Sorry, being a veteran, I know I should know the answer to this, but I don't. We have always gotten hard tickets for the parties, even though we have a Magicband, but this time we didn't.
We are only stopping by for two days on our way to Mexico, with the main purpose of going to the party the day we arrive, and doing rope drop at AK the next day to experience Pandora. I'm concerned about entering using the Magicband because we won't have room for error the next morning if something goes wrong and they accidentally ding us for our park day instead of the party ticket.
I called guest services and that was pointless...the cast member told me we couldn't enter until 6pm and when I disputed that, she put me on hold. She came back and said that we could enter at 4pm, but no day guests are permitted after 4 pm, so the system will know we're using the party ticket. Then she tried to transfer me to internet support thinking I wanted to make sure my party tickets were linked to the Magicbands.
Clearly she was really uninformed.
Can anyone give me any advice how to handle this? Is there any way to guarantee they charge the party ticket and not the day ticket if we enter early. Can we verify our day ticket is still available at guest services after we enter the party?