That’s what I thought you meant. And I agree.I'm saying that it will go up in the near future. Disney/DVC uses the "frog in hot water" so we accept the changes/cost increases. A small cost now and an increase once get used to it.
Bill
I think the question is though is 100% bell fee service being charged back to owners or are owners only responsible for the costs not associated with delivering groceries. I find the latter hard to break out so they would maybe treat it like the parking revenue collected on breakage and it is a profit back to the association.
I don't think Disney will be double dipping. Sounds like something being created that will be located at bell services but when delivered, it will be under a different accounting code, one that has the ability to charge accounts for service. Bell services will stay the same, it's just all those long walks or golf cart runs to the rooms with 15 bags of groceries won't be on their to do list anymore.
I’m not sure they will double dip too. But if they aren’t clear on how they are removing the time spent on delivering groceries from the salary we pay, people will question. Though I agree Disney will either separate the time spent as you suggested (though this is probably significantly burdensome for bell services to keep track of their time to this high of a degree, perhaps they plan on creating a different department specifically only in charge of groceries) or as I suggested through an income line on our dues, just like we see for parking.
Bill
I'm betting there will be some wiggle room on these fees, particularly when the item is only a single tote that has been ready and waiting for your arrival.
According to the Owners Locker facebook page, the fee doesn't apply to them, but it's Disney and that could change. I don't see them charging the fee when they transfer your luggage between resorts.
It's a $6 fee per grocery delivery, not per item.
Bell Services is a tipped position. You need to tip them just like you tipped them before. If you used to give them $1 a bag, you still give them $1 a bag.
It's per trip to your room. So say you order 3 cases of water from Nestle Waters and have 4 more bags from Walmart delivered, providing they're all brought to you at the same time it is one $6 fee.
Disney did not post this at all in response to the grocery delivery. This has been on their website for many years. The blogs/DIS/etc are posting this as an "announcement" from Disney regarding grocery delivery and that is wrong. This has been a policy for a while now and is in relation to mail delivery only and deals with the Front Desk, not Bell Services different parts of the resort. It has little to do with the rumored/reported Grocery Fees as they were exempt previously when this policy was stated before. The only thing updated on that section of the site was an increase in the fee from $5 to $6, literally just that one number. As of right now Garden Grocer (I believe) is the only source that has been stating anything and they said it was per order and would only matter if Bell Services delivered to your room (you picking up at Bell Services would have no fee). Unfortunately until we have first hand reports we won't know how it will work; however, we can safely say that image shared by the blogs isn't accurate.thanks for the quick response. Was this confirmed? That does not seem clear from what Disney posted. They specify its per package?
