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Split Stay - Something I Didn't Know
I'm sure if I read the boards more regularly I would've discovered this, but I had no idea...
We tried to book BCV for 9/25 to 9/30, but the night of 9/27 wasn't available. I chose to book a split stay, spending 9/25 and 9/26 at BCV (because we wanted to use Stormalong Bay), then checking into BWV on 9/27. It all went smoothly, except for one thing that I didn't realize until almost too late. The dining credits, which are on your room key, wouldn't be available for our character breakfast at Cape May for the morning of the 27th unless we went and checked into the BWV before breakfast (we'd already used our TS credits for the 25th and 26th). Luckily we weren't that far from the BWV, so my husband went over and checked into the BWV so we'd have our DDP credits to use at breakfast (luckily I'd planned a later 10:15 ADR!) Another thing: all dining credits on the 1st set of room keys expired at midnight on the day we checked out of BCV. We don't usually spend every credit every day, so we had to make a point of using up all our remaining CS and snack credits before they expired that night. Had I realized all that earlier, we would've made a point of using them earlier.
It was a minor inconvenience, but still a hassle nonetheless. I won't be booking any split stays in the future! Just thought I'd share in case anyone else out there is considering using the DDP with a split stay.
All in all we had a magical trip, one of the best we've ever had. It was amazing!
1994 PO
'96 GF (h'moon)
'02 Cont. tower
'03 WL
'05 WL
'06 GF, WL
'07 ASMo
'08 joined DVC: SSR, BWV
'09 BCV, SSR
'10 HHI, BCV/BWV
'11 BLT
'12 AKL, Dream
'13 BCV, Fantasy, HHI
'14 BCV, OKW, HHI
'15 BCV, HHI, AKL
'16 BLT, OKW, AKL, SSR, Fantasy
'17 BLT, GF, AKL, BC
'18 Wonder
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Thank you for posting your opinion. You brought up things I hadn't thought of. We've done split stays before but never with the dining plan. This spring I'm planning on taking my daughter and wanted to surprise her with a night or two at the Grand Floridian. I can't afford it for the whole trip but you've giving me something to think about. Maybe we'll do room-only for that part of our stay.
~Maureen
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."~Walt Disney
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Exactly! It can be a little frustrating, since Disney treats each part of the stay as a completely separate trip, so as you said, your dining plan credits expire/start based on the different resort stays.
Many people choose to do a short room-only stay, combined with the longer package stay when switching resorts, to avoid the credit mess.
Heather aka ibelieveindisneymagic
INTERCOT Staff
Engaged at the castle!
My Disney Home is POFQ
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Good caution for people doing split stays. I'm so glad you had a wonderful trip!
Sherri
Next: Aulani Celebration 10/2018 (50th)
Past Stays: Contemporary, GF, Poly, BC, POP, POR, Dolphin, AKL Kidani, BLT
1990 August Honeymoon- GF
Delighted Disney Return Guest since 1981, DVC (BLT) since 2014
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I will have to remember to plan on OOP meals during the actual split time. I usually have to pay for 2 or 3 anyway each visit so that would be a good time. I don't think this has been brought up before to my knowledge.
dm2K
1993 - BC/Cruise; 1996 - BC; 1998 - BC; 2000 - YC; 2002 - FQ; 2004 - Campground/BC; 2005 - POR; 2007 - BWI; 2008 - AKL; Christmas 2010 - BC; 2011 - All Star Sports; 2012 - AKL & WL; 2013 - DL and CSR
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On a somewhat related side note, if you need to change a room for any reason, your dinning credits will be affected. On our trip last year, we were given a room with two queen beds when we had requested a king size bed (it was our anniversary trip). The front desk was very nice and said they could change our room and to just go about our day at the park and they'd take care of everything. We were told to go to the front desk when we returned for our new room assignment and our bags would be in the room waiting for us.
The only problem was that our room key for the old room was deactivated...along with our dinning credit information. They were very nice about giving us our money back for the meals we had to pay out of pocket for, but it was a little embarassing to have our cards denied at various locations.
Adults are only kids grown up...
March 2013 - Beach Club
October 2010 - Wilderness Lodge
September 2009 - Contemporary
February 2009 - Yacht Club
April 2008 - Contemporary/Grand Floridian
October 2007 - DLR - GC -Honeymoon trip!
March 2007 - Poly
February 2006 - DLR - Grand Californian
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Good point, Basket Mommy. We do a split stay every year and love it.
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Originally Posted by PlutoPlanet
We do a split stay every year and love it.
There's a great big beautiful tomorrow
CR 74, 7, 11 Offsite 79,80,98,00,8 (2) Sports 94 DD 02 AKL 05, 08 AKLV 8 WL 6, 10 POP 07, 13 Movies 08 CBR 08 Swan 08 POFQ 08,11 CSR 08,13 FWC 09,13 Music 09 SSR-Tree 09 POR 10 12 Poly 10 (2) YC 10, BC 10, GF 10, AoA 13, OKW 13, Dream 11, next fwc 1/2014
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