Please explain how magic bands and tickets match up

[magicaldisney]

I'm somewhat confused. I had an 8 night stay booked. Then purchased my 8 day hoppers from UT and linked them to MDE. Then purchased memory maker and linked it to MDE.

This is where my confusion comes in......we just found cheaper airfare but needed to add one night at the beginning of our trip. I could not get the same type of room so I now have two reservations. One night at AKV one bedroom, then 8 nights AKV two bedroom.

What reservation do the park tickets and memory maker link to? The first night or the 8 nights?

 

[erionm]

What reservation do the park tickets and memory maker link to? The first night or the 8 nights?

They are not linked to a resort reservation, they are linked to an person in MDE.

Everything (MagicBands, room reservations, park admission, FP+ selections, etc.) is linked to MDE profiles. The MagicBand is just a key used to reading the data stored on your profile.

 

[jco_direwolf]

Everything should be linked to you via MDE.

Magic bands are basically a database locator. Once the system knows who you are it can look up the entitlements.

 

[Robo]

Just to keep things as clear as possible-

There is no reservation info, or ticket info, or credit card info,
or FP+ info "put onto" a MagicBand.

The MagicBands just contain a unique serial number that is used
to access the information that is stored in your MyDisneyExperience computer file.

So, even if you were to lose a MagicBand, the info stays locked in your file.
Disney can just set up a new band (different serial number)
to access the info in your MDE file.
Disney can also issue ADDITIONAL MB's to a guest and each
additional band can be used for the same purposes as the first band.
So, yes, there can be multiple MB's per person, and each of them can be used by that person.

The MagicBand works like the combination to a locked safe, or a key to a locked door.

Why does this distinction matter?
Because there is so much fear about losing bands and,
in turn, losing all of a guest's information thought to be on the band.

The MB, itself, is not the file of info or the container of the info.
The MB just unlocks the file of info, allowing it to be accessed from your MDE account when needed.

 

[magicaldisney]

I guess what I'm asking is, I will receive two sets of bands. Will the tickets and memory maker work with both sets of bands? Do both sets read the data? Will the first set stop reading the data when we check out of the one bedroom?

Edit to explain: when I added the additional night, the CM (DVC is that matters) said to make that first night the same color band for all of us, a color we wouldn't use for the 8 night reservation. Then you know to use that set for the first night and never use them again, that way you don't mix up bands. I just want to make sure that the first set isn't the only set that will read the data. We only want that set to get us in and out of the room. I want to make sure the second set will pick up the tickets and memory maker.

 

[Robo]

I guess what I'm asking is, I will receive two sets of bands.

1. Will the tickets and memory maker work with both sets of bands?

2. Do both sets read the data?

3. Will the first set stop reading the data when we check out of the one bedroom?

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. Nope.

 

[jco_direwolf]

I guess what I'm asking is, I will receive two sets of bands. Will the tickets and memory maker work with both sets of bands? Do both sets read the data? Will the first set stop reading the data when we check out of the one bedroom?

Every band associated with you in the same MDE account should work for everything.

I personally have 7-8 active bands and the only issues I've had is resort door locks which mostly get resolved with a visit to the front desk.

(The doors only have so many slots for MB and the software just pushes out the first n bands it sees in the database).

With 3-4 people with 2-3 bands you should be fine if not visit the front desk they should be able to fix it.

 

[magicaldisney]

I think I get it. Both bands will read all the information in my MDE account.

1) The first band will read the following data: the one bedroom reservation and 8 day park hoppers and memory maker.

2) The second set of bands will read the following data: the two bedroom reservation and because I did not use any days of the 8 day hopper it will still read 8 days. (i.e. If I would have used 2 days, it would read 6 days on the second set of bands) And, because you get to use memory maker for a certain amount of time, it will pick up that I still have days left to use memory maker.

Is this right?

 

[erionm]

I think I get it. Both bands will read all the information in my MDE account.

1) The first band will read the following data: the one bedroom reservation and 8 day park hoppers and memory maker.

2) The second set of bands will read the following data: the two bedroom reservation and because I did not use any days of the 8 day hopper it will still read 8 days. (i.e. If I would have used 2 days, it would read 6 days on the second set of bands) And, because you get to use memory maker for a certain amount of time, it will pick up that I still have days left to use memory maker.

Is this right?

All MagicBands can be used interchangeably.

 

[magicaldisney]

Just because I really want to understand, why do we get so many sets of bands then?

 

[Robo]

Just because I really want to understand, why do we get so many sets of bands then?

Disney wants it this way.

They don't need another layer of something to keep track of,
and the bands cost them so little, it's a "throwaway" expense.

 

[LynJ]

We added a day to our trip so that we're arriving one day earlier. When I was talking to a CM this weekend on another change (adding another day to park tickets), he noticed that my memory maker was set to start on our original arrival date. It didn't autocorrect to the new arrival date.

In order to fix it, the CM had to remove memory maker from our package and then re-add it. Otherwise pictures taken on our new arrival date would not have been included.

Since you're also arriving earlier, I would call and have a CM check the start date on your memory maker, so you don't accidentally lose pictures, too.

Good luck.

 

[magicaldisney]

Thank you everyone for the great explanations.

LynJ, good information. I'm going to check on the memory maker right now.