Advice from those who have registered a child in another room???

[ErinC]

We are a family of five, traveling with friends that have one child. We have registered our oldest DD9 in our friends room that adjoins ours. We intend for her to sleep in our room. DD6 and DD2 can share the couch bed or DD2 can sleep in a pack in play. I have done several searches on this board about famillies of 5 trying to get as much info as I can. I just want to make sure that I have all my bases covered and have thought this thru. I will move her life jacket to our room if there are no extra's in our room. What about excursions, and checking back on the ship, any problems there? Others have posted that DCL was aware that the extra child was sleeping in their room, any others have experience with this? I would appreciate any advice from those who have traveled with more than 2 children. We are going to link our reservations so that we will be seated at dinner together. Are there extra documents that will need to be filled out? Thanks for all your help!

 

[mog]

We did something similar, although our 3rd child was registered with my parents, and they all three took turns sleeping in the grandparents' cabin. I don't remember having any issues as far as them being listed in a different cabin than us. Of course, we checked in together and I put their names on the list at the kids' clubs so they could check the kids in/out. The child registered in their stateroom will have to go to the lifeboat drill with them instead of you. We happened to be at a different lifeboat station from my parents so the one child had to go with them. We never had any problems when getting off or on the ship, though, even when we weren't with my parents.

 

[timnca]

I had two rooms on the 2/13 Wonder trip. One room was reserved for myself and my two kids, the other my SO and her child. Kids all slept in one room(the were connecting) adults in the other. Each person is assigned a KTTW card and the only down side is you childs key will not open your door, but your friends door. They will have charging access to your friends room as well unless you go to guest services and remove the access. On and off ship is not a problem at all, they just scan your KTTW and your done. If your muster stations are the same then there will be no problem. They dont call names, just cabin numbers. Kids clubs also no problem, I used one form for all 3 kids even though they had different room numbers.

 

[LAMPSKIES]

We booked a cat. 6 and cat. 11 on our Thanksgiving 04 Western. We sailied with some friends also. Myself and one DD were "booked" in one and DW and other DD in the other. Our neighbor booked one DD in each room also. Myself and Dw slept in one and DDs in another with one friend and the younger neighbor slept with parents. The charges go the the KTTW card not the stateroom....each DD had their parents Credit card info on their KTTW card.
2 Problems, 1) We had to get a "stateroom KTTW" card at guestservices to open the door....DW for our room and DD for the other. And neighbors DD for the "real room". The 2nd KTTW cards to open the other room have NO charging priviliges. Thus DD and DW transplanted need to carry 2 KTTW cards...no biggie with a lanyard.....Problem 2) Technically we had 3 in each stateroom....but we didn't. DDs had 3 and myself and DW had 2. Yep, tips for the room stewards were messed up.....do you tip for 3 in a room that only 2 stayed in and let the "neighbor" tip extra in his because they had 4 rather than 3......

 

[Tiggerish]

We have done this also. Booked one of my neices with me but she actually stayed in the cabin with her parents and sister. As for the tipping - for the waiters, etc. her parents included her with their envelopes which was no problem as we were all at the same table. For the room steward, her parents tipped based on the total number of people in that cabin and I just I tipped for myself plus a little extra since her luggage was originally delivered to my cabin.

We are going again in April but this time she is really staying in the cabin with me so it will not be a problem. We are doing a 7 and 11 across the hall from each other.

 

[i12go2wdw]

I am not telling you this to scare you but just a FYI that if something does happen you can still save the holiday.

Here I go... We have 4 kids and were travelling with DD7best friend and her parents so DD7 was booked into their room and we had a cat. 4 which slept 5. Disney knew all about the room switch and seemed to be very used to this type of arrangement. They would even print extra room cards so we all have access etc. Well the day before we were scheduled to fly out and two days before the cruise we get a call from dd's best friend's father (they live in the next province) their dd has just been diagnosed with mono. This was duing the SARS outbreak (we were taken into a room as a family and questioned and loosley examined by a nurse just because we switched planes in Toronto) so they had to cancel. We were left with a stateroom that slept 5 and 6 of us. We got on the phone with DCL and after a bit of back and forth they got us into connecting cat10 on deck 2 for the same price. We ended up having a great time and loved the extra room, met some wonderful table mates that are actually going on the May repo with us (and dd's best friend's family are going to try again too) and DD's friend and parents met up with us for the WDW portion of our trip so all was not lost.

This probably will never happen again to anyone but if it did DCL did an amazing job coming through for us in such a short time.

Have a wonderful trip!!

Christine

 

[arlenesp]

We had one of our dgk registered with our room. As far as tipping,we tipped for the amount registered for the room and not how many actually slept there.

 

[minniemouse1]

We are doing this again in a few weeks. The first time an additional child was registerd with us. We did not tip for the child since she didn't stay with us. Our rooms were right next door to each other so we had the same cabin steward thus he received the same tip just in a different envelope. When we go in April the extra child will be our youngest DD registered to my DH uncles room. We will do all the tipping for her and again our rooms are at the end of the hall right next to each other so should be the same cabin steward and we always sit together at dinner so that should take care of the tip problem.

 

[ErinC]

I am not telling you this to scare you but just a FYI that if something does happen you can still save the holiday.

Here I go... We have 4 kids and were travelling with DD7best friend and her parents so DD7 was booked into their room and we had a cat. 4 which slept 5. Disney knew all about the room switch and seemed to be very used to this type of arrangement. They would even print extra room cards so we all have access etc. Well the day before we were scheduled to fly out and two days before the cruise we get a call from dd's best friend's father (they live in the next province) their dd has just been diagnosed with mono. This was duing the SARS outbreak (we were taken into a room as a family and questioned and loosley examined by a nurse just because we switched planes in Toronto) so they had to cancel. We were left with a stateroom that slept 5 and 6 of us. We got on the phone with DCL and after a bit of back and forth they got us into connecting cat10 on deck 2 for the same price. We ended up having a great time and loved the extra room, met some wonderful table mates that are actually going on the May repo with us (and dd's best friend's family are going to try again too) and DD's friend and parents met up with us for the WDW portion of our trip so all was not lost.

This probably will never happen again to anyone but if it did DCL did an amazing job coming through for us in such a short time.

Have a wonderful trip!!

Christine

Thanks Christine! This thought has crossed my mind. As much as we prepare, what happens if our friends plans fall through? I'm glad DCL came through for you! I'm so in hopes that I won't have any thing like this happen, but I'm glad to know that they worked it out for you!

Thanks so much for all the replies thus far! Anyone else? Hopefully the we will have the same muster station since we are in connecting cabins. I'm not concerned about her having charging priveleges or a Key, as our kids will not be roaming the ship without us. She would always be with me or DH so we can get her in the room.

 

[ErinC]

Anyone know about the extra docs?

 

[LAMPSKIES]

ErinC, what do ya want to know about the extra docs?

 

[ErinC]

ErinC, what do ya want to know about the extra docs?

Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific. Are these something I can fill out ahead of time, or just when we get to the ship? Are there forms that our friends will have to fill out or just us. Just wondering what info I'll need to bring with me if I don't receive these forms before I leave home. Hope that answers your questions.