Yes. Bell Services will hold your bags until Friday.
Definitely not dumb questions.
If your friends are landing after 10:00PM then they will have to go to Baggage Claim, retrieve their bags, and bring them to the Magical Express Bus. The driver will then load them under the bus. Then they too can bring them to Bell Services and ask them to hold whatever they don't need until the next morning.
We LOVED Raglan Road. The fish and chips were the best I've had. I forget what DH had but he loved it, whatever it was. Ha! The atmosphere was fun, but very loud. If you're hoping for actual conversations you may have a hard time. I'd say go. It's good, and it's different.
I have heard great things about Raglan Road and wished we would have eaten there instead of the Boathouse. DH and I were very disappointment with the food (and prices). We are both from Fl and I hoped to have some good seafood. The fish I had was just ok but it came with a ton of fries and nothing else. We love raw oysters but refuse to pay up to $4 apiece for them. We use to buy a half sack for that. Next trip we will try Raglan!Don't know if this will help, but we had dinner at Raglan Road on Friday night and it was awesome! DH and I both started with the tomato salad, which was very good, nice with the arugula. DD had whatever the salmon appetizer was, I can't remember, but she liked it. Then DD and I had the shepherds pie, YUM. DH had the ham which he enjoyed very much. Whatever that strawberry mimosa drink was that I had two of was so good.
The band (3 girls and a guy, in overalls) was fantastic, as were the dancers! 10 minutes before we left a new band came on, and they were also really good. We were ready to leave, but then they started singing Hey Ho by the Lumineers, so we waited until they were done because it was a great rendition of the song.
It was our first time there and we LOVED it.
Thanks for letting us know about your trip.
So sorry to hear about your issues and disappointment.
I agree with your second post- although you are not supposed to bring others who are not staying club level up to your room or the lounge, it sounds like it was handled poorly. As you say, speaking to you privately would have been a better approach.
I'm not sure if others have done this or not, but I would suggest in a similar situation, it would be best to ask the club level CMs if it would be ok to bring up your friends to join in the celebration and enjoy some cake that you provided. My guess is that it would have been handled differently if they knew why non-club guests were there.
Asking first, and only one guest visitor probably both help in saying "yes". And may I add your MIL's birthday celebrations sound lovely. What a nice way to say happy birthday!
First of all it was not a group it was a wife and husband, and it was only 10 minutes before they said something. We were planning on about an hour as they had to leave.
I saw people asking about the arcade and it is open, but I didn't see mentioned that the takeout counter for Beaches & Cream is now located inside it. The first day for this was last Monday or Tuesday. (The days run together when you're in paradise
) It's a little odd with a makeshift counter plopped in the corner of the arcade. I have to say that the ice cream is pretty lackluster. We ordered cookie sandwiches and they are nothing like the ones you receive in the parks which are on giant fresh cookies. I'm pretty sure these were made with the little prepackaged cookies you get with a kids QS meal
and cost the same. The trip across the lake to Ample Hills is definitely worth it if you're an ice cream fan. We're booked to come back in August and can't wait 
BC is our absolute favorite!
