My friend has to get her bags due to the fact that they put us both on the same flight and well she is coming NC and I am coming from NJ. I had called numerous times and gave them our separate flight info and they still screwed it up. I am not going worry about it. I am seriously debating getting my luggage or no cause last year it took hours for me to get it. Although we arrive at like noon time. I am going to shove shorts in my suitcase I think.
DME isn't really set up to set up different airlines for each reservation. I don't think it would be a problem is your friend just took two of the yellow tags, tagged her bags even though the flight info wasn't right, and just let DME get them to the resort. As long as she is on the same reservation you are she should be all set.
People are always talking about how if you get your own luggage you delay getting to the resort. Well, for us that's fine. We are in no real hurry. We'd like to be able to check into our room and stuff before we head to the park (if we decide to head to the park at all that day.) Besides...I've been to a million airports (including MCO) and I've never had to wait hours for my luggage. I'd rather wait 30-40 minutes for it at the airport than not know when it's arriving to my hotel.
I don't want to have to pack a million things in my carry-on. I already pack enough stuff in there as it is.
So for my husband and I...getting the bags ourselves works for us.
While I do realize that everyone likes to get started on their vacation asap, those that bring their checked bags to the bus are in reality slowing down the rest of the guests, who are using DME the way it was intended. I have routinely had times of 55-65 mins from deplaning to resort checkin. But the one time it took me close to 90 mins was the time the driver had to dig out tons of luggage at each stop before mine. Yes, we were the third of three stops, but I have been number three stop before. The difference? All that luggage. The driver has to take all those bags out, then stand, and hope, for a tip from the guests. Sure, it may only add 10 mins or a bit less at each stop, but if you're number three, that's a sizable chunk of time. And there seem to be more and more people doing this lately.
Thanks for the varied advice, everyone. We aren't getting into MCO until after 5pm, so I want to be sure that we get the bags that night. Can I be pretty sure of this? Also, we only received two tags each for two of us, and we need 4 more for our daughters. Disney considers them adults, but didn't send any for them! What should I do? Oh, I also rented from the DVC board, so I don't have direct access to Disney reservations yet. Please advise me about this.
thanks again!
You should get your checked bags within 3 hrs of resort checkin, usually much less than that. Just pack what you will need immediatly in your carryon bags..and each one of you gets one carryon so you should be more than fine.
Now, as far as your dd's not getting tags...there should be two yellow tags for each person on the room reservation. Did you book through the person renting you the points? If so, get in touch with them, have them contact MS to get DME to get you the tags for your dd's. Who is listed on the reservation info on your DME packet? If your dd's aren't listed, perhaps the DVC owner made a mistake and forgot to list them. Check today, asap.
so you end up with fewer bags.
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