Shipping items down for your stay?

[DISaholic's]

Has anyone ever shipped a box of 'stuff' , like non-perishable food, airmattress, extra beach towels, etc. to Disney to be there when you get there?
We're going in June and would like to send a package down to be at our hotel when we arrive. (Don't want to carry all the 'extra's' on the plane) If you have, how long before you left did you send it? How long will the hotel hold it? Do you put a label on the outside indicating when you will be arriving at the hotel? We're staying at a 2 bdr at OKW and would really like to send some stuff down so we don't have to carry it. We do have family in the Orlando area who could bring it over, but I really don't want to inconvenience them. Any suggestions???

Thanks to all!!!

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

I shipped a package to the BC via UPS a couple of years ago. UPS has a shipping calulator on their website that can tell you when to ship the package in order for it to arrive by a certain date. I sent mine so that it would arrive a day ahead of me.

When addressing the package, make sure that you have the resort's street address. You should also ship it to the person whose name is on the reservation. Include your confirmation # and dates of stay. Place your last name and confirmation number on all sides of the box as well. This will make it easier for a CM to locate the box in the storage room if there are other boxes on top of it.

You might want to check into the shipping costs before you go ahead with this. It might be cheaper to buy an air mattress and beach towels in Orlando than it will be to ship those items.

 

[drakethib]

I have done so but Fedex missed the delivery date that they pomised so we were stuck without our items for a few days.

 

[pepe of ohio]

seems to me, we've never done it or considered it, that shipping cost alone and not knowing where your package might be upon arrival, that taking a cab to the nearest Wal Mart and picking out your items is a cheaper and better proposition. Food stuffs can be purchased at the same time, and there is always some time in one day to do this. After arrival, check in, grab a cab and hit a store. You know what you want, get it, check out and roll on back to your resort. Can't figure why people need any extra stuff while at Disney. They provide just about anything you'll need, except a cheap grocery store.

Over the many years and many trips to WDW, we try to keep our packing and suitcases down to the mininium and do the walk to Goodings our first day for groceries as a kick off and ritual to our vacation. Their prices are alittle high but way cheaper than Disney marts and the walk gets my legs going for the trip. Heck, you can walk over and cab back with your stuff has got to be cheaper than shipping. Just a suggestion and our way of attacking the world.

 

[leanne11]

i don't have time or energy to shop when i get there, we send a box at the post office, set for a day ahead from arrival, it really costs about 6 or 7 dollars, this is what i have in mine
cheap flip flops for the pool
ds,dh,dd, cheap hats sunglasses and crackers, yogurt bars,snacks,poptarts,pringles, peanut butter, jelly syrup, suntan lotion,bug spray,4 ponchos,dh fav coffee and creamer and sweat and low a fav, large cup, i make up a little coffee bag for him, bathing caps earplugs,cheap silverware,pool goggles,cheap bowls and oatmeal,cheap plates and pleanty of ziplock bags, some empty water bottles and cell phone charger,game boy charger,digital camera,extra socks and moleskin to cushion,
i hate worring about this stuff, when you check-in or later after settled in go to the front desk and it's there.
we are also ordering from gardengrocer.com,
let him shop while i lounge at the pool for $10.

 

[ZoZo]

We tried it last year for the first time, and found we didn't really need to do it after all. We could easily have packed half the amount of clothes we brought with us on the plane (since we did laundry mid-trip) and then would have had room for the "extras" we shipped ahead of time (beach towels, rain ponchos, etc.).

I definitely wouldn't ship food (by the time you pay for it at home plus pay for shipping, it costs much more than if you bought it there); since we had four people, we used a town car service that stopped at the grocery store on the way to the hotel.

Others seem to like doing this, so I thought we'd give it a try, but now that I tried it, it seems like "overkill" to me.