credit card link to card key?

[disney_imagineer]

on my last DVC trip in oct. 2004 (oh so long ago!!!!), we had the choice of linking one credit card to all our card-keys during our stay. i thought that was odd, but we opted not to do that since we didn't want to run up one person's credit card.

does anyone know if that has changed? can each person on the DVC reservation list now link his or her own credit card to their specific card-key for WDW purchases? or is it still only one credit card for everyone?

also.....last time, only one person's name (first person in alphabetical order on the reservation list names) was on all our card-keys. not a big deal, but i was kinda bummed since i wanted each person to have a DVC card key with their name on it as a souvenir. does anyone know if this has changed?

 

[CarolMN]

It's still one credit card per room. You can decide which keys (if any) will have charging privileges. The bill will show which key made the charge.

Each person will have a resort ID / room key card with his/her own name on it. This is a fairly recent change.

Best wishes-

 

[1000th happy haunt]

What if you're in a two bedroom lockoff? Can you tie a different card into each different room key?

 

[Chuck S]

What if you're in a two bedroom lockoff? Can you tie a different card into each different room key?

Since the cards will operated both exterior doors, they are handled under the same billing acc't number.

Each room key has a different "sub number", so the night before you check-out you can get a printout from the front desk and then add up the charges for each one. Then the desk can manually bill portions out to defferent credit cards, but it must be done in person.

 

[1000th happy haunt]

Thanks. I specifically asked my guide this question, and was told that different credit cards could be linked to different room keys. Then I started reading here that it couldn't happen that way.

Your information is very helpful. We're going down with friends in May and I have a two-bedroom lockoff reserved. I didn't want to tell them they couldn't use their Key to the World for charges.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) If a cash room, you can easily apply two different cards.
2) If on points, tough to do, but still do-able.


NOTE: Contrary to popular belief separate charging is possible at any resort - each person has their own room key and each has their own credit card applied to their particular key. No having to divide or split purchases/charges at the end of the stay.

 

[CarolMN]

1) If a cash room, you can easily apply two different cards.
2) If on points, tough to do, but still do-able.


NOTE: Contrary to popular belief separate charging is possible at any resort - each person has their own room key and each has their own credit card applied to their particular key. No having to divide or split purchases/charges at the end of the stay.

If this is true, I'm having a hard time understanding why the the Front Desk CMs refuse to do it. This request is refused at the non-DVC resorts as well as at the DVC resorts.

Best wishes -

 

[dvc_bwv]

You can have all the room keys connected to one charge card, but they are all by sub numbers or letters so that you can tell exactly who made the charges. As long as everyone agrees to pay their own charges off before you check out there shouldn't be a problem.

We have done this when my adult son went with us and we told him to use the room key to charge instead of carrying $$ with him, but he wouldn't use it. He said he's rather just pay up front.

DH and I use our room cards to charge everything so we don't have to carry money, but then we pay it off about mid-week and then again the night before check out.

 

[Frozenfingers]

Even before reading about the experiences of others where cm's have abused guests credit cards, I stopped providing mine at checkin.. so I lose the express checkout.. big deal. I always stopped at the desk on my way out to double check all was "clear" anyway. It provides the perfect opportunity to thank the cm's for a wonderful stay as well..

And, I don't carry a lot of cash either.... almost everyplace with a cashregister takes my visa. So far, the only place that didn't was the snocone place in Japan, and it was cash only, so they wouldn't take my key anyway..

I have all my receipts in the suitcase if I need them, and after I am home, I download the activity from my cc company into my checkbook. Each purchase is identified in my account..not one huge ambigous charge to the resort. so far, I've only had one questionable charge, and it was the one receipt that I couldn't find, but a quick call to Disney set me straight.. (some locations have some really strange names, and it is hard to identify them). It was my error, not theirs...

It is kinda fun actually, one can relive each day because the charges come in fairly chronologically.

I figure my adult guests can do the same thing with their credit cards... I don't need to know what they bought and where they bought it...

 

[Deb & Bill]

Thanks. I specifically asked my guide this question, and was told that different credit cards could be linked to different room keys. Then I started reading here that it couldn't happen that way...

Just your first of many "misinformations" by your guide. You'll realize some of the guides really don't know how things work that well.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

Just your first of many "misinformations" by your guide. You'll realize some of the guides really don't know how things work that well.

1) The guide was correct.
2) Sometimes it is others who have misinformations.

 

[Doctor P]

We can argue all you want, Rusty Scupper, but the policy (and we have run into twice with different DVC resorts and different CM's) is that you can only have one CC for a room account and Disney has been pretty darn consistent about that. It is possible to use more than one CC to pay the bill, but the actual room account can only be on one card. That said, I am sure that there are resourceful or helpful CM's that have circumvented the policy.

 

[KelNottAt]

Semi-related question:

IF your cc is linked to the room key, is the guest required to present photo ID with each purchase at WDW?

I was dismayed to learn that's how it was earlier this year at Universal. I like having charging privledges on the key card 'cuz it allows the kids to make purchases easily. My kids don't have photo ID (well, passports, but I'd never let them take them to a theme park), so that meant I had to be there every time they wanted a smoothie by the pool or tokens in the game room.

[hold those flames - the kids use their charging authorization under strict limitations and have never abused the privlege nor missplaced the card.]

 

[RobDoc]

Semi-related question:

IF your cc is linked to the room key, is the guest required to present photo ID with each purchase at WDW?

Any merchant can challenge the person who wants to pay using a room id or even a credit card. Most at Disney do not, but they can at any time. It's wise to carry some identification when using any Disney media like park passes and room charges.

If a room id is lost (and that does happen frequently), the finder can't identify the room (there is no common identification of the actual room on the card), but it could still be used to charge something. Thus, the merchant could ask for identification.

I agree it may be inconvenient at times, but the policy that allows positive identification is sound, IMO.

 

[dianeschlicht]

Even before reading about the experiences of others where cm's have abused guests credit cards, I stopped providing mine at checkin.. so I lose the express checkout.. big deal. I always stopped at the desk on my way out to double check all was "clear" anyway. It provides the perfect opportunity to thank the cm's for a wonderful stay as well..

And, I don't carry a lot of cash either.... almost everyplace with a cashregister takes my visa. So far, the only place that didn't was the snocone place in Japan, and it was cash only, so they wouldn't take my key anyway..

I have all my receipts in the suitcase if I need them, and after I am home, I download the activity from my cc company into my checkbook. Each purchase is identified in my account..not one huge ambigous charge to the resort. so far, I've only had one questionable charge, and it was the one receipt that I couldn't find, but a quick call to Disney set me straight.. (some locations have some really strange names, and it is hard to identify them). It was my error, not theirs...

It is kinda fun actually, one can relive each day because the charges come in fairly chronologically.

I figure my adult guests can do the same thing with their credit cards... I don't need to know what they bought and where they bought it...

We do something similar, Jim, but we do give the credit card at check in, we just don't use the key for any charges. Instead, we use our credit cards, and our guests do the same as well.

 

[AlanH]

Any merchant can challenge the person who wants to pay using a room id or even a credit card. Most at Disney do not, but they can at any time. It's wise to carry some identification when using any Disney media like park passes and room charges.

If a room id is lost (and that does happen frequently), the finder can't identify the room (there is no common identification of the actual room on the card), but it could still be used to charge something. Thus, the merchant could ask for identification.

I agree it may be inconvenient at times, but the policy that allows positive identification is sound, IMO.

The above is correct. I'm a former CM. CM's are supposed to challenge any room id or credit card that is not signed. They are supposed to not accept an unsigned card or room id, unless the person is the named person on the credit card or room id and can present photo id.

CM's are supposed to check the signature on the charge receipt with that on the card.

Note that I used the term "supposed". A lot of CMs don't do it.