Magic Your Way tickets added?

[Crazie4daMouse]

We currently have a room only reservation and I need to add tickets to it. The agent I spoke to told me that when we get ready to add tickets to make sure and add the "Magic Your Way" tickets. I only see just standard tickets as an option. Anyone know how to add "Magic Your Way" tickets to an existing resort reservation?

 

[fireflyer]

I think the phrases "Magic Your Way" and "MyMagic+" are the same thing.

Then, "MyMagic+" is a catchall phrase for talking about the FastPasses, the MagicBands you wear on your wrist that store the FastPass/reservations, and the app/website you go to in order to make all these reservations.

They took a really easy concept and confounded it with so many buzzwords and catchphrases, that the average first-time visitor can't really tell what the Disney folks are trying to say. Here's a website that explains the terminology briefly: (oops won't let me post links)

Since YOU are staying ON-site, your hotel will mail you the MagicBands if it's more than 1 month until your visit. If less than 1 month, they'll hold them for you at check-in. BUT you DO NEED TO CALL NOW and tell them you want MagicBands mailed. They're free (because you're on-site).

MagicBands are basically just for convenience. I guess some people don't like pulling their ticket out of their pocket for each ride, so they figure wearing a bracelet is easier.

If you were staying OFFsite but still wanted the convenience of the bracelet instead of pulling your ticket out of your pocket, then you have to pay for the bracelet (MagicBand) yourself. $13. (oops won't let me post links)

Personally, I didn't like having the bulky MagicBand on my arm all day. And, although it's supposed to work as a door key when I stayed at the Polynesian, mine kept getting demagnetized and I had to keep walking all the way back to front desk for a key.

On my upcoming visit, I'm staying off-site, and not paying extra money for a bracelet. Gotta love cargo pants!

P.S. That info is, to the best of my understand, correct -- but if I've stated something wrong or am ignorant about something, PLEASE SOMEBODY CORRECT ME! I'm trying to learn this stuff too. Not happy about all the pre-work required to just have 1 fun day in the park... but am trying to adapt to "the new ways".

 

[fireflyer]

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[fireflyer]

...Here's a website that explains the terminology briefly:

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/plan/my-disney-experience/my-magic-plus/

If you were staying OFFsite but still wanted the convenience of the bracelet instead of pulling your ticket out of your pocket, then you have to pay for the bracelet (MagicBand) yourself. $13.

http://www.disneystore.com/magicband/mn/1024701/

 

[siskaren]

I think the phrases "Magic Your Way" and "MyMagic+" are the same thing.

No, they're not. First of all, all tickets are Magic Your Way tickets. Magic Your Way just refers to the fact that you can customize your tickets - you can get the number of days you want (it doesn't have to correspond to the number of days of your trip), you can get base tickets (meaning you can only visit one park per day), you can get the park hopper option (so that you can visit more than one park per day), you can get the Water Park Fun and More option, or you can get both options. Also, Magic Your Way tickets have been around since 2005, long before MyMagic+ (which is basically the whole deal with Magic Bands and FP+) was introduced.

BUT you DO NEED TO CALL NOW and tell them you want MagicBands mailed.

No, you don't. Magic Bands are automatically shipped unless you live outside the US, in which case they will be waiting for you at check in.

The first post in this thread tells you everything you need to know about Magic Bands (the post is dated 9-13-13, but if you look at the bottom, you'll see that it was last edited on 8-17-14, so it is up to date):

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3171914

Anyone know how to add "Magic Your Way" tickets to an existing resort reservation?

You don't need to add them to the reservation. Just buy them from Disney or a discounter like Undercover Tourist and add them to your My Disney Experience (MDE) account.

 

[fireflyer]

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[siskaren]

Right now they only have a room reservation... no tickets. I'm not sure the hotels send out MagicBands for every guest if tickets aren't purchased simultaneously. Can someone verify?

Getting Magic Bands is dependent on staying on property, not on having tickets. Magic Bands are used to get into your room and for charging back to the room, not just for getting into the parks and using FP+. (You do however need tickets in order to book FP+.)

 

[fireflyer]

We currently have a room only reservation and I need to add tickets to it. The agent I spoke to told me that when we get ready to add tickets to make sure and add the "Magic Your Way" tickets.?

Since YOU are staying ON-site, your hotel will mail you the MagicBands if it's more than 1 month until your visit. If less than 1 month, they'll hold them for you at check-in. BUT you DO NEED TO CALL NOW and tell them you want MagicBands mailed. They're free (because you're on-site).

No, you don't. Magic Bands are automatically shipped unless you live outside the US, in which case they will be waiting for you at check in.

Siskaren, so are you saying that MagicBands are mailed to all hotel guests at the time of reservation, regardless of whether or not they ever purchase themepark tix? That was not our experience last year... We reserved the hotel separately from purchasing the tickets. Then we added our tickets & hotel into our MDE accounts. THEN we tried to link all the members of our party, which turned into a mess with all sorts of system bugs. THEN we had to call Disney and they had to go in some "backdoor" and link us that way... then at THAT TIME they mailed our MagicBands.

Perhaps some of those kinks are worked out now, but the question remains, what triggers the mailing? Just reserving the ON-site hotel?

 

[fireflyer]

$@#%^$!! msg board!

Thanks siskaren

 

[siskaren]

Siskaren, so are you saying that MagicBands are mailed to all hotel guests at the time of reservation, regardless of whether or not they ever purchase theme park tix?

Not at the time the reservation is made, no. According to the first post of this thread, they're mailed out about 29 days before the start of the reservation:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3171914