Barclaycard Arrival Plus Issues

[supraman215]

Has anyone with the barclaycard arrival plus credit card had any issues/success with using this card to pay for ON SITE hotels and or Tickets?

Jeff

 

[calypso726]

Has anyone with the barclaycard arrival plus credit card had any issues/success with using this card to pay for ON SITE hotels and or Tickets?

Jeff

None. I used this card in Disneyland Paris to purchase our tickets and for charges at the hotel. I was able to erase the entire purchase with the bonus points I earned when I opened the card.

 

[la la limon]

I would only use the card to buy tickets if the tickets were charged back to your hotel room. Hotel charges should go through fine.

 

[supraman215]

I only ask this question because they told me at Barclay's that no Disney expenses even hotels were going to be covered any longer.

Jeff

 

[la la limon]

I know tickets by themselves were not covered in the past but the hotels and room charges were. I would call back to clarify. If that's their new policy, I don't know if I would test it. Good luck.

 

[supraman215]

Hopefully the ticket charge and the hotel reservation charge go through tomorrow. So I'll know then.

 

[Madteaparty001]

I only ask this question because they told me at Barclay's that no Disney expenses even hotels were going to be covered any longer.

Jeff

What is the effective date on this? I always bought through undercover tourist so I wouldn't have to fight to have it show up as a travel expense. When we were at AKL I used the magic band to charge everything to the resort and used barclay points to pay off our balance (this was last October).

 

[supraman215]

UPDATE: The deposit for the hotel room from Disney was deductible. I would ASSUME that means when the full charge for the room comes in it will also be deductible.

HOWEVER the tickets, purchased through TicketsAtWork.com, were not. They are already on there way and may or may not be refundable. But hotel + air is all the points I have anyway so I SHOULD be ok. If I had purchased from a different vendor perhaps they would be deductible.

 

[danielw888]

From my experience, if you purchase your tickets are part of a hotel package direct with Disney, they will count. If you book tickets by themselves they will not.

Except Undercover tourist counts as travel for Arrival+. So if you are buying only tickets, and want to use your points, book with them.

 

[mistysue]

I have had little bits of trouble in the past. Once about two years ago I had to call and have them go back and review my account to get the charges to count. At that point for whatever reason one of them got left out, but it wasn't a huge deal to me so I stopped arguing about it. Something about how Disney's transactions goes through it apparently at least used to look the same for the Disney store and the parks- which I was told was what created the issue.
If you don't like how something goes through you can always call and see if they can manually change it for you if it's a huge problem.

 

[supraman215]

Looks like I should have done Undercover tourist they were only a couple dollars more. Not sure if I can refund the ones from TicketsAtWork.com Either way I should be ok half of this trip was coming out of pocket anyway.

 

[razsav]

UPDATE: The deposit for the hotel room from Disney was deductible. I would ASSUME that means when the full charge for the room comes in it will also be deductible.

HOWEVER the tickets, purchased through TicketsAtWork.com, were not. They are already on there way and may or may not be refundable. But hotel + air is all the points I have anyway so I SHOULD be ok. If I had purchased from a different vendor perhaps they would be deductible.

While your at Disney charge everything to your magic band. You can then redeem your incidental charges: food, etc.... as a hotel stay. This has worked for me several times.