Can I take ME to one resort...but send my bags to another resort?

[disneyfan2kids]

Have a week long stay planned at SSR in early December starting on a Saturday. It makes $$ sense to check in to a value resort (late at night) the day prior and pay the discounted AP resort room price...and pay the discounted AIRFARE price for a late night flight. Otherwise I'd fly out early Saturday morning and pay 4x's as much for airfare.

In other words: Airfare (free with points) to fly late night Friday and check into Value Resort for $80 for 1 night ($80 TOTAL). ALTERNATIVE: Fly in Saturday morning - pay $530 for flights (bc not enough points) and check in to regular resort ($530 total.) Just makes more sense to fly in early.

So - can I check into a value resort (think 10pm Friday night) BUT have my bags go directly to SSR for early Saturday morning check-in? (Planning on taking a simple backpack for Friday night. NO need for all my luggage to get delivered to VALUE resort just to be transferred to SSR 10 hours later.

Is this possible...and how do I get it done?

 

[Nennie]

I do not think that would be possible, but perhaps someone else knows better?

I will say that I have done many split stays, and WDW will transfer your luggage for you. So you can still live out of your backpack for the night (if you choose), then the next morning call bell services and tell them to take your luggage to SSR. They will ask how many bags, and tell you to leave them by the door/window. You don't need to be there when they pick the luggage up, so you can just head out to the parks for the day! Easy peasy!!!

Later, when you check in at SSR, your bags will be there waiting for you!

 

[Jestocost]

Two issues potentially in play.

1) You can't do what you suggest (at least not reliably or within how Disney wants the service to be used) and your bags would have to go to your second resort.

2) If you flight arrives after 10 p.m. (even if it was scheduled to arrive earlier) the DME luggage transfer service is unavailable and you will have to collect your own bags.

Either way, your bags will need to go to your first resort either through the luggage transfer service or with you on the bus. Disney will arrange for your bags to be transferred from your first resort to SSR, however.

 

[Jillpie]

Another suggestion is this: When you check in to the value, don't even take your luggage to your room (or have it delivered). Simply check in, and leave all your luggage with bell services with the instruction to transfer them over to SSR in the morning. Go to your room with your backpack and you won't see your luggage again till your SSR room.

 

[seashoreCM]

If for any reason whatsoever you do not receive your yellow tagged bags brought to the resort by Magical Express on the evening of arrival, you must look for them or have them delivered to your room the next morning.

If you simply instruct Bell Services to have bags they held overnight transferred to another resort and you check out and head off to the parks early that next morning, your rights in the event of lost bags are greatly abridged.

There would be no problem with bags delivered late by your airline with or without a filed claim or bags that got lost within the DME system, but DME would not pay you for bags lost permanently by your airline.

 

[goofy4tink]

Nope, the bags have to go to the resort you are actively staying at. But, I would do as others have mentioned...don't even have your bags delivered to you upon arrival. Pack your overnight stuff in a carryon and then have Luggage Assistence move your checked bags over to SSR first thing in the morning. Or, you may just want to take a cab over to SSR first thing in the morning....that might make sense as well. That way, you will have your bags with you, or at least available to you vs them not getting to SSR until 5pm or later!!!

 

[chartle]

Nope, the bags have to go to the resort you are actively staying at.

But the OP is staying at the other resort in 9 hours.

OK here is a thought. After 10:00 PM you have to pick up your own bags since ME luggage service stops at that time, but then what happens if you put on your tags and don't pick them up?

I know they will go on the carousel and take a few spins around until an airline employee pulls them off and puts them to the side. So what happens then. Does a ME employee scan the carousels the next morning looking for tags, because if they did they would see your SSR tags and put them on the right truck. Or do they just sit there and if you don't claim them yourself they end up on the TV show Luggage Wars.

I think the big factor is how late you are getting in.

 

[seashoreCM]

For flights arriving after 10 PM the bags, yellow tagged and all, go to the carousels.

After awhile airline personnel come out and take the remaining bags off the carousel and put them in locked storage.

The next morning at the airport the Magical Express personnel come and get the yellow tagged bags. It is possible one or two get overlooked until a call comes in from a resort and the DME personnel go back to the locked storage for another look.

 

[goofy4tink]

But the OP is staying at the other resort in 9 hours.

OK here is a thought. After 10:00 PM you have to pick up your own bags since ME luggage service stops at that time, but then what happens if you put on your tags and don't pick them up?

I know they will go on the carousel and take a few spins around until an airline employee pulls them off and puts them to the side. So what happens then. Does a ME employee scan the carousels the next morning looking for tags, because if they did they would see your SSR tags and put them on the right truck. Or do they just sit there and if you don't claim them yourself they end up on the TV show Luggage Wars.

I think the big factor is how late you are getting in.

It doesn't really matter where the OP is staying in 9 hrs..it matters only where he is staying that first night. If the reservation isn't active, you don't get bags sent there.
But, I suppose that if the OP arrives after 10pm, and there are SSR tags on the bags, then they will sit around the airport until the next morning, when the SSR reservation now is active, and they can then be sent on to SSR. BUT...it does allow for confusion to happen, and when confusion happens, who knows what will transpire.

 

[chartle]

It doesn't really matter where the OP is staying in 9 hrs..it matters only where he is staying that first night. If the reservation isn't active, you don't get bags sent there.
But, I suppose that if the OP arrives after 10pm, and there are SSR tags on the bags, then they will sit around the airport until the next morning, when the SSR reservation now is active, and they can then be sent on to SSR. BUT...it does allow for confusion to happen, and when confusion happens, who knows what will transpire.

Yes theoretically the timing works but yes the more outside the box you go the more likely something will go wrong.

 

[OrangeCountyCommuter]

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