Early check in ?

[DisneyMomfinatic]

Hello all! My husband, 2 kids and I are flying in at 4pm on the 1st but my mom decided to come last minute and join us. The best flight she can get is a red eye and she lands in Orlando at 8 am, we are flying from separate states. We are staying at Coronado springs resort and I don’t believe we can check in any earlier this 3pm. Any suggestions on what she can do until then?

 

[focusondisney]

Did you do online check in? You can change it to say you’ll arrive at 9 am. No guarantee, but sometimes when you arrive early, you’ll get a room sooner. Official check in time is 3 pm. But if your assigned room is ready, she can certainly go to it. Does she have a magic band? If not, she can access the room with the MDE app. Or she can ask for a room key card at the front desk.

I assume she’s on your reservation? She can always check at the desk & ask if your room is ready. Did you make any room requests? If you’re not worried about getting a specific room or area, she can ask for a room that might be ready soon. Bell services will hold her luggage. She can relax at the pool (take bathing suit in carryon); check out different areas of the resort; go to Disney Springs or go to a few other resorts & wander around.

 

[Jfsag123]

I've gotten a room at 8:30am at Coronado. On my trip earlier this month I got my room ready text from Yacht Club while I was on the bus on the way to the resort from the airport after landing at 9:30am. So while it may not be probable to get a room early in the morning, it's definitely possible if you let them know you'll be there early.

 

[Silvermist999]

We’ve gotten our room early (around 10-11am) twice at the Poly. The first time we were doing a split stay and I tried to get a late checkout at WL, so the CM called over to the Poly to see if our room would be ready, and it was. The next trip, we just took a chance and headed in early to check in, and they said a room was ready, as long as we didn't mind not getting our room request.

 

[CarolynFH]

I agree with above - do online checkin and state arrival time will be 9 AM. And simply check luggage with Bell Services and do something else if the room isn’t ready when she arrives. Like others above, we’ve had our room assigned early more than once when we’ve put down that we’d arrive early.

 

[gatormom2tots]

We once got our room at BLT at like 6:30AM- it was September and WAY back in the day-pigs will fly before that ever happens again!

We usually arrive earlier in the day and just head to a park or to the pool- we plan a "pool bag" when packing. In the past few years we have found that we usually don't get that room ready text until clser to 2-3 (hotel side) or 3-4 (DVC). During covid, it did seem that those texts came in a little earlier, but it sounds like more rooms are ready (or maybe even a little later) than the stated check-in time.

 

[DizneyFamof4]

First thing is that she has to be on the reservation to even be allowed to check-in. The online check-in has a "Earliest room available" option that you can select for your room request and I would definitely do that to at least give you a better shot at having a room ready earlier. Also, unless one of you children are under 3 years old, you would of had to reserved a Casitas 1 Bdrm suite to accommodate 5 people, CSR rooms normally only hold 4 max.

 

[SharonZ]

I would make earliest room available your only room request. I would just sit by the pool, have lunch, and wait for the room to be available.

 

[LittleStinkerbelle]

We were able to get our room at 10:30 a.m. at Poly over Memorial Day weekend. We didn't make any room requests and were willing to take anything available, so that definitely helped I believe. We ended up in a second floor room in (so no balcony or patio) but were ok with that. The family next to us at check in was firm they wanted a third floor room and I heard the CM saying it would be a wait for that, but they could get into a second floor room right away if willing.

As for suggestions if she can't get in, we always enjoy exploring Disney Springs on check in day.