Help! Tickets, dining plan and two different resorts

[RCharnay]

We are planning our next trip and wondering if we are going to be able to use a single key card for everything.

The details you need to know: three members of the party are staying in a Studio at OKW on Saturday night. On Sunday, the other 4 members of the party arrive and we will be moving to a GV at OKW. (I would like to let the first three head to the parks in the morning and then meet us at OKW in the afternoon.) Then we're staying 4 nights in the GV at OKW, parks, dining plan, etc. On Thursday, we have to move to a GV at BWV (I know--poor us!) but we would like to stay on the dining plan for that last day.

Another thought--we'd like to prepurchase our tickets so we can get a discount.

So the question is, Can we get our tickets and dining plan on our room key at OKW? And will it transfer with us to BWV? And do the folks on the studio the first night need to get the dining plan since we are on it the rest of the stay? (The studio was made as a separate reservation. Actually, OKW and BWV came on two separate sheets of paper with different numbers. Do I need to link these?) Sorry for so many questions but I don't want to wait until tomorrow to call MS. You guys know everything anyway!
TIA-

 

[Sandisw]

Since all three are done as their own reservation, they can have whatever dining plan you want.

So, the guests in the studio the first night do not need to have the dining plan. In addition, they only link reservations when you had to book the same room type and resort as two separate reservations and want to be able to stay in the same room. Since your GV's are different resorts, they don't link.

Unfortunately, the dining plan credits are attached to each stay so the credits from the GV OKW stay will be on that KTTW card. When you move to BWV GV, the credits from the dining plan for this stay will be on this KTTW card. They can not be combined.

The credits for the OKW GV stay will be good until midnight on check out day so if you have any left, be sure to use them up first before starting on any credits from the BWV GV stay.

We did a split stay last year and to help me keep track of things, I brought a Sharpie marker and labeld the KTTW card when we left so I was sure to use up those credits before starting my new ones.

As far as tickets, you can certainly purchase them ahead of time. You can have them added to the OKW KTTW card if you want, but they can not then be transferred to the BWV KTTW card when you move resorts.

Hope this helps!

 

[RCharnay]

So if we buy 6 day park tickets, how do we access them after day 4 if we can't move them to BWV? Do we continue to use the OKW KTTW card for park access. (Is this what the Sharpies are for? To mark the old cards?)

 

[Sandisw]

So if we buy 6 day park tickets, how do we access them after day 4 if we can't move them to BWV? Do we continue to use the OKW KTTW card for park access. (Is this what the Sharpies are for? To mark the old cards?)

Yes, that is what you would do--still use the OKW cards for park access and the BWV cards for the dining plan.

I kept my tickets by themselves my one DD and I had AP's (which can't be put on cards) and it was just as easy to cary the other two for my older children.

I used the Sharpie to mark the resort for the dining plan credits as we did a split between 3 resorts. On check out day, I would label one of the cards and keep it with me so that I knew that those credits had to be used before I started on the new ones. It just made sure that I didn't lose any credits as you will have access to possible both credits on the check out/in day if you have not used them all up.

For example, when we checked out of BWV to go to BLT, we still had 2 CS and 4 snack credits left on that card. When we check in to BLT, it activited the new credits. When we went to lunch, I had to order with the BWV card first (2 lunches), and then I used my BLT card to order the other two. It was the same thing with snack credits.

 

[RCharnay]

This has been SO helpful. Thanks, Sandisw!

 

[DenLo]

I think I wouldn't have the tickets put on the KTTW cards at all. Then you and your guests would be used to having a separate card for the park tickets. Then the KTTW is for charging to the room, your DDP and as key but not for the park. It would be less confusing than later trying to figure out which KTTW is which especially when you are at the turn style ready to enter a park. I thought it would be a pain in the neck when I realized our AP's would be a separate card from our KTTW, but it was a piece of cake.

Have a great trip and enjoy all those GVs.

 

[RCharnay]

You may be right. Once you lose the advantage of everything all on one card for the whole trip, it might be easier to allow each card to have it's own purpose and not have to bounce back and forth.

I'm excited about the GV's. We've never done that size before so this is a new experience for us. We requested OKW for all 5 nights but couldn't get it. What better way to experience a new resort than in the GV? It's more points than we would normally spend but we get to try it with only one night's worth. What if I like it and have to buy points there? That's why I love Disney and DVC--even a problem like not being able to get the exact reservation you want becomes a wonderful adventure into a new world!

 

[vicki_c]

The other advantage to keeping your ticket media separate is for FP volunteer purposes. If you have a FP volunteer, you can give him/her the tickets for all, and everyone is still able to use their KTTW card for dining credits or charging things in the stores at the same time.

When we had everything on the KTTW card, sometimes it would be a pain if DH ran for FPs and I wanted to buy something or get the kids a snack.