Checking in when the lead on the reservation hasn't arrived yet

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Do you do online check-in? I'm just trying to wrap my head around what procedures will be necessary. I will definitely be there before my sister since I'm flying in the day before and staying at a different resort that night.

As for online check-in, my one and only experience with it was so lousy that I vowed I'd never do it again. In short: We never got room text so checked in at front desk. Fine. Got room. Went to lunch. While at lunch got a text saying our room was ready--at a totally different resort! So we had to go back to the front desk, wait in line, and talk to someone just to make sure we weren't being charged for this nonexistent reservation at the other resort.

But perhaps if my sister does the online check-in and that would solve the problem of my arriving earlier, this could work for this trip.

Can you tell how reluctant I am to do this? I am!

I have done online check in for every trip since they first offered it, and I visit multiple times per year. I have not had any issues with using it, and in fact there was one trip where Disney’s computer system went down and they couldn’t take credit cards at the front desk. Everyone who hadn’t done online check in had to go back to the front desk the next day when the system came up, but those of us who did online check in didn’t.

I would be willing to bet that your experience with the erroneous text was due to someone at Disney typing in a phone number incorrectly. That could happen whether YOU do online check in or not.