ME Luggage Tags - UPDATE 5/4 - They Came!

[Bowen9475]

We leave tomorrow 5/5. The ME luggage tags were in my front doorway today. They were in an envelope inside a Fed Ex envelope. There is a long thin booklet, 10 pages long. Inside there is a page which tells what to do before you leave home and another that tells what to do when you arrive at MCO. Another 2 pages list mine and my daughter's names and flight information for arrival and departure. There are 4 long, bright yellow baggage tags. All four have bar codes, the resort name in large letters, both of our names, the arrival date and a 12 digit number. There is a page that gives instructions on what to do when you arrive at your WDW resort and another that tells what to do on departure from the resort. There is a coupon for a free pin and lanyard. There are also 2 motorcoach transport vouchers. I can't believe they came!! Now I only have to worry about what time the bags will arrive in our room seeing that we don't arrive at MCO until 8 pm. LOL

 

[goofy4tink]

Have a great trip!!! Hope all goes well.

 

[spectrums]

So glad to hear you received your tags - I leave in 16 days and have been panicking and calling Disney - you must have been going nuts!

Hope you have a safe a wonderful vacation!

 

[DisneyDreamer2]

we got ours today too! we leave the 10th.

 

[adisneynut]

I was told to call if ours don't arrive by May 11th-12th. We leave 2 weeks from today May 17th and we don't arrive until 8:30 pm. I am hope that we will be at POP by 10:30.

Bowen- Like most up comming Disney visitors I would like to hear how ME works for you! I hope everything goes smooth.

 

[BettyCv]

Bowen and Disneydreamer2,

Are you DVC members? Someone had mentioned they thought the lanyard voucher was only for DVC members. I am curious to know if you are just regular vacationers or DVCers...

Betty

 

[JudicialTyranny]

I leave tomorrow also, and I got mine today.

 

[DisneyDreamer2]

BettyCV, no I am not a DVC member, I actually have a room only reservation with the AAA discount, but yes I did get the coupon for the lanyard and pin which is only redeemable at the resort hotel gift shops.

 

[cutedisney]

I got mine too!!! and I leave tomorrow as well.. Good luck to everyone~

 

[SCDizneyDawn]

I leave saturday, got mine today also!

We are DVC members and also got the voucher for a free lanyard and pin.

Cant wait to try it. Not sure if we will have time to post while at Disney (our guests are bringing a computer) but if I can, I will let you guys know how it went!

 

[JudicialTyranny]

Correction - I received mine (departure tomorrow on May 5), but the booklet says "No flight information provided". I guess I will have to call tomorrow...

 

[PeaPicker5]

I am anxious to hear how everything works out in the end. I dont go until Thanksgiving, but if things work out, I plan on using this!

 

[Jewel99]

After reading so many posts here on the boards, I decided to call the DME toll-free number to verify that our information was in their system. I've called CRO many times and they always seem to have it there, so I assumed that DME would have it as well.

The gentleman I spoke to was very pleasant and very up front about things. He told me that one of the bits of information that is getting lost in their system is the specifics of the flight people are taking. That concerned me because I feared that WDW wouldn't have enough buses to deal with people arriving on flights if they didn't have the accurate info in their system.

What he explained to me was this: The DME office only deals with the "printing" of the information on the tags and booklets. As long as the CRO knows you're arriving, they'll be expecting you to take ME, whether you have tags or not. The DME office is supposed to get that flight information downloaded to their system from the CRO so they can handle the preparation of the tags/books through their vendor. As some of the data is going poof for some reservations, the tickets are sometimes being printed with no flight information, erroneous flight information or the correct information. He said that there's a number to call if the flight info is missing or wrong, but that it wouldn't affect the logistics for the buses as the CRO would still have the correct information (assuming you gave it to them and the CM put it into their system correctly).

He assured me they are working to resolve these issues and also told me that over 2,000 tag/booklet packs were printed and "Fedex'd" off to people in the last day or so, which seems to be true as some people have mentioned on these boards that they have received Fedex packages with their tags.

We leave next Thursday morning (although we're leaving on Wednesday and staying overnight near the airport), so I'm keeping my fingers crossed the package will arrive. Even so, we'll still take the shuttle, although we may choose to collect our own bags... just to be sure they get to the CMs handling the baggage transport to the resorts.

 

[Snoopygirl]

Glad to hear you got your tags!!! We leave May 21 and I called DME today to make sure my flight info was there and she said yes. Now......just have to wait to get my tags!! Hope all goes well and have a great trip!!!!!!!!!

 

[fanofdisney]

Great- hopefully things will work out for you! I leave Monday, and they told me today I wouldn't get any tags at all.

 

[NJDisneymom]

well, I leave tomorrow too (really today now) and still no tags here. Don't suppose they will show up before 3pm tomorrow either as my Fed Ex usually comes after 5pm.

 

[aubriee]

I just wished they could get me into the DME system. I called DME again yesterday (for the fourth time, plus two calls to CRO) and I'm still not in their system. The CM seems to think it's because I'm doing a split stay (POP two nights, then BWV for five nights, then POP for two more nights). I've given them both conf #'s for both POP stays (I'm renting points at BWV), but every time the CM who puts it in says this should be the last time, then low and behold, I call the next day to make sure I'm in the system and they can't find it at DME. CRO says I'm in their system though.

Everybody else is worried about getting luggage tags. I know I'm not getting luggage tags, I just want to make sure I can get on the bus when I get there next week. Supposedly I've been signed up for DME since early March when I called to give them my flight info (which they have also not had every time I've called during the last two weeks). How many times do you have to give them your information to get into the system?