Resort Online Check In?

[DisneyCrazed580]

Has anyone utilized the online check in system at the resorts? What's your opinion? We are checking into the Polynesian on Dec 17th.

[Strmchsr]

If you do a thread search you'll see tons of opinions on online check-in. Most of them the same - if all you want to do is pick up your tickets/room key and go, then online check-in is great. If you might want to look for a specific room, ask questions, or have special requests, don't do online check-in. The online saves you about 5 min because you don't have to give your CC or personal info. Other than that, it doesn't do much. The one advantage I think it MIGHT have (no confirmation) is that if you put in your estimated time of arrival you have a better chance of having a room ready when you arrive. I have done online check-in 7 times now. Always arrived before the 3 pm check-in time. 5 of the 7 times my room was ready when I arrived, including both resorts I've stayed at on this current trip (arrived at CBR at 11 am last Friday and Poly at 8 am on Monday). That seems to be decent correlation to me seeing as how I almost never had a room ready prior to using this system.

[DizneyFreak2002]

What Chris said... I did online checking this past October and found it did not save me any time at all... First, the computers were down at the Contemporary so I couldn't check in right away to Bay Lake.. So, I really cannot complain because that was no fault of anyone... But at Saratoga, I still had to wait for the room to be ready... Saved me no time at all...

[BelleBeauty]

I thought that the online check-in process was very easy 10 days out. No complaints there. When we arrived at CSR the online check-in line took much longer than the standard check-in line (we arrived at 10pm or so). Also, they hadn't given us our room request, so I had to ask about other rooming options, etc. and then held up the line even further. Definitely not a plus for us.