Wondering How To Ship Items To A Walt Disney World Resort? Walt Disney World Resorts will accept packages on your behalf up to 2 weeks before your scheduled arrival date. You will have to pay a $5 fee per box that Disney accepts on your behalf.
If you plan to fly to Walt Disney World, this could possibly save you a lot of money. You can ship groceries, extra clothes (so you don’t need another suitcase), a stroller, etc. Just whatever your family might need.
Call your resort to verify their mailing address. Mark on the package CLEARLY your date of arrival and the name your reservation is under plus add GUEST in bright red marker. It will be waiting on you when you arrive.
Such As:
Guest Name
Arrival Date/Reservation #
Followed by Resort Address
I find Fed Ex Ground to be the cheapest when mailing large packages.
If you are staying at Pop Century, don’t miss this photo opp!
Anyone have tips for shipping directly, from say staples or amazon. This type of shipping would save money, but not allow for the reservation number/dates to be added to the box. Thoughts?
Just a FYI. If you are staying at a convention resort they do charge a small fee when you pick up the box you shipped. Last time we shipped to The Boardwalk the charge was $3.
I think I will have to look into this on our next trip. Either way (shipping or garden grocer) might save us a ton of $$ on food.
We have done this in the past, with mixed results. It is definitely worth doing, but there are some invaluable things we have learned.
*Send snacks that are not prone to breakage. Our special-needs son loves, and lives off of, pretzels…he is not as fond of pretzel dust. ;-)
*The bottom corners of the boxes will be smashed, and will end up with holes just the right size for your strategic rolls of quarters to fall right out the bottom, making laundry more expensive than you thought…seeing as how you will essentially pay for it twice. :-)
*Diapers do not travel well with anything “pokey”. Once the outside of the diaper has been pierced, they will leak…profusely. ;-)
*Items affected by pressure change when in your suitcase, will likely be affected by heat went sent UPS ground. Anything that might explode in your checked luggage will likely explode in your boxes, so make sure to put them in ziploc plastic bags when you pack them. It is much better than having Cheerios boxes disintegrate from shampoo. :-)
Again, still worth it, but boy it has gone better for us now that we have worked out a few of the kinks. :-)
Have loads of fun at Disney World!
Jammie
Great tip! We were just discussing what we were going to be taking to DL (what’s the most important things to go, lol)
What a great idea! I had never thought about doing this. I wonder if other hotels would do this too? Thanks for all of your Disney advice!
So is shipping better than actually moving?
I did this when we went. What a great savings we made by buying at home. I shipped baby food, diapers and wipes.
We used Garden Grocer…great service. I ordered too much but we shared it with other guests. I will order less next time!
we thought about doing this, but instead just ordered some things from garden grocer and really their prices were fairly reasonable
This is an awesome idea…but isn’t Disney charging something like $10.00 to recive your packages now?? Would love to know for sure?!
Deb – People have been saying this for years but I have never been charged for any packages I had sent to my hotel.
Also, if you put your reservation number on your package, it will help them find it easier.
Also, don’t forget that you can also ship things from stores to your hotel-I swear by ordering a flat of water from Staples.
That had never occurred to me. We are on the west coast, so we would probably just drive to Disneyland, but not having to deal with all the extra stuff in the car would even be nice. Thanks for the tip!