Can you get transportation between DVC resorts if you split stay?

[edk35]

We are thinking of splitting our stay between BWV and SSR. Would we catch a cab or do they have van transportation between the two places? Thanks

 

[tubtruck]

Baggage people will take yuor bags from your room and deliver them to your new resort, you are then free to make your own way to your new resort via the various free transport available throughout WDW

 

[Pennyguy23]

A cab or if you are staying at SSR we gave our bags to the bellman and walked to DTD and got a bus to our next resort.

 

[gortman65]

I was just wondering the same thing -- thanks to everyone who answered my question before I even had to ask it! Just to be clear, you can simply leave your bags in the room and they will take care of transporting it to your new resort, or do you have to take them down to the front desk? Is that something folks would arrange upon check-in to the first resort?

 

[drusba]

No, you don't just leave them in the room. You call down like when you check out (which is in fact what you must do from the one resort you are leaving) and have them come to your room and take the bags and they will have them transported from there (I would not personally leave the room until I have actually seen them pick up the bags).

 

[gortman65]

Thanks for the clarification, Drusba!

 

[byoung]

No, you don't just leave them in the room. You call down like when you check out (which is in fact what you must do from the one resort you are leaving) and have them come to your room and take the bags and they will have them transported from there (I would not personally leave the room until I have actually seen them pick up the bags).

They will give you a claim ticket for the bags.

 

[newholidayx2]

to save time Ive also taken the bags down myself to luggage assistance and then gotten the claim ticket

then went to a park, rode a few headliners and then went to checkin at the new resort - sometimes needed to return later in the day to actually get the room. When we couldnt I was given a phone # to call to see if the room was ready yet.

 

[DMKEDM]

All the Disney resorts will require you to be in your room when Bell Services comes to pick up your bags, and again when the new resort's Bell Services delivers them...luggage transfers are done between 1 and 3, and it can take about an hour after that for Bell Services to deliver...of course, if you're at a park (or anywhere but your room) at 3 or 4, all you have to do is tell your new resort's Bell Services when you will be back and they will bring the bags then...we did this transferring from OKW to SSR, and then from SSR to BWV, and then between rooms at BWV...the rules were the same at all the resorts...

 

[simzac]

All the Disney resorts will require you to be in your room when Bell Services comes to pick up your bags, and again when the new resort's Bell Services delivers them...luggage transfers are done between 1 and 3, and it can take about an hour after that for Bell Services to deliver...of course, if you're at a park (or anywhere but your room) at 3 or 4, all you have to do is tell your new resort's Bell Services when you will be back and they will bring the bags then...we did this transferring from OKW to SSR, and then from SSR to BWV, and then between rooms at BWV...the rules were the same at all the resorts...

If this is true, then why do you not need to be in your room when ME delivers your luggage

 

[DMKEDM]

Oh, it's true, although I can't tell you why...it came as quite a shock to us because we're used to having our luggage brought by ME and not having to be in the room when ME brings it...but Bell Services wouldn't ... not at SSR, not at BWV (and we had to either bring it ourselves or be in the room for pick-up at OKW)...Bell Services at SSR finally explained to us the time of luggage transfer (1-3), and the requirement that we be in our room to accept delivery.

It's not a big deal if you know it's coming and you expect it. It was enough to make me just a tiny bit cranky when I experienced it without knowing it was coming! And I definitely do NOT like being cranky at Disney!!!

Here are some things I do know, which may or may not be part of the reason for the difference between Disney Bell Services rules and ME practices:

Disney does not own ME--Mears does. Mears contracts the transportation w/Disney. So maybe it's the difference between what Mears is willing to do and what Disney is willing to do.

I try to either leave tips for ME luggage delivery in the room (marked--but that doesn't always work; sometimes the ME people don't see it), or take it over to the Bell Stand for delivery to the ME delivery folks "later"...but I suspect many an ME delivery person go untipped--I admit to more than one trip when I just didn't make it over to Bell Services to leave the ME tip and so the delivery person didn't get one...maybe the Disney rule is a way to maximize the chances of their Bell Hops getting tipped? My understanding is that tips are factored in to their compensation...so it would be in Disney's best self-interest to be sure their Bell Hops actually get the opportunity to be tipped--

ME is all about transportation and luggage delivery...for Disney it's one of many services...maybe ME is specialized and just "does it better?"

No real idea...but can guarantee you that at least in January 2007 those were the real rules!