Hyatt MCO to Port, how does luggage handling work now?

[Ikaikalani]

Pre covid we would leave our luggage outside of our Hyatt door and wouldnt see it again until we got to our cabin. I've read that Hyatt will still carry it down for you, but that's it. If they do, where do you pick it up? Do we put it on the bus ourselves? And when we arrive at the port, do we hand carry it aboard? Are there porters that take it? Who all do we tip during the Hyatt to Cabin routing? TIA

 

[Kwami]

I stayed at the MCO Hyatt in September. At about 8am, some folks came to my door and asked if we had any luggage that they could take for us. We declined and brought our luggage down to the DCL rep's desk at about 9am. That's the last time that we saw the luggage until we got off the bus at the port. But, we only saw it because the bus driver took all of the luggage out and left it on the sidewalk for the DCL folks to take. We didn't actually regain access to our luggage until our room was ready at 4pm that afternoon.

So, I think it's basically still the same as before? We could have had Hyatt room to DCL hallway outside the stateroom service.

 

[shoes99]

We were on the Oct 30th Fantasy and stayed at the Hyatt. When we checked in they confirmed that we paid for DCL transfers from the Hyatt.
They gave us an instruction sheet, we had to have our checked luggage inside our door by 8AM. We had to be at the Hyatt Lobby by 9AM.
We checked in with the DCL rep at the Hyatt Lobby. There were enough folks to fill two full buses. We were assigned bus 2. The bus picked us up right at the Hyatt,
we didn't have to walk over to the terminal side b like before. We got to the port early and were walked right to the testing tent. Test were taken
and we got the results in 30 minutes. When cleared we walked across the street to the nearly empty terminal. We only waited a few minutes
to get on the ship. We were then escorted to a spot in the atrium to watch the welcome show. Then we went to our
assigned muster station to complete our muster checkin. We went to the restaurant to eat lunch since our rooms were
not ready until 2PM. Our luggage were outside our cabin at 2PM and our keys were in an envelope in the fish extender.

 

[anjuan]

We were on the Oct 30th Fantasy and stayed at the Hyatt. When we checked in they confirmed that we paid for DCL transfers from the Hyatt.
They gave us an instruction sheet, we had to have our checked luggage inside our door by 8AM. We had to be at the Hyatt Lobby by 9AM.
We checked in with the DCL rep at the Hyatt Lobby. There were enough folks to fill two full buses. We were assigned bus 2. The bus picked us up right at the Hyatt,
we didn't have to walk over to the terminal side b like before. We got to the port early and were walked right to the testing tent. Test were taken
and we got the results in 30 minutes. When cleared we walked across the street to the nearly empty terminal. We only waited a few minutes
to get on the ship. We were then escorted to a spot in the atrium to watch the welcome show. Then we went to our
assigned muster station to complete our muster checkin. We went to the restaurant to eat lunch since our rooms were
not ready until 2PM. Our luggage were outside our cabin at 2PM and our keys were in an envelope in the fish extender.

Our experience for the October 7 Dream cruise was pretty similar to this. The process was extremely easy and I will definitely stay at the Hyatt again. The only difference for us was that while we were one of the first ones in the terminal (the back to back people hadn't even gotten back on the ship yet) we did have to wait a while until they started to board people. But great experience!