Buying tickets after booking WDW hotel...?

Hi - silly question here.

We booked a vacay at a WDW resort and didn't book park tickets at the time (long story, but we needed both Florida resident and non resident tickets, and it was a long drawn out process! ).

Anyway.

I just booked our park tickets online and it said that they were shipping them to me. I thought tickets were loaded on our magic band? Or are they separate? So I'll be receiving both magic bands and tickets? Will this be a problem?

I see from mydisneyexperience that they're linked to our reservation....

I'm new to this whole magic band world.

Message edited 3/8/2015 2:21:24 PM.

Re: Buying tickets after booking WDW hotel...?

We're staying off-site, but I purchased the bands separately and I can link my tickets to the bands online. I believe the premise is that you can reuse the bands if you go back to WDW in the future.

Message edited 3/8/2015 2:35:48 PM.

Buying tickets after booking WDW hotel...?

When you get your tickets, you log on and add them to your My Disney Experience account. Then you can link them to a person, which is linked to a magic band. If you ordered your tickets through WDW.com, they should have emailed you your ticket numbers to do this without waiting for the actual card.

Nothing comes ON your magic band, everything gets linked to it (reservations for hotel, tickets, fast pass). You can use your Magic Band over and over for future trips if you want.

Message edited 3/8/2015 4:17:26 PM.