Split Stay Questions

[Kristmay]

I've never done a split stay, but have decided to do it for my upcoming August trip. I'll be staying two nights at POR and then moving on to the Boardwalk for 3 nights. I'll be buying my tickets separately. How does this work with our magic bands?

I've booked the rooms from a non-Disney site. From what I've read, I need to call Disney to have them link my external reservations to MDE? I will be purchasing my tickets through the Disney site, so will my tickets automatically link to MDE, or will I have to have those manually added as well?

On my checkout day from POR, I have a pre park opening ADR at Garden Grill. Will I be able to drop my luggage off at 7am to have it transferred to the Boardwalk while we're in the parks?

 

[momof2cuties]

Thanks. I'm in almost the same situation and was wondering some of the same things

I booked through orbitz and called them after booking for the confirmation numbers. Then I linked them online at MDE. Just watch your address when you order magic bands. I had to update mine as they had the address of orbitz.

 

[Kristmay]

Thanks. I'm in almost the same situation and was wondering some of the same things

I booked through orbitz and called them after booking for the confirmation numbers. Then I linked them online at MDE. Just watch your address when you order magic bands. I had to update mine as they had the address of orbitz.

Thank you...that's good to know about the address.

 

[Mama Lo]

I did a split stay last summer with room only reservations from Orbitz. All you have to do is get the Disney reservation number and enter it into your MDE. You will get a set of MBs for both rooms. There is an opt out so you only get one set but I read several peoples horror stories about not being able to get into their room or the parks or the charging privileges disappearing that I decided to get both. Once we got to the second resort all the bands worked for everything.