Cape May discount for family?

[lenshanem]

I'm taking my parents and brother with me this summer to BCV. We will be in separate rooms, booked under different names. So we have separate ressies I guess you'd say?

They want to eat the clambake one night. I know we get 10% off there.

Do I have to pay for it all on my bill to get the discount? Or can they get the discount with their room key or even by the waiter splitting the check payments up (cash, credit card under their name instead of mine, etc.)?

Thanks!

 

[SSRex]

I have eaten an the Cape May Cafe Calm Bake and many other WDW resort and theme park restaurants that are buffets. On my last 2 trips, I was able to calculate the entire check including meal, drinks, tax, and tip pretty closely and had cash, travelers checks, or Disney Dollars set aside in separate envelopes for each of our priorty seating buffet meals including Cape May.

My point is:

I am assuming that you have one priorty seating for the entire party and will be sitting together at one table. In that case, I would get one check for the entire party and pay for it myself. I am not suggesting that treat the entire party to dinner, but you can tell your parents and brother how much their share will be ahead of time or afterwards and settle it between yourselves.

Unless, someone orders multiple alcoholic drinks or adds the separately priced crab legs to their meal, everyone's share will be approximately the same. Then it's up to you if you want to share your 10% DVC discount with the rest of the party or not. I would.

In my opinion, if you are seated separately and /or ask for each party to get separate checks and they are paid separately, the discount should not be applicable to the non-members checks.

Anyone else agree or disagree with my thinking on this question?
Thanks,
Rex

 

[lenshanem]

You're right. It should be easy to devy up later since it is a fixed price meal.

By the way, i like your idea. I think this next trip I'll make envelops for our PSs, too with the money set aside.

 

[BillPA]

If your guests will be staying on points, their ID will show them as DVC members. They should be able to get all the discounts by showing the room ID. Althought on my last trip, when at China's 9 Dragons, I was asked for my blue DVC Members card to get the discount. At other locations, just charging it to the room worked fine, no need for the Blue card.

 

[dlvanslyke]

We are DVC members and ate at Cape May last week along with 2 other families (non members) who were staying at other resorts. We were all included in the same reservation (15 people) and received one bill with the DVC discount applied to everyone. The waiter allowed us to divide the bill among 3 credit cards...we simply told him how much to put on each card. This was not a problem at all.

 

[Doug Wolfe]

When we became DVC members in 2003, we received two member cards. One for me and one for my spouse.

Maybe you could just bring two cards. (That is if you have two cards.) Just a thought.