strollers as checked luggage

[disneyfan2]

I am thinking about bringing our stroller with us but because we arrive evening our first day, i won't need it that day. Can i use the Magical express stickers for our stroller. I don't want to take it throught the airport but hoped that if i check it, then i can have them deliver it directly to our room. can this be done?

 

[ducklite]

Why not gate check it and then just pick it up at the gate when you arrive in WDW? I wouldn't want to take a chance that my stroller didn't make it and I didn't find out until the next morning, and I think you might be very happy to ahve it to get your child from the gate to DME when you land--that can be a long walk for little legs.

 

[NotUrsula]

It can be done, but you'll most likely regret it. Checked items go through the bag room on huge conveyors that dump them several times, and items go into the hold of the plane as they come off the belts and get tossed on the carts. You are talking about the possibility of several tonnes of baggage riding to MCO on top of the frame of that stroller (not to mention rips from snagging on the conveyor belts); the chances of damage are quite high unless you pack it in a box with padding around it (and if you do that it will most likely exceed the 62" luggage-size maximum.)

Gate-checked strollers are much less likely to be damaged, because they go in on top of the cargo bay. Even so, you would still want to bungee it shut and remove any plastic add-on parts that might break off.

 

[bscs]

We checked our stroller in. It was broken when we got off the conveyer belt so we had to just dump it there and we rented strollers at all the parks. But renting get very costly and is no good if you go shopping or anything out of a park. Either do like the above said or buy one when you get there. Have Fun.