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Rate your experience with MagicBands?
- Thread starter GrumpyFan
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englanddg
One Little Spark...
The in park readers at restaurants and shops were fine, and I didn't have too many issues with the poles.
However, this is exactly what it felt like using it for the room locks!
got2lovedisney
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- No
Again, as I said in the other poll, my vote is strictly for ease of use of the band. FastPass+ is a whole different animal!!
surfsupdon
Well-Known Member
They did not work. As in did NOT work. At all.
Everyday and every park we had ticket issues, 2 days the room wouldn't unlock, and sometimes the credit card was linked, and sometimes it was not.
Our profiles needed to be relinked several times. So FP+ was a major pain. We used it less and less each day.
Everyday and every park we had ticket issues, 2 days the room wouldn't unlock, and sometimes the credit card was linked, and sometimes it was not.
Our profiles needed to be relinked several times. So FP+ was a major pain. We used it less and less each day.
JerseyDad
Well-Known Member
....extended stays at WDW will result in acute carpal tunnel syndrome!!
Matt_Black
Well-Known Member
They worked very well for me in pretty much every area (I have agile wrists); overall I think it's a very neat feature.
Tinkerfan4ever
Well-Known Member
It worked great for me. One day I forgot when my Soarin' FP+ was for and checked my phone. I only had 5 min left on my window and I was all the way over in France. I quickly changed the time to later in the day no problem! I loved not having to run all the way across the park to get on a ride.
As for the wrist angle thing people have been mentioning above... this is what worked for me. I wore the band with the Mickey (flat part) on the bottom of my wrist, so the band was upside down. It worked great that way for point of sale and as the room key. Then when I was going to use it on a ride for FP+, or to enter the park, I just flipped it around because it was easier to use that way.
Entering the park, people really seemed to have an issue of when to put the band up to the Mickey and when to do the finger scan. I just put my band to the Mickey and and put my finger on the scanner at the same time and ta-da! I was in within 5 seconds every time.
As for the wrist angle thing people have been mentioning above... this is what worked for me. I wore the band with the Mickey (flat part) on the bottom of my wrist, so the band was upside down. It worked great that way for point of sale and as the room key. Then when I was going to use it on a ride for FP+, or to enter the park, I just flipped it around because it was easier to use that way.
Entering the park, people really seemed to have an issue of when to put the band up to the Mickey and when to do the finger scan. I just put my band to the Mickey and and put my finger on the scanner at the same time and ta-da! I was in within 5 seconds every time.
popcenturylover
Well-Known Member
Worked great! Didn't have any issues!
MeandMickey
Active Member
Bands worked fine, as they should, since they are just an RFID device. Nothing special there. They made our wrists sweaty though and my son (6) lost his a couple of times, but found them each time. He loved scanning everything even if we did not have any FP+ times left. On the other hand, or should I say wrist, we did not like the concept of planning everything so detailed before we enter a park and having fast passes limited for the day. This really turned us off a lot and are reconsidering renewing our passes next year. FP+ is a bunch of BS especially for the parades and fireworks. It was more of a madhouse than people just holding the spots for those shows. Why do they have to screw things up so much?!
Chezman1399
Active Member
Worked great!! Had a small issue when we checked in where they didn't know we already had bands and had others waiting for us. That was fixed fast and we were good to go. Only other issues had to do with tuning on the Bio Scanners, pretty sure they are way too tightly tuned right now, not a big deal as they quickly reset your biometrics and you move on.
Oh and I guess I had one weird issue with a fastpass, where I changed it to a later time the night before. The Cast member said I was 2 and a half hours late. I brought up the pass on my iphone and we were granted access, so once again a non-issue. We loved the bands: convenient, fast, changing or making new Fastpasses the day before or day of was a breeze. One day I actually had a Splash Mountain Fastpass+, but got to ride it with a short wait earlier in the day; Meanwhile, Haunted Mansion was a 35 minute wait, so I switched the Splash Fastpass+ for a HM FP+ and went right in, it was awesome. Another thing which I forgot to mention in my review, me and my wife got sick during our trip and spent a lot of time sleeping in, unusual for me at WDW, well one of those days we had all early morning FPs at AK. When we both got up, even though it was already passed our FP time, I was able to switch them from AK to MK which had late hours that day.
I thought only 3 Fastpasses was going to be an issue, but to be honest on most days I had trouble thinking what to use that 3rd FP on. FP+ also seemed to "flatten", by that I mean make the shorter, most of the lines that used to be really held up by Fastpass like Peter Pan, which used to be nothing but a steady stream of Fastpass followed by 1, maybe 2 families.
On a side note, what was with the Massive amounts of people in the parks these first 2 weeks of December? I've never seen it like this during this point of the year, been going around this time for most of the last 7 years now, wall to wall people, MVMCP sold out most nights, it was a mad house!!
Oh and I guess I had one weird issue with a fastpass, where I changed it to a later time the night before. The Cast member said I was 2 and a half hours late. I brought up the pass on my iphone and we were granted access, so once again a non-issue. We loved the bands: convenient, fast, changing or making new Fastpasses the day before or day of was a breeze. One day I actually had a Splash Mountain Fastpass+, but got to ride it with a short wait earlier in the day; Meanwhile, Haunted Mansion was a 35 minute wait, so I switched the Splash Fastpass+ for a HM FP+ and went right in, it was awesome. Another thing which I forgot to mention in my review, me and my wife got sick during our trip and spent a lot of time sleeping in, unusual for me at WDW, well one of those days we had all early morning FPs at AK. When we both got up, even though it was already passed our FP time, I was able to switch them from AK to MK which had late hours that day.
I thought only 3 Fastpasses was going to be an issue, but to be honest on most days I had trouble thinking what to use that 3rd FP on. FP+ also seemed to "flatten", by that I mean make the shorter, most of the lines that used to be really held up by Fastpass like Peter Pan, which used to be nothing but a steady stream of Fastpass followed by 1, maybe 2 families.
On a side note, what was with the Massive amounts of people in the parks these first 2 weeks of December? I've never seen it like this during this point of the year, been going around this time for most of the last 7 years now, wall to wall people, MVMCP sold out most nights, it was a mad house!!
luv
Well-Known Member
None of the above. It worked fine for opening the door and charging stuff to the room, but it wasn't any easier than using cash or a credit card to pay and a KTTW to open the door.
I did end up trying to schedule those days around the ride appointments, but we ended up not using any but one of them because we...well, we just decided to do things differently and forfeited them. We also paid for BOG lunches we didn't get there to eat.
So, it worked fine, but was, all in all, much worse (and more expensive) than before. I'll never pre-pay meals again, that's for sure!!
I did end up trying to schedule those days around the ride appointments, but we ended up not using any but one of them because we...well, we just decided to do things differently and forfeited them. We also paid for BOG lunches we didn't get there to eat.
So, it worked fine, but was, all in all, much worse (and more expensive) than before. I'll never pre-pay meals again, that's for sure!!
tem325
Active Member
Just returned from three full days in all four parks and absolutely not one single problem w/ the Magicbands and FP+.
One of my favorite things about the MB was that we wanted to do AK for a morning, and since it wouldn't be too crowded on Saturday morning, we just did a regular morning there, walked right onto the Kil. Safari, Everest, and Dinosaur on standby, and paper fast-passed Everest again. Then, when we got to MK around 4 pm, we have 3 passes lined up for the Mountains and got on all three despite 45+ minute waits at all of those. We were able to do a paper FP for BTM and Space to do those two rides a second time. The only bummer is we didn't get on Buzz again for that afternoon/evening at the MK. We could have waited 30 minutes, but since we did Buzz twice on Thursday when MK wasn't that crowded, we were fine.
All in all, my experience w/ MB was fine, they all worked seamlessly.
One of my favorite things about the MB was that we wanted to do AK for a morning, and since it wouldn't be too crowded on Saturday morning, we just did a regular morning there, walked right onto the Kil. Safari, Everest, and Dinosaur on standby, and paper fast-passed Everest again. Then, when we got to MK around 4 pm, we have 3 passes lined up for the Mountains and got on all three despite 45+ minute waits at all of those. We were able to do a paper FP for BTM and Space to do those two rides a second time. The only bummer is we didn't get on Buzz again for that afternoon/evening at the MK. We could have waited 30 minutes, but since we did Buzz twice on Thursday when MK wasn't that crowded, we were fine.
All in all, my experience w/ MB was fine, they all worked seamlessly.
midwest_mice
Well-Known Member
For the most part, my seven day trip I just returned from the magic bands worked ok. Their mobile app needs work. Friday I had made changes to my Saturday FP's and it wouldn't update them on my mobile experience. I remembered the times I had changed them to, went to the rides and they worked. After all that, the mobile app updated when I finished using those experiences.
I didn't use a credit card with mine, I always pay cash so I can watch what I spend better. Room access and park entrance worked smooth for all 4 of our party.
I didn't use a credit card with mine, I always pay cash so I can watch what I spend better. Room access and park entrance worked smooth for all 4 of our party.