Adding a guest

[mklovesdisney]

so we have a package deal with full price park hopper and deluxe dining at Poly CL room for 7 nights. We have two rooms booked, one room for me, my husband and my 10 yr old daughter, another room my sister and my adult son. We are 12 days away and my son said his girlfriend who just graduated from college would like to fly out and stay for a few days. I do know Disney charges 35$ a night for an extra adult in the room. Is there any way she could stay and get just a few days of park tickets and buy her own meals or take one or two of ours as we are on the deluxe dining and will be away from Disney one full day out of our stay, so will have some extra meals? I by all means don't want to do anything against rules, just seems silly to have to purchase full hoppers and meals for 7 days if she isn't there that full amount of time. Is there any way to add her for a few days and she could pay separately for her tickets? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[clayfolks]

You should be able to add her when you check in. If you add her more than two or three days before you go, she will have to have the same package as everyone else in the room.

 

[mklovesdisney]

Thank you Sue for your quick reply. If we wanted to gift her a quick service or sit down at Epcot considering we have the Deluxe Dining and will be away from Disney one full day, would we be able to do that?

 

[DisneyWishes14]

so we have a package deal with full price park hopper and deluxe dining at Poly CL room for 7 nights. We have two rooms booked, one room for me, my husband and my 10 yr old daughter, another room my sister and my adult son. We are 12 days away and my son said his girlfriend who just graduated from college would like to fly out and stay for a few days. I do know Disney charges 35$ a night for an extra adult in the room. Is there any way she could stay and get just a few days of park tickets and buy her own meals or take one or two of ours as we are on the deluxe dining and will be away from Disney one full day out of our stay, so will have some extra meals? I by all means don't want to do anything against rules, just seems silly to have to purchase full hoppers and meals for 7 days if she isn't there that full amount of time. Is there any way to add her for a few days and she could pay separately for her tickets? Thanks in advance for any help.

Simply add her to your son's room when you physically check in at the resort. At that point, you can even set up Magical Express for her if she is flying into MCO after you. Tell the front desk which nights she will be staying in the room and you will be charged the extra adult fee for those nights. Buy her a separate park ticket for the amount of days she needs and set her up, with those tickets linked, in your MDE account. You can then make FP+ for her at the same time you make yours. And, yes, you can use your DXDP credits to purchase meals for her.

 

[mklovesdisney]

Thank you

 

[Lehuaann]

I have read recent reports here of room-only guests not being allowed to be added to rooms with a package at checkin.

If your son’s reservation is set up as a room-only, then she should be ok. Otherwise, she will probably need to be added to the package for 7 nights.

 

[mklovesdisney]

Thank you for the reply, but for that amount of money she would be better off staying at a less expensive hotel Disney or not and just visiting. To pay for 6 day park hoppers and the deluxe dining plus the 35$ extra a night just seems outrageous for just a few days stay. That is honestly what is a turn off about Disney. Even if my mother who cannot walk the parks wanted to come we would have to do the same thing and buy her tickets and dining. That was on of the reasons why she didn't come this year.

 

[Lehuaann]

I found the thread. It seems it’s worked for some and not for others. Some are saying not to add at checkin, but to wait until afterward. I only have experience with adding guests at checkin to a room-only.

Hopefully there are others here that can post their experience with it. I am interested in knowing for myself.

https://www.disboards.com/threads/b...h-ddp-and-adding-another-at-check-in.3658843/

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

Can't she just buy her tickets separately and not be added to the reservation at all? She won't have a MB to enter the room, but other than that I don't see any issues. You can use your dining plan credits to pay for whoever you want, whether they are on the reservation or not. Maybe I'm missing something...?

 

[dansdad]

We have added a guest to our reservation at check in multiple times when we had a package booked with no issues. The last time was this past February.

 

[Lehuaann]

Can't she just buy her tickets separately and not be added to the reservation at all? She won't have a MB to enter the room, but other than that I don't see any issues. You can use your dining plan credits to pay for whoever you want, whether they are on the reservation or not. Maybe I'm missing something...?

Unregistered guests don’t have access to any perks, which include DME or EMH.


OP, thinking about it, Poly rooms fit 5 guests. Your solution is to max all 5 guests in room #1 with the Deluxe and book room #2 as a room-only.

However, since your sister and son would now be booked in room #1, they will have MB issues if you book them in room #2. To fix that, you will need to create duplicate profiles for sister/son in MDE by tweaking their names with middle initials. Then book those (2) duplicate profiles and his girlfriend in room #2. She now has access to DME, EMH, etc. Add her tickets, and she has access to FP+.

The hardest part is your sister and son keeping up with the 2 different MBs. I’d rather have that then be told no at checkin.

 

[bluezy]

If it was me I'd ask a front desk CM if it's possible to add her for the nights she's going to be there. If the CM says they can't do that, then simply thank them and say you'll book her a room offsite. Then when the shift changes (or the next day), I'd check again and see what they say and go from there. Based on how inconsistent things tend to be from one front-desk CM to the next, chances are you will eventually find a CM who can add her to the reservation just for the nights she's there.

 

[mklovesdisney]

Can't she just buy her tickets separately and not be added to the reservation at all? She won't have a MB to enter the room, but other than that I don't see any issues. You can use your dining plan credits to pay for whoever you want, whether they are on the reservation or not. Maybe I'm missing something...?

Yes, I suppose she can, but we wanted her to stay in the room with my sister and my son since the Poly has that pull out couch as well and it's only two ppl in their room. We were wondering if we could pay the extra adult for the three nights she was planning on coming down.

 

[mklovesdisney]

Unregistered guests don’t have access to any perks, which include DME or EMH.


OP, thinking about it, Poly rooms fit 5 guests. Your solution is to max all 5 guests in room #1 with the Deluxe and book room #2 as a room-only.

However, since your sister and son would now be booked in room #1, they will have MB issues if you book them in room #2. To fix that, you will need to create duplicate profiles for sister/son in MDE by tweaking their names with middle initials. Then book those (2) duplicate profiles and his girlfriend in room #2. She now has access to DME, EMH, etc. Add her tickets, and she has access to FP+.

The hardest part is your sister and son keeping up with the 2 different MBs. I’d rather have that then be told no at checkin.

Wow, thank you! That is certainly an option considering there are five of us def going. A little consuming but may be what works.

 

[mklovesdisney]

If it was me I'd ask a front desk CM if it's possible to add her for the nights she's going to be there. If the CM says they can't do that, then simply thank them and say you'll book her a room offsite. Then when the shift changes (or the next day), I'd check again and see what they say and go from there. Based on how inconsistent things tend to be from one front-desk CM to the next, chances are you will eventually find a CM who can add her to the reservation just for the nights she's there.

That is a great idea too. Better to ask before she books a totally different hotel.

 

[Wood Nymph]

We have added someone to the room for one night on three separate trips and have not had any problems.

Instead of adding a guest at check in I have waited until the day they arrive and then go to the front desk to add them. The reason I wait is because I have been told that they can't add a person for just one or two days, they have to add them for the entire stay and then you have to go down to the front desk later and let them know when the extra guest has checked out. Then they will credit you for the days they didn't stay in the room.

 

[scrapquitler]

Can't she just buy her tickets separately and not be added to the reservation at all? She won't have a MB to enter the room, but other than that I don't see any issues. You can use your dining plan credits to pay for whoever you want, whether they are on the reservation or not. Maybe I'm missing something...?

Well, except that if she's not on the reservation, she's not allowed to use the pool. And if Disney finds out that you have an unregistered guest in your room, everyone in the room might be looking for an offsite accommodation for the rest of the trip.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

Unregistered guests don’t have access to any perks, which include DME or EMH.

Well, except that if she's not on the reservation, she's not allowed to use the pool. And if Disney finds out that you have an unregistered guest in your room, everyone in the room might be looking for an offsite accommodation for the rest of the trip.

I guess I WAS missing something! Thanks for enlightening me

 

[Deb & Bill]

Unregistered guests don’t have access to any perks, which include DME or EMH.


OP, thinking about it, Poly rooms fit 5 guests. Your solution is to max all 5 guests in room #1 with the Deluxe and book room #2 as a room-only.

However, since your sister and son would now be booked in room #1, they will have MB issues if you book them in room #2. To fix that, you will need to create duplicate profiles for sister/son in MDE by tweaking their names with middle initials. Then book those (2) duplicate profiles and his girlfriend in room #2. She now has access to DME, EMH, etc. Add her tickets, and she has access to FP+.

The hardest part is your sister and son keeping up with the 2 different MBs. I’d rather have that then be told no at checkin.

You'd be paying for two extra adult fees by doing this since you'd have four guests 18 or older in the same room.

 

[Lehuaann]

You'd be paying for two extra adult fees by doing this since you'd have four guests 18 or older in the same room.

That’s true. There’s no way around the extra adult fees, unless she eliminates 2 adults off of the DDP or waits until checkin, which may require a plan B.