Late sign up for ME...which is better?

[disneyfan2kids]

I forgot to sign up for ME...duh! I leave in 2 days. I called on Monday and signed up...they took my info and said I'm all set, but couldn't send me my tags b/c it was too late to recieve them :-( BUT they told me to keep my luggage tags from airline and they'd find my luggage anyway without the tags This makes me SO nervous that I'm going to lose luggage.

Anyway we're traveling with friends and they have extra luggage tags they're not using. (We're traveling same flight AND same resort AND have linked ressies so will probably be near their room.) Should I just use THEIR extra luggage tags...is that safer than hoping they find my tags based on airline numbers?

What to do...what to do??

 

[seashoreCM]

I say go ahead and use your friends' yellow tags. The baggage will be delivered to their room.

Now, in the rare event baggage is delayed gettting into Orlando, your friends will have to make the claim.

For untagged baggage, it will be going around the carousel at least a little while since the CM's matching up airlie baggage tags will wait until after the rowdy folks have grabbed theirs from the carousel and also fewer pieces will be remaining to have to match tags against.

 

[dudspizza]

Now, in the rare event baggage is delayed gettting into Orlando, your friends will have to make the claim.
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Hold on a second though. The friends will not be checking the baggage as theirs. I am assuming OP will still check in their bags with the airline. If the baggage goes missing, OP would have to make the claim. The ME tags would not make a difference at all in that case. Where it would make a difference would be when the ME folks would have to try to track the bags to see if they were scanned into the ME system.

OP, I see no issue with using your friends yellow tags. That is the direction I would go.

duds

 

[brianm27]

We did not have yellow tags for our last trip. Just gave the claim checks to ME check in desk. Bags were delivered to the room just fine.

 

[jlewisinsyr]

Anyway we're traveling with friends and they have extra luggage tags they're not using. (We're traveling same flight AND same resort AND have linked ressies so will probably be near their room.) Should I just use THEIR extra luggage tags...is that safer than hoping they find my tags based on airline numbers?

Just because you have linked reservation, there are no guarantees, nor really even a true probability that your rooms will be anywhere near each other. This doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but having linked reservations offers no extra assurances.

 

[CleveRocks]

I forgot to sign up for ME...duh! I leave in 2 days. I called on Monday and signed up...they took my info and said I'm all set, but couldn't send me my tags b/c it was too late to recieve them :-( BUT they told me to keep my luggage tags from airline and they'd find my luggage anyway without the tags This makes me SO nervous that I'm going to lose luggage.

Anyway we're traveling with friends and they have extra luggage tags they're not using. (We're traveling same flight AND same resort AND have linked ressies so will probably be near their room.) Should I just use THEIR extra luggage tags...is that safer than hoping they find my tags based on airline numbers?

What to do...what to do??

Do what DME told you. Trust their system to get your bags to you by using your baggage claim ticket numbers.

This has been their set procedure since Day One, for people without luggage tags. It's business as usual for them ... it's an everyday occurrence and has been for the past 4.5 years. I know it sounds risky to you, but it's truly routine for DME.

In fact, I can say with 100 confidence that here in the DIS we have NEVER EVER read anyone posting that they used this procedure and had a problem with it.

I was prepared to use this "Plan B" myself a few years ago. DME started on May 5, 2005. I was flying in on May 8, 2005. As of May 6, I still hadn't received my DME tags. I called DME and asked what to do, and they described the exact same procedure that they still use today, the one you were told to do. I actually received my tags the next day, so I didn't need to follow that good advice ... but like I said, many many people have done just that, and we've never read a complaint here.

 

[rantnnravin]

I have used DME twice without yellow tags (due to making last-minute resort reservations) and BOTH times, there were absolutely NO issues with having my bags delivered to my room just as if I had used the yellow tags

 

[dudspizza]

Just because you have linked reservation, there are no guarantees, nor really even a true probability that your rooms will be anywhere near each other. This doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but having linked reservations offers no extra assurances.

I would put money on it that their rooms are right next to each other or very close. Disney does a wonderful job of making sure they are... though you are correct, there are no guarantees.

I have had 3-4 linked reservations. The last trip involved 3 families. 2 of the families traveled together, while the 3rd family came in the next day. We all had rooms on the same floor of the same building at POR. In fact, two were adjacent and the other room was 2 doors away.

All other linked reservations had side by side rooms. Some connecting, though that was never requested. This has happened at POR, WL, and CB.

Duds