Advice on where to store gift cards while at the pools, until room is ready?

[ColoradoMom12]

I always wonder what to do with my credit card while we're at the pool. I use our pool time to do laundry, and it's an inconvenience to me that I can't use my MB to pay for laundry. I'm left with my credit card and nowhere to put it. No one guards my stuff when I swim because my family is my daughter and me, lol. I have, on more than one occasion, resorted to sticking the credit card in my swimsuit top. At least I know no one's going to take it!

 

[Dave006]

I think that I have read that they do. May be tempted to go that route as well if we use Bell Services to bring what few bags we have to our room.

Please go this route regardless of if you use Bell Services to hold your bags. All Disney resorts have secure storage available at the Front Desk. Just stop at the Front desk and ask for access to a safe-deposit box for the day or even the length of your stay (no charge). It takes a couple of minutes to have one assigned and you are given the "KEY", just do lose this key or there will be a fee.

Note: This advise is also considered much safer than your in-room safe for anything of real value. The Innkeeper laws in Florida limit the hotel's liability for anything that they accept for safekeeping to $1,000 by default.

Dave

 

[Dave006]

Right, the first resort pool is SAB, and that pool is huge!

For SAB, there are lockers available to store items of value or any other items that you don't want under your personal control while enjoying SAB. I would not store your Gift cards in a locker due to the combined value.

Dave

 

[SL6827]

Note: This advise is also considered much safer than your in-room safe for anything of real value. The Innkeeper laws in Florida limit the hotel's liability for anything that they accept for safekeeping to $1,000 by default.

So they are held responsible for items in the safe deposit box then? Kinda confused on this one.

 

[jimmykitefan]

Remember to photo copy all your card numbers or have them logged on the the disneycard website. That way if they were lost or stolen, they would be replaced.

 

[Dave006]

So they are held responsible for items in the safe deposit box then? Kinda confused on this one.

Yes but only up to $1,000 by default and they are only liable for that amount if the loss was the "proximate result" which means in simple terms; their fault or their negligence lead to the loss.

Much safer than in your luggage or in the car or even in your pocket.

Dave

 

[AngiTN]

We just give our bags, with all our stuff, gift cards, credit cards, cash, to Bell Services. What's wrong with that? It's not like I have a neon sign pointing to the important valuables and they ain't gonna rifle through it

 

[bumbershoot]

May end up just locking them in the glove compartment and locking the car.

This seems to be the worst idea I’d them all. Leave them alone in a huge parking lot? No.

I have a feeling we might possibly be able to get our room at AoA when we check in since I will just ask for any available Cars suite, the DVC units I know the odds are slim.

Ive never gotten into a normal room early at Disney

I have gotten into Dvc units a few times early.

Expect that you’ll have a room after early checkin time no mater which resort.

I would never leave $950 in cash in a bag at a pool!

I wouldn’t leave it unattended in a car, either.



The lanyard case pictured is Witz brand. Hard plastic, waterproof, with a lanyard string. Get them (plain colors, not Disney) at rei or amazon for not much money. I carry license, insurance card, some cash, any gift cards, and any discount cards in it. Easy and you KNOW it’s on you. The lanyard is long enough for me to stick the case in my bathing suit top if needed.

 

[robinb]

Yes but only up to $1,000 by default and they are only liable for that amount if the loss was the "proximate result" which means in simple terms; their fault or their negligence lead to the loss.

Much safer than in your luggage or in the car or even in your pocket.

Dave

If the hotel loses your items from their front desk safe deposit box how could it NOT be their fault or negligence? IMO, the front desk safe deposit box is much safer than in your luggage at bell services (where someone can go through them) or in your pocket (where they can fall out or be pick pocketed). The idea of the lanyard case is good too, but I would be annoyed with it hanging around my neck.

 

[Sue M]

Think I am gonna just do the glove compartment in our car thing. A little extra walking to go back to the car after our room is ready, but I think we will just leave everything in the car until our rooms are ready on each day, except for our pool bags with what we need for a day at that pools. Other than our pool bag, I am only packing like 3 other bags/suitcases. I have a feeling we might possibly be able to get our room at AoA when we check in since I will just ask for any available Cars suite, the DVC units I know the odds are slim.

I wouldn’t leave luggage in trunk or GC in glove compartment. With Florida heat, and heat inside cars it can ruin any electronics, and cosmetics. I used to live in Calif. and stashed a cc in glove compartment. Raised numbers melted!
Why not use Bell Service? You can lock valuables in suitcase.
For GCs I use the waterproof case on lanyard too.

 

[SL6827]

I wouldn’t leave luggage in trunk or GC in glove compartment. With Florida heat, and heat inside cars it can ruin any electronics, and cosmetics. I used to live in Calif. and stashed a cc in glove compartment. Raised numbers melted!
Why not use Bell Service? You can lock valuables in suitcase.
For GCs I use the waterproof case on lanyard too.

Good point about the heat. Most likely will just use the Bell Services, and store the gift cards and such in the resort safety deposit box.

 

[SL6827]

Sue M, your comment settled it for certain. What was I thinking? I will unload the bags, only three, maybe four, me and the kids haul them into the resort, leave them with Bell Services and have them delivered to the room. And also placing the gift cards in something so they can put it into the resort's safe.