Airline Check-in

[Julylady]

We are just back from a 7-nite stay at BLT, 4th floor Bay Lake view. The 2-bedroom unit was in reasonably good shape. The evening before check-out I decided to "check us in " with Delta airlines. To my surprise, we had already been checked in. Is this something ME does? Who else might have checked us in?

THANKS

Donna

 

[Tara]

Yes, this is something ME does.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I didn't know that. Do they check you in at Southwest now? I've always thought you had to check in yourself, or check in when you bring your luggage to the resort check-in desk that day.

 

[Julylady]

OP here. I had no idea that ME would check us in either. The strange thing was that we have four in our party and only 3 of us were checked in. They also had us down for 3 checked bags, even though we had four bags delivered via ME on our way down. Although being checked in is nice, what I really wanted was printed boarding passes. I still needed to go down later to the Concierge desk and have our boarding passes printed. The whole things was just strange. Why do they check people in?

 

[Rob S.]

Yes, this is something ME does.

This doesn't sound right to me. Resort Airline Check-in (RAC) and Magical Express are two totally different things.

 

[Sandisw]

We are just back from a 7-nite stay at BLT, 4th floor Bay Lake view. The 2-bedroom unit was in reasonably good shape. The evening before check-out I decided to "check us in " with Delta airlines. To my surprise, we had already been checked in. Is this something ME does? Who else might have checked us in?

THANKS

Donna

We have always gone down to RAC on the morning we are leaving to check ourselves in.

They take our luggage and print our passes right there. Prior to going down, however, we were not checked in. The person at the RAC desk did it right in front of us as we had to produce our license to them.

The process was the same when we were and were not using ME.

 

[Debby7]

We stayed at BLT last month and used ME. I was surprised that the day before when we got our departure time for ME the envelope included our printed boarding passes! This was a first for us. Still took our luggage down in the am but did not have to check in at that point since we already had boarding passes. Also interesting the airline scanner could not read the bar codes on the boarding passes and had to type them in by hand.

 

[hlyntunstl]

ME will automatically check you in but you will still have to go to the resort check-in desk for license verification, check baggage and receive your boarding pass. If you read the ME packet you receive the day before check-out, it has the full explanation.

My last trip in May was on Southwest so I didn't really pay attention to the process for any other airline but I do know that it said that all ME guests are automatically checked in for their flight.

ETA: I just remembered that I paid for EB and did receive our boarding passes in our ME envelope.

 

[quirty30]

I also have rec'd our boarding passes previously with our ME notice...no such luck yesterday when we checked out of BLT. No folio either. Made for a rather chaotic morning standing in multiple lines.

 

[RLRDA]

I think it might depend on what time your flight departs MCO. My DH was going to go to the front desk 24 hrs. prior to our SWA flight to get our boarding passes. He read on some paperwork that if the flight was after 12 noon (not 100% sure of the time) that the front desk would take care of the boarding passes and they'd be delivered to the room the morning of departure. If you had a morning departure it sounded like you had to get the boarding passes yourself. Not sure why Our flight was at 4:40pm so the front desk/ME handled it for us...that was a first for us, too.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I think it might depend on what time your flight departs MCO. My DH was going to go to the front desk 24 hrs. prior to our SWA flight to get our boarding passes. He read on some paperwork that if the flight was after 12 noon (not 100% sure of the time) that the front desk would take care of the boarding passes and they'd be delivered to the room the morning of departure. If you had a morning departure it sounded like you had to get the boarding passes yourself. Not sure why Our flight was at 4:40pm so the front desk/ME handled it for us...that was a first for us, too.

Wow, that's terrific news! I've always had to check in myself, and one time I forgot until the morning of the flight-you can imagine what kind of boarding order I ended up with!

 

[RLRDA]

Wow, that's terrific news! I've always had to check in myself, and one time I forgot until the morning of the flight-you can imagine what kind of boarding order I ended up with!

I was a little hesitant to actually leave it up to the front desk, to tell you the truth, but it worked well. We got boarding passes in the middle of "B" group for SWA which isn't bad.

 

[smjj]

Ok, how do they take care of your checked bags. If I remember(1 year ago) we had to call the night before and tell them how many bags and provide a "CC" card for payment for the checked bags. Do we still need to do this??...smjj

 

[smjj]

Bump - would like a little feedback on this. Thanks in advance....smjj

 

[RLRDA]

Ok, how do they take care of your checked bags. If I remember(1 year ago) we had to call the night before and tell them how many bags and provide a "CC" card for payment for the checked bags. Do we still need to do this??...smjj

Sorry....I don't know the answer to this because SWA doesn't charge for checked bags - bell services just picked up our bags the morning of our departure. They stored our carry-ons until ME picked us up at 1:50pm. The rest went thru RAC.

 

[GrumpyPOTFH]

Ok, how do they take care of your checked bags. If I remember(1 year ago) we had to call the night before and tell them how many bags and provide a "CC" card for payment for the checked bags. Do we still need to do this??...smjj

If you flew SWA you would not need to leave "CC", Bags Fly Free"

 

[GrumpyPOTFH]

Now a serouis question, first time staying at DVC and first time at where we have flown-in. Do they have computers you can use to do your our check in? I also do not trust leaving it up to someone else. I lasys do the check in at the 24 hour mark. My DW is a "A-List" with SWA so that is not a problem for her. She flys over 24 weeks a year on SWA. So I am always flying free.

 

[smjj]

If you flew SWA you would not need to leave "CC", Bags Fly Free"

Not always is SW the lowest. They have only 4 flights out of Indy per day.
Having checked these flights, they were still more expensive then AirTran even after we paid our luggage fees with Airtran. They have 13 flights out per day and had more non-stop which with small kids which was needed. So, getting back to my question, how do they handle the luggage charges??

 

[Eventer98]

I'm just happy to hear that SW is finally participating in the resort airline check-in. In January they still weren't. I booked JetBlue for our return flight this Oct b/c we have two toddlers and 3 checked bags...way too much to haul back to MCO ourselves! I love SW to go down to Orlando but need RAC to get home. Happy to be able to book SW for May roundtrip!! (Although as of today JB has some fantastic prices and SW isn't even released yet....hmm)