Oceaneers Club/Lab - Age for check-in/out privilege?

[Mags2002]

Any child can check themselves in at any time. You can choose to allow your child to be self-check (out) or not and you can change this at any time. It comes down to your comfort level and how well you think your child could handle the responsibility

 

[DisneyPiPhi]

My daughter was 9.

She had an old phone with just the DCL app and camera, and she has a Loungefly bag that she uses on DCL to hold her phone, sweatshirt, any projects from the club, etc. On our previous cruise when she was 7, we had started letting her do a lot of the navigating around the ship, and one night we let her go from the dining room to our stateroom on Deck 5 to get her own sweater when she was cold. So we were practicing a lot to make sure she could find her way around, knew the ground rules, could ask a Cast Member or read a sign if she needed help, etc.

 

[tee11]

You actually can’t. All kids have self check in privileges. It’s self check out that you can opt into once your child is 8 or older.

I suppose you could check at Oceaneers about removing self check in but I don’t know that that would be possible. You’ll get a notification on the app when the child checks in.

'all kids have self-check-in privileges' - this cannot be right. We would have been so happy to use this in the past, or is this a recent change? I'm actually going to check with DCL on this. To elaborate, I clearly remember: We needed to be there to check in my child even when they were still collecting them at the 2nd dinner seating, and I had to wait in line with my child, although the counselor was already there.

 

[CisforCookie991]

'all kids have self-check-in privileges' - this cannot be right. We would have been so happy to use this in the past, or is this a recent change? I'm actually going to check with DCL on this. To elaborate, I clearly remember: We needed to be there to check in my child even when they were still collecting them at the 2nd dinner seating, and I had to wait in line with my child, although the counselor was already there.

I don’t know if it’s recent but it’s definitely a thing now. We just had to go the first time they checked in to confirm info. There was no box to give permission for check-in when you register, only for check-out.

 

[Mags2002]

'all kids have self-check-in privileges' - this cannot be right. We would have been so happy to use this in the past, or is this a recent change? I'm actually going to check with DCL on this. To elaborate, I clearly remember: We needed to be there to check in my child even when they were still collecting them at the 2nd dinner seating, and I had to wait in line with my child, although the counselor was already there.

It’s always been that way. I used to work in Youth Activities. Any child can check themselves in without a parent. You are thinking of Dine and Play, where yes a parent needed to walk the child to the Counselors. Outside of the spaces is different and that is more from a safety perspective so that we were absolutely sure how many kids were supposed to be coming with us.
If you had instead said to your kid “ok you’re finished you can go off to the Club now” they would have been fine to check themselves in when they got there