Magic Band ?

[Monorail Phanatic]

Have several Disney gift cards. Is it possible to "load" them onto the Magic Bands, possibly at check in? Just like the ease of Magic Bands and one less thing to swipe have a pin for is a good thing. Thanks for the answers!

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Nope. You have to have a credit card backing the Magic Band. You can pay the balance charged against your room with the gift cards at the desk, but can't load them as a prepayment.

 

[buzznina]

Like _auroraborealis_ mentioned, you cannot load GCs to your room ahead of time. We normally pay off our reservation ahead of time (using GCs) and then every couple of days, either on the way out to a park or after coming back, I will go to the desk and payoff our room charges and get a detailed list of our charges so hat I can quickly look it over. If you want to combined your GCs, you can go to https://www.disneygiftcard.com/ and you can combine up to $1,000 of GCs onto just one. We always do this and it makes it so much easier.

 

[Dug720]

It is annoying that you can't put gift cards down on your account at check-in - especially because the technology to do so exists and Disney has it because they use it on their cruise ships!

But what I do is put a card on, but every night that I've made a charge (because sometimes I just use the card) I just go to the front desk and apply that much of the gift card to the account. Usually i just carry the gift card(s) with me and use that though.

 

[loves to dive]

It's always best to carry an alternative means to pay for things to the parks any way (along with ID). The machines that read the MBs can and do go down.