Shipping box to hotel day before sailing?

[magchavez]

I would like to ship a box of my FE gifts to the hotel we'll be staying at the night before we sail. Would there be any problem checking that box with our luggage when we board the ship? I was planning on attaching a luggage tag to the box. Will security need to open it for any reason?

 

[whitfive]

I think I saw somewhere on here that you can mail a box to yourself on the ship and that it would be delivered to your room.
Does anyone know if there any truth to that? Has anyone ever done it? I would like to now that as well.
Thanks for letting me tag on....

Michelle

 

[magchavez]

I think I read on here that the box has to be a certain size. I am quite sure mine will be bigger than the recommended. I also read that the box cannont contain any food whatsoever. Of course I have little snacks in my FE's. I'm wondering if shipping the box to our hotel and then checking it as luggage might work.

 

[kcashner]

Yes, you can drop off a box with your checked luggage. Just put one of your luggage tags on it. If you don't have enough, the porters will have extras.

You will want to contact the hotel in advance to make sure they are willing to accept your delivery. Label it with your name and date of check in. WDW hotels will accept deliveries for guests.

 

[disappearingme]

Boxes Sent the Ship Ahead of Cruise - PLEASE follow these instructions carefully!!!!!! UPDATED AS OF 2/25/2009
• ONE box per stateroom, no exceptions.
• The package must have the guest full name, ship, sailing date, stateroom number or GTY if you have not been assigned a stateroom number.
• The package also must have a packing slip attached to the outside of the box that details the contents of the package. For prescriptions, a copy of the prescription is sufficient. Your list may or may not be read but it must have one. Write packing slip on the outside of the envelope.
• NO FOODS/DRINKS OF ANY KIND, LIQUOR OF ANY KIND, FIREARMS, ETC.. Items that cannot be shipped to the Disney Cruise Line Warehouse and delivered to the ship include: food products (any and all food products including baby food/formula), beverages (liquor, water, etc.), chemicals, and luggage. These items will not be accepted at the warehouse and will be returned. This may cause the dogs to hit on your box and that would be a bad thing.
• The required size of the cartons you are shipping down have to be about the size of a record storage box 12 inches on a side and should not weigh more than 20 lbs. (This has been asked personally by Dave Adams who is the owner)

Address your package(s) to:
Disney Cruise Line Warehouse
Guest Name / Stateroom # (GTY, if you don't know what it is when you send the package)
8633 Transport Drive
Orlando, FL 32832
Phone: 407-566-8196

In the bottom left corner of the top of the package put the following information: ATTN: HOUSEKEEPING
*Name
*Sail Date
*Ship
*Stateroom Number
*Packing slip that details contents of the package (for prescriptions, a copy of the prescription is sufficient)
• Packages must arrive by Friday by 3:00pm for the 7-Night Cruise on the Disney Magic (Saturday).
• Packages must arrive by Friday by 3:00pm for the 4-Night Cruise on the Disney Wonder (Sunday).
• Packages must arrive by Wednesday by 3:00pm for the 3-Night Cruise on the Disney Wonder (Thursday).

If your box is hit on by the screening dog or chosen for additional screening they will open the list and the box and look through it. They will close it back up and provided nothing bad is in it then it will be in your room as usual later after boarding. These boxes will be coming on the ship with the crew mail among other things so they may be in the staterooms later then they were before as they are low priority in the scheme of things for Disney.

I will go check the official Disney site.

 

[jweiss]

I have shipped boxes directly to the ship and had no problems at all!!! They were in the stateroom before we arrived!!!

 

[whitfive]

Thanks! That helps me! I will probably end up carrying on the FE gifts but I might mail our pirate and snorkel stuff..that takes up alot of room. hmmm.....
Michelle