Can a nonclub level guest accompany a CL guest?

[tbssenterprises]

If I have club level and a friend is staying non club level, can they accompany me to the CL room for breakfast?

 

[focusondisney]

If I have club level and a friend is staying non club level, can they accompany me to the CL room for breakfast?

Club Level amenities, including food service are for club level guests only. Some people have reported asking CMs to have a guest for a specific service time, I have no personal experience with that. If it’s just you in your room or you have capacity in your room for an extra guest, you could add that person to your reservation. Just ask for a key card for them to access the club level. Then they could stay in their own room but still accompany you to the lounge.

 

[Mle8308]

Not unless they are on your reservation. Otherwise everyone would book one club room and then invite their friends. The club level lounge is just for those paying for the privilege.

 

[wdwtwins]

I’ve stayed Club Level at almost every resort (the only exception is AKL), and doing this once isn’t the end of the world. As long as your friend keeps to themselves and isn’t bothering other guests, it’s really not a big deal.

That said, having paid for CL multiple times, it does bother me when it’s obvious someone is bringing up a large non-CL group that’s being loud or disruptive, especially during the evening offerings with complimentary alcohol. That’s when it starts to take away from the experience.

If you’re going to do it, just meet them in your room first and then go to the lounge together so they can easily get in. For the most part, no one will care as long as you’re respectful and low-key.

I definitely wouldn’t recommend doing this regularly—but once, handled discreetly, isn’t a huge deal. No one come for me I’ve done it before, and it was fine.

 

[focusondisney]

If you’re going to do it, just meet them in your room first and then go to the lounge together

Most club level rooms are in closed access floors or areas, so that doesn’t work.

 

[wdwtwins]

Most club level rooms are in closed access floors or areas, so that doesn’t work.

The CL guest can go down to the main lobby and bring the non-CL guest up to their room.

 

[focusondisney]

The CL guest can go down to the main lobby and bring the non-CL guest up to their room.

That’s meeting in the lobby then. Not the CL guest’s room.

 

[wdwtwins]

That’s meeting in the lobby then. Not the CL guest’s room.

My mistake! Good catch.

 

[jemtx]

Not unless they are on your reservation. Otherwise everyone would book one club room and then invite their friends. The club level lounge is just for those paying for the privilege.

Agree and don’t think it’s fair.

 

[2vets]

I tend to travel solo to WDW and will meet my sister and her daughter on occasion, me in one room, them in another. I often go fewer days and spring for CL and other extras. If I’m in CL and they aren’t, I add them to my room as listed guests - the capacity is there, and I am paying the same rate as a guest with 4-5 in their room. I then just grab key cards for them for my (our) room. It isn’t as if we advertise it to lounge CMs or guests, but I have been told this is fine and have never encountered an issue with phone CMs. If you do not have capacity in your room to do this, I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I have never experienced issues. Note that the same individual cannot be the “primary” guest on both reservations, but you can add them as a secondary guest. I’m sure there are details here I’m stumbling over, but bottom line, if you have the guest capacity available in your room, it should be fine.

 

[jemtx]

I tend to travel solo to WDW and will meet my sister and her daughter on occasion, me in one room, them in another. I often go fewer days and spring for CL and other extras. If I’m in CL and they aren’t, I add them to my room as listed guests - the capacity is there, and I am paying the same rate as a guest with 4-5 in their room. I then just grab key cards for them for my (our) room. It isn’t as if we advertise it to lounge CMs or guests, but I have been told this is fine and have never encountered an issue with phone CMs. If you do not have capacity in your room to do this, I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I have never experienced issues. Note that the same individual cannot be the “primary” guest on both reservations, but you can add them as a secondary guest. I’m sure there are details here I’m stumbling over, but bottom line, if you have the guest capacity available in your room, it should be fine.

I think when you have the room capacity and you just add them to your reservation, as you do, it’s fine. It’s when an already full CL room invites their friends to come upstairs with them for appetizers that it is not fair.

 

[focusondisney]

I tend to travel solo to WDW and will meet my sister and her daughter on occasion, me in one room, them in another. I often go fewer days and spring for CL and other extras. If I’m in CL and they aren’t, I add them to my room as listed guests - the capacity is there, and I am paying the same rate as a guest with 4-5 in their room. I then just grab key cards for them for my (our) room. It isn’t as if we advertise it to lounge CMs or guests, but I have been told this is fine and have never encountered an issue with phone CMs. If you do not have capacity in your room to do this, I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I have never experienced issues. Note that the same individual cannot be the “primary” guest on both reservations, but you can add them as a secondary guest. I’m sure there are details here I’m stumbling over, but bottom line, if you have the guest capacity available in your room, it should be fine.

Exactly what I suggested early in the thread. Absolutely the way to do it.

 

[gottalovepluto]

I think when you have the room capacity and you just add them to your reservation, as you do, it’s fine. It’s when an already full CL room invites their friends to come upstairs with them for appetizers that it is not fair.

Yup. Just talk to the CL CM to add them to your room for whatever days they intend to use the lounge up to the capacity of your room. You’ll have to pay the extra person charge if persons 3-5 but so does every other club level room for having more than 2 people. You can drop them when they’re gone, doesn’t have to be full length of stay.

 

[2vets]

I think when you have the room capacity and you just add them to your reservation, as you do, it’s fine. It’s when an already full CL room invites their friends to come upstairs with them for appetizers that it is not fair.

Agree 100%.

 

[SharonZ]

If I'm paying for a club room, I would't like someone not staying there to enjoy the benefits.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

They very much frown on it. I have friends who live in FL who sometimes join me for Disney events. I’ve asked if they can come in just so I could show them and they begrudgingly say ok “but they can’t eat anything”, which I understand, for sure. One is even a CM and that didn’t matter.

 

[Robber Baron]

I don't want to step on anyone's toes or anything, but, I don't see it, (moneywise) a whole lot different than:

"I bought a ticket for Magic Kingdom today, can I bring my friend in as my guest?"

 

[mikeuno]

Good point

 

[2vets]

I don't want to step on anyone's toes or anything, but, I don't see it, (moneywise) a whole lot different than:

"I bought a ticket for Magic Kingdom today, can I bring my friend in as my guest?"

I guess I see it as no different from a family with 2 rooms listing each other as secondary guests so they can access both rooms - this is exactly what we do. I am paying for a room for 4-5 people and am...1 person. And we're people who do not use club food as a full meal, so we are far less impactful than a family of 4 who does. Again, I am fully transparent with phone CMs when I add them, and I have certainly mentioned it when it's come up with club CMs. You may be talking specifically about people sneaking someone in, however, in which case I agree fully.

 

[Robber Baron]

I guess I see it as no different from a family with 2 rooms listing each other as secondary guests so they can access both rooms - this is exactly what we do. I am paying for a room for 4-5 people and am...1 person. And we're people who do not use club food as a full meal, so we are far less impactful than a family of 4 who does. Again, I am fully transparent with phone CMs when I add them, and I have certainly mentioned it when it's come up with club CMs. You may be talking specifically about people sneaking someone in, however, in which case I agree fully.

I guess I've been the sucker when I've gotten 2 CL rooms, 1 for my wife and me and 1 for my 2 kids.