January 5, 2016 – Part Two

After snapping a picture of the airport Disney store, we set off to check in with Magical Express. We didn’t have our Magic Bands yet, as they won’t ship them to Canada, but I had my booklet from Disney with all of our confirmation information. It went very smoothly, and we joined the line for the All-Star Resorts. While standing in line, I remembered that I had forgotten to do online check-in, so that’s when I did it. We stood in line for less than 10 minutes before we were directed onto a bus! We ended up sitting on the Magical Express bus for about 15 minutes waiting for more passengers before we started driving to Disney. We used this time to take our first selfie on our Disney trip

We were staying at the All-Star Music Resort, so we were the third stop out of four (Coronado Springs guests were also on our bus). We had used the yellow luggage tags and I had checked in online from the airport, so after walking off the bus we were at the counter getting our Magic Bands and room number within 2 minutes. After receiving a map of the hotel with the location of our room, we decided to stop at the Intermission Food Court. We hadn’t ate much all day as I really try to limit myself to what I eat on travel days (I have Crohn’s Disease, so flare-ups on an airplane are not fun for anyone). It was late by this point, so the menu was limited but we didn’t care. We activated our refillable mugs – I chose blue and Luke grabbed a green one for himself. Click here for the review of our meal 🙂

After eating, we set off to find our room. It really surprised us how large All-Star Music was! We were in the 7th building, Broadway themed. We found our room and tested both of our Magic Bands to make sure they worked. No issues there, so we settled in to wait for our luggage to arrive. It ended up being a pretty late night, our bags didn’t arrive in our room until 12:20, but we were asleep within 20 minutes of it arriving.

I also forgot to take pictures of our room when I first got there, and didn’t actually take these pictures until the morning we were checking out…oh well! Here’s our room!