Room Key Question

[dolfinjuls]

I know you can have a credit card added to your room key for purchases. My question is if you can have different credit cards added to different room keys for the same room. Or if you can leave a room key without a credit card attached? Thanks so much!

 

[JohnnyB2]

Hi I think only one credit card per room but your bill will show what room key (they have a #)purchased what.Then at checkout you can pay with different cards.

 

[disneyag]

You can also ask for cards with no-charging privileges (i.e. for your children).

 

[Deb & Bill]

If you allow someone else to charge to your card (via the room key), you have to make sure you go to the front desk to get their charges transferred to their credit card before you hit your credit limit. It used to be $500 for values, $1000 for moderates and $1500 for deluxe resorts. Once you hit that amount, they charge your card.

If you want to play it safe, just have the other person use their credit card instead of charging to the room.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

I know you can have a credit card added to your room key for purchases. My question is if you can have different credit cards added to different room keys for the same room. Or if you can leave a room key without a credit card attached? Thanks so much!

Absolutely!
CORRECTION OF COMMON MISCONCEPTION

1) Every room key with charging can be tied to a different credit card.
2) Those arriving at same time or even later can tie their key to their own credit card.
3) Have them ask for a "SHARE" when they check-in. (Use this specific word.)
4) If CM doesn't know how, ask them to check the Front Desk Manual.
5) Of course, any key can be non-charging.

Example:
Mom and daughter in same room.
Mom can have her room key tied to the mother's MasterCard for mother's purchases.
Daughter can have her room key tied to the daughter's VISA for daughter's purchases.

Process:
. . . mom checks in, with her credit card, just as usual and gets room #1212
. . . daughter tells Front Desk CM this is a "SHARE" room
. . . daughter must use this exact phrase, as it has special meaning
. . . daughter checks-in using her credit card and gets a virtual room #1212a
. . . repeat for as many credit cards room people want to use
. . . mother and daughter (and others) purchases now go to individual credit cards
. . . one or both could pay a part of the room bill
. . . the 1st to check-in gets charges for phones or room service (system glitch)
. . . this can be done for as many room keys that have charge privileges

 

[TagsMissy]

Absolutely!
CORRECTION OF COMMON MISCONCEPTION

1) Every room key with charging can be tied to a different credit card.
2) Those arriving at same time or even later can tie their key to their own credit card.
3) Have them ask for a "SHARE" when they check-in. (Use this specific word.)
4) If CM doesn't know how, ask them to check the Front Desk Manual.
5) Of course, any key can be non-charging.

Example:
Mom and daughter in same room.
Mom can have her room key tied to the mother's MasterCard for mother's purchases.
Daughter can have her room key tied to the daughter's VISA for daughter's purchases.

Process:
. . . mom checks in, with her credit card, just as usual and gets room #1212
. . . daughter tells Front Desk CM this is a "SHARE" room
. . . daughter must use this exact phrase, as it has special meaning
. . . daughter checks-in using her credit card and gets a virtual room #1212a
. . . repeat for as many credit cards room people want to use
. . . mother and daughter (and others) purchases now go to individual credit cards
. . . one or both could pay a part of the room bill
. . . the 1st to check-in gets charges for phones or room service (system glitch)
. . . this can be done for as many room keys that have charge privileges

THANKS! That's great info for any future trips beyond the one I am on next month It makes total sense for those people traveling with friends or whatever...

I paid for the trip -- hubby pays for all other stuff so his CC is going on the room

 

[dolfinjuls]

Thank you so much! That's what I was hoping for...so we'll be giving it a shot!

 

[fall08CP]

Absolutely!
CORRECTION OF COMMON MISCONCEPTION

1) Every room key with charging can be tied to a different credit card.
2) Those arriving at same time or even later can tie their key to their own credit card.
3) Have them ask for a "SHARE" when they check-in. (Use this specific word.)
4) If CM doesn't know how, ask them to check the Front Desk Manual.
5) Of course, any key can be non-charging.

Example:
Mom and daughter in same room.
Mom can have her room key tied to the mother's MasterCard for mother's purchases.
Daughter can have her room key tied to the daughter's VISA for daughter's purchases.

Process:
. . . mom checks in, with her credit card, just as usual and gets room #1212
. . . daughter tells Front Desk CM this is a "SHARE" room
. . . daughter must use this exact phrase, as it has special meaning
. . . daughter checks-in using her credit card and gets a virtual room #1212a
. . . repeat for as many credit cards room people want to use
. . . mother and daughter (and others) purchases now go to individual credit cards
. . . one or both could pay a part of the room bill
. . . the 1st to check-in gets charges for phones or room service (system glitch)
. . . this can be done for as many room keys that have charge privileges

This is not typical Disney policy and more than likely it won't work, just FYI. I'm a frontline cast member and we do not do this nor are we trained on how to do this. This can be done occasionally for convention guests who are required to share rooms but it has to be done by their group leader and worked out through our group assistant at the resort. It's definitely complicated and we don't do it for regular families.

Just link one card and either have each person use their own credit card for purchases (not KTTW card) or split up the charges the night BEFORE checkout- if you wait until checkout, the card on file will have already been charged unless you ask to NOT have express checkout.

 

[CleveRocks]

This should be interesting ....

 

[JohnnyB2]

This is not typical Disney policy and more than likely it won't work, just FYI. I'm a frontline cast member and we do not do this nor are we trained on how to do this. This can be done occasionally for convention guests who are required to share rooms but it has to be done by their group leader and worked out through our group assistant at the resort. It's definitely complicated and we don't do it for regular families.

Just link one card and either have each person use their own credit card for purchases (not KTTW card) or split up the charges the night BEFORE checkout- if you wait until checkout, the card on file will have already been charged unless you ask to NOT have express checkout.

Hi, Thinking back we were told to stop by the desk the night before check-out to have different credit cards used.thumbsup2 Then the original card was used for the rest of our stay.

 

[mickeyfan1]

This is not typical Disney policy and more than likely it won't work, just FYI. I'm a frontline cast member and we do not do this nor are we trained on how to do this. This can be done occasionally for convention guests who are required to share rooms but it has to be done by their group leader and worked out through our group assistant at the resort. It's definitely complicated and we don't do it for regular families.

Just link one card and either have each person use their own credit card for purchases (not KTTW card) or split up the charges the night BEFORE checkout- if you wait until checkout, the card on file will have already been charged unless you ask to NOT have express checkout.

I have done it several times with no questions, at both value and moderate resorts. At check in. Non convention guest.

Again, this is something that differest from CM to CM, some people ask and have no problems, some people get told to do it before check out, some get told it can't be done.

I would ask at check in, and if needed use the number by number instuctions.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

This is not typical Disney policy and more than likely it won't work, just FYI. I'm a frontline cast member and we do not do this nor are we trained on how to do this.

1) I am sorry you do not believe this is a WDW policy.
2) It is in the "Front Desk Procedure Manual" used at all WDW resorts.
3) The manual is referenced in the computerized training required of Front Desk CM's.
4) It is allowed for any guest who wishes to use it.
5) It is usually done during at check-in, but really can be performed any time during the stay.

if you wait until checkout, the card on file will have already been charged unless you ask to NOT have express checkout.

6) This is what the SHARE "virtual room" (see my post under Process) cures.
7) And, the reason SHARE works so well for different people and different cards.


NOTE: The Front Desk training at Disney University does not train "SHARE", so many CM's do not know about it or how to do it. However, the trainers do specifically say during the DU classes to have your resort teach it to you. This is a part of continued training at the individual resorts, and any Front Desk CM is allowed to perform it, not just a Front Desk Service Adviser (FSA) or "lead" person.