Using gift cards

[DisneyDreamer08]

Can I use a Disney gift card at either Spice Road Table or Homecomin’?
Thank you

 

[Weather_Lady]

Disney gift cards are accepted at all the onsite restaurants, and when mobile ordering through the MDE app.

 

[DisneyDreamer08]

Disney gift cards are accepted at all the onsite restaurants, and when mobile ordering through the MDE app.

Thank you!

 

[Weather_Lady]

Thank you!

Caveat: Some non-Disney owned places at DS might be an exception, but I do know Homecomin' accepts them.

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

There is also a small challenge when using electronic gift cards. CM's are not allowed (in some locations) to handle your phone. Meaning they can't walk away from your table with your phone. In those locations, if you want to use an e-gift card you are generally asked to write the number on a paper.

another work around- ideally done in advance- is using the Disney gift card website. There, you can post up to 5 cards (I think it is 5, might be 6.) You can then use that page to combine gift cards. So if you buy one plastic card, you can transfer funds from e-gift cards to the plastic one.

The one caveat there is if you use gift cards to pay for something, and later return it/cancel it the funds go back to the gift card # you used. So if you combine cards before the transaction, so just good to keep most cards until the trip is over. If you combine them electronically- the actual card number you use is where funds return.

So if you combined a $10 card, and a $25 card, and a $50 card onto the $50 card, and pay with what was originally the $50 card, the funds go back to (what was) the $50 card.

ONE more tidbit, the Landry's run WDW restaurants accept Landry's gift cards. Rainforest, Yak N Yeti, T-Rex, and offsite: Morton's, Landry's Seafood, Hard Rock Cafe, Saltgrass, and a few others they own.

One workaround for places that do not take gift cards is if you are staying onsite, you can charge to your hotel room (if you allowed room charges when doing check-in), then when you get back to hotel, pay with the gift card. Just be sure it is before your last night. On your night, and when balance goes over a certain amount, the charges get charged to your on-file credit card (or did pre-pandemic).

 

[Weather_Lady]

One workaround for places that do not take gift cards is if you are staying onsite, you can charge to your hotel room (if you allowed room charges when doing check-in), then when you get back to hotel, pay with the gift card. Just be sure it is before your last night. On your night, and when balance goes over a certain amount, the charges get charged to your on-file credit card (or did pre-pandemic).

This is a fantastic tip!

 

[CaptainAmerica]

There is also a small challenge when using electronic gift cards. CM's are not allowed (in some locations) to handle your phone. Meaning they can't walk away from your table with your phone. In those locations, if you want to use an e-gift card you are generally asked to write the number on a paper.

another work around- ideally done in advance- is using the Disney gift card website. There, you can post up to 5 cards (I think it is 5, might be 6.) You can then use that page to combine gift cards. So if you buy one plastic card, you can transfer funds from e-gift cards to the plastic one.

The one caveat there is if you use gift cards to pay for something, and later return it/cancel it the funds go back to the gift card # you used. So if you combine cards before the transaction, so just good to keep most cards until the trip is over. If you combine them electronically- the actual card number you use is where funds return.

So if you combined a $10 card, and a $25 card, and a $50 card onto the $50 card, and pay with what was originally the $50 card, the funds go back to (what was) the $50 card.

ONE more tidbit, the Landry's run WDW restaurants accept Landry's gift cards. Rainforest, Yak N Yeti, T-Rex, and offsite: Morton's, Landry's Seafood, Hard Rock Cafe, Saltgrass, and a few others they own.

One workaround for places that do not take gift cards is if you are staying onsite, you can charge to your hotel room (if you allowed room charges when doing check-in), then when you get back to hotel, pay with the gift card. Just be sure it is before your last night. On your night, and when balance goes over a certain amount, the charges get charged to your on-file credit card (or did pre-pandemic).

Last trip I went with four cards of $1,000 each. I picked one card and used it until it ran out. Then I refilled it with one of the other cards using the website. Then I drew it down and refilled it with the next card and so-on. That way I always knew which cards any refunds would come back to, because every transaction I made came off of the same card.

 

[irenesun]

There is also a small challenge when using electronic gift cards. CM's are not allowed (in some locations) to handle your phone. Meaning they can't walk away from your table with your phone. In those locations, if you want to use an e-gift card you are generally asked to write the number on a paper.

another work around- ideally done in advance- is using the Disney gift card website. There, you can post up to 5 cards (I think it is 5, might be 6.) You can then use that page to combine gift cards. So if you buy one plastic card, you can transfer funds from e-gift cards to the plastic one.

The one caveat there is if you use gift cards to pay for something, and later return it/cancel it the funds go back to the gift card # you used. So if you combine cards before the transaction, so just good to keep most cards until the trip is over. If you combine them electronically- the actual card number you use is where funds return.

So if you combined a $10 card, and a $25 card, and a $50 card onto the $50 card, and pay with what was originally the $50 card, the funds go back to (what was) the $50 card.

ONE more tidbit, the Landry's run WDW restaurants accept Landry's gift cards. Rainforest, Yak N Yeti, T-Rex, and offsite: Morton's, Landry's Seafood, Hard Rock Cafe, Saltgrass, and a few others they own.

One workaround for places that do not take gift cards is if you are staying onsite, you can charge to your hotel room (if you allowed room charges when doing check-in), then when you get back to hotel, pay with the gift card. Just be sure it is before your last night. On your night, and when balance goes over a certain amount, the charges get charged to your on-file credit card (or did pre-pandemic).

Great explanation and advice.

 

[blackthidot]

You can also leave tips on the gift cards as well FYI...