How To Check In For A Disney Cruise! Disney Cruise Line Online Check-In Changes EXPLAINED! 

I don’t think it was mentioned but what time does check in start? Does it open up at midnight as well? If so, did you do yours at midnight? Just wondering since you had very early check in time.

I’m not cruising but can’t help watching any theme park express videos 😅

Secret to early port arrival time even if you’re a first time cruiser is if you’re flying in or at the Orlando airport and taking their buses/transport to the port we checked in 2 weeks before the cruise first timers and I got a 11 am port arrival time 😊

Thank you to share this with all of us: Is so helpful . I can’t wait to do my for my Disney dream 2025 . Is going be my first cruise and my family first cruise . Super exciting .

Thanks for this video. I love full walk-thrus so people can be ready and confident they have everything for check-in.

I find this helpful even without a booked cruise. We are in the very early stages of planning a cruise so all information is helpful.

Thank you so much for this! I've had anxiety about our first cruise in July and this made me feel so much better

Thank you for posting this! Great information!

Very helpful. Thank you!

Thank you for this helpful information!!!! Can’t wait to watch your cruise videos!!!

I’m soooo glad I found your videos before my cruise! This came at the perfect time as I did my check in last night and this helped sooo much!

I went on my first cruise on the Disney Wonder back in October. Your channel and a couple of other channels gave our family so many tips and heads ups when it came to the online check-ins, doing Covid documents and what to expect when we got to the ship that even my nephew was answering other passengers' questions. Thank you so much for your great informative videos!

This was really good. Thank you for this. This definitely helps for our first Disney Cruise.

Thank you for this video! It will be so helpful later this year when we have our sailing on the Wish.

I just did our check in process since we sail very shortly! This was excellent!!

Finally, glad we are going back to this... Pre-Covid had tiered status check-in, thankful we're going back to it...

Super helpful! Sharing with my clients 👍🏽

This is so helpful! Thank you!

Thank you for this video! It helped us greatly!

Thanks Adrian! Very helpful and a good refresher even for us seasoned cruisers. Have a Magical cruise to Alaska 🚢

Super helpful! Thank you!

Thank you, this video was so helpful. Did online check in at midnight for our first Disney Cruise and it was nice knowing what to expect. Congratulations by the way on your engagement! Wishing both of you much happiness.

Thank you so much for sharing! I was reading online what to do but was confused… your video summed it up perfectly, thank you!

Thank you so much for the video! I’m going on my first Disney cruise this year and it’s really helped my nerves as now I can have everything fully prepared before we check in!

10:21 Thanks for the info. We are planning a trip in October 2024. This is great info for things I didn’t know. You rock. Can’t wait to see your trip.

Omg Adrian, this is amazing. Feeling soo much more relaxed for my 1st check in.. Im heading on the Disney Wonder when it comes to Australia, got a feeling lots of people will be new to this

Very helpful and detailed info, thanks

Successfully checked in last night with lots of help from this video! Thank you!

Great video. I am almost platinum and still enjoy the information. It is very helpful, as was the previous video on Alaska cruises. Hope you get some good numbers on these.

Great video!

Thank you so much for making this video!! I have been on 6 cruises, but have always sailed with my parents. I have my honeymoon booked for June and was a little nervous making sure I had all the check in info for us! Seems super easy! We check-in in 16 days and cruise in 50!!!

Thank you so much Adrian! This was so super helpful! This is my 1st time cruising in many years and I was unsure of how to check in. ❤️❤️

Extremely helpful for our August Disney Wish vacation.

This is the BEST check in step by step vlog. I just did a 5 nite from San Diego-Cabo-Ensenada.

Thank you for posting this! I’m not really a fan of the new tiered check in thing… I’m glad we sailed before this update tbh

Excellent and super helpful!!! Tu

Thank you so much for posting this! I'm so glad Disney went back to staggering the online check ins. Oh, hope to see you and Yoda on the Bermuda cruise as well. Thanks again

Immediately subscribed. Thanks for this detail. Its so vague on their site so it was stressing me out

Hi Theme Park Express! I am very shy about commenting on videos, but I just had to thank you for all the work you did making and posting this! Because of this awesome video, I knew exactly the information and photos I needed to have ahead of time. It made checking in a breeze. Thank you so much! Your videos are equal parts entertaining and informative- which is much appreciated!

Thanks Adrian. That’s really helpful. We’re in the UK and going on our first Disney Cruise to the Bahamas in December! 😊 Enjoy your Alaska cruise!

Thanks for posting this! This will be helpful for all the new cruisers out there who might not know the process! For the new tiered check in system I personally really like it because I feel like this was a clever way to help the Disney cruise line employees who would get hammered with waves of passport and guest photos to verify because now it won’t be as many coming in waves lol. I also think this will help the website from becoming overloaded because my mom experienced this the last time we sailed and everyone on the ship got to check in 30 days out. She went on to check in for us (I was out of town) and the website was glitchy and wasn’t working well at all! so I think with this new process it will help a lot! Pro tip for uploading photos: make sure the photos you upload are in the jpeg format. It’s my understanding the website won’t accept the HEIC format iPhones will take photos in so you will need to convert them beforehand!

This is great information! I had done mine already, but sent it on to my extended family who are Silver. We are all on the same cruise as you! I have watched a lot of your videos. Thanks for all your hard work.

Good video for new cruisers, Adrian! Thanks for sharing this with your followers. 👍🏼 Enjoy Alaska - Koda is going to love it! 🥰

I will be watching your upcoming Alaskan cruise as we sail on the Wonder on her last Alaskan cruise of the season this Sept!

Oh hey, I'll be on this same June Alaska cruise!! I'll be sure to say hi if I see you. Did our check-in last night and we could only see the button to begin if we logged in on our phone through the DCL app for some reason.

Great post. You covered all the bases. We just got back on the 23rd from the 8 night Bermuda cruise on the Fantasy. Was really a great cruise. Are you still going on the 8 night September one? We are hoping to book September also. Enjoy your Alaskan cruise. Carl & Linda

Thank you such a helpful video. I was wondering can you attach a different credit card to each individual person in your party or is it one card for the whole party??

Hi there, I live in Vancouver and I have been on 3 Disney cruises! I love your channel. When you come to Vancouver for your cruise, I would love to meet you if you have time before or after your adventure. 😊

Thanks, your video is very helpful, We will be doing a back to back in May 2024 😂

We are a few days away from our first cruise ever! This helped, just wondering what the assembly group is.

Thanks for posting. This will be our first cruise since the new rules are in place. I have just one question-the QR code how do you put it in your wallet and where do you find the wallet in the Cruise app..

Hey that's my Disney Alaska cruise too! See you onboard.

For the Passport Photo, does it need to be the bttom part with all the information or the bottom AND top part that has your signature?

Omg thank u so much for making this video. My question is what if u change your hairstyle after u upload the security photo?

Going to Alaska in August with no kids. This helps.

You might want to revise this video and reupload. When you are going through Daisy's booking info, the phone number is visible for a second.

Not gonna lie I wish you had done this video before my wedding so I could send this to everyone in my wedding party lol 😅

Hey Adrian have you thought about travelling for other cruises besides Alaska. Like maybe you could take a trip to New Orleans before going on the Magic?

So informative. I’m scared to take a cruise because I feel I don’t known the ropes. So when do you select your dining options? Is dining automatically reserved for you? Thank you for the vlogs.😊

Thanks for the video! Not a fan of the tiered check-in unless they’re going to hold back some early PATs for each level.

If we have two rooms booked (my family and my parents) is it best for us to check in for our rooms simultaneously separately? Or can I check us all in at the same time?

Instead of entering a card you can select cash account and then add a card onboard. It wasn’t accepting our Australian cards.

What where the options for uploaded document? Passport, birth certificate, drivers licence?? Tia

If there are 2 couples in one room can you add 2 separate credit cards for the room?

if we stay at a disney hotel before the cruise and the morning of embarkation if we take the DCL bus we automatically get one of the first arrival times correct?

You do not need to put a credit card on your account. You can choose cash. I did that for my most recent cruise

115 days until my Disney Alaska cruise.

Just want to add that it is always a good idea to print your port arrival information 👍🏼 Also if cruising from port Canaveral, staying at a resort and taking Disney transportation, they will preselect your port arrival time and boarding group 👍🏼

Hi adriene, how were you able to blur out the info on your video.

Hi! The Authorization Form for children is needed if the parent(s) is NOT traveling with the child on the cruise. Say a grandparent wants to take a grandchild. The form would be needed. No form is needed as long as ONE parent is sailing with the child.

Question… since higher status guests get to check in first, what’s the benefit of being able to do that? Do they get better boarding positions… like earlier or what?

I was thinking that the higher Castaway club members were always sooner because they always get the cabanas on Castaway Cay. So I think booking excursions and extras is on a different date, is that correct? Checking in gets you a sooner onboard time and royal meet and greet, is there any other advantages of earlier check in?

Hi. My name is Elly. I live in Vancouver. I really enjoy your videos. I would love to meet you

I was wondering if you are able to add other credit cards on your staterooms. For example say your mom didn't want you and Koda charging on her card. Would you be able to add a different card for you and Koda to be able to charge to.

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So what's the point of checking in early based on tier status??? I'm like Tom Hanks on BIG - I don't get it - what's the big deal??

WhAt if you do not have a credit card? I have a VISA debit bank card???

this might be a "European" question but, as far as I know, it is strongly advised to never upload your passport information (number, photo etc.) by our Dutch goverment. Is it mandatory or is there a possibility not to?

Oh man this dropped about 5 days too late for me 😂 should have seen me at midnight trying to hunt down my husbands wallet for the credit card I didn’t know I needed

Do you need a passport

Slow down. Don’t talk so fast!

Very helpful, thanks!