Love the pics of the Concrete Corner of Fame. Starring Rolls treats look tasty
Getting a little nervous about doing the whole resort change thing. Arrive at AS Sports on Friday, just to sleep (dirt cheap) then 7 days at BC. Flights on Friday were $450 cheaper than Saturday.
Do we just leave the luggage in the room? Do we check out then check in at BC?
I appreciate all the info and smiles in this thread
Never fear Hubby dear! Here's how it works AND it's a breeze!
1) You don't actually have to Check out of a WDW hotel. They expect you to be out of the room by 11 am.
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2) When you are ready to leave, call bell services at the hotel you are at now and tell them you are transferring your luggage to the BC/YC/BCVillas. They will come to the room take your luggage, tag it and give you a receipt.
~Here is the KEY part to understand about luggage transfers between resorts!~
They will not even move your luggage from the resort you just stayed at until the afternoon... maybe say after 2 pm or later. They store it at Bell Services at the resort you just were staying at until it is time to move it to the next location.
WHY?? Because your room technically is not supposed to be ready until:
Resort Check In Time
After 4pm:All Value Resorts; All Disney Vacation Resorts
After 3pm:All Deluxe Resorts, The Cabins at Fort Wilderness
After 1pm:Fort Wilderness Campsites.
~~~SO, even if you did get into your room early at the new resort there will be a slight delay until after the above times when your luggage will finally be ready.
How do we deal with this?? We just put our swim suits in a back pack and went to the parks with them and anything else we needed like medication or sun 'scream'. You could also TAKE a suitcase or two or ALL for that matter and cab it/drive over to the next resort and have bell services HOLD it for you until your room is ready at the next hotel. I'm pretty sure they don't allow luggage on the buses that take you to the parks so it's either CAB/Bell Services or YOU drive it over to the next resort. If you're really cheap you could look for one of those 'unattended' shopping carts miles from the nearest supermarket and push it over yourself, but they are virtually impossible to find so it's not recommended.
We opted to use Bell services at POP to transport our luggage over to the BC when we stayed in December. We had valuables in the luggage like computers and ipads and video game crapola and we told bell services this. They told us they would lock up the luggage. We never looked back and everything was fine when we saw it in our room later. DH was there when Bell services brought it to out BC room. (not me)
After having this experience I wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Yeah sure we were a little nervous but then after we handed the luggage over we never looked back. The one thing Disney really does right it the luggage service IMHO.
So just keep all of the above in mind and then you can rest assured, knowing that your luggage is in good hands and this is how the system works!
~NM
* if you are running late at check out the housekeeping staff has my cell number on speed dial and I come over with my fully loaded "Super Soaker" and roust you out of the room!