A Cast Member Told Me to Carry This in My Park Bag — Best $65 I've Ever Spent

Cast Members spend a ton of time inside the Disney parks, either at work or for fun! So we trust their recommendations for making our Disney days better.

Our Disney bag is full of essentials!

What you pack in your park bag can truly make or break your day in the Disney parks. Whether you tend to overpack (like me) or just focus on the absolute essentials, we can all agree that they are worth the packing space. Once a Cast Member told us about this one item, we never looked back!

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It’s not a shock that a popular recommendation for a park bag essential is a portable charger. With the amount of time you spend in the Disney parks, paired with using your phone for videos and photos and using the MyDisney Experience app, your phone battery is going to run out quick! You don’t want to be stuck in the parks without a charger, so that’s why the FuelRod Max 10 is the perfect solution.

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Charging magnetically!

This is a HUGE Fuel Rod portable charger that’s been completely revamped from the form we once knew. We’ll be completely honest, at $65 for the initial kit, it’s pretty expensive. However, the huge advantage here is that you can swap it for free at Disney World, so you’re never without power. The key features of the product include multiple charging ports, a lit battery life indicator on the side, a button to turn power off and on, multiple chargers for different charging ends, MagSafe so you can magnetically charge your phone, and swappable for FREE at Disney World.

FuelRod MAX10

It’s beefy; both in charge and capability. It’s got a lot more power and potential than its previous standard round rod model, and that makes it worth the investment. It’s good to use anytime of day, on multiple devices, can be easily swapped for another with a full charge, and even used when it’s raining magnetically, without the fear of ruining your charging port or expensive cord.

Magnetic charging included

There are a couple of things that took some getting used to! It’s bulky when you’re using it to charge magnetically. Small hands may struggle to use their phone while it’s connected. It’s also slower to charge magnetically than plugged in, and its heaviness doesn’t make it pocket-friendly.

Side button

We give this a 4.5 out of 5, only because of the bulkier, heavier feel, which is practically unavoidable but still not ideal. That being said, 4.5 out of 5 is pretty dang great! It seriously lasts us so long (and we go through an insane amount of battery on our phones taking pictures and videos of everything), and we love the ability to switch it out for free at Disney.

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