Lesverts
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There is a lot to work through in this thread. Sorry this is going a bit OT, but the thread is all over the place.
1) Since you have you DME letter, you have very likely missed you're FastPass+ window at 60 days. If you are trying to get FP+ for hard to get experiences (7DMT and FEA), trying splitting up your party into smaller groups with overlapping return times.
2) Disneystore.com will not ship Magicbands to Canada (even if they did, shipping is outrageous). Also brick-and-mortar Disney stores do not sell ticket media any longer. At least in Canada. The only places that I personally know of that will sell you physical ticket media in Canada are CAA and Flightcentre.
3) @dan40 This is incredibly important. You did not buy tickets. You bought a ticket voucher that MUST be exchanged at a ticket window (the confirmation e-mail says Guests Services, but GS will tell you to go to a ticket window). You MUST have a Canadian Passport for every person you bought tickets for in order to activate the ticket voucher into a ticket. I cannot stress this point enough.
4) Please read you DME letter carefully and have the letter handy when you land at MCO. I just looked up the likely WestJet flight you will be on. You land at 7:05am, as long as your yellow luggage tags are on your luggage when they land in Orlando the bags will be transported to the resort and onward to your room. Please be mindful when you are dropping of your luggage at YVR. They do not have as many flights to Orlando or as many Disney travelers. Gate agents may try to take the tags off. A direct flight should be alright but just be aware.
5) Not getting your MagicBands shipped to you is actually going to work in your favour. Because it looks like you missed a few deadlines because of TA issues, you should still be able to customize bands as they don't get printed and sent to the resort until a few days before the trip. You will get a notice that your bands could be sent to your resort at any time but it is not going to be at the posted 'customize by' date on the MDE account.
I hope you have a great time. I suspect you are about a month out. It goes by quickly.
1) Since you have you DME letter, you have very likely missed you're FastPass+ window at 60 days. If you are trying to get FP+ for hard to get experiences (7DMT and FEA), trying splitting up your party into smaller groups with overlapping return times.
2) Disneystore.com will not ship Magicbands to Canada (even if they did, shipping is outrageous). Also brick-and-mortar Disney stores do not sell ticket media any longer. At least in Canada. The only places that I personally know of that will sell you physical ticket media in Canada are CAA and Flightcentre.
3) @dan40 This is incredibly important. You did not buy tickets. You bought a ticket voucher that MUST be exchanged at a ticket window (the confirmation e-mail says Guests Services, but GS will tell you to go to a ticket window). You MUST have a Canadian Passport for every person you bought tickets for in order to activate the ticket voucher into a ticket. I cannot stress this point enough.
4) Please read you DME letter carefully and have the letter handy when you land at MCO. I just looked up the likely WestJet flight you will be on. You land at 7:05am, as long as your yellow luggage tags are on your luggage when they land in Orlando the bags will be transported to the resort and onward to your room. Please be mindful when you are dropping of your luggage at YVR. They do not have as many flights to Orlando or as many Disney travelers. Gate agents may try to take the tags off. A direct flight should be alright but just be aware.
5) Not getting your MagicBands shipped to you is actually going to work in your favour. Because it looks like you missed a few deadlines because of TA issues, you should still be able to customize bands as they don't get printed and sent to the resort until a few days before the trip. You will get a notice that your bands could be sent to your resort at any time but it is not going to be at the posted 'customize by' date on the MDE account.
I hope you have a great time. I suspect you are about a month out. It goes by quickly.
Luckily, I found out the morning after it changed so I only had a couple minutes of panic LOL. It would have been helpful if Disney had let everyone know in advance. Even a CM I spoke with said the same thing because from what he said they had to deal with a lot of irate callers.
