I have posted before about a specific nightmare I have in the days before a cruise

[bumbershoot]

I once left my driver's license at home when we were flying out to Orlando for a WDW vacation. I had packed my "Disney" bag the night before and had completely forgotten to include my license. Thank goodness we were flying out of a small airport about 20 minutes from our house. I literally dropped DH and all our luggage at the airport curb, drove off with DS still in his car seat back to our house, ran in, got the license and made it back to the airport in time to park and get to the gate.

Domestic flights don’t actually require ID currently. There’s a post about it on the transportation forum right now. There’s a page about it on the TSA site.

The time you took to go home and back would have been spent in an interview with TSA, and once they got enough info you could have gotten on the flight.

I did, however, once pack my departure day pants in my luggage and left the luggage outside my door the night before disembarking the Magic. Imagine my surprise when I went to get dressed the next morning and I had underwear and a shirt and no pants. And no luggage. A Disney cruise CM came to my rescue and I did disembark wearing a nice pair of DCL sweatpants. I will never ever forget my pants again either.

I’m sorry. Glad you were able to get those pants!

I set out everyone’s shoes on packing day. I had the shoes for bags over here and shoes for the flights over there. Unbeknownst to me, the stateroom host had bumped the shoes together. Then-husband asked where the shoes to be packed were. I didn’t look, but described where. He packed them all up (either his shoes were further away or he knew he needed shoes and grabbed them).

Next morning, no proper shoes for me. We’d done online airport checkin. Got to fly home in January to Seattle wearing flipflops.

Just like this time for you, your sister has time to arrange this. 'What if' never helped anyone. Your sister is a grown woman and responsible for herself. It is up to her to listen carefully when a more experienced traveler explains something like this, but even more it is her responsibility to check for herself what she has to do before the can travel.

Her sister has had a ghastly and atrocious year. It’s ok for the OP to be helping her sister right now with these things. The very last thing the sister needs is to miss this cruise.

No clue. I just know that is what they were trying. Or maybe I'm remembering wrong and it was birth certificates? Either way IDK about the fax/copy. Seems iffy at best. I hope I never have to find out!

Most likely birth certificates. Both the official govt sites and the Disney Cruise site state that a copy of the certified bc is fine.

The first time we applied for passports we found out that what my husband believed all his life to be his birth certificate was actually an application for the birth certificate! (The lack of a raised seal should have been a clue...)

But we started the process early enough that it wasn’t a problem.

Whoa.

Vey expensive lesson learned, check passports months before traveling to make sure they are valid at least 6 months beyond your return date!

Better, check the requirements of the countries you’re going to. They do not all require 6 months.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Her sister has had a ghastly and atrocious year. It’s ok for the OP to be helping her sister right now with these things. The very last thing the sister needs is to miss this cruise.

Thank you bumber! Yes, I am going to do everything in my power to make sure my sister gets on that ship, if it means I drive from VA through NY to MA just to check her bags to make sure she is all set, I will!!!

 

[nutshell]

We once won 2-day park hoppers for DLR from Radio Disney. We were so excited! We got to our hotel late and went to bed. About 30 minutes in I jumped up and asked my wife, “Did you grab the tickets?!?!” She jumped up and said, “No! Did you?!?!” We left them on the counter at home. I went to the hotel front desk, bought new tickets then sold the ones we had won on Craigslist. Didn’t complety recoup our cost. This was several years ago. We joke about it now. Lol

 

[bumbershoot]

We once won 2-day park hoppers for DLR from Radio Disney. We were so excited! We got to our hotel late and went to bed. About 30 minutes in I jumped up and asked my wife, “Did you grab the tickets?!?!” She jumped up and said, “No! Did you?!?!” We left them on the counter at home. I went to the hotel front desk, bought new tickets then sold the ones we had won on Craigslist. Didn’t complety recoup our cost. This was several years ago. We joke about it now. Lol

Oh my goodness!

Only slightly related....On our way to our first proper trip to Disneyland (roadtripping from WA), not half an hour on the road my 3 year old accidentally broke the portable DVD player we had for the long drive. Went to the mall's radio shack. We didn't have an alarm on the car, so I brought the whole disney package packet in with me. We got 15 minutes down the road after buying whatever it was we needed to fix the player, and Ir ealized I'd left the packet at RS. I was significantly overweight at the time, and not a runner, but I sprinted from the car (once we got back to the mall) to the RS. Thankfully the packet was sitting on the counter, unnoticed by others. WHEW. (recently disneyland packages stopped sending the tickets ahead of time, and I am so glad for that b/c it prevents crazy things like that from happening)

 

[xQuizx]

I love these passport stories.

I pack all of our passports and important documents into "MY" backpack. I check the backpack the night before the trip and the morning we leave. When we are in the car I ask my wife to look into the backpack and verify our passports are in there.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

I love these passport stories.

I pack all of our passports and important documents into "MY" backpack. I check the backpack the night before the trip and the morning we leave. When we are in the car I ask my wife to look into the backpack and verify our passports are in there.

Too funny!

 

[Disney1fan2002]

I just avoided another snafu, not so bad this time, but still stress-worthy. My DH is in MA. He is going to meet us at the port. He won't be travelling with my sister and niece as of yet, well, because we are 5 days out, and he still hasn't decided what form of transportation he is taking. I talked to him today, and he still hasn't decided. Our PAT is 11am. So he is looking at a bus that leaves Boston at 8am and arrives at noon. My sister and niece are on the 630AM bus that arrives at 1030am. I will pick her up at the bus station, since I am driving in. I told him he needs to hurry up and tell me what bus he is going to take, if one at all, because I need to mail him his luggage tags if he won't be meeting us at the port when we arrive. He asks why? Well, do you want your luggage in your room? The tags are how they know what room to deliver the bags too. SIGH. He doesn't think the tags will arrive in time by mail, so he is looking at the 630am bus.

He knows better. This is not his 1st rodeo. Just the first time he has to get himself somewhere to start a vacation, without me making sure all the I's are dotted and T's are crossed.

 

[Dug720]

I just avoided another snafu, not so bad this time, but still stress-worthy. My DH is in MA. He is going to meet us at the port. He won't be travelling with my sister and niece as of yet, well, because we are 5 days out, and he still hasn't decided what form of transportation he is taking. I talked to him today, and he still hasn't decided. Our PAT is 11am. So he is looking at a bus that leaves Boston at 8am and arrives at noon. My sister and niece are on the 630AM bus that arrives at 1030am. I will pick her up at the bus station, since I am driving in. I told him he needs to hurry up and tell me what bus he is going to take, if one at all, because I need to mail him his luggage tags if he won't be meeting us at the port when we arrive. He asks why? Well, do you want your luggage in your room? The tags are how they know what room to deliver the bags too. SIGH. He doesn't think the tags will arrive in time by mail, so he is looking at the 630am bus.

He knows better. This is not his 1st rodeo. Just the first time he has to get himself somewhere to start a vacation, without me making sure all the I's are dotted and T's are crossed.

I think worst-case the porters will have tags that can be filled out with the information needed...

 

[olafLover]

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