Should you deactivate MB?

[emilymad]

We are up to almost 10 Magic Bands a person listed on MDE plus a couple of cards. Should we deactivate some of them? I thought I read about the system sometimes having issues trying to "read" through all of your MB.

Is there a way you can tell which ones are the oldest?

I also show 2 room keys and an expired AP card pass on MDE. I am assuming I can deactivate all of these as they are old.

Once you deactivate a band can you reactivate it later?

 

[Robo]

Have a great trip.

 

[bastraker]

I would definitely deactivate some of them. We go to Disney often and usually do split stays so we have many bands. The last 2 times we were there this year, none of my bands would work. Boardwalk had a horrible time figuring it out! We were locked out of our room and it took them a while to fix it.

Then, we were at BLT in February and again, no bands would work. We were told "we have too many." They had to get management involved and he deactivated all of my bands except the one pair we each had on. He told me there was a limit and when it got reached "the system crashed." I think he said 12 was was limit but I don't remember. Anyway, I would deactivate a bunch of them just so you don't run into this.

 

[Robo]

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[bastraker]

Lol! I hear ya, but Boardwalk really had a very hard time and we were late for dinner over this - very frustrating. Their manager told us "you come too much." Really - I'm not even kidding. I even told them to stop sending them to me, but said they couldn't. Boardwalk had 4 new gray bands waiting for us at check-in. Even those gray ones didn't work!!

Then, we went to BLT and again, same problem. When he deactivated all of our bands, everything worked fine for that trip. I will see again soon!!

 

[CAS239]

There's no reason to deactivate any bands.

 

[Kimly]

We too go very often, we have like 17 each (with four more boxes on the way)And every time we go (just yesterday for the most recent) I have to use one band to get in the park and another to do everything else. We have spent so much time with CMs trying to fix this, and everyone of them always say it's because we have too many it's glitching the system. Something to the effect of every time I scan my band it has to process through however many bands I had that were activated before the one I'm using, and after a certain amount of time of "loading" the band just reads like it's not operable.

Long story short, yes I would deactivate any bands you are not using. I keep any current not taking trip bands, and two of my fancy ones that are decorated. The rest I keep deactivated.

 

[Kimly]

Lol! I hear ya, but Boardwalk really had a very hard time and we were late for dinner over this - very frustrating. Their manager told us "you come too much." Really - I'm not even kidding. I even told them to stop sending them to me, but said they couldn't. Boardwalk had 4 new gray bands waiting for us at check-in. Even those gray ones didn't work!!

Then, we went to BLT and again, same problem. When he deactivated all of our bands, everything worked fine for that trip. I will see again soon!!

We have been told he same thing over at BLT, that if we didn't come so often this wouldn't be a problem... I was like um, huh? Then again over at BWV we were told the same thing, that we come too much.

 

[cindyfan]

Not sure about the bands.... but if you have any of the cards I would definitely deactivate those. In January I had trouble with my bands and the CM pulled it up and had to deactivate the old cards I had because it would only read the cards and not the bands. The cards were from before the bands when they were just in the initial stages of using the RFID chips in the cards. I really don't understand why they don't have the option to decline a new band if you already have one. Maybe something they are working on.

 

[perkinsrose]

We have been told he same thing over at BLT, that if we didn't come so often this wouldn't be a problem... I was like um, huh? Then again over at BWV we were told the same thing, that we come too much.

I am all for balancing positive feedback with... you know, complaints. However, I know I am often more motivated to express when I feel a wrong needs to be "righted".

If I had been in this situation, I would definitely need to express my disappointment in customer service. I love when I feel genuinely "welcomed home" at a resort by CMs.

 

[cakebaker]

I'm fairly confident the CM's were joking. We've got I don't know how many bands and so far, no problems with them. We'll get a double set this time due to a split stay. I'm keeping them in a box- waiting for some brilliant craft idea to come to me.

 

[missnic]

We too go very often, we have like 17 each (with four more boxes on the way)And every time we go (just yesterday for the most recent) I have to use one band to get in the park and another to do everything else. We have spent so much time with CMs trying to fix this, and everyone of them always say it's because we have too many it's glitching the system. Something to the effect of every time I scan my band it has to process through however many bands I had that were activated before the one I'm using, and after a certain amount of time of "loading" the band just reads like it's not operable.

Long story short, yes I would deactivate any bands you are not using. I keep any current not taking trip bands, and two of my fancy ones that are decorated. The rest I keep deactivated.

We were told the same thing at Pop. We only have like 10 each, but the last two times we stayed at Pop, we couldn't get into the room. We were checking in around midnight both times, after a day at the parks, so needless to say, we were NOT happy. They eventually got them working though, and told us to deactivate a few. We're at Pop again tomorrow night for the first time since we deactivated some, so I guess we'll see if it worked.

Luckily we've never had issues getting into the parks.

 

[emilymad]

Thanks for all the responses. I will deactivate some just in case.

 

[magicaldisney]

Why not deactivate old cards or bands. Has anyone heard of a reason not to?

 

[austinsmommie]

We too got locked out of room at CBR in November. They told us we had to many bands so the system locked us out. We had no problems with our tickets when entering the park or charging to the room. We just couldn't unlock our door. It was a pain to go to the the main building to find out why we couldn't get into our room. Not something I want to do after a long day at the park, plus it was thundering, lightening and pouring!

 

[GrumpyFamilyof5]

Glad I found this.. been many times, but this is the first for MB, got them for the hotel, but after we activate our passes when we get there is it true our passes will be linked to those? Or will I have to use the cards for the parks and the bands for the hotel?

 

[hicksnichols]

Why not deactivate old cards or bands. Has anyone heard of a reason not to?

One poster stated that she kept them activated so she could coordinate her magic band with her outfit to match every day.

 

[Robo]

Glad I found this.. been many times, but this is the first for MB, got them for the hotel,

1. but after we activate our passes when we get there is it true our passes will be linked to those? Or

2. will I have to use the cards for the parks and the bands for the hotel?

1. If you have purchased tickets/passes, you can link them to your MDE account right now, today. That way, you can make also make advance FP+ reservations.
It also means that your MBs will be ready to access all of your tickets at the park gates.

2. No.

If you have Annual Passes, you will need to go to any ticket booth of Guest Relations to
activate them, but they will already be linked to your MDE.

 

[Princess Disney Mom]

There should be an option to delete old bands.

 

[delmar411]

There should be an option to delete old bands.

There is. If you are going to throw them away or never use them again then have them damage them out of the system and they will go away forever.