Disney Card

[smorkovsky]

I'm a Disney Card Member and have about 1500 reward points (yay, free flights!!). Once I turn those into Disney Gift cards, how do I pay for my trip with them? (I've a booking question posted as well in another forum.)

And as a Disney Card Member, I am entitled to other perks and discounts, but I'm wondering if they are too much of a pain to actually use. I got the card like two years ago and it's just 1% back, and we've been using it for about everything since. We'll continue to do so until our trip, so I'm hoping to have another $1000 by our trip. I got it just for the 1% back thinking the other stuff would be painful to actually take advantage of, so I'm ok with it.

Anyone have any experiences, thoughts, or advice??

 

[Chimaera]

1500 points? Wow that would be like $150,000 in 2 years, even if I used mine for everything I couldn't come close to spending that much.

As far as redeeming, I transferred my points onto the redemption card then just paid for the resort reservation with that card, and the remainder on the visa.

I can't speak to the other benefits as I've never used them.

 

[smorkovsky]

It is!! But DH uses it to pay for work stuff too that we get reimbursed for...all his travel expenses, and corporate everything, plus lots of money in retail purchases for work. I figure I should benefit in some way for floating small loans to his company...

 

[Chimaera]

It is!! But DH uses it to pay for work stuff too that we get reimbursed for...all his travel expenses, and corporate everything, plus lots of money in retail purchases for work. I figure I should benefit in some way for floating small loans to his company...

That's great, I would definitely do that given the chance! Like you said, free flights and more Have you considered switched to the premier card? I'm trying to decide if the $50 annual fee would help me, but in your case getting 2% on all gas and food would probably give you a big benefit from your DH's expenses.

 

[MouseLover24]

Free flights with disney visa? I had not heard of that.

 

[dizneyjill]

That's only with the premier card and you charge your tickets with the card and then use points to pay it off.I have the premier card and I think it's definitely worth it.Gas, groceries ,restaurants and Disney charges are 2%. Every thing else is 1%. I get close to $100.00 a month now, when i only got around 40.00 before. My sister is on my account ,so it adds up.