- In the Parks
- No
Hopefully this is an easy question. In 17 days, my wife and I will be heading to Orlando for our Disney Vacation. We purposely booked as early of a flight as we could with the anticipation of getting in some park time the day we get there. Our flight gets into Orlando at around 8:30 am and I figured (best case scenario) we get to Coronado Springs by 9:30 am via the Magical Express (well before the 3 pm check in time). I know the Magical Express will only take you to your hotel and not to a park, but my question is do we need to go into the hotel to do anything to activate our MagicBands before we head over to the park, or can we hop off the Magical Express bus and get right onto a park bus?
I had seen videos/heard stories of people who were staying at Disney resorts who got off their plane and went straight to the park and when they got to the park, they were turned away because their Magic Bands hadn't been "activated", however, I just received my MagicBands yesterday and didn't see anything in there where it said you needed to go to the hotel before you go anywhere else. I mean, it would make sense that you would need to see someone live and in person so they could validate that you are who you say you are (via a form of ID) given that your MagicBands are linked to your park entrance tickets and whatnot, but seeing as how you can now go straight to your room (in some resorts) I didn't know if they had found some way to cut out that step. I mean, I would guess that they may be able to activate everything as easily as when you check in for the Magical Express.
I want to get the most park time that we can, but I just don't want to get all the way to the MK to be told I need to either go back to the hotel or wait in a long line at customer service (that would not be a very magical way to start the trip...)
I had seen videos/heard stories of people who were staying at Disney resorts who got off their plane and went straight to the park and when they got to the park, they were turned away because their Magic Bands hadn't been "activated", however, I just received my MagicBands yesterday and didn't see anything in there where it said you needed to go to the hotel before you go anywhere else. I mean, it would make sense that you would need to see someone live and in person so they could validate that you are who you say you are (via a form of ID) given that your MagicBands are linked to your park entrance tickets and whatnot, but seeing as how you can now go straight to your room (in some resorts) I didn't know if they had found some way to cut out that step. I mean, I would guess that they may be able to activate everything as easily as when you check in for the Magical Express.
I want to get the most park time that we can, but I just don't want to get all the way to the MK to be told I need to either go back to the hotel or wait in a long line at customer service (that would not be a very magical way to start the trip...)