Luggage Services operate at the Value Resorts. They do EVERYTHING that Bell Services does, but they do it on their own schedule, and they are only open from 7am until around 10pm.
If you arrive with DME, towncar, your own car, taxi, or any other way, if you drop your luggage and your carryons with Luggage Assistance, once you check in, your bags will be delivered to your room later in the day whether you are there or not.
If you arrive with DME, and drop your carryons with luggage assistance, your carryons WILL be delivered to your room along with your yellow tagged bags.
If you arrive with DME late at night, (after 10:00pm), your bags will be delivered to your room the next morning.
If you arrive with your own car, a taxi, or a towncar late at night, you will need to check out a cart from the front desk and move your bags into your room yourself.
For luggage assistance when checking out or switching resorts, here is what you do.
You need to call luggage assistance the day before, and tell them how many bags you have, your room number, and that you need them picked up after xx:xx am the following morning. Leave all of your bags stacked up under the window, and you may leave a tip on top of the bags. You may then head out to the parks for the day.
If you are transferring to another resort, I would also leave a note on the bags reminding them that these bags need to be transferred to xxxxx resort.
If you are using the Resort Airline Checkin Desk, personally, I would get a cart and take those bags up there myself, because there are too many variables involved on whether they will get the bags picked up and to the front storage area in the correct amount of time. You can still arrange for your carryons to be picked up and stored, and stack those by the door.
If you are NOT using the RAC and taking your bags on the DME bus yourself or using a towncar, taxi, or your own personal car, then you can use the pickup service, then be at the storage area about 45 minutes before you need to get on your bus, towncar, etc and the Luggage Assistance folks will bring your bags out to you.
If you have bags in storage after checking out, and don't get back to the resort until after 10pm to collect them, just go to the front desk, and one of the front desk staff will retrieve them for you.
Many folks stay at a value for one night before starting their package at a higher end resort. If you arrive on DME before Luggage Assistance closes, drop by there, and tell them to NOT deliver your bags to your room, but to please hold them, and deliver them to your next resort in the morning. Then also make arrangements to have your carryons picked up and delivered to your next resort. If you arrive AFTER Luggage Assistance has closed, then just bring your carryons up front early the next morning, tell them you need them transferred to your next resort AND tell them at that time that you have xx pieces of yellow tagged luggage that needs to be sent to your next resort.
I hope these posts have been helpful. If anyone has anything to add, please PM me, and I will add it. I would rather not let this turn into a long thread that folks have to wade through to find the answers.
