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8 Aug 22, 05:17 PM |
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Proud to wear my Ears
Join Date: Mar 17
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Universal Card holds
Hi all,
Checked into Sapphire falls last night for 4 nights. They have put a 100 dollar a night hold on my card. Found it unusual as we have no intention of charging to the room. They said this hold would take 5-7 days to get returned. We check into HRH for 10 nights on Thursday. I don’t fancy getting 1000 dollar hold on my card. Is there anyway to avoid this at all? 1000 dollars is a lot although if it takes 5-7 days to lift then maybe it’s max 600-700? Didn’t do my research into this before leaving at all. Is this normal? |
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8 Aug 22, 05:23 PM |
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Yep! This happened to us in May when we checked into portofino, I did post about it at the time to try and warn people about it. Try and negotiate a smaller amount, they wanted $200 a night at portofino but we managed to get them to agree to $100 a night. Edited to add they were absolutely adamant we had to pay some sort of security deposit or they wouldn’t let us check in!
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8 Aug 22, 05:33 PM |
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Imagineer
Join Date: Jan 15
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They took no hold in Cabana Bay .
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8 Aug 22, 07:26 PM |
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8 Aug 22, 08:44 PM |
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Excited about Disney
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I think they only do it at the deluxe resorts as we had it at Royal Pacific but not at Cabana Bay
The RP hold came off within 2 days of leaving apart from 0.01p that stayed for about 10 days At Cabana because we wanted to charge to the room they asked for a $500 hold but that came off as soon as we checked out and they put on the actual charges |
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9 Aug 22, 01:25 PM |
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We are at RPR and it’s $200 a night hold.
We were asked if we were ok with that, I guess the alternative is not being able to Charge to our room.
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9 Aug 22, 01:32 PM |
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9 Aug 22, 02:10 PM |
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To be fair I think Universal have only recently started doing this as we’ve stayed at HRH and RPR before and they’ve not taken any deposit at all so to go from no Deposit to a $200 a night deposit is a lot.
Like I said we did manage to negotiate it down to $100 a night but the alternative was we couldn’t stay there! I do think TA’s need to start stating this when you book as it’s a huge hold for some people. |
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9 Aug 22, 02:30 PM |
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VIP Dibber
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They’ve done it for years but normally you can negotiate. I got Portofino down to $50 a night last month but as you said there was no way they were not putting a hold on.
No holds at Endless Summer or Cabana Bay this trip and no holds at Hard Rock or Sapphire in Feb. I just said I didn’t want charging facilities. Portofino is the only one I’ve not been able to completely refuse. The others put through a penny just to open a charge in case there’s something they need to bill you for. Be aware if you book direct with Universal and check in online a hold for charging will automatically be set up.
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9 Aug 22, 02:34 PM |
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