Magic Band question for off site guests

[luv2crz]

Hi! I am confused about the magic bands. We are staying off site and I understand we can get the bands when we get there. Does everyone in the party (7 of us, 5 adults/2 kids) need to buy one? Do we all have to make the same fastpass time for attractions for the 3 per day to go together? Very excited, first time back to Disney World in 35 years!

Thanks!
Linda

 

[Robo]

Hi! I am confused about the magic bands. We are staying off site and I understand we can get the bands when we get there.


1- Does everyone in the party (7 of us, 5 adults/2 kids) need to buy one?

2- Do we all have to make the same fastpass time for attractions

3- for the 3 per day to go together?

1- Nope. (Guests without a MB can just use their regular RFID tickets.)

2- Nope. (Each person can have a different set of FP's.)

3- But to ride a FP attraction TOGETHER, every person in the group
(age 3 and older) must have a FP for that attraction at that same (or similar) time.

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[luv2crz]

Thank you!!

 

[justhat]

1- Nope. (Guests without a MB can just use their regular RFID tickets.) 2- Nope.

Wait, so if I am reading the answer to #2 correctly, i can book 1 fp for 2pm for me, and the rest of my family can ride then with me!?

 

[jimandami]

Wait, so if I am reading the answer to #2 correctly, i can book 1 fp for 2pm for me, and the rest of my family can ride then with me!?

No, each person over 3 must have a FP to ride in the FP line. He simply meant you don't need to buy a MB to use FP+. Just link your tickets and use the card at the Mickey head stations.

ETA: you do not all need to have the same FP but each person who wants to ride a particular ride with a FP must have one.

 

[justhat]

No, each person over 3 must have a FP to ride in the FP line. He simply meant you don't need to buy a MB to use FP+. Just link your tickets and use the card at the Mickey head stations. ETA: you do not all need to have the same FP but each person who wants to ride a particular ride with a FP must have one.

But question 2 wasn't about magic bands, it was if everyone needs to have the same fastpass time to go together. I thought yes, but the answer said nope. We haven't been since the new fastpass+ stuff so I thought I had old info.

 

[jimandami]

I think Robo thought he was asking if everyone had to have the same FP. Everyone does not, but yes, everyone must have one to ride the ride.

 

[mesaboy2]

He is simply stating that the members of a group need not have the same FPs. Everyone in the group does need FP to enter an FP queue.

 

[Raenstoirm]

Wait, so if I am reading the answer to #2 correctly, i can book 1 fp for 2pm for me, and the rest of my family can ride then with me!?

No, the "nope" was that each person can have their own FP+, so mom and daughter can go visit the princesses with FP+ while dad and son go on Buzz with FP+ at the same time. The whole family does not need the same FP+.