Kinda out of the loop lately so I thought I'd ask the experts!

thebigman65

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We are going to be planning our first trip back home since March of 2013.

Just a couple questions about Magic Bands and FP+.

As I understand it:

- When I make my reservation at the end of Sept, I will get the Magic Bands at some point. These will act as my room key, room charge card, all the usual stuff the Key to the World used to do.

- You can then customize them for DVC etc.

- You can add your park tickets or AP to them.

- You must have purchased park tickets to make your FP+ reservations and you are allowed to make FP+ reservations 60 days out.

Anything else I should know?? TIA!!:)
 
The credit card is not directly attached to the magic band. The credit card is used for all your resort charges and every time you charge something using the MB, it shows up on your resort bill. It is just a faster way to "charge it to the room". If you do not have a WDW resort bill, you can't charge anything using a MB. This is why off-site people do not have the option of using the MB to charge things.
 
"Customizing" a Magic Band generally means choosing a color and telling them what name to put inside it. For my trip next spring, I received a magnet with deadlines. It said my deadline for customizing the Magic Bands is 11 days before our arrival date.

When I went earlier this year, the Magic Bands were shipped to my house a month before my trip. I received them 4 days after they were shipped.

I'm not sure how you "customize" them for DVC. I did not have that option.

If you want to make Fastpass Plus reservations 60 days ahead, you must go into your My Disney Experience account, and enter your hotel confirmation number plus the number for your AP or theme park admission. That has to be done before you can make FP+ reservations.
 
If you have not done so already you need to set up a MyDisneyExperience.com account. When you do so, set it up with the same user name and password that you have for the DVC member site. It is via that MDE account that you do such things as personalize and get magic bands and schedule your Fastpass+ for the days you will be there.

Once you have the DVC reservation, you then enter that reservation in your MDE account. You also put your park pass numbers in the account (you need to purchase those in advance and put the numbers in your MDE account to use FP+; if purchasing an AP, you get a receipt number that you can put in MDE since you won't get the actual pass until you arrive at WDW). If you have a reservation for a on site resort and park tickets (or applicable receipt number for an AP) you can make FP+ designations for all days you will be there at 60 days from date of arrival. You can also put all your dining reservations in that account. There is a "Family and Friends" page where you put in ID info for all those going on a trip and you designate which park ticket applies to each of those.

You must have the MDE account, your DVC resort reservation number in it, and your trip personnel identified in the MDE account to be able to "personalize" magic bands and have them sent to you before you arrive. You can personalize an MB for each person on the trip by providing a short name that will go on the band and designate its color. Your MDE account will tell you by when you need to complete that personalization. It will be a specific date about a month before you go and then once that date arrives, your MBs will be sent to you.

The MB is essentially a device that communicates with your MDE computer account when you are there. Thus, all FP+'s and your passes will be on your MB if, and only if, they are in your MDE account. Moreover, you can make changes to your FP+ after you get the bands and those will be recognized by your MBs (in other words the operation of the MBs is dependent on whatever is in your MDE account the day you actually use the band). Your MBs can be used to charge things to your room while at WDW as long as you have a credit card number on file with the room (which you can set up in your MDE account before going).To do any charging to the rooms with MBs you will need to enter a four digit code that you set up in your MDE account (or at check-in).

Be aware that if you want to get any discounts, such as the 10% DVC or AP merchandise discount at WDW stores or restaurant discounts, you will need your DVC membership card or your actual AP to show to the merchants because, apparently, the "readers" they have to read what is on your MBs when you do a charge will not tell them you are DVC or have an AP.
 

Got it....I have an MDE account and it is linked.....looks like I
m good to go.....thanks everyone! :):thumbsup2
 
















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