6 people, DDP, 3 rooms

[vellamint]

We have 2 reservations for 3 rooms and the CM said the credits will not be pooled even though we are all one family and I was the one who made the reservations..

Whatever,

I'm not going to argue the logic in not allowing all the reservations to be in my name and pooling the dining credits together......I do want to know if there is going to be a problem "paying" for our meals...should I use up all the credits attached to one reservation before moving on to the next or should I give them both cards and have the deduct 4 credits from one reservation and 2 credits from the other....

[allyphoe]

should I use up all the credits attached to one reservation before moving on to the next

Nooooo. Some well-meaning CMs may suggest it as a convenience, but in the long run, it will only cause you heartache and aggravation. Give them 2 cards and have them run it as 4 and 2. And check and make sure that that's what actually happened, by looking at the balances on the bottom of your receipt. Because you don't want to be sitting in a restaurant with 6 TS credits on the 2-person room on your last day, with a waitperson / manager explaining that they can't charge more meals than there are people shown on the card at one time, and asking you to pay OOP for the other 4. (Would you eventually be able to get it straightened out? Probably - but probably not there at the restaurant. And not without an hour or more of annoyance and effort.)

[squirrel]

The credits go by the people listed in each room. So if you have 3 rooms then you will have to give 3 KTTW cards to make the deductions correctly. If you don't give all three and they deduct extra from one or two KTTW cards then you will have trouble later.

[Pakey]

We did 11 people, 5 rooms, 2 rooms on regular DDP, 2 rooms on Deluxe DDP and 1 room OOP. We ate many meals as a group (we took our adult children/spouses). When we did so, my husband and I always told the CM that we were picking up all extras, alcohol, gratuity, etc. But they ran each bill for each card separately for the dining credits but put the mandatory 18% gratuity and all drinks on our bill. It did not take any longer for the servers to run 5 bills than it would for one and we never ran into any problems.

It is against the rules to pool credits so make sure you provide a card for each dining plan at every meal so that the credits are deducted properly. We asked, on occasion, if the server would pool them and they said no each time. Even if you found one server who would do it, every one after that may say no and then you'd be up a creek without a paddle.

[beroh2253]

The credits go by the people listed in each room. So if you have 3 rooms then you will have to give 3 KTTW cards to make the deductions correctly. If you don't give all three and they deduct extra from one or two KTTW cards then you will have trouble later.

Yep, like you said you need a card from each room to decuct 2TS from each. The credits are pooled per room.

[vellamint]

Last year we only had two rooms and the credits were NOT separated by room....all six of us were pooled together.

It is by reservation number not room. At least last year it was.

[beroh2253]

Last year we only had two rooms and the credits were NOT separated by room....all six of us were pooled together.

It is by reservation number not room. At least last year it was.

Maybe each resort works it differently. Last year we were at POP and had 2 rooms and needed a card from each and each room was pooled seperatly, it was Me, DW DS and DD maybe they had us under 2 different reservations for some reason but we booked the trip with 2 rooms at POP at the same time. vellamint better take a card from each room to the first TS just in case or ask at the front desk when checking in.

[mbanks21]

If you had two rooms on one res (2 adults/x kids) then yes it was one reservation and all credits pooled. If you have differant res numbers for each room then they will not be pooled

[aubriee]

Last year we only had two rooms and the credits were NOT separated by room....all six of us were pooled together.

It is by reservation number not room. At least last year it was.

As of January Disney has said people can not share with people not on the DDP. To ensure this, CMs are now no longer able to allow people to order more TS meals than what shows on each room key. If one room key shows 2 adult and 1 kid and one room key shows one adult and two kids then that is all that can be removed from each room key. You can no longer give them one room key and have them take off three adults and three kid credits.

[TDC Nala]

it's going to depend entirely on whether or not you have separate reservations for each room, with separate reservation numbers, or if you have one reservation covering three rooms. If you have one reservation, the credits will be pooled. If the reservations are separate, each room can access only the credits allocated to the persons in that room. If the entire group dines together, you will need to present one key card from EACH ROOM.

Have seen a lot of this separate reservation stuff - apparently if there is going to be an adult in each room, WDW books it as a separate reservation.

[vellamint]

it's going to depend entirely on whether or not you have separate reservations for each room, with separate reservation numbers, or if you have one reservation covering three rooms. If you have one reservation, the credits will be pooled. If the reservations are separate, each room can access only the credits allocated to the persons in that room. If the entire group dines together, you will need to present one key card from EACH ROOM.

Have seen a lot of this separate reservation stuff - apparently if there is going to be an adult in each room, WDW books it as a separate reservation.

I can understand their way of thinking but since they are my children ... okay one is 18 so he is an "adult" then they really should be able to put us all on one reservation number.....I AM the one paying lol!!

[catm]

This happened to us last December and it was really a hassle. Regardless of telling waiters to charge each card a few would not do it and then we would end up having to go to the hotel and have new cards issued and have them straighten things out 3 times. Once was on Christmas Day. Always make sure to check your reciepts and if they didn't do it right make them fix it there. At Ohana's the waiter wiped out all of our points for the rest of the week on both cards, 5 days worth. We will never get separate rooms again. Everytime we needed to fix the Dp points with a new card then we would have problems with our keys. Only time we have ever had problems at Disney.

[TDC Nala]

I can understand their way of thinking but since they are my children ... okay one is 18 so he is an "adult" then they really should be able to put us all on one reservation number.....I AM the one paying lol!!

As far as Disney is concerned 18 is an adult for room reservation purposes! That is why you have separate reservations. If he'd been 17 you would have two rooms under the same reservation number.