Claire
07-10-2003, 18:44
Hello
Sorry if you all know this, but I thought I would post a note so others don't have the problems I did in Orlando last weekend!!
On our last day, we wanted to get rid of our cases as early as possible so we could spend most of the day by the pool and just arrive at the airport and get on the plane. Having heard the Downtown check-in facility had re-opened, we went along to Downtown last week to see where it was. We could not find it. We knew it was near to the Virgin Megastore, so we went in there to ask, only to be told that it had not been there for 2 years. We explained that it was supposed to have re-opened, but were met with a shrug of the shoulders.
So, the next morning I called Virgin in the US, to be told that the Downtown check-in was definitely not open. I then asked at what time the Airport check-in desk opened and was told 11.45 am. So, we went along to the Airport on Saturday morning, arrived at 11.45 am to an already large queue. At 12.15 pm, with an ever-increasing number of people joining the queue, and having seen no sign of life behind the check-in desks, I called Virgin and asked when the check-in desks were due to open, only to be advised that they did not open until 1.30 pm, but that the Downtown Disney check-in was open!!! I absolutely flipped because my home is only 5 minutes from Downtown Disney and I had already wasted over an hour of my precious last day messing around getting to and standing at the Airport.
So, for anyone travelling on Virgin in the near future, the Downtown Disney check-in facility is OPEN and can be found near Cirque du Soleil, just along from the Virgin Megastore. As a consequence of this, the Airport check-in desks do not open until 1.30 pm.
The only consolation in this sorry story is that I complained so much when I eventually managed to come face-to-face with a human being at the check-in desk that I was up-graded!!
CLAIRE
Sorry if you all know this, but I thought I would post a note so others don't have the problems I did in Orlando last weekend!!
On our last day, we wanted to get rid of our cases as early as possible so we could spend most of the day by the pool and just arrive at the airport and get on the plane. Having heard the Downtown check-in facility had re-opened, we went along to Downtown last week to see where it was. We could not find it. We knew it was near to the Virgin Megastore, so we went in there to ask, only to be told that it had not been there for 2 years. We explained that it was supposed to have re-opened, but were met with a shrug of the shoulders.
So, the next morning I called Virgin in the US, to be told that the Downtown check-in was definitely not open. I then asked at what time the Airport check-in desk opened and was told 11.45 am. So, we went along to the Airport on Saturday morning, arrived at 11.45 am to an already large queue. At 12.15 pm, with an ever-increasing number of people joining the queue, and having seen no sign of life behind the check-in desks, I called Virgin and asked when the check-in desks were due to open, only to be advised that they did not open until 1.30 pm, but that the Downtown Disney check-in was open!!! I absolutely flipped because my home is only 5 minutes from Downtown Disney and I had already wasted over an hour of my precious last day messing around getting to and standing at the Airport.
So, for anyone travelling on Virgin in the near future, the Downtown Disney check-in facility is OPEN and can be found near Cirque du Soleil, just along from the Virgin Megastore. As a consequence of this, the Airport check-in desks do not open until 1.30 pm.
The only consolation in this sorry story is that I complained so much when I eventually managed to come face-to-face with a human being at the check-in desk that I was up-graded!!
CLAIRE