Ok..so we have 4 nights pbh club starting Halloween. We had paid deposit of $400 to lowes so balance was $1200. We figured we would check in, they would swipe card and we would cash cards in at guest services and pay balance with universal dollars. The young lady at check in-ashley-who was absolutely wonderful told us if it was a debit card they had to take all the money off immediately. Since i only had $1000 on debit card that wouldnt work. My husband said he would pay cash but then we would be stuck with $1200 in gift cards. So we hop on a boat and go to universal studios guest services. Wait a few minutes and girl tells us she's only allowed to do $300 at a time and I would have to go to 4 different clerks. There were only 3 there so I would have to go to ioa guest services to complete transaction. Thankfully a manager overheard us and told me they could cash them at group services in the back of building. Awesome. So we go there and the girl had no idea how to do them. Same manager comes to help her. First she has to actuvqte them or something. Then she says she can only do $25 at a time. We had 12 $100 ones so it was 48 transactions. So she finally does them all and then gives us our universal dollars. IN $10 BILLS! 120 $10 bills. Omg! I figured they would at least have 20s. So back we go on the boat after an hour spent waiting. Poor Ashley said omg when she saw them because she had never done that many. She called manager who said to put them through as cash. Then she had to count all of them and a second girl came to help her count. They were sooo great. I felt bad. Finally its done and we can check in. The moral of the story is if you use credit card you can cash them in at your leisure. If you use debit card make sure you have entire amount or you will have to go through what we did. Our next trip will be 7 nights soooo I don't think I will do all gift cards again.
