Yes, I forgot to go to the front desk the night before check out to pay the room charges with our Disney Rewards. I believe you must do it the night before because Night Auditors transfer the charges to the credit card the next morning. Now I make sure to that if we have Disney Rewards that we want to use!Thanks, guys. I did indeed find an old email with all our room charges. Remember when they used to hang them on the door on your last day? Ugh. I think I avoided the email just like I used to avoid that envelope of horror. Anyhow, everything is cool. What I failed to do was to visit the front desk often enough and some of the room charges ended up being charged to the cc instead of me paying it with a gift card. Lesson learned, no harm done. $$ on the gift card for next time. Thanks again.
This is what gripes the crap out of me with the resorts. They will let you put down a card to charge to your room, but they will not let you put down a gift card to debit from your room. I have right at three grand in Disney gift cards. That is a lot to even leave in the room safe. But I will be calling in the week before we leave and see if I can pay off our room only balance, which would be around $1100.
There is no reason Disney could not set it up where you could place funds on your room account and debit from them. The only thing I could think of is that people will watch their money more carefully and not overspend. I mean I really don't want to go down to the front desk and spend time paying off our balance before it hits my credit card.
I guess I could see that happening. I wouldn't toss one but I would lose one. That is why I can't carry them around like that. But I am also certain that when I leave Disney, there is never one cent left on my cards.Just pay with the gift card at time of purchase.
You can put a "bank" on your account using a gift card on the cruiseline, but as I understand it on land they had too much of an issue with people tossing the gift cards and needing monies refunded to them so they stopped allowing it at WDW.
We buy our (electronic) gift cards on the Target website (5% discount with RC) then go on the gift card website and add the card(s) there. The day before we check out, we check our balance, go and buy a couple of gift cards in the gift shop ($15 min), transfer the funds to the gift shop cards and go to the concierge to pay off our balance. Risk free; we never have a card on us that is valued at more than $15, and even that we only hold from the gift shop to the concierge.This is what gripes the crap out of me with the resorts. They will let you put down a card to charge to your room, but they will not let you put down a gift card to debit from your room. I have right at three grand in Disney gift cards. That is a lot to even leave in the room safe. But I will be calling in the week before we leave and see if I can pay off our room only balance, which would be around $1100.
There is no reason Disney could not set it up where you could place funds on your room account and debit from them. The only thing I could think of is that people will watch their money more carefully and not overspend. I mean I really don't want to go down to the front desk and spend time paying off our balance before it hits my credit card.
I don't think that it's a good idea to leave money on the gift card website, I"ve read that some folks have lost their funds.
This is what gripes the crap out of me with the resorts. They will let you put down a card to charge to your room, but they will not let you put down a gift card to debit from your room. I have right at three grand in Disney gift cards. That is a lot to even leave in the room safe. But I will be calling in the week before we leave and see if I can pay off our room only balance, which would be around $1100.
There is no reason Disney could not set it up where you could place funds on your room account and debit from them. The only thing I could think of is that people will watch their money more carefully and not overspend. I mean I really don't want to go down to the front desk and spend time paying off our balance before it hits my credit card.
What happens if you don't use the whole thing up? I think that's the main reason. They can't really refund the balance.I have never understood why I can't just hand over the gift card
We always pay our whole trip using our GC's. We call to payoff the balance before we leave and then every few days I stop at the desk and payoff our room charges. I find this soooo much better than carrying around a GC and possibly losing it. Plus, this way I do not have to worry about giving DW or DD's the GC or having to go in with them to buy stuff, they can just use their MBs, also so much better. I have never waited more than 5 minutes at the desk, if there is a line I go back a different time, plus when I do pay I always ask for a hard copy of the room charges so that I can quickly check it out and there has been a couple of times that I was glad I did. I find a hard copy easier on my old eyes then looking at it on my iphone.I guess I could see that happening. I wouldn't toss one but I would lose one. That is why I can't carry them around like that. But I am also certain that when I leave Disney, there is never one cent left on my cards.
What happens if you don't use the whole thing up? I think that's the main reason. They can't really refund the balance.
We buy our (electronic) gift cards on the Target website (5% discount with RC) then go on the gift card website and add the card(s) there. The day before we check out, we check our balance, go and buy a couple of gift cards in the gift shop ($15 min), transfer the funds to the gift shop cards and go to the concierge to pay off our balance. Risk free; we never have a card on us that is valued at more than $15, and even that we only hold from the gift shop to the concierge.
We always pay our whole trip using our GC's. We call to payoff the balance before we leave and then every few days I stop at the desk and payoff our room charges. I find this soooo much better than carrying around a GC and possibly losing it. Plus, this way I do not have to worry about giving DW or DD's the GC or having to go in with them to buy stuff, they can just use their MBs, also so much better. I have never waited more than 5 minutes at the desk, if there is a line I go back a different time, plus when I do pay I always ask for a hard copy of the room charges so that I can quickly check it out and there has been a couple of times that I was glad I did. I find a hard copy easier on my old eyes then looking at it on my iphone.
Also, GC's are really not much different then cash and not excepting it, helps make sure there is no temptation of someone taking it and using it before anyone had a clue it was missing.
You can call Disney from home after your trip and have them apply your gift cards to your room charges and have them credit your CC. No need to visit the desk or carry thousands worth of gift cards with you.