just back... amazingly smooth...

[jdonat]

We just got back Tuesday evening... Our traveling party was a 'bit' complicated... Myself and DW coming from Chicago on Wednesday, DD and her SO coming from Milwaukee late Thursday, and DD#2 coming in Friday from Columbus. We got our Magic Bands customized and had them waiting for us at AKL-KV. We also had one of my best friends coming down to meet us, as it was DD#2's 21st b-day over the weekend! All got in reasonably on time and our only issue was that DD#1's MB didn't work for her room key.. Went to the desk, and was fixed. EVERYTHING worked for the weekend, as far as the MB's went for all 5 of us... Room entry, charging, FP+, park passes (we linked all of ours to the MB's). We had no issues with FP+ or ADR's disappearing/re-appearing on our MDX account. We had 3 ADR's and used FP+ just about every day we were there. We were still frustrated about the limits in FP+ that we've all talked about. Hopefully, these programming issues will be fixed soon. Also, unless you have 20-20 vision the MDX app on an iPhone is useless. No pinch/zoom, no landscape mode. We went to using the web based version on a browser on the iPhone. This worked better, but not perfectly. We couldn't figure how to cancel a FP+ reservation on the MDX app, so we used the browser based version to cancel a reservation.

We had very few CM issues -some of this may be that we're pretty laid back, and make sure to acknowledge the CM's even if they're just checking passes, or such.

So, maybe we're just lucky, or maybe maybe things are getting smoother?
It 'was' a quiet time, I fully admit. We're thinking of going down over the 4th of July (been there at that time, know its nutsy busy) and we'll see how well all this works then.

Had a great time, and we're feeling a bit more magical about the MB's.

 

[Rosanne]

We just got back Tuesday evening... Our traveling party was a 'bit' complicated... Myself and DW coming from Chicago on Wednesday, DD and her SO coming from Milwaukee late Thursday, and DD#2 coming in Friday from Columbus. We got our Magic Bands customized and had them waiting for us at AKL-KV. We also had one of my best friends coming down to meet us, as it was DD#2's 21st b-day over the weekend! All got in reasonably on time and our only issue was that DD#1's MB didn't work for her room key.. Went to the desk, and was fixed. EVERYTHING worked for the weekend, as far as the MB's went for all 5 of us... Room entry, charging, FP+, park passes (we linked all of ours to the MB's). We had no issues with FP+ or ADR's disappearing/re-appearing on our MDX account. We had 3 ADR's and used FP+ just about every day we were there. We were still frustrated about the limits in FP+ that we've all talked about. Hopefully, these programming issues will be fixed soon. Also, unless you have 20-20 vision the MDX app on an iPhone is useless. No pinch/zoom, no landscape mode. We went to using the web based version on a browser on the iPhone. This worked better, but not perfectly. We couldn't figure how to cancel a FP+ reservation on the MDX app, so we used the browser based version to cancel a reservation.

We had very few CM issues -some of this may be that we're pretty laid back, and make sure to acknowledge the CM's even if they're just checking passes, or such.

So, maybe we're just lucky, or maybe maybe things are getting smoother?
It 'was' a quiet time, I fully admit. We're thinking of going down over the 4th of July (been there at that time, know its nutsy busy) and we'll see how well all this works then.

Had a great time, and we're feeling a bit more magical about the MB's.

Sounds like you had a great trip. I'm so glad things went well.