Add magicband access to room without adding additional guest?

Walt Disney World Accommodations
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Hi!
Ok weird question here but let me try to explain.

I come in to Ft Wilderness this Saturday and have a TP ready to go for a very busy day on Saturday at MK. My parents are coming in on Saturday and will join up with me. They have their own cabin booked and I have my own. However when they arrive their cabin most likely won’t be ready. The will be arriving with a car full of groceries though and would like to put them in MY cabin until theirs is available.

Does anyone know if there is a way I can flag one of their magic bands to access my cabin without actually adding them as an additional guest? They only need access that one time.

I was thinking if I can’t do that, maybe I can just have them meet me in the park and give them one of my extra magic bands (I have a couple) and they can then use that. Do all my magic bands on my account get activated for the room?

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All of your magic bands should have access to open the room. You could give them one of your old magic bands well in advance of when they’d need it, I suppose.

There’s also a new feature that you can unlock your room via MDE. I have never done it, so I do not know if it would be reliable in your situation.

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Well I can’t give it to them in advance since we are coming in from two completely different locations.They live near Disney and I’m in Canada :slight_smile: So that was why I was hoping to somehow add one of their bands as then they wouldn’t have to come meet me in the park first.

I did see the MDE door unlock which got me excited but it works on bluetooth and requires you to physically tap the lock just like a band.

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They should be able to leave their groceries at the check-in place at FW.

Short of meeting up with you somehow, given the short time frame I can’t think of another way to work it. I assume you don’t have time to get an old magic band of yours to them before you leave?

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Can you wrap it up like a present and leave it for them at Bell services or the front desk?

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hmmmm that’s an interesting idea

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Bell services is a good idea.

Otherwise, I’d consider shipping them a band well in advance so they have immediate access to your room.

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OP said they arrive this Saturday.

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I’d just leave it at Bell Services. One of the most widely reported issues people have with magic bands - and not just old ones - is that they don’t open the door. It might work fine but if you go to a lot of effort and it doesn’t and they have to leave it at Bell Services anyway without being prepared to do that, it’s not going to be ideal.

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Really? Never had my bands not work. Didn’t know that was even a thing.

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Yep. Most people don’t have a problem, but it’s not uncommon and I’d say I’ve seen it reported more in the last year than the whole time before that put together.

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Minor detail :blush: Sorry about that.

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Two out of three of ours did not work at midnight of checkin day. Luckily, one did.

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:grinning:

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Heh well let’s hope that doesn’t happen. I am only bringing one band with me, my others are in my Owner’s Locker which would be inside the cabin waiting for me :stuck_out_tongue:

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I got a lecture about having too many bands. I said they were inactive but she said it didn’t matter.

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Too many bands? I don’t understand that concept. :blush:

Ours didn’t work one trip but we found out the battery in the door needed to be replaced. Our bands were fine.

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Yup. DHs isn’t working for the roombut is fine for everything else :woman_shrugging:t2:

Are you opposed to giving them your MDE login? Then they could use their phone to tap into your room with the door unlock feature

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