Club Level Access

[MSCollins77]

Man...I disappear for a few days and forget to check this thread and it went off the rails a bit. I can see how I should have been way more specific in my original post but I also want to add one item to the conversation.

First of all the additional specificity should have been around usage. This is not my family of 5 crashing the club every day 3x/day. Some scenarios (think of my parents asking these):
- "Hey, it's our last morning (parents are leaving a day earlier), can you meet us in the club while we have breakfast so we chat over a last meal?" Could we join them?
- "Hey, can you send the three grandkids over to us so they can join us for cookies this afternoon?"
- "Hey, meet us in our room...on your way can you grab your mother a glass of wine in the club?"

I use these examples as they are all very real from our last Disney Cruise and we all stayed in concierge rooms (I agree, BTW, with others who say it's a very nice perk on the ship). All three of those scenarios happened. My original question was around whether or not we had wthe ability access on occasion or if the answer is simply "No Dad, we can't access the club."

And I'll leave everyone who screamed "stealing" with this final riddle. I looked at a club level room in the Yacht Club and it was the exact same price for 2 adults vs 2 adults and 2 kids. So had my parents booked the same room and added two of my kids to the reservation and paid the same price now I should feel justified letting two of them go as much as possible even though we didn't spend a dime more? Maybe I should modify the reservation and transfer two of my littles from my room to theirs!

It is hard to judge tone and intent so forgive me if I am wrong but your last paragraph comes off as a little defensive and maybe even sarcastic. I wonder if in hind sight you realized how the question and what you are looking to do made you look and feel a little embarrassed? In any case I do not think anyone in this thread attacked you or screamed at you that it is stealing, I think they correctly pointed out that you are asking to access a service you did not sign up and pay for even if your parents did. and while it may not seem like a big deal if you only meant sending your kids over now and a again or going over for a drink imagine if everyone else did this? I would love to go to the lounge for DVC members in Epcot but rather than paying for the DVC I go Club level when I go to Disney, should I be allowed into the DVC lounge anyway????

If you are not eating the food and drinking the drinks I don't see any problem with visiting on their last day before they leave but I think when you are talking about adding 5ive people and multiple times to a club room it creates as issue. having said that I doubt any CM would make a stink if someone entered with your parents so I guess you need to let your conscience be your guide

 

[LAKid53]

Sorry, OP, but taking something you've not paid for is, well, stealing, no matter how small the item is. That's like saying you didn't shoplift because it was only a 50 cent pack of gum.

I've stayed Club Level at GF - it wasn't cheap for the 5 of us. To access the lounge on the 3rd (or was it 4th) floor of the main building, you had to touch your MB or card to the Mickey in the elevator before pushing the button for that floor. There was a CM sitting at a desk on the floor below to answer any questions. But unless you had a room on the club level floor, the only access was via one specific elevator. I wouldn't have been very pleased if several of the people sitting eating breakfast hadn't paid for the ability to be there...and were taking not just the food I'd paid for, but tables (the CL lounge at GF isn't that big).

Oh, btw, if you exceed the room capacity (that extra adult or 1 more kid) Disney will charge you extra. And I doubt that the system will let you add more guests than the maximum capacity - 8 guests in a room that sleeps 5, for example.

 

[ryguy]

And I'll leave everyone who screamed "stealing" with this final riddle. I looked at a club level room in the Yacht Club and it was the exact same price for 2 adults vs 2 adults and 2 kids. So had my parents booked the same room and added two of my kids to the reservation and paid the same price now I should feel justified letting two of them go as much as possible even though we didn't spend a dime more? Maybe I should modify the reservation and transfer two of my littles from my room to theirs![/QUOTE]

Sounds like a good idea

 

[LAKid53]

And I'll leave everyone who screamed "stealing" with this final riddle. I looked at a club level room in the Yacht Club and it was the exact same price for 2 adults vs 2 adults and 2 kids. So had my parents booked the same room and added two of my kids to the reservation and paid the same price now I should feel justified letting two of them go as much as possible even though we didn't spend a dime more? Maybe I should modify the reservation and transfer two of my littles from my room to theirs!

Sounds like a good idea [/QUOTE]

Only the system won't accept a reservation with 2 adults and 4 kids, if that's his plan, for a standard room, be it club or not. And calling Disney Travel will probably yield the same results.

If the room type says "sleeps 4 adults", it won't let you add a 5th - you'll get the unavailable message result on your search; same with adding too many kids.