How do Magic Bands work if your onsite stay is your last day

[supergoofy]

We are going for 8 days but are staying offsite for the first 7 days and our last day we move on site.

After I booked I saw in MDE about Magic Bands.

Will these work our whole trip or just the last day?



Edited to add



How does EMH work with a stay?

We check in August 29th and out on the 30th. Do we get the hours on both days?

 

[illinidp]

They will work for your whole trip as a park ticket if you link your tickets to them in MDE.

 

[supergoofy]

They will work for your whole trip as a park ticket if you link your tickets to them in MDE.

Thank you.

I feel so much better now. I am been going insane always questioning every move I make and today I shorted our offsite stay for a day and went onsite and spent a bit more.

Now that I can use these all trip I feel better as these have "value"

 

[dbramer]

Keep in mind as an off-site guest you can only book FP+ at 30 days out. You can book your one day at 60 days, but the rest will have to wait until 30.

With reference to your second question, you have on-site access both check-in and check-out day.

 

[Mrs Green]

Keep in mind as an off-site guest you can only book FP+ at 30 days out. You can book your one day at 60 days, but the rest will have to wait until 30. With reference to your second question, you have on-site access both check-in and check-out day.

Not true. I have a split stay coming up in August, off site 6 then on site 3 and when our sixty day opened it opened all the days from the current day through the end of our on site stay. It was awesome!

 

[supergoofy]

Not true. I have a split stay coming up in August, off site 6 then on site 3 and when our sixty day opened it opened all the days from the current day through the end of our on site stay. It was awesome!

As of this morning we are at 62 days. So on Monday I will see what happens.


Do you know what time you can book FP+ I assume midnight but ADR's are at like 6am.

 

[Mrs Green]

Sorry if this is duplicate, having trouble with this app.

Just to clarify, the 60 day is based on the first day of your on site stay (i am sure you knew that). The time is midnight eastern. Mine opened right on time, but I have read about people having trouble with it every now and again.

 

[sjw211]

14 night stays are 15 days. If you enter a park on the day you arrive, I assume that means you can't go in a park on the last day (of checkout) - but if you didn't go in a park on the day of arrival, you can?

 

[itchin2go]

They will work for your whole trip as a park ticket if you link your tickets to them in MDE.

So the Magic Bands that Disney sends me will be preloaded with _ # of days of tickets as long as I link them?

And the tickets will work on day 1 even though I haven't checked into any resort?

 

[Mrs Green]

We are going for 8 days but are staying offsite for the first 7 days and our last day we move on site. After I booked I saw in MDE about Magic Bands. Will these work our whole trip or just the last day? Edited to add How does EMH work with a stay? We check in August 29th and out on the 30th. Do we get the hours on both days?

Yes, you can use the emh on both days!

14 night stays are 15 days. If you enter a park on the day you arrive, I assume that means you can't go in a park on the last day (of checkout) - but if you didn't go in a park on the day of arrival, you can?

Not sure that I am understanding this. I don't think this is an answer to any question posed, but also it would depend completely on the ticket a person had.

 

[illinidp]

So the Magic Bands that Disney sends me will be preloaded with _ # of days of tickets as long as I link them?

And the tickets will work on day 1 even though I haven't checked into any resort?

The tickets won't be pre-loaded, you have to do that manually in MDE. They will work immediately as long as the tickets have been paid for and activated. Once a ticket is paid for you can use any time. However, you only have 14 days from the first day you use it to use everything on it before it expires. Tickets that come as part of a package typically have to be activated at Guest Services before they will work.

The FP+ window opened at midnight ET for me, but most people lately are saying its not opening until 1 or 2 am.

 

[itchin2go]

The tickets won't be pre-loaded, you have to do that manually in MDE. They will work immediately as long as the tickets have been paid for and activated. Once a ticket is paid for you can use any time. However, you only have 14 days from the first day you use it to use everything on it before it expires. Tickets that come as part of a package typically have to be activated at Guest Services before they will work.

The FP+ window opened at midnight ET for me, but most people lately are saying its not opening until 1 or 2 am.

Ahh ... so as long as I've linked the tickets with MDE, they'll work whenever? Thanks so much for all this info!

 

[asmit4]

As recently as a week ago people who were doing 3 nights onsite, then switching offsite- were able to book ALL their FPs at the 60 day mark - 10 days of FPs that is.

HOWEVER---word on the DIS is that this loophole has changed. NOW if you are doing 3 night onsite- you will get 4 days (checkin to checkout) of 60 day FP booking.....THEN those days beyond that- offsite---revert back to the 30 days. (oops- fixed typo

This will prevent people booking 1 night onsite on their first day to get 60 day FP status and staying offsite all the other days.

 

[itchin2go]

As recently as a week ago people who were doing 3 nights onsite, then switching offsite- were able to book ALL their FPs at the 60 day mark - 10 days of FPs that is.

HOWEVER---word on the DIS is that this loophole has changed. NOW if you are doing 3 night onsite- you will get 4 days (checkin to checkout) of 60 day FP booking.....THEN those days beyond that- offsite---revert back to the 60 days.

This will prevent people booking 1 night onsite on their first day to get 60 day FP status and staying offsite all the other days.

Could you point me to discussion of this? Thanks!

 

[Altoqueenkelly]

As recently as a week ago people who were doing 3 nights onsite, then switching offsite- were able to book ALL their FPs at the 60 day mark - 10 days of FPs that is.

HOWEVER---word on the DIS is that this loophole has changed. NOW if you are doing 3 night onsite- you will get 4 days (checkin to checkout) of 60 day FP booking.....THEN those days beyond that- offsite---revert back to the 60 days.

This will prevent people booking 1 night onsite on their first day to get 60 day FP status and staying offsite all the other days.

You mean that the remainder of days (offsite) revert back to the 30 days

 

[supergoofy]

As recently as a week ago people who were doing 3 nights onsite, then switching offsite- were able to book ALL their FPs at the 60 day mark - 10 days of FPs that is.

HOWEVER---word on the DIS is that this loophole has changed. NOW if you are doing 3 night onsite- you will get 4 days (checkin to checkout) of 60 day FP booking.....THEN those days beyond that- offsite---revert back to the 60 days.

This will prevent people booking 1 night onsite on their first day to get 60 day FP status and staying offsite all the other days.

If this is true then my FP+ will be funny as I will do my last 2 days(full day and then 1/2 day before departure) before my first day


I don't mind that if I cannot book FP+ at 60 days for whole trip as I am not a guest.

 

[asmit4]

There isn't a full discussion on this issue. I've just seen it posted on the theme park strategies forum in the past week. A few people have posted about the loophole being closed.

 

[itchin2go]

There isn't a full discussion on this issue. I've just seen it posted on the theme park strategies forum in the past week. A few people have posted about the loophole being closed.

I am on this site far more than I care to admit, and haven't seen anything like this. Not saying you're wrong, perhaps just more diligent than me.

For sure, I've seen issues with ADRs. It seems that they've switched now so that you don't necessarily get 180 + 10, but instead, 180 + length of stay.

I haven't seen similar reports of the FP+ window being affected. I'm very interested in reading more about this if something has changed. We're probably staying part onsite/part offsite, so it could make for some very interesting planning for me!

 

[Mrs Green]

As recently as a week ago people who were doing 3 nights onsite, then switching offsite- were able to book ALL their FPs at the 60 day mark - 10 days of FPs that is.

HOWEVER---word on the DIS is that this loophole has changed. NOW if you are doing 3 night onsite- you will get 4 days (checkin to checkout) of 60 day FP booking.....THEN those days beyond that- offsite---revert back to the 30 days. (oops- fixed typo

This will prevent people booking 1 night onsite on their first day to get 60 day FP status and staying offsite all the other days.

I also haven't heard aboutany changes. I will be interested to see what happens for the OP. The thing is that, at least for me, I had one of my mk days during my onsite stay so I tried for a&e first there. If the rest of my trip had to be booked at the 30 day mark I probably would have been fine and got everything I wanted still. as far as i have heard a&e is the only really hard thing to get at 30 days.

 

[omurice]

Also note you cannot use MB to pay for things before or after the days of your on-site resort stay. Charging is activated after check-in, and it shuts off at night on the day you check out. But of course you can still use it as a ticket for park entry, just as the other posters said. And I've found the band makes it easier to park at the resorts when I have a dining reservation, fewer questions, more "welcome home".