split stay ?

[zoom8942]

If I decided to do a split stay do you have to go through check in at each place? how do they handle that? I would like to but dont want to go through a lot of hassel. I know they move your stuff.

 

[Harlemgirl720]

You will have to check in at the 1st and 2nd hotel in person. The 1st hotel will transport your bags to the 2nd hotel. Its really simple and hassle free. They will not put your bags in the room until someone is there. I do split stays all the time. Even though there are times the room isn't ready, I will get keys to the room and transfer park tickets and Dining plan to new keys so when they let me know the room assignment, I can go directly to the room.

 

[Missytara]

Disney basically sees it as two separate reservations, so you have to check-in to each resort.

However, you can buy your tickets for the length of stay with your first reservation, so it is not like you have to be there right away on the second half to check-in.

I would suggest doing early check-in and indicate you will check-in in the afternoon and most likely your room will be ready and your luggage will be there by then as well.

 

[zoom8942]

what happens if you are on free dining and go from say pop to POR? is it easier to pay the upgrade dining on the POP days?

 

[CdnKayDee]

You can upgrade your Pop dining. However the dining credits will only be good for the length of your stay at Pop they do not carry over to POR. Also you will have to buy a 1 day park ticket for each stay in order to get free dining.

 

[cjsm&d]

You can upgrade your Pop dining. However the dining credits will only be good for the length of your stay at Pop they do not carry over to POR. Also you will have to buy a 1 day park ticket for each stay in order to get free dining.

I'm confused. Two different answers? Two of you have basically said you have to book as if it is two different ressies, but....

The earlier poster said she has her park tickets and dining transferred from one resort to the other? Why have to buy tix and dining separately at each resort?

 

[Masonmj84]

I'm confused. Two different answers? Two of you have basically said you have to book as if it is two different ressies, but....

The earlier poster said she has her park tickets and dining transferred from one resort to the other? Why have to buy tix and dining separately at each resort?

You can't have dining transfered from one reservation to the other (you can just use dining credits from the first stay up until midnight of the transfer day).

And while I believe it is technically possible to transfer tickets to the second stay, I've heard there are some downsides to this (perhaps someone with more experience here can chime in. You can, of course, buy enough tickets in the first package to use them throughout the second stay, just not sure you want to try to put them on the second resort's KTTW card).

I've basically talked myself into doing a Poly/BC split stay in December. While there are many attractive aspects of this to me, the idea of being able walk back to our room from the Poly beach or the TTC after watching Wishes (on the Poly leg) and being able to walk back to our room after watching Illuminations (on the BC leg) is sort of the icing on the cake that's put me over the top.

 

[Maggie'sMom]

And while I believe it is technically possible to transfer tickets to the second stay, I've heard there are some downsides to this (perhaps someone with more experience here can chime in. You can, of course, buy enough tickets in the first package to use them throughout the second stay, just not sure you want to try to put them on the second resort's KTTW card).

You can purchase enough days on your tickets from your first stay to cover the second part of your stay. You can either keep those tickets on your first KTTW card, move them to a separate ticket media, or have them transferred to your new KTTW card. However, in order to get the free dining offer at both resorts, you must purchase a minimum of two day tickets for each stay. This isn't very economical since Disney's tickets are front-loaded with the later days costing very little as compared to the first couple days. You can purchase tickets with both stays and just don't use the tickets associated with the second package. The clock on expiration doesn't start until they are first used so you could bring them back and use them for a later resort stay when you don't want the DDP. If you are purchasing the DDP rather than getting the free dining offer, you only need to purchase 1 day tickets to get the package.

 

[Missytara]

You can upgrade your Pop dining. However the dining credits will only be good for the length of your stay at Pop they do not carry over to POR. Also you will have to buy a 1 day park ticket for each stay in order to get free dining.

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Incorrect; in order to get free dining you have to buy a two day ticket.

 

[buzznina]

As an AP holder, I really liked it when you only had to purchase a 1 day ticket.

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Incorrect; in order to get free dining you have to buy a two day ticket.

 

[Missytara]

As an AP holder, I really liked it when you only had to purchase a 1 day ticket.

I can imagine how much easier that was!

 

[Sue M]

I'm confused. Two different answers? Two of you have basically said you have to book as if it is two different ressies, but....

The earlier poster said she has her park tickets and dining transferred from one resort to the other? Why have to buy tix and dining separately at each resort?

The first answer pertained to if you want to do a split stay without free dining. You would book a package with room + length of stay park tickets to cover her entire stay at both resorts, for Pop, then book a room- only reservation at POR. She would have to use her KTTW card from Pop for park admission for entire stay. I have heard that sometimes the tickets can be pulled off and put on another KTTW card, but not sure. It can be glitchy.

If you want free dining at both resorts it's a whole different ball of wax, and not cost effective because each stay(reservation) requires booking with a minimum 2 day park tickets. Different rules for free dining.
Hope this makes sense.

 

[cjsm&d]

The first answer pertained to if you want to do a split stay without free dining. You would book a package with room + length of stay park tickets to cover her entire stay at both resorts, for Pop, then book a room- only reservation at POR. She would have to use her KTTW card from Pop for park admission for entire stay. I have heard that sometimes the tickets can be pulled off and put on another KTTW card, but not sure. It can be glitchy.

If you want free dining at both resorts it's a whole different ball of wax, and not cost effective because each stay(reservation) requires booking with a minimum 2 day park tickets. Different rules for free dining.
Hope this makes sense.

Thank You. This makes perfect sense, though it's too bad they penalize you free ding-wise for wanting to split a vaca. We did an awesome split one year (pre-dining, 4 nights AKL/4 nights WL) and would love to do it again, different resorts of course. Maybe the year we do that we'll try to grab a 30% off instead of the free dining.