Yet Another Split Stay Question

[bumbershoot]

I would like to avoid bell services altogether if I had the option, simply because I don't want to have to be without our luggage for hours, and I don't want my mom stuck in the room having to wait for luggage to be delivered. I have these images of myself rolling my luggage down the Boardwalk, but I am guessing they frown on that.

I can't see why they would mind you rolling your bags over.

Having Bell transfer from Boardwalk it means you will not get those bags until after official checkIN time at Yacht.

If you take it over and leave bags with Bell Services at Yacht, Yacht has them, and if needed you could get the bag. Mom might want to have her important stuff for the day in one easily identifiable bag so she could get it if needed.

we might not be able to check into Boardwalk until we have physically checked out of Yacht Club.

The issue shows up in, at minimum, using the magicbands for the doors. If you were just going to stay in the room at BW until checkout time, this wouldn't be an issue. If you are going to Stormalong between, that'll likely go longer than 11am checkout time, so you might not have issues with that at all. So you could either wait it out until the official checkOUT time is gone, or you could just check out and go off to Stormalong, and know that by the time you're heading to AK it will all be OK anyway.

I don't want to leave for AK until we have a room at Boardwalk (all reservations under my name, but my mom will be staying at the resorts all day and I don't want her to have to deal with luggage, etc.)

You aren't guaranteed a room until 4, so that could be a very short day at AK if it's the absolute thing you're waiting for.

Whether you're leaving bags in the car or moving bags (by car or rolling) to Yacht and leaving them with Bell, I would recommend that mom have ONE bag that she checks over at Yacht, so if she suddenly needs something from her stuff, she can go to them and get the bag back (then have them take it again in a second process). What you don't want to do is have that bag of hers going between BW and Yacht, because then it's not accessible.


the other option is leaving all bags at BW and then when you're ready for Yacht THEN getting them (by car or rolling them over). We've changed from OKW to elsewhere, etc, and we'll either take them over to resort 2 and leave them then go on with our day, OR we'll leave them at resort 1, go about our day, then go back to 1 and get them and move to 2.

That makes sense. I just think of the luggage guys as the luggage guys, but you are right. It is two different groups. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[AtlantaDisneyDreamer]

The "tip" is already figured into the price WDW pays Mears for the ME service.

It's customary to tip Bell Services so you need to be in the room for that.

I completely understand paying Bell Services for their hard work, but I wish we could have the option to pay a fee or charge a tip to our room and NOT have to be in the room. That would be quite a bit more convenient.

 

[Disneymom1126]

We just recently figured out we are doing a split stay because of lack of DVC availability and it's our first time doing one. Am I correct based on what I've read here, that we could check out of AKL early morning, have bell services deliver our bags to POP and then go to a park for the day -- could we then just pick up our own bags at POP when we get back that night and wheel them to our room ourselves? We won't have a car, but I also don't want to bother with a taxi, etc. to transport our bags....also don't mind wheeling them to our room as we'll have a preferred room at POP so will be close to lobby.

 

[Chickkypoo]

We just recently figured out we are doing a split stay because of lack of DVC availability and it's our first time doing one. Am I correct based on what I've read here, that we could check out of AKL early morning, have bell services deliver our bags to POP and then go to a park for the day -- could we then just pick up our own bags at POP when we get back that night and wheel them to our room ourselves? We won't have a car, but I also don't want to bother with a taxi, etc. to transport our bags....also don't mind wheeling them to our room as we'll have a preferred room at POP so will be close to lobby.

Yes, you can pick your bags up at Bell Services and bring them to your room yourself if you prefer.

 

[Mainemama]

One more consideration when having bell services transfer bags resort to resort... The transfer does not happen immediately. There is a van that rotates through the resorts, picking up and delivering all at once. The van will not pick up until after check out time. We transferred and found our room was ready early, but our bags arrived a couple hours later. When we inquired, bell services was able to give an estimate, because they knew the resort they had just left and the order of results. As long as you know that going in, it is an efficient system. Our bags arrived around 2:00.