Backpacks & Rides

[MEC004]

We take a backpack to each park we go to and rent a locker, which are generally located at the front of each park. Lockers cost about $10 per day for a small locker. Lockers can be accessed throughout the day without additional fees. Small lockers will hold a pretty good sized backpack. So much nicer time not having to haul a backpack around the parks. Park purchases can be sent to guest services, at the front of the parks, for pick up at the end of the day. They currently will not deliver packages to the resorts. Just remember to get your packages and locker items before leaving.

You can't send purchases to guest services right now. That has been suspended.

 

[MrsPete]

This is our first Disney trip and when I called yesterday a CM told me that due to COVID they won’t take purchases back to your resort anymore. So, now I am planning on bringing a backpack.

I don't see what COVID and delivering packages have to do with one another. Sounds like an excuse to cut down on service.

You can bring it with you on all rides. The only ride you can't actually physically have it with you while you ride is Flight of Passage, but there are bins behind you once you board.

Consider that backpacks come in a variety of sizes. If you go for a smallish pack, you should be able to take it on rides ... at the worst, you can loop it over your arm /keep it out of the restraints.

Now I am thinking of purchasing a Vera Bradley backpack. I think it would be more comfortable to use all day than a regular backpack with nylon straps. I can also take it on the plane. I am worried about it getting wet at Splash Mountain. We are not going to AK so we don't have to worry about it there.

I carry a Vera Bradley backpack with a computer sleeve to work every day, and I love it ... but I'd be concerned about a cotton backpack for Disney. As you point out, it has no waterproofing at all.

 

[ColoradoMom12]

I am worried about it getting wet at Splash Mountain.

I bring a poncho (or sometimes just a large bag) and wrap it around my backpack. The floor can be really, really wet, and sometimes the seat isn’t much better. I find my cothes dry out quite quickly (and typically I don’t mind getting wet), but my backpack is another story. It can take a while for it to dry out. I also wrap it in something to protect whatever I have in my backpack (my daughter has an EpiPen, and I sometimes bring along a battery pack for our phones).

The rides I find most difficult with a backpack are SDMT (and I’m short! 5’3” and I don’t see how someone with legs any longer than mine could make a backpack fit. Maybe I just have an awkward backpack?) and Space Mtn. Usually I just wedge it kind of under my knee and hold the strap in my hand.

 

[MEC004]

Woohoo! Vera Bradley makes a water-resistant backpack. I bought a red one so DH can wear it too. LOL!

 

[DisneyDoesMyHair]

This is our first Disney trip and when I called yesterday a CM told me that due to COVID they won’t take purchases back to your resort anymore. So, now I am planning on bringing a backpack.

What do you do with a backpack during rides?
Thanks! Other tips would be appreciated!

We take our backpack on every ride. Just place it at your feet on the fast rides, and beside you on the seat on the slower rides. Everyone has them, so no big deal to bring them on. Just so you know, it may get wet on Pirates, Splash Mountain, Kali River, etc., so we put our camera, cash, and other important items inside ziplock bags for an extra layer of protection.

 

[bryanb]

I don't see what COVID and delivering packages have to do with one another. Sounds like an excuse to cut down on service.

Possibly true. Many cutbacks aren‘t specifically for safety reasons. I’m sure they could deliver the packages with precautions to minimize the number of people contacting the virus. Perhaps COVID has had the impact of forcing the park to strip down to only the most essential services needed, and package delivery adds a whole department of people shipping, storing, sorting, and delivering across the resort. Post COVID, the benefits of getting people to shop more will likely bring this service back.

 

[gharter]

The small backpack I bring is waterproof. And I put my raingear in the bottom of the backpack so I don't worry about my camera .

 

[ttintagel]

The only trouble I ever had with a backpack was st the Haunted Mansion, but those were special circumstances!

I was carrying a backpack and using crutches, so whenever I got into a ride vehicle I had to do a little shuffling to get the pack off and the crutches tucked into the vehicle before it took off. I struggled to get the backpack off in the Doombuggy I was sharing with my sister while my crutches were still propped upright between us. I kept asking her for help but she didn’t hear me - she just kept telling me to hurry up before the lap bar came down.

Well, I wasn’t able to get the straps untangled in time, the lap bar came down onto the crutches, and the ride stopped. My sister said, in what seemed to me like a voice loud enough for everyone to hear, “Nice going! You BROKE the Hsunted Mansion!”

We still laugh about “the time I broke the Haunted Mansion.”