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Questions about the Septeber Value Package? Hurry!
I think I have encouraged (coerced? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]) a friend to go with me in September to take advantage of the Package WDW is offering from late August through September, which includes 5 nights/6 days at a Value resort and the dining plan. YAY! i MIGHT BE GOING TO WDW!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thewave.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] But I have some questions:
We'd share a room, but we're each paying our own way. Can we spiit the reservation and each put it on our own credit cards?
I know you can use your room key to charge expenses back to your room throughout the parks, can 2 people sharing the same room have different accounts linked to the same room key?
How much is the deposit, and when is it due? The rest is due 45 days out, right?
Can you upgrade the tickets included in the package to park hoppers?
Sorry to ask so many questions at once, but I need help a.s.a.p.! We've got to call by Wednesday to make the ressies before I leave next weekend for NYC! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
Re: Questions about the Septeber Value Package? Hurry!
I hope you can go! Cheryl answered most of your ?'s. The only other thing to add is when I went for a business trip and shared a room with a co-worker, we could only use one credit card on the room passes. They give you an itemized bill at the end that you can split or your friend can use her own card in the parks for things other than food (since you'll have the dining pkg.) As you pay for the room however, you can put those on two different credit cards. I hope this helps! Have a good trip!
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as far as splitting the cost of the package, this should be doable. i believe anytime you make a payment (and you can make as many as you need), you can use any credit card you wish.
i think the deposit may be for DTC specifically. payment and cancellation details may vary if you book through an alternate TA
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Hey Lisa! Yes you cn each put the $100 deposit on 2 seperate cards and each make payments. As far as the charging priveledges last time I checked you can not have 2 seperate accounts there. And it does have to be booked by June 4 for free dining. I hope this helps.
Re: Questions about the Septeber Value Package? Hurry!
If you know about how much you want to spend on "stuff" maybe one of you could add your credit card to the room for charging and the other could pay more of the room on their card) You would maybe end up owing one or the other at the end but it would make it so you could use just charge cards (like if you think you will spend $300 in charges over the week you pay an extra $300 on the room on your card then she "owes" you $300 that you can use on her card that has charging allowed I suppose thgis would only work if you are really good friends and have similar intrest rates?
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We'd share a room, but we're each paying our own way. Can we spiit the reservation and each put it on our own credit cards?
I know you can use your room key to charge expenses back to your room throughout the parks, can 2 people sharing the same room have different accounts linked to the same room key?
How much is the deposit, and when is it due? The rest is due 45 days out, right?
Can you upgrade the tickets included in the package to park hoppers?
Sorry to ask so many questions at once, but I need help a.s.a.p.! We've got to call by Wednesday to make the ressies before I leave next weekend for NYC! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
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Sheana and I shared a room when we went on our Girls Trip! I was in Houston for a weekend so we called and made the ressies. The deposit was $200 and they let us split it all. I put down a $100 on my card and she did the same. Then we took the remaining balance and split it down the middle. We had to have the remaining balance paid in full 45 days out.
I don't know about room charges and how that works. I took cash and my debt card and she did the same. We didn't use a card so we could have spending privelages.
I don't see you running into a problem with upgrading the tickets to hopper. They are usually very accomodating in situations like that!
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thanx.gif[/img] guys! I knew I could count on my Passporter friends to know the answers I needed! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] My friend Kelly and I are getting together on Tuesday to go over our plans and make some decisions. I told her I'd do all the planning and that all she'd have to do is come along, pay her own way, and have fun. I will probably buy her a Passporter too, so she can do some research. Am I a great friend, or what?! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] Now, we just have to decide when exactly we're going and which value resort to stay at. I'll post about that over in Staying in Style. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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hey Lisa - Just wanted to let you know that although you have to purchase the same ticket from WDTC for the package deal - once you get there, you can upgrade any of the tickets that you need to.
In December - we had purchased one day tickets so that we could use the dining plan. Sarah still had plenty of old kid days left on her park hoppers - so she didn't need more days - but I did. So - I went to the MGM Guest Services window, and upgraded only mine to a park hopper multi day ticket.
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Re: Questions about the Septeber Value Package? Hurry!
I did this with a friend last year. She paid for part of the room cost on her credit card and I paid for part of it on mine. You cannot use two credit cards for charging back to the room, so one of you can use their cc for charging priveledges and the other will have to use their credit card directly for purchase or cash to buy things on the vacation.
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I think I have encouraged (coerced? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]) a friend to go with me in September to take advantage of the Package WDW is offering from late August through September, which includes 5 nights/6 days at a Value resort and the dining plan.
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Lisa, I just wanted to mention that you can get the free dining with less days. Before I booked my package, I went over to DIS boards (shhh) and read about people who were booking 3 night stays. I'm not sure if that's the lowest you can do or if that's just the lowest anyone did. I hope that makes sense. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif[/img]
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you do not have to have charging privileges attached to your room key. what you could do is have one room key have charging privileges and the other card does not. whoever has the card that can not charge can just use her own credit card, easy as that.
YEs you can upgrade to park hoppers, just call and let them know of the change.
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thanx.gif[/img] once again for everyone's help! We have made our ressies and are officially going to WDW from Sept. 19-24, staying at Pop Century. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thewave.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
We were able to split the deposit on two seperate credit cards, and the remainder is due in August. I'm so excited! And I found out Kelly has NEVER been, so this will be so fun, showing her the WDW magic. Now I have to start planning in earnest, figuring out which days to go to which parks, etc. We're both Pooh fans, so I definitely want to dine at Crystal Palace one evening, and probably the Fantasmic Dinner Package one night. So much fun; poor Kelly has NO idea what she's in for! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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