Precious item lost at Disney but.......happy ending

[MELSMICE]

I was just reading another post about things lost at WDW & I thought I would share my story on this board.

While in Disney about a month or so ago my oldest DD (13) lost her precious pillow which was given to her when she was an infant. It is just a small 12X12 sqare pillow that she has slept with just about from the day she received it. It has been washed, sewn, recovered & loved very much.

Well, one day it was missing from the room. After a frantic search & a few phone calls we realized it must have gotten caught in the bedding that got changed that day. My DD was hysterical & so, so sad. It made me cry thinking she would never get this pillow back (she had a Baby Minnie Mouse also - thank goodness that did not get lost. I don't think she would have returned home with the family! )

Anyway, we filed a lost & found claim. My DD called lost & found at least 3X each day. She found out where all Disney laundry was done. She spoke with the woman in lost & found at the laundry.

Our trip came to an end & still no pillow. DD was so sad having to leave without it. Well, we were home for 10 days when Judy (from laundry lost & found) called to say they found the pillow & it was on its way home. I could not believe it. I thought for sure it had disintegrated in the commercial washers because it was so old.

I was so happy that I called DD at school & left a message for her. She came running in the door that day the happiest she had been since we had returned.

Well, the pillow arrived about 2 days later & all is well once again. I told her that she is not going to be able to take it on her honeymoon some day & she just laughs & says "I'll just put it in the suitcase, but I won't sleep with it!!"

 

[CEDmom]

I'm glad your DD got her pillow back. I have a 3 1/2 yo DD who loves her blankie so I can relate to the attachment.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

That is so awesome!
My youngest had a doll that was her special doll pretty much since an infant also- that we lost somehow in MK (I suspect she dropped it out of the stroller and DH was pushing her and didn't notice this). However, that was in December and I had no idea that there was even a POSSIBILITY of it being found and returned. I'm sure it's too late now to even try. But your post might encourage others to atleast attempt to get lost items back before it's too late! (and fortunately she has survived without that dolly LOL)

 

[CDisney]

Melsmice, I can totally relate to your experience. On our first family Disney trip, my then 2-year-old DS lost his precious blanket at MK on our second day there. We were certain that no one would recognize his tattered green lovey for what it was.

We reported it lost and checked lost and found throughout the day with no luck. My DS was sick that trip and all he wanted was his blanket.

We returned to the room sure we were in for a long night. But, there was a message waiting for us. The blanket was at City Hall in the Magic Kingdom.

We were staying at the Contemporary, so I rushed down to the monorail to rescue the blanket, but was told there were no more stops to the MK since it was after hours. I explained my dilemma and was quickly welcomed aboard.

My son was so comforted when I returned with his "best friend."

 

[LisaDougKaylee]

All I can say id OOOOOOhhhhhhhh!

I'm so happy things turned out for you guys! I know when I was younger if I lost my "Lambie" I would be a mess. (heck, I still have it in a box on the shelf in my closet)

 

[Sue & Co.]

I'm so glad this story had a happy ending - it is so devastating for a child to lose something like that even though it has no monetary value.

 

[ABCMom]

From my expereinces, Disney has always been very good about reuniting guests with lost items. We have had much more success there than anywhere else.
My DS who is now 6 has lost more hats in his short life than I have owned in my entire life On our last trip he had just turned 4 and fell asleep in line for Pirates and in the process of being jostled and bumped in the dark tunnels his beloved Mickey hat fell off. We managed to recover it from the main lost and found office several days later. In the mean time we had bought him a Mickey Pirates hat - which he proceeded to leave on the Kali River raft and later on the bus to AKL. It kinda became the running family joke, asking hime where his hat was. He even managed to leave it on the shuttle to the airport at the end of the week. A few quick calls and we managed to get it back before catching our flight home. Unfortunately, back home he left it in the booth of the local Ponderosa a couple months later and it was never seen or heard from again.....

My other DS lost a hat last summer at Cedar Point we checked over and over again for the three days we were there and never did get it back, even though a number of employees had remembered seeing it. I always suspected that we couldn't reclaim it as it had come to a tragic, if not vengeful end because it was from the rival Paramount King's Island

 

[Kallison]

We've lost autograph books, autographed hats, bathing suit in the towel laundry and our favorite championship Yankees hat (on Splash Mountain) -- all were recovered. It just amazes me every time it happens. The Yankees hat was all chewed up, but I still wear it, gives it character.

 

[dsanner106]

Well, I am happy all of you had more luck than I. My DD, (8) left her new Gameboy and games she had gotten for her birthday in our room at Old Key West. We knew exactly where it was and called the resort on our way home. The staff never located it though and she still talks about it frequently.

 

[crisi]

I've had good luck with Disney's lost and found as well. Lost a necklace on the beach at the Poly one year and it turned up. We couldn't believe it - lost in all that sand!

(My husband still sleeps with his blankie).

 

[kinlaw6450]

two years ago DS lost his beloved Tutter (bear in the big blue house) on the bus from Magic Kingdom to the All Star Sports. We filed a missing tutter report (as he called it) as soon as we realized we didn't have it which of course was after some shopping, a snack and a walk around the pool! We did not receive any good news while we were there. 6 days after we got home we got a package from WDW Transportation...Tutter!!!

When my sister was about 4 she lost her bunny and we found a role of film. We turned in the film to lost and found and lo and behold the woman who lost the film was already there...with the bunny!

 

[marcyinPA]

Ah, this reminds me of when we took my now 8 year old to WDW when he was about 2.5. We stayed at the Doubletree Downtown Disney. We left his blankie there by accident...we never discovered it was missing until we had arrived home and were putting him to bed. I made a call back down to Florida to the hotel, and they assured me that they'd look for it. A day or two later, I got a call that it was found....it had been mixed in with the bedding. They FedEx'd it out to us and we had it the next day.

DS was really upset that he didn't have his blankie, but we told him that Mickey Mouse had to borrow it, and once we got it in the mail, he was THRILLED! I love happy endings! LOL