Partial DVC Stay and DDP

[bevotex]

We are staying at AKV next month and everyone will be enjoying the DDP. I have a family member that was just able to get off work for just a part of the stay (4 days vs. 7 for the rest of us). Disney has told me that she cannot be on the DDP as she will not be there for the whole week. So here are my questions:

1. How do I allow her to stay with us and not have her on the DDP?
2. Will she be able to get a room key?
3. Can she use the DDP for only a partial stay?

Any advice from anyone that has encountered this? Thank you in advance.

 

[Deb & Bill]

Add her to the room for the entire time. You will have to pay for each of the nights of the total length of stay for her DDP. For those credits she doesn't use, you can split them up for the entire group.

DDP is either all or none. All guests on the reservation get it for the entire length of the stay. No partial guests, no partial DDP.

 

[dianeschlicht]

It's all or nothing as far as extra guests. We don't personally find the DDP to be worth it cost wise, so if you wanted to "cheat" the system, I suppose you could have her stay without being on the reservation, but she would not get the added benefits of being on-site like a key to the world for access to your room, or the ability to go to Extra Magic Hours.

Personally, if you are set on the DDP, I'd just pay the extra and use the credits. It's a lot of extra cost, but then, we find the DDP to be an extra cost over what we normall spend too. We like to do sit downs and signatures once a day, and we find we waste too much on the DDP, plus spend more than we do if we use out of pocket and the discounts.

 

[Dean]

We are staying at AKV next month and everyone will be enjoying the DDP. I have a family member that was just able to get off work for just a part of the stay (4 days vs. 7 for the rest of us). Disney has told me that she cannot be on the DDP as she will not be there for the whole week. So here are my questions:

1. How do I allow her to stay with us and not have her on the DDP?
2. Will she be able to get a room key?
3. Can she use the DDP for only a partial stay?

Any advice from anyone that has encountered this? Thank you in advance.

You were given incorrect info or more likely, posted a different answer than your question. I suspect DVC didn't say she can't stay part time but rather you couldn't pay just part time. They can stay with you part of the time but as noted, you must pay for the entire time for anyone even if they stay only 1 day. There is no way to legally get around this requirement thought the enforcement has been spotty on Disney's part. The easiest way to do this is to just add her for the entire time and have her cover the cost for what she uses while there. You can use the few remaining credits for signature meals or other extras.

 

[EmmaLuvsPooh]

Can't you spit the reservation? How about if you have a split stay such as 7 nights at one dvc and then 3 nights at another. Wouldn't that be two reservations? We have never in the past used DDP but we always stay with my inlaws for x amount of nights and they tranfer to another dvc for 3 or 4 more nights after we leave. How would the DDP work in this situation?

 

[disneynutz]

A split stay could work, but they are two separate reservations. They would need to check out, check back in and probably move to a different room.

 

[TinkTatoo]

We've got a similar problem when DH is only joining us for the last night of one of our DVC reservations. There is no way the kids and I would use his DDP credits so MS made two reservations, one for the 3 of us and another one for the 4 of us on the last day. The reservations are linked together so although I'll have to check out and check in again we won't have to move rooms.

 

[Dean]

We've got a similar problem when DH is only joining us for the last night of one of our DVC reservations. There is no way the kids and I would use his DDP credits so MS made two reservations, one for the 3 of us and another one for the 4 of us on the last day. The reservations are linked together so although I'll have to check out and check in again we won't have to move rooms.

You should check with MS as the only way to guarantee you won't have to change is to link the reservations. Linked reservations are treated as a single stay and your back to the requirement for all people for all days. So if the two are linked, you'd still have to do it for the entire time for all people.