Hi Lydia and welcome to planDisney!
Let me start out by also welcoming to the
Walt Disney World Passholder family! We just love our
annual passes because they give us the flexibility to visit the parks more often and make more magical memories. Living in the Sunshine State gives us that opportunity and we just love popping over for the day or for the weekend.
One of the perks of being a Passholder is having the option to purchase a new
MagicBand or
MagicBand+ at a discount. MagicBands are so convenient while on vacation at Walt Disney World because you can enter the parks, enter the
Lightning Lane attraction queues, make purchases and open your
Disney Resort hotel room door all with the tap of your wrist. There is no need to dig around in your bag for various cards to do all of these things. The hard part is choosing which one to get! There are so many beautiful designs and themes to choose from and the discounted inventory is always changing.
When you purchase a new annual pass, your start date does not activate until the first time you tap into a theme park, so there is no need to worry about it starting early if you purchase MagicBands online. You do have one year to activate your passes once they are purchased, but you are well within that window with your first visit in June.
If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend adding the
Disney PhotoPass Downloads option to one of your annual passes. This will give you an entire year of unlimited photo downloads that you take with a PhotoPass photographer as well as your attraction photos. You can easily view and download all of your photos right from the
My Disney Experience Mobile App.
Please stop back by if you have any additional vacation planning questions.
Have a magical day!
Leslie