Glass Items - Getting Them Home

[ZehnJahren]

There are so many glass items I like at the parks - glasses, wine glasses, mugs. I have never bought them because I'm afraid that they will break in transit home, but by the sheer numbers available I'm sure I'm in the minority.

So, how do you get your glassware home? Eyeing some of the food and wine festival glassware and would like to know. Can you carry it onto the plane? Do you? Or can Disney send it home for you? Any packing tips would be appreciated.

 

[siskaren]

You can have Disney ship them home for you.

 

[jpessa]

I buy a new mug every time I go. They pack it up so securely I could drop it and it wouldn't break. I have carried on, packed in luggage and it always comes home in one piece. Carry-on would be the safest. They use this special paper to pack it. Very secure.

 

[butterfly71076]

There are so many glass items I like at the parks - glasses, wine glasses, mugs. I have never bought them because I'm afraid that they will break in transit home, but by the sheer numbers available I'm sure I'm in the minority.

So, how do you get your glassware home? Eyeing some of the food and wine festival glassware and would like to know. Can you carry it onto the plane? Do you? Or can Disney send it home for you? Any packing tips would be appreciated.

You can have them shipped home or pack them in your suitcase. I'm not sure if you can put them in a carry on.

If we buy shot glasses or coffee mugs (that's about it, never bought wine glasses), I made sure to wrap them in my clothes, several layers and have always been lucky. My MIL did the same, but her mug broke. A quick call the Disney and it was replace, at no charge.

 

[cheryl.UK]

Take a strong shoe box (or 2) and bubble wrap with you. You can always fill any space with socks or kids T shirts. We bring class Xmas baubles home to the UK every time we go by doing this. We figure if it doesn't fit on the way out, it's definitely not fitting on the way back

 

[Micca]

It's kinda fun to have Disney ship it. A few days after you get home you get a box of goodies

 

[tsme]

If I can, I put them in my carry on. But if I can't I wrap it in socks, then stuff it in one of my DH's running shoes. I've even brought back a small bottle of wine like that & it was fine. And I have to say, either the Orlando or the New Orleans airport employees are very hard on our luggage. I've have powder make up break up twice & more than twice received our luggage back with broken wheels. So they're not gentle. But only once received it back with the dreaded TSA has dug thru your luggage sticker. Thankfully.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

So, how do you get your glassware home?
. . . when we lived out-of-town, we just took them with us
. . . we packed them well and put them into checked luggage
. . . for really fragile glass, we took in carry-ons

Eyeing some of the food and wine festival glassware and would like to know. Can you carry it onto the plane?
. . . if wine glasses, and very thin, have WDW ship them
. . . it costs A BUNCH of bucks, but worth the effort, cost, and guarantee of delivery condition

Do you? Or can Disney send it home for you?
. . . most glassware is not really that fragile
. . . normal care in your suitcase should be fine

Any packing tips would be appreciated.
. . . most of the above recommendations are just fine

NOTE: I am one of those true "world Travelers"; all that is, except Antarctica continent.
I have brought home lots of souvenirs and have only had one item ever broken or damaged.
And, unless mistaken, the breakage was my fault in poor packing. I did not pad a marble
chess board and it cracked. During my next Indian trip, I simply replaced it. And padded it
well for the trip! However, we did bring home a carved-stone chess set and board from our
Scotland trip and didn't have anything damaged (we learned well). I just don't concern
myself with breakage.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

Disney is really good at wrapping breakables so I have always just put them in the suitcase with the rest of the souvenirs and have never had any issues.

Disney is pretty good at making things right in the end so I'm pretty sure if something did get broken on the way home after they wrapped it they would probably send you a new one in the mail. Just make sure you keep all your receipts until you get home and unpack everything.

 

[mrsksmithvt]

I pack mine in all the popcorn buckets from the parks. My personal item flying home is usually a handled shopping bag with all of my treasures.

 

[ms tom morrow]

I always get a few bottles of bubble bath from Basin in the Grand Floridian. It's in a pretty large glass bottle, and since there's liquid in it it obviously can't be part of my carry on. At the register they always ask if I will be flying home, and then proceed to pack the bottles better than what I've seen at FedEx!

First they shrink wrap the bottle so if it does happen to break it won't get all over the rest of my luggage. Then they wrap several layers of bubble wrap and the brown packing paper with holes in it. Finally, they tape the whole thing up. In the end, it's pretty indestructible, but they always tell me that if any do break in route to give them a call and they will ship me replacements. I've never had to take them up on it, but I'd imagine if they do it for a bottle of bubble bath, they'd make a similar guarantee for more expensive glassware.

 

[ZehnJahren]

This is all very encouraging; thanks for all the tips and information! I flew home from Germany with two big beer glasses, and one broke on the way so I'm a little gunshy. If they pack it that well, I don't think I'll have a problem!

 

[Luv Bunnies]

My sister bought a set of glassware at DHS last year for a friend's bridal shower. She had it shipped directly to her house. There was an extra shipping fee, but it was worth it knowing she didn't have to take it on the plane. It arrived about a week after the trip. Everything was wrapped very nicely and nothing was broken when it arrived.

 

[dchronister]

I usually just carry a shopping bag on the plane. May not work if you have a carry on already, but I usually have my personal bag and then just a shopping bag with my bought stuff in it. I have done this several times and have never had anyone on the plane tell me that I couldn't do it.

 

[AussieCaribou]

The CM's do a great job of wrapping them... we have never had an issue. We just bring them on board with us...and we live in Australia, so it's a reasonable commute.

 

[disnut8]

As far as how Disney will bag these up for you after your purchase, I hope I'm not behind you in line because it will take them a while to wrap everything up. Oh - and probably find boxes to put them in after wrapping them in layers of something similar to bubble wrap. I never concern myself with anything fragile I buy at Disney World because I know it will be wrapped extremely well.

I think your biggest challenge will be unwrapping everything when you get home.

 

[newdeal]

for what its worth we bought our daughter a first christmas ornament there a few years ago and they packed it up for us to bring in our carry on. When we got home the arm had broken off of baby Minnie and I emailed customer relations and they shipped us a new one, personalized just like our original, free of charge

 

[Lanie]

The Christmas ornaments we always carry-on, but the glassware just get extra clothes packed in it if possible, and extra layers around so that nothing can bang against it.