Sleeping in a different room than what’s assigned.

[Kristyn0117]

Can anyone tell me what the negative affects are of sleeping in a different room other than what you’re booked? Do you miss out on some of the magic if things are delivered to the room that you’re booked in instead of the room you’re sleeping in? Is it difficult if you get locked out of the room that you’re sleeping in if you’re not booked in that room? Any other things that I’m not thinking about? I’m trying to decide if it’s more important to book excursions early/together (can book when the lowest member is able) or to be booked in the room that you’re sleeping in. And just an FYI I don’t think we’re booking any popular excursions.

 

[Calantha]

Can anyone tell me what the negative affects are of sleeping in a different room other than what you’re booked? Do you miss out on some of the magic if things are delivered to the room that you’re booked in instead of the room you’re sleeping in? Is it difficult if you get locked out of the room that you’re sleeping in if you’re not booked in that room? Any other things that I’m not thinking about? I’m trying to decide if it’s more important to book excursions early/together (can book when the lowest member is able) or to be booked in the room that you’re sleeping in. And just an FYI I don’t think we’re booking any popular excursions.

My FIL and I swapped during the last cruise but we had doors between our rooms so the one time I forgot my key, I just ducked through the other room with my ID card. And we're doing the same thing next May. So instead of a room of MIL/FIL, SIL/2kids, BIL/SIL/2kids, me/DH/DS - I've swapped with BIL and MIL and FIL each have a room with kids (MIL/SIL/daughter and FIL/son).

Only 2 issues I see are forgetting your card and if your rooms are in different muster stations. Other than that, no issues. In fact it helps with the photo package (MIL and I bought and added my son - so then any pics with son/DH or son/FIL were included as were MIL/FIL and me and family). It was great.

Early excursions/check in/new Castaway gifts are very important to us. Instead of being 1 plat, 1 gold and 2 silver we end up with 2 plat and 2 gold.

 

[lilsonicfan]

On other cruise lines, we have asked for extra keys to the rooms; e.g. the 5 of us were in two rooms on a Royal cruise and we asked for 5 extra room-access-only keys so that we could all have access to both rooms. It's fine to sleep in another room, no one checks.

On DCL it sounds like the key can actually be coded to open multiple rooms: https://touringplans.com/blog/disney-cruise-line-stateroom-considerations-for-larger-families/ - but I have never tried this. We have had two rooms on DCL too but always connecting rooms, so the extra key was not needed really.

 

[Dug720]

if your rooms are in different muster stations.

This is the biggest one I can see. Even cabins right next to each other can be in different muster stations, and in the (admittedly unlikely) event that you are required to go to your muster stations you'll have to report to your assigned one and not the one for the cabin you're sleeping in.

In the event they have to do a ship-wide search where passengers are asked to return to their cabins - such as a missing person or possible man overboard situation where they are not positive someone went over - I'm not sure how that would be affected. You might need to go to your assigned cabin for that period of time.

 

[bbn1122]

We did this years ago. My oldest son was 17 and his brothers were 14 and 12.
We book an adult in each room, but we stay together and boys stayed together.
We got extra keys for both rooms. We were down the hall from each other. We had no problems. Room host was different for the 2 rooms, but everything went smoothly.
Our muster drills were in same place.
Fast forward 2020, they are all adults so no more worries. Everyone got to go to all the adult areas and we finally got to go to Palo together. Happy Cruising to everyone.

 

[LOVEMY3KIDDOS]

We are booked this way for our December cruise and our February cruise. We were told that once on board we could go to guest services and just have the two cards switched. We also did it to book excursions and tastings early. DH and I are gold and the rest are silver.

 

[GoingSince1990]

Can anyone tell me what the negative affects are of sleeping in a different room other than what you’re booked?

Things can get a bit awkward if you are unacquainted with the occupants of the room you’re sleeping in.

 

[Kwami]

If you head to the shore-side manager before boarding, you can have new room keys printed. That will solve almost all of your problems. When Covid-19 testing was still a thing, that had to be done by reservation # regardless of whether you changed room assignments. When you check your Castaway Club cruise history, it'll show your original room assignment. If you're supposed to receive any Castaway Club gifts and lanyards, then those will probably end up in the wrong place. And... that's pretty much it, I think. Once you get those new keys printed, everything else should just work. Guest services can also print you new keys.

 

[mmouse37]

We have done this in the past and got blank keys for the other room. Usually the key to the other room is a blank cruise and can only be used to open the door, not to charge things or to use to get on and off the ship. You would use your "booked into" KTTW card for that.

This is what our "extra" KTTW card looked like.

 

[Kwami]

You don't need blank cards, though, unless you want access to more than one room. Instead, have Guest Services (or the shoreside manager before the cruise) print new cards that reflect your new room assignments. Those new cards are valid in every way that the original cards would have been.