Anyone else never charge to room?

[jen73]

we never charge to the room, although we have left a card on file, just in case. But so far, there hasnt been a just in case..

 

[pouncingpluto]

We always charge everything to the room -- once we have run out of $$ on our Disney Rewards cards. With MB, I'd rather just use the MBs and not deal with our Rewards cards when we are out and about -- is it possible to apply that amount to your room in advance?

 

[mdsd8700]

With MB, I'd rather just use the MBs and not deal with our Rewards cards when we are out and about -- is it possible to apply that amount to your room in advance?

I tried to apply our gift cards this past October at BLT before we had any balance and they would not allow me to do so. When I did have a balance I could only pay up to the amount owed, nothing over.

 

[BEASLYBOO]

In 13 years of ownership, 30+/- trips I've left a card on file twice, at the beginning, now I don't bother!

 

[networktek]

We always leave a credit card on file its nice now to just tap the magic band and dont have to bring the wallet out only time the wallet comes out is to show my dvc membership to get the 10 percent discount at stores

 

[NHTikiBeckie]

We charge everything to the room so we have a detailed receipt of all of our purchases. We pay the room tab with discounted gift cards or rewards dollars. Bill

Us too!

 

[jade1]

We also do not charge to the room or even leave a credit card on file there.

 

[DreamerWDW]

We also do not charge to the room or even leave a credit card on file there.

Ditto.

 

[WilsonFlyer]

Wow. Kinda surprised. It's more of a pure convenience thing to us. We don't buy that much anyway and usually carry around a hundred bucks or so in cash when at the parks and put things here and there on the room card.

It is pretty interesting to hear so many apparently opposed to even opening room charging at all.

 

[tlkscott]

I have the gift cards added to my room and just charge to my room. I start with a credit and don't have to worry about it.

 

[sskem96]

We've never put a credit card on file. We pay cash for everything at home to control our spending, and we do the same on vacation. We are going on our first cruise soon and will just put cash down at guest services to allow for room charges.

 

[JimMIA]

Never put a credit card on file, and have never charged to the room. This is not a Disney-specific strategy -- we don't put cards on file anywhere if we can avoid it.

The most important reason is fraud avoidance. If they don't swipe our card, they can't double-swipe our card or access the account after the fact. Never had a problem with DVC that way, but other people have and declining to give a card is an easy fix.

 

[bakerworld]

we never realized you didn't have to charge stuff to the room. We thought that's what you were suppose to do.

 

[jade1]

we never realized you didn't have to charge stuff to the room. We thought that's what you were suppose to do.

You thought a store or restaurant would refuse cash or credit cards?

Locals and offsite guests could not buy anything?

 

[Anal Annie]

We charge everything to the room and I bring a stash of Disney gift cards to apply to our acct. at some point before we leave. I usually buy one $25 gift card / week with my groceries so that I have a perpetual cache. I try to bring at least $100 / night per trip. That usually isn't enough per day to cover everything if we do a lot of TS dining for example but it DOES help soften the blow at check-out. The dining really adds up so if we do a few days of only CS meals here & there that helps balance out the final total.

I usually keep pretty good track of what we spend as we go but last August I TOTALLY lost track and we spent WAAAAY to much. We went hog wild I think because we were SUPPOSED to have been at DL and Aulani but had to cancel at the last minute due to a medical emergency with our DS. I think in the back of our minds somehow we were eating whatever we wanted, drinking as much as we wanted and buying lots of souvies because we were thinking we were making up for the loss of not being in Hawaii. We also had to drive on this trip so we had lots of room to buy extra stuff. When we fly we are packed to the gills and have no room to bring a lot of stuff home with us. So NO MORE DRIVING!!

 

[bumbershoot]

It is pretty interesting to hear so many apparently opposed to even opening room charging at all.

Physically handing your card to someone increases the risk. You just never know who that person is. Do they have a paper and pen to write down the info? Cellphone for a picture? Handheld scanner? Or are they honest?

Once they work out the MM+ system where you give your CC info through their site during online checkin *and it gets kept so you don't have to hand it over when you get there* (we have yet to have the CC show up when we get there), it makes it a lot safer because you don't have the human wildcard.




We set up a room charge maybe half the time. We don't use it all the time. We don't spend more or less either way.

 

[disneynutz]

Physically handing your card to someone increases the risk. You just never know who that person is. Do they have a paper and pen to write down the info? Cellphone for a picture? Handheld scanner? Or are they honest?

Once they work out the MM+ system where you give your CC info through their site during online checkin *and it gets kept so you don't have to hand it over when you get there* (we have yet to have the CC show up when we get there), it makes it a lot safer because you don't have the human wildcard.

We set up a room charge maybe half the time. We don't use it all the time. We don't spend more or less either way.

CC's are covered for fraud and the fact that a human handled it may or may lessen your risk for fraud. We have had cards compromised at Disney but we have also had our accounts compromised else where. Our latest was a well known gift of the month club, actually 5 different clubs. They apparently had a hacker install software on their servers collecting CC info for almost a year. On a certain date the software transmitted thousands of records to the hacker who sold the info to others.

Bill

 

[bakerworld]

You thought a store or restaurant would refuse cash or credit cards?

Locals and offsite guests could not buy anything?

believe it or not ... just felt so 'out of the normal' that I thought we couldn't. DD was just as incredulous and then we had to listening to about 4 minutes of .

 

[ludari]

I rarely charge anything using my KTTW card. The one or two times I did are a result of just running a Disney marathon and wanting to purchase a meal on property before heading back to my room.