Hello Young Padawan! Thank you for visiting us here at the Disney Parks Moms Panel. I'm eager to help teach you the ways of Walt Disney World Resort Dawn!
As a Disney Resort Hotel Guest, you may absolutely use a prepaid Visa to pay for your meals charged to your MagicBand while visiting the
parks. You will however, still need to have a card on file linked to your reservation that has your name and is connected to your current address listed on your
My Disney Experience account. What my fellow panelists
Betsy and
Tamela suggest, is to visit the front desk at your Disney Resort Hotel every few days prior to your check out date. You will do this so that you can pay down the balance on your account with your prepaid Visa. This will ensure that the card on file, for your room, will not be charged! Just make sure to use your prepaid Visa to pay down the balance before or on the evening prior to your check out date.
For
dining reservations, you will need a card with your name to hold that reservation date and time. Hakuna Matata though, the card used to hold the reservation does not have to be the card you use to pay. This past April when my family ate at
Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant, we used my debit card to hold the reservation. When it was time to pay, I actually used my
Disney Rewards Redemption Card to pay for the meal!
May the Force be with You!
-Shantel