hello everyone welcome back to Coral joy travel I'm so glad you're here in
today's video we're going to be talking about magic bands stay tuned so as you
can see I have some of my magic bands here like a little garland yeah
magic bands what are magic bands how do you use magic bands are they safe to use
these are questions I get asked frequently and I'm going to use this
video as a vessel to tell you everything you could ever want to know about
Disney's Magic fans in Walt Disney World if this is your first time finding my
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you can fill out a form and one of the team members on our coral joy travel
team will help your family out so magic bands are pretty magical they do
basically everything but tell time and let me say I wish I do wish they told
time that would make it easier because often when I am down in Walt Disney
World wearing my magic band on my wrist I also have on my other wrist my watch
this is one of my most recent magic bands I am an annual pass holder and I
actually have a sticker on this band
it's like a sticker decal that goes all the way around it kind of looks like
spaceship earth so magic bands are powered by magic no they're not no magic
bands are powered by something called RFID technologies so that's Radio
Frequency Identification basically they use radio waves to send and receive
information and that's how they work so if you are staying
at a Walt Disney World Resort Hotel you will be getting a Magic Band in the mail
and typically I tell my clients they arrive two to three weeks before your
vacation they're usually sent out about a month before your check-in date so
depending on where you live it'll take between you know two and three weeks
before your trip to actually receive it it'll come in a very plain rectangular
cardboard box not too big and it'll have all of the magic bands that you need for
everyone in your party guests staying at Walt Disney World property can customize
their magic bands to a different color and I believe they can have up to 10
characters as you know a name on the back of the magic band I'll show you
mine I will cover cover up my ID I don't know if you can see that it does say
coral joy hopefully you can see it you can customize the color and they're all
solid colors and you can customize the name on the back this is again on your
my Disney experience website on your very own account that you create that
you will have major fast passes on and you will have made your dining
reservations on because you know to do that and if you have a travel agent they
will do that for you and make sure you're all ready for that so you don't
have a travel agent please please make sure that all that set up in advance
every time you plan a trip to Walt Disney World that you are staying at a
Disney Resort Hotel you will get a new Magic Band so you can either get a new
Magic Band like you can tell I have many magic bands here right I usually get a
new Magic Band because I like it it makes me happy but you can also decline
the Magic Band and use one that you have used from past trips honestly I have
used this Magic Band a lot like I think this is the only one there's another one
that I used to but like it's the only one that I really have been using for
the past year so it's it's getting a lot of you
if you are flying down to MCO the Orlando International Airport make sure
you do not put your magic bands in your checked luggage it needs to be with you
on your carry-on so you can get to the magical express desk and pull out your
magic band or better yet even just wear it with you on the plane put it on your
wrist because that's where these guys go they go on your wrist so I want to keep
it on my wrist so yeah make sure you know keep it on your wrist with you when
you're flying or keep it in your you know your carry-on luggage so when you
get down to the magical express desk you can just scan in and the cast member
there will pull up your information and guide you to the correct line to wait
for your magical Express bus that is complimentary this is a huge perk to
guests staying on Disney Resort Hotel property huge perk they Disney will
drive you from the airport to your Disney Resort Hotel and then upon
departure pick you up at your Disney Resort Hotel and bring you back to MCO
Airport it's not fun going back we call that the tragical Express but on the way
to we call that the magical Express when you arrive at your Disney Resort Hotel
when you've been dropped off from magical Express you'll usually go to the
check-in I like to always confirm that everything is hooked up and ready to go
on my Magic Band I highly suggest that you make sure everything is on your
Magic Man that you need to find if you've pre-purchased memory maker make
sure it's attached if you pre purchased a Dining Plan make sure that pulls up
you know that sort of thing just make sure everything is on your magic band
that you have already paid for I like to also keep a like the confirmation that
Disney sends you in an email kind of handy just in case the cast member says
oh I don't see memory maker pre-purchased and you say yes I did
here's my confirmation and just make sure that everything is
the way it needs to be there have been some technical difficulties in the past
two six six months so I just tell you that to know in advance that everything
is where it needs to be when you check-in and and not have a surprise in
the middle of a trip when you realize something is not attached that should
have been attached before so when you arrive this is going to be your room key
there will not be a room key that you have to keep this isn't that great no
cards to hold on to it's just this if you want to use your magic band to
charge items when you are in the parks or you are at a resort hotel at a
restaurant that sort of thing just inform the cast member when you're
checking in that you want to add a credit card to your magic band that way
you can to do some charges now I want to say a lot of people are worried about
that safety god forbid you drop your magic band you
lose it someone else picks it up can they start going to retail shops and
charging away on your credit card no they can't because not only is a credit
card associated you know on your Magic Band for you there's also a four digit
PIN code that is unique to you so I would say don't make your PIN code
one-two-three-four don't make your PIN code 0 0 0 0 or 1 1
1 1 make it a little more difficult in case you do lose it someone might be
able to guess 1 2 3 4 do your anniversary do your birthday that sort
of thing the day your dog was born I don't know make it unique so you know we
can't figure it out it's important so the good thing to know is that magic
bands and having a credit card on it should you want to do that you don't
have to do that should you choose to put a credit card on your Magic Band it is
safe ok it is safe for you and you can create this pin code at check-in and you
will use this every single time that pin code every single time you make any
purchases whether it's like I said tail shop or if you are paying for
dinner or you are using the Dining Plan credits you will have to still put in
that pin code so choose one that you will remember but make sure it's unique
when you are ready to hit the theme parks this is also your ticket to get
into the theme parks this Magic Band you will scan the Mickey head on the top
here to a Mickey head at a kiosk when you walk into the parks and you will
also need to use a fingerprint so choose a finger that you will remember you use
every time whether it's your thumb or it's your first finger on your right or
left side just remember because you will scan the Mickey head and then scan a
finger or a thumb every single time you go into the theme parks if you're
working with a travel agent you will definitely have already done this before
your trip but make sure you have fast passes for your trip and so you know the
fast passes are going to be found using your magic ban so if you make advanced
Fastpass reservations 60 days before your check-in date if all of that
information is going to be held in this Magic Band again there will be a Mickey
head that you can and I'll leave a picture here but that you can zap I
always say is that zap it's not really a zap but you'll touch the Mickey heads
together and then walk into the Fastpass queue so this holds your Fastpass
information this is your room key this is your magical express ticket to get on
this is your theme park tickets it's like I said it does everything but
tell the time right it just needs to tell the time that's all we need dis
ting another thing that these magic bands will do for you is link all of
your photo pass pictures that you either get taken at one of the attractions some
of the some of the rides have either photos or videos that automatically
happen with the magic bands and it will be on this or if you go to one of the
photo paths photographers in any of the theme parks
and ask for pictures to be taken they will scan your
to pee on so all of those PhotoPass pictures will be found on your magic
band and then obviously linked to your my Disney experience account so you can
view them there after a fun day at the theme parks you're hot you're tired you
want to take a break so you decide to go to the pool take a dip in the pool at
your Disney hotel nothing better guess what you don't have to take off your
magic bands because they are waterproof now mine with the sticker decal maybe I
shouldn't wear in the water I don't think my stickers waterproof but the
magic bands that look just like a solid color like this they are waterproof so
you really don't have to take them off which is a good thing because again
don't forget this is your room key you know so you need to have you can't like
go to your hotel change into your swimsuit and leave your
magic band in your room that doesn't make any sense right because you need
you need your magic van to get back into the room so the nice thing is that these
can go on the pool you don't have to kind of hide them under a towel when you
are swimming that sort of thing I'm sure they can even go into the hot tubs
although I wouldn't really submerge it into the heat that's just me but it's
definitely fine in a pool so whether you have the water parks all day or you are
just swimming at the hotel pool you don't need to remove your magic bands
they are waterproof so the magic bands that come with a Disney Resort Hotel
package are plain colors these may not be all of the colors I think I'm missing
pink and I don't see a blue I see a yellow I think these are all the colors
except oh there's a blue right in front of my face I don't see the pink one this
one actually used to be pink but these are the colors they're you know they're
solid colors if you wanted to buy a magic band that has a character on it
because there's some really cool magic bands out there they do you know have an
extra cost in the theme parks or at some of the resort hotels and you can you can
or you can even buy them actually online before your trip on shop Disney's
website you can just link them up to your my Disney experience
count and use that special magic band as well so you don't have to use the one
that they give you for free but you know you can use one that you've already
purchased in advance all you have to do is link on the back of the fancy magic
band let's call them just link up the numbers and it will go to your my Disney
experience account and then it'll connect to your ticketed package so
that's that's good to know like I mentioned you can also get
sticker decals to go on your Magic Band this is the one that I I don't know I
love F Codd I love spaceship earth so this one is kind of my favorite one that
I have I purchased I think two from an Etsy shop called my fantasy bands and I
will if I remember I will leave a link to their their shop below but you know
there and I know there's plenty of other sticker decal accounts out there but you
know this is the one that I got and I know they have a lot more than when I
first started purchasing from them and they're very affordable I want to say
they were under five dollars per sticker I hope this Magic Band video was helpful
for you if it was please give it a thumbs up share it with your friends who
are taking a Walt Disney World trip especially if it's their first time and
they really don't know what the magic bands are or how to use them please feel
free to share this information with them and comment below if you have gone to
Walt Disney World and you have magic bands maybe even magic bands like I have
what do you do with them when you return home do you reuse them on your next
trips do you make a garland like apparently I do and put them on my
Disney Christmas tree that's what I do or do you just display them somewhere or
do you just keep them in a drawer I'm just curious what everybody else does
with them I'm sure there's something more useful that I can do besides making
a garland out of my magic bands or could be a boa let's just make it about what
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