Ive never seen a picture of these posted before and I never really bothered to google it, so it was a nice surprise how when this box came in the mail. My kids were practically foaming at the mouth with excitement
Do you get these once you reserve your room?
If you're a DVC owner, I think the reservation should show up automatically in your account.
If you're renting points from an owner or exchanging in via RCI you'll need to get the Disney reservation number from the owner or from DVC Member Services. You can use that to link to your "My Disney Experience" profile and that'll bring up the option to customize your Bands.
-Rob
I found the RCI exchange process confusing wrt magicbands.
If your reservation is an RCI exchange reservation and more than 2 are traveling in your family you must call DVC member services and manually add the number of members above 2.
Disney says this is just how it works through RCI, they only assign 2 folks max to RCI reservations so you will only be able to get 2 magic bands unless you call and add the other members.
Also - what the pictures listed here doesn't show - is inside the magicband they imprint that members name. So if you have 5 people in your family you don't have to remember dd is pink, ds is blue, etc. etc., you can look on the inside and their name is imprinted.
Another piece of advice, the bands have two stubs to lock into the holes.. My 15 year old son likes to literally rip them on and off, he broke one of the stub-locks but the second held and I told him to be careful...
Can you designate who has access to your credit card and who doesn't? Can you set up different credit cards for different people?
I'm organizing a family trip for probably 15 people next July and I'm taking care of the accommodations (a grand villa and 2 bedroom at OKW) and I'll probably take care of setting everybody up with a magic band.
A few months ago there was a lot of chatter on the dis boards about a loop hole with these and fast passes. It was for people that had park tickets separate from their reservation. Basically you ordered the amount of magic bands the room held instead if people and got more fast passes.
Example. If you had 2 people in a 1br that actually sleeps 4. You make up the names for the other 2 and get bands for them. When you make your fp reservations you get two sets.
People were even doing this with bands from previous trips!
The issue at the time was the fp system was using the mb system instead if park tickets. I'm not sure if it has been fixed yet.