Room Key Charge Card Question

[CRSNDSNY]

If there are two families staying in a unit (for example a 2BR):

1 - How many keys per room can we get?
2 - If family 1 has a key and family 2 has a key, can each of the keys have different credit cards for each of the families?

 

[JoeMikeB]

You will get one room key for each guest staying in the room. All charges will accumulate to a single credit card designated by the DVC member at check in. We have not asked for this ourselves but since children can be issued key cards that do not have charging privileges, I would assume you could do the same for adult guests.

What we have always done is put all charges on our credit card and requested a detailed bill at checkout. Since my wife is an accountants daughter, it only takes her a few minutes to sort out which charges belong to which couple. The only downside to this is meals charged to the room. In that case you need to agree in advance to a plan for handling meal charges. We have used this one is on us, that is on you; split the cost down the middle; and you had the roast beef and I had the hamburger methods. In nineteen trips to WDW, at least half with adult guests, we have never had a conflict doing this.

One suggestion when traveling with friends. We have often found that there may be multiple ideas of what to do, where to go, where to eat, etc. We make an agreement in advance that if we cannot reach agreement one person will be designated as "Decider" for that day and in the event of differing opinions everyone agrees to go along with that day's "Decider's" decision. What day each person is "Decider" is set before we leave home and no one can be "Decider" two consecutive days. We have had to resort to the "Decider" only on two or three occasions, but on those times it probably saved the trip for at least one member of our party.

WDW and OKW on January 11th or bust!

 

[DebbieB]

You can also agree that if you don't agree where you want to go, each family can feel free to do what they want. I've gone on trips with friends where we didn't all want to do the same thing. That's fine, feel free to do what you want. Each family may want some time on their own.

 

[InstImpres]

Originally posted by JoeMikeB
We make an agreement in advance that if we cannot reach agreement one person will be designated as "Decider" for that day and in the event of differing opinions everyone agrees to go along with that day's "Decider's" decision. What day each person is "Decider" is set before we leave home and no one can be "Decider" two consecutive days.

Funny, I say you are with me, I decide before we go I am the "trip decider"....if you don;t like my choices, go out on your own, no hard feelings.


As to room charges, the card are numbered xxx-01, xxx-02 etc. We as the OP suggested divided the meals and than each pay our own charges. Your guest can than go to the front desk and ask for $392.57 (or whatever bizzaire amount their share is) be put on his cc. The balance would than go on your card from check in


Happy travels
Sandy

 

[jgart]

We just got back from vaction in Dec. we had a 2 bdrm. My parents joined us this year. My DH and I each had our own key with charging privilages. My parents room keys did not have charging privilages they wanted to pay cash for thier meals. I don't see why you wouldn't be to have different credit card #'s. Your family's on your card and the other family's credit card on their key. They will probably need to go to the check in desk with you and have their credit card available in order to do this.

 

[CRSNDSNY]

Originally posted by jgart
I don't see why you wouldn't be to have different credit card #'s. Your family's on your card and the other family's credit card on their key. They will probably need to go to the check in desk with you and have their credit card available in order to do this.

Yes. This is what I'm wondering about. If this is possible.

Thank you all for your suggestions!

 

[CarolMN]

Originally posted by jgart
...(snip).... I don't see why you wouldn't be to have different credit card #'s. Your family's on your card and the other family's credit card on their key. They will probably need to go to the check in desk with you and have their credit card available in order to do this.

The system can only handle one credit card per room.

As others have posted, each room key with charging priviledges will have a different suffix. It is easy to see who actually charged an item. If you want to pay with 2 or more credit cards, you can go to the front desk and the CM will charge each card as you direct. Do this before the day of check out, or the charges will all go to the card left at check in.

Again, you can only leave one credit card per room as a guarantee for charge backs. You can actually charge to different cards if you go to the front desk (after the charges have posted to the room account) and tell them how to "settle up".

HTH.