Putting Spending Money on a PrePaid Debit Card?

Yes...Disney Gift Cards is definitely another option. Mase, do you have the name of the app? I can add it to our iPhones also.

Thank you.

My husband and I were floating around the idea that we should put the money we set aside for spending on souvenirs, etc. on a prepaid visa card. Our entire trip, including dining, park tickets, etc., will be paid before we leave, but I didn't really want to carry around the spending money. How wise is it to do this? Do all locations at WDW accept a prepaid visa card for example? Should we keep only the cash we'll be using as tips on hand, or should we keep a little more? I was wondering if anyone has ever done this before.

twilightsparrow wrote:

My husband and I were floating around the idea that we should put the money we set aside for spending on souvenirs, etc. on a prepaid visa card. Our entire trip, including dining, park tickets, etc., will be paid before we leave, but I didn't really want to carry around the spending money. How wise is it to do this? Do all locations at WDW accept a prepaid visa card for example? Should we keep only the cash we'll be using as tips on hand, or should we keep a little more? I was wondering if anyone has ever done this before.

I like this idea! Definitely sounds like an option since we're paying for food as we go. The only hesitation I have about using a Disney Gift Card is that if we don't spend it all we wouldn't be able to use what's left for every day needs. And that app is pretty cool!

DisneyDee27 wrote:

I charge eats beverages and tips to the room. Each morning I stop at guest services and pay the balance with gift cards. I carry some cash but usually I charge everything. I pay for my trips with the gift cards as well. I love that gift card app...I found $20 once I thought all the cards were empty...nope that's a couple of pins woohoo
Dee

I love this idea Dee...it seems like I would prefer this method of pymt the best. It's so much easier to just charge our purchases to the room using our KTTW card, and then just paying with the gift cards since the balances are easy to track using the app Mase recommended. And since I always get up earlier than DH when we're on vacation I can take a trip over to the POR guest services and take care of the pymts every morning. Thank you all so much for the advice.

I've been meticulously putting money aside for a year now to pay for our trip and to use for spending money. It's time to go buy some gift cards now...

DisneyDee27 wrote:

I charge eats beverages and tips to the room. Each morning I stop at guest services and pay the balance with gift cards. I carry some cash but usually I charge everything. I pay for my trips with the gift cards as well. I love that gift card app...I found $20 once I thought all the cards were empty...nope that's a couple of pins woohoo
Dee

I love this idea Dee...it seems like I would prefer this method of pymt the best. It's so much easier to just charge our purchases to the room using our KTTW card, and then just paying with the gift cards since the balances are easy to track using the app Mase recommended. And since I always get up earlier than DH when we're on vacation I can take a trip over to the POR guest services and take care of the pymts every morning. Thank you all so much for the advice.

Here is another plus to it. I know our local grocery stores use the incentive of... "Buy a GC, get double to quadruple points for Gas". Last year when I got the cards... I was able to get I think 2 free fill ups. I have an Explorer. 16.5 gallon tank! That was huge for me. So that was our original thinking of getting GC for Disney... free gas! lol

So basically... what I'm saying... if you do get them... go somewhere where you can get something back.

PirateGirl wrote:

That's a great idea! I can start getting gift cards now to use on my trip October '13 and not have to worry about carrying a lot of cash!

You can use them to pay off the trip. It's nice to have Disney money saved. Granted if you need that money it's tied up however I just buy $100 here, $50 there, $25 etc and when I know I can go big I buy a$500 card. I paid off a 7night cruise all in GC I think I drove my TA crazy

I've been meticulously putting money aside for a year now to pay for our trip and to use for spending money. It's time to go buy some gift cards now...

Here is another plus to it. I know our local grocery stores use the incentive of... "Buy a GC, get double to quadruple points for Gas". Last year when I got the cards... I was able to get I think 2 free fill ups. I have an Explorer. 16.5 gallon tank! That was huge for me. So that was our original thinking of getting GC for Disney... free gas! lol

So basically... what I'm saying... if you do get them... go somewhere where you can get something back.

twilightsparrow wrote:

My husband and I were floating around the idea that we should put the money we set aside for spending on souvenirs, etc. on a prepaid visa card. Our entire trip, including dining, park tickets, etc., will be paid before we leave, but I didn't really want to carry around the spending money. How wise is it to do this? Do all locations at WDW accept a prepaid visa card for example? Should we keep only the cash we'll be using as tips on hand, or should we keep a little more? I was wondering if anyone has ever done this before.

I like this idea! Definitely sounds like an option since we're paying for food as we go. The only hesitation I have about using a Disney Gift Card is that if we don't spend it all we wouldn't be able to use what's left for every day needs. And that app is pretty cool!

The Cookie Crumbler wrote:

twilightsparrow wrote:

My husband and I were floating around the idea that we should put the money we set aside for spending on souvenirs, etc. on a prepaid visa card. Our entire trip, including dining, park tickets, etc., will be paid before we leave, but I didn't really want to carry around the spending money. How wise is it to do this? Do all locations at WDW accept a prepaid visa card for example? Should we keep only the cash we'll be using as tips on hand, or should we keep a little more? I was wondering if anyone has ever done this before.

I like this idea! Definitely sounds like an option since we're paying for food as we go. The only hesitation I have about using a Disney Gift Card is that if we don't spend it all we wouldn't be able to use what's left for every day needs. And that app is pretty cool!

You also should consider that not all places will take the gift card. In the magic kingdom there are very few that don't, mainly food carts but Epcot and DTD have a lot of places that will not take the gift card.

angels444 wrote:

The Cookie Crumbler wrote:

twilightsparrow wrote:

My husband and I were floating around the idea that we should put the money we set aside for spending on souvenirs, etc. on a prepaid visa card. Our entire trip, including dining, park tickets, etc., will be paid before we leave, but I didn't really want to carry around the spending money. How wise is it to do this? Do all locations at WDW accept a prepaid visa card for example? Should we keep only the cash we'll be using as tips on hand, or should we keep a little more? I was wondering if anyone has ever done this before.

I like this idea! Definitely sounds like an option since we're paying for food as we go. The only hesitation I have about using a Disney Gift Card is that if we don't spend it all we wouldn't be able to use what's left for every day needs. And that app is pretty cool!

You also should consider that not all places will take the gift card. In the magic kingdom there are very few that don't, mainly food carts but Epcot and DTD have a lot of places that will not take the gift card.

Thanks! Do you mean Disney gift cards? If we do something like this, it'd definitely be a Visa card so we can use the leftover money at home.

angels444 wrote:

The Cookie Crumbler wrote:

twilightsparrow wrote:

My husband and I were floating around the idea that we should put the money we set aside for spending on souvenirs, etc. on a prepaid visa card. Our entire trip, including dining, park tickets, etc., will be paid before we leave, but I didn't really want to carry around the spending money. How wise is it to do this? Do all locations at WDW accept a prepaid visa card for example? Should we keep only the cash we'll be using as tips on hand, or should we keep a little more? I was wondering if anyone has ever done this before.

I like this idea! Definitely sounds like an option since we're paying for food as we go. The only hesitation I have about using a Disney Gift Card is that if we don't spend it all we wouldn't be able to use what's left for every day needs. And that app is pretty cool!

You also should consider that not all places will take the gift card. In the magic kingdom there are very few that don't, mainly food carts but Epcot and DTD have a lot of places that will not take the gift card.

Thanks! Do you mean Disney gift cards? If we do something like this, it'd definitely be a Visa card so we can use the leftover money at home.

I use my KTTW card for everything I can, but like I said not all places take the KTTW. I always take cash for my tips. That way we can tip and leave the restaurant without having to wait on the server one more time. I also tip the mousekeepers daily. I do it not only for the towel animals, this a whole different thread, but because the mousekeeprs that cleaned my room all week may not be the same one that does it on check out.