Room key and adding $$ to it.

JohnByers

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Anybody know if using a CC is the only way you can attach spending power to your room key? Can you go to the front desk at your resort and pay with cash or travelors checks? Thanks in advance.
 

krankenstein

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Anybody know if using a CC is the only way you can attach spending power to your room key? Can you go to the front desk at your resort and pay with cash or travelors checks? Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure about checks or traveors checks but I know from personal experience you can attach a debt card if you have one.
 
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cabihler

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here is what several friends do

before they go they set aside the amount of CASH that they have budgeted and upon checking into their resort they will put the CASH minus 10 percent (they leave the 10 percent portion on them for incidental spending such as arcades and vending machine cash) on their room key. now understand they KNOW they will spend all of this case. then they do a backup on their room card with their CC. the advantage they say is that they knew they were going to spend all of that cash so they loos nothing having it on their room key and in fact they say it is safer then carrying cash because if they loose the cash they are out it whereas if they lose their room key they are out no money at all.

by doing this they rarely charge much to their credit card because they are spending what they budgeted and just a little more.
 
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disneydudette

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We've always applied a CC to the room card keys but rarely pay the balance with that CC.

Prior to check out (usually the night before) we head to the front desk and ask for a print out of our bill. We varify all charges and then divide up the bill. We pay a certain portion in cash and the rest with a CC, sometimes the one on the room card key, sometimes not. Note that if you don't "settle" at the front desk before you check out, your orginal CC on the account will be charged.

I'm not sure what the front desk policy is with traveler checks but I "believe" they can be used to pay off your room bill as well.
 
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CleveRocks

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You can back up a room charge with a credit card, debit card (with VISA/MC logo), CASH, travelers checks, and even Disney Dollars.

You DO NOT need any sort of plastic to set up a room charge.

If you have any room charge questions, please ask away! I'll answer everything I can!
 
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Disneykidder

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I've linked to a cc and also paid cash before hand and then used a cc as a back up. Easy as pie.

Something to remember is that you must go the night before you check out to pay with cash, otherwise you will be charged since they settle it all in the middle of the night and slip the papers under your door at the wee hours.

Also remember that you can choose not to allow certain cards to charging priviledge. (ie kids)

Waterpark question: Does Disney give out room wristbands with charging priviledges? I don't think they do, but just wondering. It would be convienient. We stayed at The Great Wolf Lodge last week and it was great!! It was a room key and charging (never had to carry a dime) in a waterproof wristband...never comes off, no losing. Disney should try this idea. It would work great for kids and for a weeks stay. It wsn't annoying at all.
 
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Pioneer Hall

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Even if you set up a credit card to go with the room charge...you can go to the desk and pay it off with cash or travelers checks as often as you would like.
 
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JohnByers

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thanks for all the information! This place is so great! I starting packing this morning since I will be so busy with school this week (high school teacher and track coach). Our flight leaves at 7am from RDU a week from today!
 
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lpet11984

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So when you set up your KttK, you can put cash on it right from the start? Like a gift card? Or you have to start by linking it with a credit card and then go back and pay it in cash later?

If you can put Disney dollars on your key to the kingdom, what about Disney gift cards? Can I do that as well?

I usually buy a bunch of gift cards before I go because I'd rather carry them than cash and it's a way to pre-pay over time....if I could put my extra cash/all my gift cards on my room key, and use my cc as a back up for if/when they run out...that would be ideal! Then I'd only have one card to carry with me for everything...wouldn't have to risk taking all my gift cards with me and worrying about trying to figure out which ones are empty and which ones have a balance.

I have one more question, too...if I'm staying in a room with a friend, is it possible for us to have our keys linked to two different accounts? If she wants to put her credit card on her room key and I want to put my gift cards on mine, is that possible? Or could only one of us do it since we're splitting the same room?
 
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CleveRocks

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QUESTION:
So when you set up your KttK, you can put cash on it right from the start? Like a gift card? Or you have to start by linking it with a credit card and then go back and pay it in cash later?
ANSWER:
Me said:
You can back up a room charge with a credit card, debit card (with VISA/MC logo), CASH, travelers checks, and even Disney Dollars.

You DO NOT need any sort of plastic to set up a room charge. [I added the red and the bold for emphasis.]
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If you can put Disney dollars on your key to the kingdom, what about Disney gift cards? Can I do that as well?
Yes.

I usually buy a bunch of gift cards before I go because I'd rather carry them than cash and it's a way to pre-pay over time....if I could put my extra cash/all my gift cards on my room key, and use my cc as a back up for if/when they run out...that would be ideal! Then I'd only have one card to carry with me for everything...wouldn't have to risk taking all my gift cards with me and worrying about trying to figure out which ones are empty and which ones have a balance.
There are maximum room charge amounts, based on level of resort. At the Value resorts, the maximum room charge limit is $500; it's $1,000 at Moderates and $1,500 at Deluxes. You can choose to set a lower limit if you want.

When you reach that maximum limit (or at around 3:00 a.m. or so on your check-out day, whichever comes first), you can't make further room charges until you set up a new room charge account. If you set up the room charge with a credit or debit card, you can call the resort front desk and verbally authorize a new room charge account. But if you are using cash or travelers checks or Disney Dollars, you'd need to physically go to the front desk and hand them over in order to set up a new room charge account.
I have one more question, too...if I'm staying in a room with a friend, is it possible for us to have our keys linked to two different accounts? If she wants to put her credit card on her room key and I want to put my gift cards on mine, is that possible? Or could only one of us do it since we're splitting the same room?
Yes, you can do this. I just recently learned this myself from a poster on another board who really knows his stuff (and whom I assume is a current or former CM). He says you can request to have a "SHARE." He specifically said you must use that word, in order to set up 2 separate room charge accounts on the same room. He said most front desk CMs won't know what this is, and in that case you should ask them to ask their manager and/or to consult a specific manual, the name of which escapes me right now.

In other words, it can be done but few know about it.
 
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lpet11984

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My apologies for sounding a bit redundant in my first question...it's just that I was told the last time I went to WDW that we couldn't use cash. Perhaps the CM checking us into our room misunderstood me.

Good to know about requesting a "share"-- will definitely have to do that in June.

Thanks for your help, Eric!
 
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CleveRocks

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A similar thing happened to me on my first trip. I was at CBR, a Moderate resort. I wanted to set up a room charge for $800 rather than the maximum of $1,000. The CM checking me in told me it couldn't be done, that room charge was only available at the set amount of $1,000.

I knew from reading various message boards that she was incorrect. I politely asked her to check with someone else. She did, and I had my $800 room charge. She learned something new that day.:)
 
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Rob562

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Waterpark question: Does Disney give out room wristbands with charging priviledges? I don't think they do, but just wondering. It would be convienient. We stayed at The Great Wolf Lodge last week and it was great!! It was a room key and charging (never had to carry a dime) in a waterproof wristband...never comes off, no losing. Disney should try this idea. It would work great for kids and for a weeks stay. It wsn't annoying at all.

They don't have room keys that are waterproof like that, but they *do* sell smaller-sized waterproof Disney Gift Cards on wrist straps. I believe they are only available for purchase at the water parks. You could pay cash or credit card for one when you get to the water park, or I assume you can charge the purchase of one to your room key, though it would be a stand-alone gift card and not something actually "linked" to your room charge account.

-Rob
 
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Tiggerfanatic

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If you can put Disney dollars on your key to the kingdom, what about Disney gift cards? Can I do that as well?

I usually buy a bunch of gift cards before I go because I'd rather carry them than cash and it's a way to pre-pay over time....if I could put my extra cash/all my gift cards on my room key, and use my cc as a back up for if/when they run out...that would be ideal! Then I'd only have one card to carry with me for everything...wouldn't have to risk taking all my gift cards with me and worrying about trying to figure out which ones are empty and which ones have a balance.

Just a word of advice - instead of buying a bunch of Disney cards, just buy one initially, then keep adding to it every time you go to the Disney store. That's what we do. And you receipt will show you the balance remaining on your card.
 
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Mikester71

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Even if you set up a credit card to go with the room charge...you can go to the desk and pay it off with cash or travelers checks as often as you would like.

Yeah, that is what we do too. Usually when we return at night, one of us will go down to the front desk at the Pop Century with a travelers check and get a printout of the day's charges to the room key. We then pay it off with the travelers check. Sometimes we just do it before heading out the next day.
 
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lpet11984

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Just a word of advice - instead of buying a bunch of Disney cards, just buy one initially, then keep adding to it every time you go to the Disney store. That's what we do. And you receipt will show you the balance remaining on your card.

I would, but I usually buy my gift cards through a scrip program that helps support the HS band I work with...that way, they get a percentage of the funds back from the vendor while I still get all of the money I put in for the gift card. Good idea though! I wish scrip had someway of reloading cards rather than getting new ones...
 
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