Anyone ever loose luggage?`

[kemmitt2]

Anyone ever loose luggage using Disney Magical Express?

What is the average time to wait for luggage to arrive?

 

[mickeystoontown]

We used Magical Express last year. Our daughter flew in 2 days after we drove in. She arrived at the Orlando airport. After just about 45 minutes, the Magical Express bus pulled into the Caribbean Beach Resort and off she stepped. We ran back to the room and hopped a bus over to Hoop Dee Doo Review. When we got back to the room (about 3 hours later), her bags were in the room waiting on her. No problems whatsoever!

 

[Kevin355]

We used Magical Express last year. Our daughter flew in 2 days after we drove in. She arrived at the Orlando airport. After just about 45 minutes, the Magical Express bus pulled into the Caribbean Beach Resort and off she stepped. We ran back to the room and hopped a bus over to Hoop Dee Doo Review. When we got back to the room (about 3 hours later), her bags were in the room waiting on her. No problems whatsoever!

Ditto what she said. We checked in at the resort and went to the Magic Kingdom. We we got to our room after leaving the Mouse House, our luggage was there.

 

[CleveRocks]

Has anyone EVER lost luggage using DME? Well, about 3.5 million people have used it so far. I'll bet there have been one or two unlucky folks out there.

But there are no widespread problems.

You can expect your luggage to arrive at your resort about three hours after you do. Note, that's 3 hours after your RESORT arrival, not 3 hours after your flight's arrival.

The best part is that you don't have to sit around waiting for your luggage. It will be brought into your room whether you're in there or not.

 

[hannah03]

We have non-stop flights so I hope NOONE loses our luggage

 

[Edd]

With the Disney tags on the luggage it is almost impossible to lose your luggage. No one has ever reported lost luggage on these boards that I know of. I worry about everything else first and you will end up having a great vacation.

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Over the past thirty years, there have been a about a half dozen times when my bags didn't show up at the baggage claim in my arrival city. In each case, my bags were on a later flight. In each case, I either made arrangements with the airline's baggage office to deliver the delayed bags, or I returned to the airport to get them myself.

With Magical Express, that wouldn't be a problem. If a DME guest's bags are on a later flight, those bags will be delivered to the room later. The guest doesn't have to deal with the airline.

The second time I used Magical Express, our bags didn't arrive in our room until about 7 hours after we checked in. This may have been another case of our bags being on a later flight, or luggage delivery at OKW may simply have been backed up on that very busy day.

I remain a big fan of DME luggage delivery. The only people who complain about it seem to be the people who didn't read the part in the DME packets that explains that luggage is delivered around 3 hours after check-in. Those are the people who arrive in their winter clothes when it's 85 in Orlando, and who didn't bother to pack carry-ons.

Bring a carry-on with anything you'll need the first 12-24 hours. Don't bother to wait in your room for luggage delivery -- Disney pays the inbound tip so you don't have to be in your room.

Worry about the airline more than about Disney. Disney has a sophisticated luggage tracking system. In the unlikely event that your bag initially goes to the wrong hotel, it's not far way. But the airline could initially send your bags to Tokyo; that takes longer to fix.