Luggage and Hyatt MCO
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We are going to be staying at the Hyatt MCO the night before our cruise. Do any of you take your luggage with you to the bus or do you always leave it in your room to be picked up?
They typically pick it up at your room. Sometimes they tell you to leave it just inside the door or just outside the door. When you check in at the front desk be sure to tell them you are using the Disney Cruise transfers. They will give you an letter with current procedures.
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One of the Hyatt's "selling points" is successfully transferring their guests' luggage to the cruise line, so they do it well.
As stated, you will receive a letter on check-in explaining the procedure but you basically just leave your tagged bags just inside your room by 8:30 am (with an appropriate tip, of course ) and bell services takes care of them.
Our luggage was in our room after we returned from the sail-away party.
I agree. . . luggage handling is one of the reasons we stay at the Hyatt. Just save your DCL luggage tags and put them on after you have retrieved your bags from luggage claim and have checked in at the Hyatt. Inform the Hyatt staff upon check-in that you are sailing with Disney and your luggage will magically be transported to the ship with the luggage tags attached.
Another good point is that typically you are given 2 tags per person. And we only check one bag per person but each have a carry-on bag. So, once we get to the Hyatt, the DCL tags go on some of our carry-on bags too so we have more free hands. Just remember to have all your travel documents, medications, etc. with you to take to the bus and the cruise terminal.
Have a great trip!
Which brings up another question: Does the luggage go on the bus that YOU are on, or do they let it pile up so they have a "full" compliment of luggage to go on a seperate bus/truck etc?? Which might leave hours after your bus does.
Note: Since we'll be at the Hyatt, plan is to get the earliest Cruise Line bus to get to the Port.
Which brings up another question: Does the luggage go on the bus that YOU are on, or do they let it pile up so they have a "full" compliment of luggage to go on a seperate bus/truck etc?? Which might leave hours after your bus does.
Note: Since we'll be at the Hyatt, plan is to get the earliest Cruise Line bus to get to the Port.
On my last cruise it went on a separate truck..which was being loaded right next to us as we boarded the bus.
The baggage may actually beat your bus to the port. The bus drivers are required to go substantially slower than the speed limit. I doubt they require the same of the truck drivers. And when the luggage arrives at the terminal? It's been pre-loaded in special luggage carts, so they take them down the lift gate and roll them right to the x-ray machines. If bags are on the bus, a baggage handler would have to unload each bag, load it onto the cart, and wheel it into the terminal by hand.
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"Slightly" off topic BUT wondering where cruisers have been checking in recently for their cruises when staying at the Hyatt. Last time for us it was near the lobby area of Hyatt, but that was a number of years ago.
"Slightly" off topic BUT wondering where cruisers have been checking in recently for their cruises when staying at the Hyatt. Last time for us it was near the lobby area of Hyatt, but that was a number of years ago.
Now you go down to the airport lower level(like you are going on magical express). You check in at the DCL desk and they get you all checked in and you do not have to do anything once you get to the port.
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) and bell services takes care of them.
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And when the luggage arrives at the terminal? It's been pre-loaded in special luggage carts, so they take them down the lift gate and roll them right to the x-ray machines. If bags are on the bus, a baggage handler would have to unload each bag, load it onto the cart, and wheel it into the terminal by hand.
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