ground trans--to/from airport--where to find??

[lilpritch04]

Ground Transportation is included in our package, but I am confused! We have transportation from the airport to the Port Orleans Hotel, from hotel to port for WDW Cruise, and then from port back to the airport. Once we arrive, how do we know where to go to get picked up for the hotel?? It's already paid for, so will they be expecting us? Or is it just a shuttle that picks up everyone going to Disney? I don't have anything that looks like a ticket for this, so how do they know I'm paid??

Sorry I have so many questions, but we aren't renting a car because we plan to use Disney shuttles/buses/monorails for everything and I just want to make sure we can get there!

Thanks!

 

[ricksje]

Sounds like you have a land and sea vacation? This is the same thing we did for our Honeymoon in March (only we stayed at the Polynesian Resort). When you get off the plane and walk past the metal detector area there will be a DCL cast member holding a sign with your cruise ship's name on it. They will be expecting you and will check your name off the list. Once they have a few people waiting they will take all of you to the bus downstairs.

It's very easy and effortless, I guarantee! Your bags will already have been taken off the airplane and transported to your resort. You wont even see them until you get to your room.

When you're ready to leave for the cruise they'll pick up your bags at your room and have them waiting outside your stateroom on the boat when you arrive. You should have the option of catching a bus from your resort or getting a later bus from the Animal Kingdom so you can spend half a day there.

Once you're done with your cruise, the airline will check your bags at the pier and you'll catch a bus back to the airport.

If you have any more questions feel free to PM me or email.

 

[lilpritch04]

Thanks for the help!!

I have more questions--just to confirm: So, even if we are staying at the resort first we go to the sign with the cruise ship's name on it?? So we see the sign for Disney Wonder and they will take us to the Port Orleans? We didn't book our flight through Disney, but I'm guessing our agent sent them the info...is this how they know to grab our luggage??

Thanks again ricksje!

 

[ricksje]

We didn't book our flight through Disney either. Yes, you will still look for the sign with your cruise ship's name. They will already know your whole itinerary when you step off the plane and you'll be on a bus with other vacationers that stops at a bunch of resorts. Your whole vacation is one big DCL deal and they keep track of you based on which ship you're sailing on. At your resort there will be a DCL desk you will have to talk to when you arrive.

You should have gotten some little DCL books in the mail full of tickets and information and stuff. Inside this is luggage tags that need to go on your bags before you give them to the airline. That is how they know which ones are yours.

Keep the questions coming! We had to figure all this out as we went along.

 

[lilpritch04]

We haven't gotten that booklet in the mail yet w/ luggage tags and whatnot, but I believe our agent said she was waiting to get that and will then mail it to us. I'll email her if we don't have the stuff in a couple of weeks. Thanks again!
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