DME and MCO Hyatt?

[brendalee59]

Our family of 9 are booked for a land/sea vacation next Christmas. I'm beginning to price flights. We are thinking about flying in the night before and staying at the Hyatt. Seems I read somewhere, that you can call the Hyatt,and for a slight fee, arrange for them to pick up your luggage from baggage claim, bring it to the hotel, then pick it up the following morning and take it to ME to be transported to the resort. Can anyone verify this information please?
Thanks in advance.
Brenda

 

[goofy4tink]

I'm not sure about that. In order for your bags to be transported to your resort, without your doing it, they have to have the yellow tags on them, and be pulled off the belt behind the scenes at MCO. I can't figure out how the Hyatt could do that. I would think that you would have to get your bags from baggage claim when you fly into MCO, then take the bags with you to the Hyatt, and then have you would take it back to DME in the morning. That is what people are saying they do. Or, you could just go directly to a WDW value resort and have DME transfer your bags to that resort, and then bell services at that resort will move them to your 'regular' resort that first day.

 

[disneyagain]

I wouldn't think so. The whole premise of DME is to get people to stay at Disney resorts. I agree with the above poster, you will probably have to get your own luggage to the hotel and then get it to the DME bus with you. The luggage service wouldn't be available with this option.

 

[Kimberle]

Even if you could, I wouldn't bother. The Hyatt is literally right at the airport. If you've flown into MCO, you've probably walked by it many times and not even realized it was there.

Just send a couple of men to get your bags and you can check in and take the kids to the room. Just call them from your cell to give them the room #.

They Hyatt is nice, we stayed there once. It is quite quiet, too.

 

[CarolA]

Our family of 9 are booked for a land/sea vacation next Christmas. I'm beginning to price flights. We are thinking about flying in the night before and staying at the Hyatt. Seems I read somewhere, that you can call the Hyatt,and for a slight fee, arrange for them to pick up your luggage from baggage claim, bring it to the hotel, then pick it up the following morning and take it to ME to be transported to the resort. Can anyone verify this information please?
Thanks in advance.
Brenda

Here's the deal... you CAN get a bellman at the hotel to pick up your luggage for you and bring it to your room. A GENEROUS tip will be required. (IT may even be a mandatory tip) Then for another GENEROUS tip they will escort you and your luggage to DME where you and your luggage can be loaded on the bus for the trip to Disney.

The risk here is that bellman is just waiting at the baggage carousel and "attempting" to select the right luggage. I probably wouldn't trust them that far! I would at least go with them to help them pick up the luggage (which does not really decrease tip amount LOL!)

 

[brendalee59]

Here's the deal... you CAN get a bellman at the hotel to pick up your luggage for you and bring it to your room. A GENEROUS tip will be required. (IT may even be a mandatory tip) Then for another GENEROUS tip they will escort you and your luggage to DME where you and your luggage can be loaded on the bus for the trip to Disney.

The risk here is that bellman is just waiting at the baggage carousel and "attempting" to select the right luggage. I probably wouldn't trust them that far! I would at least go with them to help them pick up the luggage (which does not really decrease tip amount LOL!)

Ok, so that isn't an option we do have two able bodied men, and one able,but not exactly willing teenage boy who can get the luggage. Assuming they don't get lost on the way to baggage claim then the hotel. I do remember the hotel from our last visit in 2000. It does take some of the magic out of ME though. We haven't decided for sure to fly in day before. Just with it being Christmas,I was thinking to maybe take some of the risk out of flying.
Thanks so much for your responses. I knew I could count of the more experienced folks on the Dis Boards

 

[seashoreCM]

The Hyatt is literally right in the airport. If you've flown into MCO, you've probably walked under it many times and not even realized it was there.

(edits made)

If you are in the cathedral ceilinged concourse end of the main terminal, where the big Christmas tree is usually put, look up and you will see many floors worth of balconies onto which the hotel room doors open.

I haven't heard of this feature but I would not be surprised if the Hyatt offers it: fetch your baggage from the carousels and bring it to your room, and when you check out, apply yellow tags for you and inject the luggage into the Magical Express luggage stream headed for Disney sight unseen.

If you apply the yellow tags at your home airport, Magical Express will get the luggage before the Hyatt bellhop can. It'll go to Disney while you are staying at the Hyatt, and unpredictable things might happen to it.

I would also expect that bellhops fetching your luggage from the carousel would wait until the crowds (rather, thundering hordes) dissipate so there are only a few items to look through and more specifically fewer people pushing and shoving.

 

[goofy4tink]

(edits made)

If you are in the cathedral ceilinged concourse end of the main terminal, where the big Christmas tree is usually put, look up and you will see many floors worth of balconies onto which the hotel room doors open.

I haven't heard of this feature but I would not be surprised if the Hyatt offers it: fetch your baggage from the carousels and bring it to your room, and when you check out, apply yellow tags for you and inject the luggage into the Magical Express luggage stream headed for Disney sight unseen.

If you apply the yellow tags at your home airport, Magical Express will get the luggage before the Hyatt bellhop can. It'll go to Disney while you are staying at the Hyatt, and unpredictable things might happen to it.

I would also expect that bellhops fetching your luggage from the carousel would wait until the crowds (rather, thundering hordes) dissipate so there are only a few items to look through and more specifically fewer people pushing and shoving.

I can't imagine how DME baggage handlers are going to get any tagged baggage from the Hyatt. The yellow tagged bags go right from the baggage truck (off the plane) onto a different baggage truck to be sorted by resort. I don't think the Hyatt bellmen are going to be allowed in the inner sanctum of the baggag areas within the terminals. I guess they could put the tagged bags on the regular baggage claim carousel and hope that an employee sees it and takes it to the right area.
Nope, take care of your own luggage. If you choose to stay the night at the Hyatt, then bring your bags with you. When you go to DME the next morning, take them with you to the bus. Or, choose to stay on-site at a value resort that night and have Disney move the bags the next morning to your regular resort.

 

[wdhinn89]

Our family of 9 are booked for a land/sea vacation next Christmas. I'm beginning to price flights. We are thinking about flying in the night before and staying at the Hyatt. Seems I read somewhere, that you can call the Hyatt,and for a slight fee, arrange for them to pick up your luggage from baggage claim, bring it to the hotel, then pick it up the following morning and take it to ME to be transported to the resort. Can anyone verify this information please?
Thanks in advance.
Brenda

I don't understand why you would stay at the Hyatt the night before a land/sea vacation? Why don't you just add another day onto your land portion if you want to come in a day earlier and then just take DME directly to the hotel. That is what we did. We came in on the Saturday vs. the Sunday which is when the package started. The Hyatt is expensive. I know we are paying $185 a night before our cruise in April and that is booked through DCL which is cheaper. Normally it runs about $229. You might as well add a night onto the land portion. Just my opinion