Different Flights-Same Room-DME?

[lexicaitiemom]

My sister and I are planning a trip to WDW next March. We are staying in the same room, but coming in on different flights as I live out west and she lives up north. How can we arrange this with DME? TIA!

 

[dburg30]

If you've made your reservation, you call the person you made it with, be it disney or a travel agent, and make a DME reservation. The lead person on the reservation will get the booklet and tags. That person can then send the other persons stuff to them (tag and bar code to board the DME coach). If it comes too late, or something else happens, as long as you have made a DME reservation, you can still use all parts of DME. You would goto the DME welcome desk, check in with them, give them your luggage tags, and they will give you a 'boarding pass' that will get you to your resort.

 

[skelooch]

Everything dburg30 said is correct. But personally if I didn't recieve the DME baggage tags I would claim my own bags and bring them with me to the DME check-in.

 

[Missytara]

Everything dburg30 said is correct. But personally if I didn't recieve the DME baggage tags I would claim my own bags and bring them with me to the DME check-in.

You can give the baggage claim tickets to the ME counter and they will retrieve the bags. No need to drag them on the bus.

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Everything dburg30 said is correct. But personally if I didn't recieve the DME baggage tags I would claim my own bags and bring them with me to the DME check-in.

As someone who has waited at MCO baggage claim for up to an hour for our bags to appear on the conveyor belt, I would always prefer to bypass baggage claim. (Unfortunately, that's no longer an option late at night.)

Claiming your own bags may seem like a good idea, especially if you don't receive your yellow tags. However, it's likely to mean missing one or possibly two DME bus departures to your resort. That means arriving at your resort 30-60 minutes later than if you have allowed Disney to take your bags to your room. It also means having to handle you own bags at the airport and at the resort and tipping anyone who helps you with those bags.