Magic Band for admission-only prior to check-in?

[tigereye]

We're making plans for a summer trip with my extended family. Due to room availability, two of our family members (late additions) will be staying offsite the first two days we are there. They will be Monday - Saturday onsite while the rest of the family is Saturday - Saturday.

We have room-only reservations, and are buying our admission from undercover tourist. Will they be able to link the tickets to their bands and use them on Saturday and Sunday, even though they aren't checking in until Monday? Or, will they need to use physical tickets on Saturday and Sunday and then link them to their bands at check-in on Monday?

I wasn't sure if there was any activation done to the bands at check-in time that would prevent them from using the admission ahead of time.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[hiroMYhero]

Will they be able to link the tickets to their bands and use them on Saturday and Sunday, even though they aren't checking in until Monday?

Yes. Their MBs will provide the link to their linked tickets. Everything is actually linked to your MDE account, not to the MB.

 

[Kathryn777]

The bands are active with the ticket, not the check in. They won't be able to make fp for those days until 60 days from their onsite stay date. But they'll be able to do park admission