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In January I was finally able to leave the shitty company I was working for and embark on a new career path. I work for a radio group that has several stations here in SWFL. Long story short the guy that had the job prior to me was such a dick that he damaged several relationships, and one of them happened to be with Disney. Well we got that fixed and I just got back from their largest media event of the year. It's HUGE.
Anyway we had 4 rooms, and Disney let us put up to 4 people in each room. So the on air staff was able to bring family for a three day or actually three and a half day weekend free. But it was a lot more than that.
They gave everyone meal vouchers for the parks, twice had breakfast buffets put together for us, once on site at Animal Kingdom, and had a cool contest with prizes so they also put together an fantastic dinner/prize things in the ballroom of the Coronado Springs Resort where everyone was staying. Hard to top all that right? Of course you assume that they will give you access to the parks since the contest involved a photo hunt on an app that they built for the contest. During certain one hour windows one or two times a day, they dropped a picture and everyone would race to the spot to get a booklet stamped.
This however was no ordinary "magic band" as they are called. You can google magic band so you can see what that is but it's a wristband that serves as your room key and you can tap it on machines to use it to pay for stuff so you don't have to carry money, you also tap it up against the entrance to rides.
OK so everyone who pays the admission to the parks can normally get 3 "fast passes" (move to the front of the line so to speak) per day and select the rides they want to go on and they assign a time based on availability, and only a certain number of people can be accommodated at a time of course. These bands gave not only gave us unlimited fast passed but our bands over rode the system if a certain time was blocked because it was at capacity. Essentially we had all access anytime to any rides we wanted as many times as we wanted.
Here's the coolest part. I had never been to Disney, so my first trip was basically on a magic carpet ride with any ride I wanted whenever I wanted it. Same with the other attractions too, not just the roller coasters. I got the Disney experience buffet style/all you can eat. One of the staff at one of the other radio groups (they had stations from all over Florida in for the event) said that the only time they issues these type of magic bands is for celebrities so they don't get mobbed by the crowd and when they bring in a child with Make A Wish. So this was a really special thing and it made the entire weekend so, so, so memorable.
Pretty much everything I have heard about Disney's parks was true. It was one of the best weekends of my adult life by the way.
Anyway we had 4 rooms, and Disney let us put up to 4 people in each room. So the on air staff was able to bring family for a three day or actually three and a half day weekend free. But it was a lot more than that.
They gave everyone meal vouchers for the parks, twice had breakfast buffets put together for us, once on site at Animal Kingdom, and had a cool contest with prizes so they also put together an fantastic dinner/prize things in the ballroom of the Coronado Springs Resort where everyone was staying. Hard to top all that right? Of course you assume that they will give you access to the parks since the contest involved a photo hunt on an app that they built for the contest. During certain one hour windows one or two times a day, they dropped a picture and everyone would race to the spot to get a booklet stamped.
This however was no ordinary "magic band" as they are called. You can google magic band so you can see what that is but it's a wristband that serves as your room key and you can tap it on machines to use it to pay for stuff so you don't have to carry money, you also tap it up against the entrance to rides.
OK so everyone who pays the admission to the parks can normally get 3 "fast passes" (move to the front of the line so to speak) per day and select the rides they want to go on and they assign a time based on availability, and only a certain number of people can be accommodated at a time of course. These bands gave not only gave us unlimited fast passed but our bands over rode the system if a certain time was blocked because it was at capacity. Essentially we had all access anytime to any rides we wanted as many times as we wanted.
Here's the coolest part. I had never been to Disney, so my first trip was basically on a magic carpet ride with any ride I wanted whenever I wanted it. Same with the other attractions too, not just the roller coasters. I got the Disney experience buffet style/all you can eat. One of the staff at one of the other radio groups (they had stations from all over Florida in for the event) said that the only time they issues these type of magic bands is for celebrities so they don't get mobbed by the crowd and when they bring in a child with Make A Wish. So this was a really special thing and it made the entire weekend so, so, so memorable.
Pretty much everything I have heard about Disney's parks was true. It was one of the best weekends of my adult life by the way.
