News Round Up 2019

[SouthFayetteFan]

Who cares about the look? The only enhancement most of us want is being able to pay with gift cards and/or room charge.

Yeah! No gift cards or room charge makes this unusable to me (based on the way we pay for our trips and save a lot of money doing it).

 

[rteetz]

Yeah! No gift cards or room charge makes this unusable to me (based on the way we pay for our trips and save a lot of money doing it).

I’m sure it will come eventually at least gift card capability.

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

I’m sure it will come eventually at least gift card capability.

I sure hope so! The line at Columbia Harbor House was crazy today for lunch and I was so jealous of my mobile order counterparts walking up beside me. (But not jealous enough to pay 15-20% more without my gift card savings lol)

 

[scrappinginontario]

Yeah! No gift cards or room charge makes this unusable to me (based on the way we pay for our trips and save a lot of money doing it).

Do you stay on Disney property? If so you can put Disney gift cards against your room charges at your resort and use Mobile Ordering with your MagicBand. Unfortunately this doesn’t work for non-resort guests.

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

Do you stay on Disney property? If so you can put Disney gift cards against your room charges at your resort and use Mobile Ordering with your MagicBand. Unfortunately this doesn’t work for non-resort guests.

I thought mobile order only worked with a credit card and couldn’t do room charge. Is this a change that I missed at some point? That would work for us!

EDIT: I know it can handle dining plan but I don’t see anything that says room charges. (We used it earlier this week with the dining plan during 1st part of split stay and that was great!)

 

[rteetz]

I thought mobile order only worked with a credit card and couldn’t do room charge. Is this a change that I missed at some point? That would work for us!

Yeah pretty sure that you can’t do that.

 

[rteetz]

News

More Zootopia films in the works

http://blogmickey.com/2019/02/two-more-zootopia-films-are-in-the-works-at-disney/

 

[scrappinginontario]

I thought mobile order only worked with a credit card and couldn’t do room charge. Is this a change that I missed at some point? That would work for us!

EDIT: I know it can handle dining plan but I don’t see anything that says room charges. (We used it earlier this week with the dining plan during 1st part of split stay and that was great!)

I’ll be honest and say I guess I don’t know for sure.

My experience is that I link a cc to my resort room and can charge things using my MB. My cc is not charged each time I make a purchase, only a couple of times during our stay. (I believe the new policy is Disney will charge my cc the outstanding balance on day 5 of our trip and every 5 days and then the outstanding balance upon checkout.)

I make all the charges I want (food, souvenirs, tips, etc) but, before day 5 of my vacation I take my stack of gift cards to Guest Services and they apply this amount against the current balance of my room charges. So, even though I may have charged $200 to my MagicBand, as long as I take $200 of gift cards to gues Services before day 5, nothing gets charged to my credit card and I am using the gift cards against my room charges.

Would that be something that would work for you? Since Disney changed their gift card policy a couple of years ago and now allow gift cards purchased in Canada to be used in the US, I’ve done this often and saved a lot of money. I use grocery store points to buy Disney gift cards for free so using them in the above way has saved me hundreds and hundreds of dollars!!

I don’t know how mobile ordering works with the cc that is linked to it as I’ve only used it with the DDP.

 

[Lesley Wake]

I’ll be honest and say I guess I don’t know for sure.

My experience is that I link a cc to my resort room and can charge things using my MB. My cc is not charged each time I make a purchase, only a couple of times during our stay. (I believe the new policy is Disney will charge my cc the outstanding balance on day 5 of our trip and every 5 days and then the outstanding balance upon checkout.)

I make all the charges I want (food, souvenirs, tips, etc) but, before day 5 of my vacation I take my stack of gift cards to Guest Services and they apply this amount against the current balance of my room charges. So, even though I may have charged $200 to my MagicBand, as long as I take $200 of gift cards to gues Services before day 5, nothing gets charged to my credit card and I am using the gift cards against my room charges.

Would that be something that would work for you? Since Disney changed their gift card policy a couple of years ago and now allow gift cards purchased in Canada to be used in the US, I’ve done this often and saved a lot of money. I use grocery store points to buy Disney gift cards for free so using them in the above way has saved me hundreds and hundreds of dollars!!

It works if you are buying in person (i.e. waiting in line). But Mobile Ordering doesn't charge via Magicband, just CC

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

Who cares about the look? The only enhancement most of us want is being able to pay with gift cards and/or room charge.

Yeah... this “enhancement” sounds about as empty as the PhotoPass one SO FAR (can’t modify pics on computer, no calendar product option, just as slow-loading for me). Hopefully they focus on functionality more than the look over time. I’ll still never understand Disney IT.

 

[j2thomason]

I’m sure it will come eventually at least gift card capability.

You would hope at some point you would be able to load gift cards into MDE to pay for any and all purchases, rooms, food, retail,etc. They already have the Disneygiftcard.com website. They should merge that into MDE.

 

[rteetz]

News

Menu changes at Mister Kamals

https://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2019/01/mister-kamals-menu-to-receive-minor.html?m=1

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

I’ll be honest and say I guess I don’t know for sure.

My experience is that I link a cc to my resort room and can charge things using my MB. My cc is not charged each time I make a purchase, only a couple of times during our stay. (I believe the new policy is Disney will charge my cc the outstanding balance on day 5 of our trip and every 5 days and then the outstanding balance upon checkout.)

I make all the charges I want (food, souvenirs, tips, etc) but, before day 5 of my vacation I take my stack of gift cards to Guest Services and they apply this amount against the current balance of my room charges. So, even though I may have charged $200 to my MagicBand, as long as I take $200 of gift cards to gues Services before day 5, nothing gets charged to my credit card and I am using the gift cards against my room charges.

Would that be something that would work for you? Since Disney changed their gift card policy a couple of years ago and now allow gift cards purchased in Canada to be used in the US, I’ve done this often and saved a lot of money. I use grocery store points to buy Disney gift cards for free so using them in the above way has saved me hundreds and hundreds of dollars!!

I don’t know how mobile ordering works with the cc that is linked to it as I’ve only used it with the DDP.

Yeah - we have no issue using gift cards. The specific issue is you can’t use them at all with mobile ordering - as @rteetz said, hopefully that comes along soon!

 

[only hope]

Yeah... this “enhancement” sounds about as empty as the PhotoPass one SO FAR (can’t modify pics on computer, no calendar product option, just as slow-loading for me). Hopefully they focus on functionality more than the look over time. I’ll still never understand Disney IT.

The new website works fine for me, unlike the old one. But the loss of the borders/stickers decreases the value of the service and therefore the value of my gold pass. I got gold instead of silver pretty much just for the photopass, with the option of adding cute borders and stickers. I've sent Disney a polite email.

 

[rteetz]

The new website works fine for me, unlike the old one. But the loss of the borders/stickers decreases the value of the service and therefore the value of my gold pass. I got gold instead of silver pretty much just for the photopass, with the option of adding cute borders and stickers. I've sent Disney a polite email.

Either they are still working on the site or they found that not many people use the borders? I’ll be honest I don’t really ever use them.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Either they are still working on the site or they found that not many people use the borders? I’ll be honest I don’t really ever use them.

I didn't pay for memory maker but I did think the borders were cute when I was perusing my photos.

I could see the guest who doesn't go often wanting the borders because it adds that little extra touch. Someone who has enough photos to choose from throughout the various trips or knows they'll get many more pictures in the future may be less likely to see it as an added bonus.

That said frequent visitors may also like the borders for things like trip reports or to frame a special photo after printing it out, etc.

 

[rteetz]

I didn't pay for memory maker but I did think the borders were cute when I was perusing my photos.

I could see the guest who doesn't go often wanting the borders because it adds that little extra touch. Someone who has enough photos to choose from throughout the various trips or knows they'll get many more pictures in the future may be less likely to see it as an added bonus.

That said frequent visitors may also like the borders for things like trip reports or to frame a special photo after printing it out, etc.

Yeah as a frequent visitor I don’t need the borders. I definitely see what you’re saying.

 

[Sweettears]

Sometimes I change my resort, view, or even get a new discount by making a new online reservation, and then cancelling the original. It can be easier this way when MDE is glitchy and won't let me modify. I wonder if it would cancel my FP+?!

This how I do it as well. I get it that some people game the system but this is a legitimate way of reworking your trip. I would hate to think that it would cause you to lose your FP+

 

[PolyRob]

This how I do it as well. I get it that some people game the system but this is a legitimate way of reworking your trip. I would hate to think that it would cause you to lose your FP+

I'm hoping that since there would be a different resort stay in its place that it would be fine. MDE could be coded to do a check every night like it does for FP+ without tickets and then warn you via e-mail like hey, link your reservation or your 60+ day FP+ will be gone. This is all speculative and probably wishful thinking. I don't really want to test it out with my SDD or FoP FP+ lol

 

[Sweettears]

Yea we can hope but who knows. I had a glitch prior to my last trip. My room reservation dropped off for no reason. Spent a couple of hours on the phone with IT. Stood to lose 7DMT, FOP, FEA and others. Managed to save them by booking another room and connecting it to MDE