Changing rooms in same resort on a park day. Most efficient way to do it.

[mamaprincess]

We are going to be changing rooms at AKV Jambo on the Christmas eve, which is an all day park day. We are wanting to be at the parks for rope drop. I'm wondering if we do online check in the night before and leave our bags with bell services that morning, if they will put them in our new room because we won't be back until much later in the evening and will probably want to just go to our room and fall out. Thanks for your help.

 

[thepops]

Online check-in would work, and bell services would move your bags to the new resort, but I do not believe they will put them in your room. You'd need to call and have them brought up (I think they require someone to be in the room).

 

[Chuck S]

Even though you are changing rooms at the same resort, bell services will pick-up and drop off bags only if you are present in the room.

You have a couple of options, you can take your bags to bell services when you leave for the parks, and pick them up when you return, or allow enough time for bel services to come to your room in the morning to retrieve your bags, and allow time when you return to the new room for them to be delivered.

Another option would be to call from the park to see if your new room is ready, and have one member of your party go back to the resort to claim the luggage, then meet up with the rest of your party somewhere in the park.

But they probably will not pick-up or drop off to an unoccupied room.

 

[disneynutz]

In addition to the above replies, I will add that you can do online check in, but a better idea would be to check in to your new room on your way out to the park. That way you will have the keys and not have to stop at the Front Desk when you return from the park.

I would also have the Front Desk add the note to your first reservation that you are changing rooms. That improves your chance of getting a room assigned early.

Bill

 

[macman752]

But they probably will not pick-up or drop off to an unoccupied room.

Don't know about picking up from an unoccupied room but they do deliver to one.

On our last stay at SSR we arrived before our room was ready. Our bags remained in the car and we left for MK. Later we received a text message the the room was ready. When we returned to the room (a studio) we found 10 pieces of luggage in the room!

Now, we stayed at the park until it closed at midnight. It was well past 1 when we called bell services to ask that they come and get the bags. A very chagrined cast member came by within the hour to retrieve the misdirected bags.

 

[Chuck S]

Don't know about picking up from an unoccupied room but they do deliver to one.

On our last stay at SSR we arrived before our room was ready. Our bags remained in the car and we left for MK. Later we received a text message the the room was ready. When we returned to the room (a studio) we found 10 pieces of luggage in the room!

Now, we stayed at the park until it closed at midnight. It was well past 1 when we called bell services to ask that they come and get the bags. A very chagrined cast member came by within the hour to retrieve the misdirected bags.

Those bags were likely delivered for someone that used ME, they do deliver those to unoccupied rooms as part of the ME service, as the bell services tip is included by Disney when using ME. They normally do not deliver bags to unoccupied rooms when arriving by car, or changing rooms.

 

[disneynutz]

Don't know about picking up from an unoccupied room but they do deliver to one.

On our last stay at SSR we arrived before our room was ready. Our bags remained in the car and we left for MK. Later we received a text message the the room was ready. When we returned to the room (a studio) we found 10 pieces of luggage in the room!

Now, we stayed at the park until it closed at midnight. It was well past 1 when we called bell services to ask that they come and get the bags. A very chagrined cast member came by within the hour to retrieve the misdirected bags.

The misdirected luggage was probably from ME not Bell Services.

The luggage policy was an agreement with the Bell Services union. Having people in the room to pick up and drop off luggage increases tips. The fee that Disney pays Mears to run the ME program includes the tip for luggage drop off.

Bill

 

[macman752]

The bags did not have ME tags or airline baggage claim tags. The cast member was very confused as to how the bags got to the room.