I travel a lot and haven’t physically or electronically “checked-out” of a hotel - Disney or otherwise - in a long, long time. No issues, ever.
EXCEPT for this past April. We stayed a night at AoA before moving to AKL CL the next morning. Our MBs at AKL were a comedy of errors right from the beginning and despite an excellent check-in experience. Elevator access? Nope - didn’t work. Lots of starring at computer screens and checking all of our bands. Was assured all was well.
An hour(ish) later at the pool bar I go to pay for my Tusker beer. Rejected. Bar CM fiddles with her computer, we attempt to scan several more times, same result. Line behind me is getting angry/restless.
The bar CM dialed a number on the phone and I sat there for what was probably 20 minutes on hold, being passed from CM to CM, etc. DW was giving me dirty looks from across the way since she was having to watch both kids. The “what the heck is taking so long, do you really need that beer before noon” look.
But alas, the phone CM was finally able to do something which got everything working. She never said exactly what was wrong, but did make a few comments along the lines of the room charging system “seeing me as a guest in both resorts” and that was causing the problem.
Was all of this because of switching resorts and not checking out of AoA? I’m not sure. Could just be
MDE flukiness of course.
But it has perhaps spooked me enough to “check-out” of Resort #1 in the future, just to be sure!!
Sorry, long post. If it sounds like I’m complaining above, I’m not. We’ve occasionally had MB issues in the past and things happen. We were just happy to be there at the start of a wonderful stay.