You could for sure use it to pay off part of your balance, but as far as applying in advance I think they would only take Disney gift cards for that. Not 100% positive though.
Yes. And ask them to apply charges to it before your credit card on file (that may be the norm). In the past, we called pre-cruise and put money in our stateroom account - that just depends on what the wait time is these days.
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