Reservations at 2 different Resorts at the same time

[Galactus]

Hello, I have booked a 2 bedroom Bay Lake Tower room for 6 nights ( 5 people). My sister will have her reservation at Pop Century. I want to add her family of 4 to my reservation as the room holds 9 persons ---but only so that they can take advantage of the benefits of staying in a Deluxe Resort. Will this be a problem for late night benefits? Are they allowed to register at both locations. Will they be able to use their magicbands to enter the late-night parks (or early entry) when they are actually staying at Pop Century? Or can they only register one resort/room at a time on the watch?

Thanks for any help!

 

[Marionnette]

Hello, I have booked a 2 bedroom Bay Lake Tower room for 6 nights ( 5 people). My sister will have her reservation at Pop Century. I want to add her family of 4 to my reservation as the room holds 9 persons ---but only so that they can take advantage of the benefits of staying in a Deluxe Resort. Will this be a problem for late night benefits? Are they allowed to register at both locations. Will they be able to use their magicbands to enter the late-night parks (or early entry) when they are actually staying at Pop Century? Or can they only register one resort/room at a time on the watch?

Thanks for any help!

Yes. It will be a problem if their MDE profiles are linked to 2 different hotel reservations. Their MBs may not open their hotel door because MDE thinks they are staying at BLT. They could get to Extra Evening Hours and their MBs could identify them as POP guests even though you have added them to your hotel reservation. Charging could show up on either room account. In short, it would be a real mess.

 

[meremac]

You cannot be registered at two different resorts for the same dates.

 

[Tess]

Yes. It will be a problem if their MDE profiles are linked to 2 different hotel reservations. Their MBs may not open their hotel door because MDE thinks they are staying at BLT. They could get to Extra Evening Hours and their MBs could identify them as POP guests even though you have added them to your hotel reservation. Charging could show up on either room account. In short, it would be a real mess.

Agreed! We did this one year for our daughter/SIL. They were booked for part of their stay at YC--we were at BCV. We had them on our BCV reservation because initially they were going to be with us for a night or two because they were transitioning from Universal to Disney and had not been able to secure the room extension at YC.

The extension was finally secured but we figured it would not be an issue if the names remained on our reservation AND they had separate magic bands for that portion of the stay (the free ones of old). Having those would allow them access to our room for sharing grocery items, changing for pool time, etc.

Just don't do it! While our bands were fine (all of our bands) for park entry and charging; the whole room entry thing was a mess for days! Poor magic bands didn't know where the kids were allowed to enter. It was finally resolved by a savvy CM at the desk of YC (although two others failed in the mission). Ultimately, the problem was being names on two resort reservations simultaneously.

 

[closetmickey]

I have no idea but would there be a way for them not to link their reservation for their stay at Pop? Ie give up the convenience of using magic bands for their room (could ask for key cards), charging back, etc in order to take advantage of the extended evening hours if it were that important to them? And they would have to have their tickets purchased separate from their resort stay…
Probably lots of issues, just thinking aloud.

 

[thanxfornoticin]

We've done/tried this in the past, and it created a real mess for the guests on the reservations. We eventually did go the key card route to make it work for a couple days, but there were still headaches.

 

[FSU Girl]

It would create a mess with magic bands on doors. But you could pull up the reservation on your phone showing they are staying at bay lake to be allowed entry. It would probably require a manager to come over. And to avoid the issue with doors you can just stop at the front desk for room keys to use instead. When I got married at Disney my husband had a room booked that overlapped with our other reservation so he would sleep somewhere else the night before and it didn’t mess with getting into the parks or even his room, but it was just one night overlap

 

[sharadoc]

The only thing I would worry about would be the evening hours. Their tickets would be on Pop Century so to scan a magic band to ride something, would that even work??

 

[sharadoc]

The only thing I would worry about would be the evening hours. Their tickets would be on Pop Century so to scan a magic band to ride something, would that even work??

Oh, but adding the to your room, you could just do initials, or middle names and buy a simple magic band for them on your reservation.

 

[Marionnette]

Oh, but adding the to your room, you could just do initials, or middle names and buy a simple magic band for them on your reservation.

But there would be no tickets associated with those MBs. Wouldn't that be apparent when they are scanned at any attraction? It would have been back in FP+ days when they could tell if a ticket associated with the profile had been used for admission to the park when a MB was used at the FP tap point.