You don't need anything. Just get on and sit down.
We're going to see about doing the new Meta Quest VR thing so probably taking the SDR one way since it's down there
We’ve stayed at both and I like the queen beds more at swan but I prefer the dining options at the dolphin. We like the grab and go at dolphin, fuel a lot. The fins lobby bar is very nice along with the Fountain casual sit down restaurant. We also like the vibe at the dolphin more. The lobby is a bit more upbeat. I think the swan is a lot smaller than the dolphin. We’ve never felt the size of the dolphin before except on our last stay. We had an end of hall room and we felt like we had walked an eternity. But we did have a corner room which gave us more space. The location of both hotels is great and fairly equal when it comes to getting to the boat launch. The buses are shared, also shared with swan reserve, so not much difference there and I also believe room service is shared among swan, dolphin and the SR. I usually go with which resort has the lower rate since the differences are minor and we can easily go back and forth between both hotels. They’re not small hotels but they’re not the size of Caribbean beach resort so it’s easy to get around.
Because you booked a refundable package through Disney, you won’t receive actual tickets until check-in (because it’s refundable). You may have to activate the tickets through guest services at your first park as well. As long as your park planning passes show “and Disney Genie+ Service”, you’ll be just fine. They won’t take it away. They’re just not allowing pre-purchases after June 8th.
As others have said, i think it depends on the makeup of your family and how valuable to you the queen vs double beds would be. In my opinion, the Dolphin is better than the Swan in pretty much everything except for bed size and bathroom layout (most Swan rooms have an extra sink outside the bathroom). Just the wife and I, we pick the Dolphin every time. Travelling with our 15 and 12 year old boys, we need 2 rooms so we pick the Dolphin every time. When the kids were younger and we could be by with one room, we wanted the extra bad size and went Swan.
The reason you only see "park planning" passes is because you don't really have tickets yet (they add the "park planning" passes so you are able make park reservations). We had a package through Disney Travel with Hoppers & Genie+, and they gave us our actual tickets when we checked in. You will need to manually link the tickets in MDE once you get them, but that should be it. We never had to "activate" them at guest services; we just linked them ourselves in MDE and everything was all good. We never had any trouble tapping in to parks, or booking Genie+ LL.
I prefer the Swan. Smaller, more compact. I prefer the queen vs double beds and the double bathroom vanities,
Separate products.
