Prepaying tips question (plus obc & multiple adults)

[cruisnfamily]

We will be 3 adults staying in one room. My husband, myself and my mother in law. I believe our tips for 7 days will be $252. We are booked with Dreams unlimited. If I make a payment on the dreams website to prepay tips in the amount of $252 will that automatically cover all three of us? Or does it all apply to my husband since he is the lead name? Does that make sense?

Also, how will our onboard credit work out....will it just go towards things charged by my husband's & my card and not things charged by my mother in law since she will have a seperate form of payment than we will? OR does the credit go towards the whole cabin no matter who charges things?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

We will be 3 adults staying in one room. My husband, myself and my mother in law. I believe our tips for 7 days will be $252. We are booked with Dreams unlimited. If I make a payment on the dreams website to prepay tips in the amount of $252 will that automatically cover all three of us? Or does it all apply to my husband since he is the lead name? Does that make sense?

Also, how will our onboard credit work out....will it just go towards things charged by my husband's & my card and not things charged by my mother in law since she will have a seperate form of payment than we will? OR does the credit go towards the whole cabin no matter who charges things?

Each folio is broken out by each person's account. You charge to "your" account using your KTTW card. Each person's gratuities is charged separately. BUT, while each KTTW charge is grouped together, there is a final total balance at the end of the folio adding all KTTW account balances together. All that being said, each KTTW card account can have it's own backup. That is, yours and your husband can use the same credit card to back up your KTTW cards, and your mother can use her own credit card (or yours, if that's what you want to do).

I hope that's clear.

Not sure, but I think OBC is credited to the folio (hence will be taken off the whole total).

 

[cruisnfamily]

Each folio is broken out by each person's account. You charge to "your" account using your KTTW card. Each person's gratuities is charged separately. BUT, while each KTTW charge is grouped together, there is a final total balance at the end of the folio adding all KTTW account balances together. All that being said, each KTTW card account can have it's own backup. That is, yours and your husband can use the same credit card to back up your KTTW cards, and your mother can use her own credit card (or yours, if that's what you want to do).

I hope that's clear.

Not sure, but I think OBC is credited to the folio (hence will be taken off the whole total).

I understand that we can have one credit card while my mother in law can use another.

I am curious as to how the onboard credit will be applied.

Say she charges $100 and we charge $100 and we have a $100 obc. Does it wipe out our charges and she still owes $100 on her credit card? Or do we each owe $50?

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I understand that we can have one credit card while my mother in law can use another.

I am curious as to how the onboard credit will be applied.

Say she charges $100 and we charge $100 and we have a $100 obc. Does it wipe out our charges and she still owes $100 on her credit card? Or do we each owe $50?

Not sure, but I believe that the $100 credit would be applied to the folio total. I'm thinking the lead name on the folio would get the full credit.

 

[DizMagic]

The obc follows the lead name. We just did this with 3 adults in Alaska. I had a $400'obc. It was posted under my account. The other peoples charges went to their cards and I enjoyed my obc!

 

[PrincessShmoo]

The obc follows the lead name. We just did this with 3 adults in Alaska. I had a $400'obc. It was posted under my account. The other peoples charges went to their cards and I enjoyed my obc!

Thanks for the information.

 

[MickeyEarrings]

The obc follows the lead name. We just did this with 3 adults in Alaska. I had a $400'obc. It was posted under my account. The other peoples charges went to their cards and I enjoyed my obc!

I can verify this. I traveled with two friends. I had $200 OBC as well as $150 from my travel agent. I wanted to divide it equally between us, giving my friends $117 each. Guest Services said I could not do that, but I could give them the $200 or the $100 or $50 (which is how the TA OBC was credited). Or I could pay their first $117 on my credit card. So confusing...I just wanted to share equally without a huge headache.

 

[tinkerone]

we had a $450 obc on our cruise last October. I contacted my t.a. (dreams unlimited at the time) and told her how I wanted it divided and she did it how I asked. maybe it was because I did it through the t.a. and not at guest services? it did get done so not sure how she did it.
I see you booked with dreams as well. try emailing your t.a. and see if she can do it.

 

[cruisnfamily]

The obc follows the lead name. We just did this with 3 adults in Alaska. I had a $400'obc. It was posted under my account. The other peoples charges went to their cards and I enjoyed my obc!

I can verify this. I traveled with two friends. I had $200 OBC as well as $150 from my travel agent. I wanted to divide it equally between us, giving my friends $117 each. Guest Services said I could not do that, but I could give them the $200 or the $100 or $50 (which is how the TA OBC was credited). Or I could pay their first $117 on my credit card. So confusing...I just wanted to share equally without a huge headache.

we had a $450 obc on our cruise last October. I contacted my t.a. (dreams unlimited at the time) and told her how I wanted it divided and she did it how I asked. maybe it was because I did it through the t.a. and not at guest services? it did get done so not sure how she did it.
I see you booked with dreams as well. try emailing your t.a. and see if she can do it.

Thank you all for this super helpful info! I knew somebody must know how it would be applied!

I have decided that it will probably be easiest to just have our credit card on the whole cabin and sort out any leftover charges that the credits do not cover at the end.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Thank you all for this super helpful info! I knew somebody must know how it would be applied!

I have decided that it will probably be easiest to just have our credit card on the whole cabin and sort out any leftover charges that the credits do not cover at the end.

Even with all of you on the same credit card, the bill at the end is broken out by which KTTW actually made the charge. That helps sort out what charges belong to who.

 

[cruisnfamily]

Even with all of you on the same credit card, the bill at the end is broken out by which KTTW actually made the charge. That helps sort out what charges belong to who.

True!

But we're hoping with that between onboard credits and disney reward dollars our out of pocket will be small and we can maybe just split it up. We want mother in law to share in the benefit of the onboard credit.