It shows up in tiny print at the bottom of the search window when you're looking to use Dream Miles to book a hotel:
We used our gift cards to pay off our room charges with no issues when we were there in March. That’s how we paid off all of our room charges.
I tried to use 3 different Canadian gift cards to pay room charges at Beach Club on Sunday night. My American card went through no problem, but none of my Canadian ones would work at all. I transferred balances to other gift cards to see if there was a problem with one but not one of them worked. Maybe it was an isolated incident, but maybe not. I wasn’t sure if anyone had tried to do it since they stopped allowing the transfer of Canadian to American gift cards. I had no issues in any restaurant or store just the front desk at Beach Club.
So strange. We tried to use a prepaid visa and that gave us grief but the Canadian Disney cards worked great. We were at Pop Century. That was in the spring so maybe they changed it since then? Too bad if they did. I’m planning a trip to Disneyland in November so I hope I don’t run into issues with the cards there. I’m not staying onsite though just planning to use them at the restaurants.
For me in addition to saving the 2.5%, it's an easy way for me to save for vacation expenses. Buy $100 every now and then and register them on the gift card website and it's less painful than charging and then having a big c.c. bill to pay off at once. I buy them with my mastercard so I still get the points for using it. Last year (well January this year) I paid off a part of my DVC maintenance with it, this year I'm paying for my dining plan. I didn't have enough to pay for my ticket though, but this was the first year I heard of it, so next year I'll be more organized.
Thanks for letting me know! It seems like typical Disney with cast members who don’t know all the procedures. I’ll have to go during the day next time when there are more managers around. Otherwise it was great!
