Disney's Airport Luggage Transfer just added its first Moderate resort, and it is Caribbean Beach
Disney has widened the list of hotels where you can send your bags straight to your hotel instead of waiting at baggage claim. Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort now appears on the official Walt Disney World page for Airport Luggage Transfer at Disney, bringing the list to six hotels. It is also the first participating hotel that is not a Value resort.
Who is on the list now
Disney's page says the service is available only for guests checking in or out of these locations:
- Disney's All-Star Movies Resort
- Disney's All-Star Music Resort
- Disney's All-Star Sports Resort
- Disney's Art of Animation Resort
- Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort
- Disney's Pop Century Resort
The other five are all Value resorts. Caribbean Beach sits a tier up in Disney's Moderate category, which is what makes this addition a first. Blog Mickey, which reported the change, notes that every hotel on the list until now was a Value.
The airline side is unchanged. Disney lists American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines, and says that "Additional airlines could be added soon. Please check back for the most up-to-date information." There is no timeline attached to that.
How it works arriving
You register between 30 days and one day (24 hours) before your departing flight, and you need two confirmation numbers to do it: the one for your Disney Resort stay and the one for your flight. Register more than 7 days out and Disney mails you luggage tags. Register inside 7 days and you do not get tags, but Disney says the bags still get delivered, and even without tags you can track them on the way down through the link in your confirmation email.
From there you check in for your flight online as usual, pay any baggage fees your airline charges, and drop the bags following your airline's normal procedure. When you land at Orlando International Airport you walk past baggage claim and head for your hotel. One caveat sits in Disney's FAQ: guests arriving after 11:00 PM get two options instead, either picking the bags up at baggage claim or waiting for BagCheck to deliver them to the hotel within 4 hours of arrival.
Disney asks you to give the bags as much as 4 hours from your flight's arrival time before they reach the resort. You can collect them from Luggage Assistance/Bell Services in the lobby, or call from the in-room phone and have them brought up. Disney notes that gratuities are not included.
How it works leaving
Going home, you check in online starting 24 hours before departure and pay any baggage fees through your airline's app or website. Disney suggests leaving all the inbound tags on the bags to make it smoother.
The timing window is the part worth writing down. Luggage Assistance/Bell Services will take the bags only inside a set window: no earlier than 24 hours before your flight leaves, and no later than 4 hours before it. Disney also requires a valid government-issued photo ID and your boarding pass in the lobby before the bags can be dropped off.
Disney's page lists no separate charge for the service itself, and the only fees it mentions are the baggage fees your airline charges. Disney limits the service to domestic flights, still calls it a pilot program provided by BagCheck, and carries the usual line that the service is "subject to change or cancellation without notice or liability."
How the program got here
Per Blog Mickey's reporting, the service began in late March 2025 as a small trial run at a single hotel, Disney's Pop Century Resort, and handled Southwest departures only. It picked up the Airport Luggage Transfer name and expanded to all five Value resorts in April 2025. Southwest arrivals were added in November 2025, which made a full round trip possible for the first time. American and United came aboard beginning in May 2026. Delta Air Lines briefly appeared on the list in June 2026 and was removed the same day, with Disney saying the listing had been an error.
Blog Mickey notes that Disney has said before that it plans to expand the service, though neither Disney nor Blog Mickey names another hotel. Disney's own Skyliner page puts Caribbean Beach on the same gondola network as Pop Century and Art of Animation, two hotels that were already in the program.
Sources
- Walt Disney World, official Airport Luggage Transfer page
- Blog Mickey, "Airport Luggage Transfer Service Expands to First Moderate Resort at Walt Disney World"
- Walt Disney World, official Disney Skyliner page
Image credits: Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort exterior by WDW News Today. Luggage Assistance sign by BlogMickey.com.
