we are visiting disney in the summer with 2 teenagers and i would like them to beable to charge things to our room .am i able to have a smaller credit limit put on their room keys than on ours as i dont want any nasty surprises at the end of the holiday.thanks for any help

I know you can have cards that have no charging on them, but not sure if you can limit some but not others.

Also, what Disney generally does is charge it back to your credit card whenever a certain limit is reached (which is different for the different hotels). If you don't get an answer here, I would talk to the CM checking you in to see what they can do -and then you do the following: Periodically (every other day?) go to the front desk and ask to have a print-out of your room charges (they do them by card number, so it'll be easy to tell who is who!) -and compare that to the receipts that your teens have saved and given to you each and every evening. If there's a charge that they haven't given you a receipt for, it comes out of 'their' money!

If you are doing the dining plan - know that all the cards have all the credits -so make sure they don't wipe you out of all your snacks on the first day!

Like what Drince thought, you can do no charging on specific cards, but you cannot do a specific limit on specific cards. Maybe as an alternative to this would be a pre-paid Visa or Disney Gift Card with a set amount. When thats gone, its gone.

you can also lower the overall limit. it's not per-day but for the duration of your vacation (it's capped by the level of resort you're at). but if you lower it to $50, then your entire group is effectively limited to charging $50 per day and you'd just have to pay it down before using it again.

Normally the limit will be set to $500 at a value, $1,000 at a moderate, or $1,500 at a deluxe. The normal procedure, once the limit is reached, is for the charge to be put through to the card and a reauthorization made; this is done automatically at night. I have had people come up in mid-day and the hotel charge was declined. All it took was a fast phone call to their front desk to run the charge through, and in about five minutes they had charging privledges back.

There is nothing to stop you from asking at the front desk, from time to time, that they print a copy of your folio for you. That will list all charges to your account since check-in and it does identify on which particular card the charge was made, so you can see what money the kids are spending.

thanks everyone .the gift card sounds like it will do the job.can you use it everwhere in disney world and does it have a minimum spend as they may only want a drink or snack.thanks for all your help.

I don't think there's a minimum. I know I've charged just a soft drink to my room when I was going to the pool or something, so I don't think they'd treat gift cards any differently. And yes, they're accepted just about everywhere.

one thing to think about with the gift cards is that if they had $100 on the gift card and they used $95.50, and then they go to buy $6.00 worth of snacks, the card will be denied. You need to know the exact amount remaining to tell the person that they need to charge $5.50 on the card and the remaining $.50 in cash. We have had that problem at a few places until we realized the fine working of it.

HTH

I don't know about the food or merchandise locations, but I know that at the ticketing terminals there is a key combination I can use with a Disney Gift Card that will not only allow me to see the balance, but will also print the information for the Guest.