Using DCL transfers, if you fly in, the bags typically go via truck to the port (not on the bus with you).When you get dropped off at PC by the DCL bus, are there porters, or do you just tip the driver?
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Staying at the Hyatt first.Using DCL transfers, if you fly in, the bags typically go via truck to the port (not on the bus with you).
If your bags are on the bus with you, there are porters where the bus drops you off. Tipping (who/how much) - entirely up to you.
Hyatt at the airport? Then you will leave your bags in your room for pick up. Hyatt & DCL have a program to pick up the bags and get them to the DCL truck for going to the ship. You won't see your bags until they arrive at your room onboard the ship. Be sure to mention to the person checking you in at the Hyatt that you have DCL transfers the next day.Staying at the Hyatt first.
Since OP is asking about using DCL transfers and is staying (I think) at the airport Hyatt, there is no driver or porter luggage handling that he/she will encounter.I usually tip $2/bag if any driver or porter handle my bags. How much to tip is totally up to you.
You don't see them. You leave your bags in your room, and head down to the DCL transfer desk. They come in, pick up bags, and transport them to DCL truck to be taken to the ship.Do you tip the people who pick up your bags from the Hyatt?
Thanks! Yes...staying right at MCO. I'm assuming no one has had problems leaving the bags in the room and nothing getting lost?Hyatt at the airport? Then you will leave your bags in your room for pick up. Hyatt & DCL have a program to pick up the bags and get them to the DCL truck for going to the ship. You won't see your bags until they arrive at your room onboard the ship. Be sure to mention to the person checking you in at the Hyatt that you have DCL transfers the next day.
In all my time on this forum, I've only read of one instance of lost bags. When you check in at the Hyatt, tell them you're taking the DCL transfers the next day. They'll give you a form to fill out:Thanks! Yes...staying right at MCO. I'm assuming no one has had problems leaving the bags in the room and nothing getting lost?
Typically, at most terminals I've been through, the curbside porters only take the bags from your vehicle to the building (basically on the other side of the sidewalk). There they hand them off to the longshoremen who actually load the bags onto the ship. And from there the DCL CMs get the bags to your room.I watched him basically wheel it a few feet to where other luggage was accumulating so I guess he really wasn't a porter- just someone at DCL trying to make it easier on people by letting them know they don't have to take all their bags with them into the terminal.
When we did this, my wife left an envelope with tip money and a note on the luggage we left in the room at the HyattYou don't see them. You leave your bags in your room, and head down to the DCL transfer desk. They come in, pick up bags, and transport them to DCL truck to be taken to the ship.
We do the same, in a labeled envelope set atop one of the bags.Whether it is the Hyatt MCO or a Disney hotel, if we are leaving our luggage in the room to be picked up, we will leave the tip with the bags. While it is possible that housekeeping can come in and take the tip meant for the porter, haven't had that happen to us - that we know of!