband and me did this for us, so we were ready to go when we got on the ship. My daughter’s experience was different,,,the cast member checking them in asked if they had magic bands, but did not activate them for the cruise, so my daughter’s experience needed to spend an hour in line at guest services to have this done, after we got on the ship.
