Does the Fort do online or early check-in? We are arriving on March 22nd and have rented a pop-up. If we can't check in early how do we tell the pop-up people where our site is?
Also how can I request a site/loop? We will be in a tent/pop-up site (the cheapest available) and I'd like something close to a comfort station and or transportation. We won't be renting a cart or bringing bikes.
Help me out, what is the process?
Amanda,
I'll tell you what the experience HAS been. I don't know if it's changed in the last year with Magic Bands or My Disney Experience though.
At 10 days before arrival or so I got an email from Disney with a link to do early check-in. You can give them a credit card to pre-authorize for room charges (No way). You confirm the guest names and ages. Then there was a section where you could REQUEST (not guaranteed) certain things about your site.
You could request:
- certain loops (not all listed but popular ones like 100, 200, 1500, 700 etc. were)
- near a Comfort Station
- near a bus stop/transporation
- a pet loop
might have been others - don't recall.
Loop 2000 (a Tent/Partial) has two Comfort Stations of which one has a bus stop right behind it. Not much traffic on that road except for busses and folks in the Creekside Meadow group campsite. Big sites in that loop too.
I'll be checking in a day or two after you (still trying to nail it down) in a Preferred site (loop 100/200) in my popup. Please try to stop by and say 'hi'. I shouldn't be hard to find.
Bama Ed
PS - I forgot to mention that the Fort downloads all ressies a few days before arrival so you will have a PRELIMINARY site assigned to your reservation when your trailer vendor comes to set up for you. The Fort will tell him what site number you have and that will lock it in for you. So when you show up it should be all ready.
