Did you get your original yellow bag tags?
I just changed resorts for our upcoming trip and the girl on the phone who switched my reservation told me to use the original tags I already received. She told me it doesn't matter which resort the tag says it's going to, it's scanned and goes off your reservation number, so therefore routed correctly.
I hope this is true.... has anyone else had this experience? Or should I call DME and confirm just to be on the safe side?
Disney (and DME) used to tell us not to make any changes on the actual yellow tags..that as long as the reservation number remained the same, after making a resort change, your bags would go to the 'new' resort. Well.....as a good little Transportation Board moderator, I followed those rules. This was about 3 years ago....dd and I flew into Tampa, and had a rental car, so no need for the yellow tags. However, her friend was flying into MCO and had one checked bag, using her yellow tag. We met her at the DME welcome area, walked up to the scanner, who scanned my band. Said "The bus to Pop is number 3 (or whatever)" I responded with no, our resort has changed to POR. He said no, it showed Pop. Okay, we were sent over to the checkin podium to have this 'situation' looked into. I was told that yes, we were scheduled for Pop. I always travel with all confirmation emails, so handed the CM the email showing POR as our resort. He was very confused, and walked away to 'fix' something. Now, the reservation number had not changed....so I 'assumed' there would be no issue, based on what I had been told, repeatedly. I had even talked to a DME rep on the phone, a week prior to that, to make sure I was going to be okay. The CM returned, saying we were now good to go, but it was a good thing we hadn't had any checked bags! Ah, but we do....dd's friend had a checked bag. Off he went again....to fix something else. He returned, saying that in the future, if we changed resorts, be sure to cross off the old resort, and write in the new one. I informed him that I had talked to both Disney and DME, on the phone, and they had both told me that I shouldn't write anything on the tags, that when they scanned it, the reservation would show correctly. Well, evidently that wasn't the case anymore!!! Seems the airport baggage handlers, for BAGS, aren't scanning the tags now!!!
Okay....this was at 5:00. We were told all would be fine, we go off and get in line for the POR bus. Got to POR around 6:15ish, went to our room, washed up a bit, and headed to the CR to watch Wishes from ToW lounge. We returned to our room around 11. No bag in the room. I called down to Luggag Assistance, they told me they didn't have the bag yet. Okay but we had arrived at the resort 5 hrs prior!!! No bag at midnight...called again. They said it was on the way. At 1, dd's friend called again.....was told they didn't have it. Finally, at 1:30ish, there is a knock on the door, there's the bag!!!! Seems it had been sitting at Pop all that time. The CM, quite sternly, told us that the name should have been changed on the tag!!!!
So, long story short? Cross off the old resort name write in the new one!! And yes, dd's friend should have packed a carryon bag with what she needed, and will in the future. But, we all had faith in Disney that they would get the bag to her in plenty of time to go to bed at midnight!!!!
