I know that with the magic bands you can charge items to your room. Does this also apply at restaurants if you don't have the DDP? Can we just charge the meals to the room and pay it at the end?
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Charging meals to your room
- Thread starter WDWFan2018
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Yes!
OH! This is potentially a game changer!!
Yes. As long as you are staying at a Disney resort, there's almost nothing you can not charge to your room.
Weather_Lady
Well-Known Member
I thought I'd hate the MagicBands when they came out -- until I ventured from my hotel one day and inadvertently left my wallet in the room. Paying for drinks by the pool? MagicBand! T-shirt in the gift shop? MagicBand! CS lunch? MagicBand! And of course, for park admission and getting back into the hotel room -- MagicBand!
Another advantage (if you're like me and like to do a post-mortem of your vacation spending) is that your room invoice will provide a neat list of all your MagicBand purchases, so you can keep track of your on-property expenses by category and location (as opposed to a credit card statement, which would also list what you spent at the airport, or anywhere else, during your trip dates).
Another advantage (if you're like me and like to do a post-mortem of your vacation spending) is that your room invoice will provide a neat list of all your MagicBand purchases, so you can keep track of your on-property expenses by category and location (as opposed to a credit card statement, which would also list what you spent at the airport, or anywhere else, during your trip dates).
And I can pay at the resort with a Disney gift card? It would be great to be able to see the grand total at the end instead of having to gather up a week's worth of receipts to see what I spent as opposed to what it would have cost for the DDP.
YES!!! I love this!!!
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
I still get carded, 7 years later.
Each resort has a charging limit. $1,500 at values and moderates, $2,000 at Deluxe and DVC (I think). But within those limits, yes. I usually stop by the front desk every day or two and pay off my balance with a gift card just to be sure I have a sense of where I stand.
Weather_Lady
Well-Known Member
This is fantastic information! I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner.
BoarderPhreak
Well-Known Member
Keep in mind that this ONLY works on DISNEY resorts - if you're staying at say, the Swan/Dolphin, your MB is basically only a park ticket. You can't open your doors with them, and you can't charge anything to your MB.
We're staying at Port Orleans. I'm glad I asked this question. I don't know why I assumed that you couldn't charge meals.
I'm 45. I love getting carded.
We love the ability to have our kids be able to go get themselves a meal if we separate in the parks, or if they want something and we don't want to stand in line with them, or if we're getting something at Casey's and they want ice cream.
I stand corrected, you are correct.
That's not accurate. I stayed at POR in March and we charged our breakfast to our MBs on the morning we left.
Yes, you can charge on your departure day, I have done it many times. You can charge up until midnight of your departure day.
If you had the dining plan, the credits would remain active until then also. Disney wants you to make full use of that time on that last day, purchase food and souvenirs etc, and they want it to be as easy as possible.
Correct. You can keep charging on your MB on the day you check out as long as you have an active credit card on the account.
Does anyone know if you can link a Disney GC to the MDE app?
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
You cannot. But if you charge to your room, you can pay the balance off with the gift card. It won't charge to your credit card until your last day.