When does hotel cut off your KTTW card?

[branv]

I know that on your last day when you get up, there is a bill under your door listing everything you've charged on your room card (to be subsequently charged to your credit card on file). And that this makes it possible for people to not have to go to the front desk to check-out. My question is, what time do they cut off charging on your KTTW card? Is it at 11 am, the same time as official checkout to allow people to still charge breakfast, last trip to the gift shop? Or is it before they print your final bill?

 

[BrianD]

It gets turned off at around midnight of the day that you check out. If you want to see a list of charges that you make after you receive your final bill from that morning, then you would need to return to the hotel and have them print out an updated one for you. They want to let you spend money for as long as possible.

 

[deedeetoo]

I don't know the exact answer but we charged something in a gift shop mid-morning on the day we were leaving.

 

[DisneyBee]

You can use it until midnight of the day you leave. We charged on ours all day long as we had a late flight out and went to MK for the afternoon. We find that it's just easier to keep track of our expenses by putting it all on the key card.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

You can use it until midnight of the day you leave. We charged on ours all day long as we had a late flight out and went to MK for the afternoon. We find that it's just easier to keep track of our expenses by putting it all on the key card.

So that's why our cards were still working after 11:00 AM on our check-out days. Everytime for fun on our check-out days, we always see if we can get back into our room after 11:00 AM and everytime the cards still work. So at least now I have the answer to why that always happens.

 

[bradk]

well, technically the room key shouldn't, but the room probably hasn't been assigned to someone else. i'm sure if you tried after 3, it would be a different story.

in short, that key has a unique identifier on it. the lock on the door is programmed by a networked system to only accept that unique number (as well as management, etc that would have access to the room). once that information is reset at the front desk, your key should stop working.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

well, technically the room key shouldn't, but the room probably hasn't been assigned to someone else. i'm sure if you tried after 3, it would be a different story.

in short, that key has a unique identifier on it. the lock on the door is programmed by a networked system to only accept that unique number (as well as management, etc that would have access to the room). once that information is reset at the front desk, your key should stop working.

Since were allowed to have the room until 11:00 AM, I guess our keys will still work because housekeeping would not have cleaned it and it would not have gone back into the computer system.

 

[bradk]

that's correct. it won't be back in inventory until it's cleaned and cleared. for all they know, you could have trashed the place, so they won't just give it to the next person.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

that's correct. it won't be back in inventory until it's cleaned and cleared. for all they know, you could have trashed the place, so they won't just give it to the next person.

Well we don't plan on trashing our room.

 

[bradk]

then johnny depp you shall never be

 

[ktturner]

then johnny depp you shall never be

wow, that was rather yodaish. . .

 

[bradk]

trash the room or do not, there is no try. trash it you must for anger is the path to jumpstreet.

 

[ktturner]

trash the room or do not, there is no try. trash it you must for anger is the path to jumpstreet.

Thanks bradk! I needed that laugh!

 

[TheRustyScupper]

. . . So that's why our cards were still working after 11:00 AM on our check-out days. Everytime for fun on our check-out days, we always see if we can get back into our room after 11:00 AM and everytime the cards still work. So at least now I have the answer to why that always happens . . .

1) Not exactly.
2) There is a very specific reason why sometimes you can re-enter your room.
3) Even after check-out and after 11:00am.
4) But, it is a topic we won't broach.

 

[Jedi_Galvatron]

1) Not exactly.
2) There is a very specific reason why sometimes you can re-enter your room.
3) Even after check-out and after 11:00am.
4) But, it is a topic we won't broach.

And yet we want to, please enlighten us

 

[ConcKahuna]

Once a room is checked out, the next time a key is used it wipes the old one out. So if housekeeping goes in there, it wipes your key.

Some friends of mine had 2 reservations. One person used the new key when the others were in the park, then went out to dinner (the old keys had worked until then, and it was about 6pm). WHen my other friends got back, they got locked out