Checking in at resorts

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Anonymous wrote:Why is checking in at resorts so awful? It's frustrating to pay so much money and then spend 15+ minutes standing in line after hours of traveling. And then the actual check in process takes like 20 minutes while trying to keep our little kids calm. When we stay at regular hotels we can do online check in with the click of a button and go straight to our rooms.

WDW really has it down now. We do online check in, and they text us the room number and we can use our phone app to get in the room. We skip the front desk totally.

Oh have they set this system up since we went this past winter? We were exhausted when we got to Port Orleans and stood in the wrong place in the reception area waiting to check in, nobody acknowledged us then a long line formed and we had to go to the back of that. 4yo DD was tired and hungry. Fun times.

We used it last month. But also 18 months ago and during COVID.

It was a breeze. But we did the pre check on on the Disney app.

Not an option at Port Orleans

Yes it is. Just Google it. You link everything up in the Disney World app.

yeah we had the app. It wasn't an option for us, or for the long line of people waiting at the front desk. And we definitely take advantage of online check in when it's available. So my experience is not that WDW is on top of this at all.

Why wasn’t it available? Was this many years ago?

It was last year. Is it that hard for you to imagine that an app might say you have to go to the front desk to check in? Have you every even been to Port Orleans?

Do you really think this was a specific Port Orleans problem? Or perhaps an app glitch? Or issue with your particular room or something else? You made a blanked statement that at this hotel its not an option which is false.

I definitely got the impression it wasn't available. Why do you even care? You've clearly never been there. Are you a Disney employee?

Got the impresssion. Ok. Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing. No need to spread misinformation or tell everyone who has been there that they in fact are ones who are wrong.

I am the earlier poster, and yes, I agree. Everyone checking in to a WDW resort should just take the time to understand the app. It really is nice to go right to your room.

Another person who has not been to Port Orleans.

You can "check in online" sure, but then you get there and you have to go to the front desk they have to assign your room to you - in other words you have to check in in person. In other words online check in is not a real check in.

Sorry you couldn’t figure it out. Maybe these directions will help you next time:

https://www.portorleans.org/my-disney-experience.php

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Anonymous wrote:Why is checking in at resorts so awful? It's frustrating to pay so much money and then spend 15+ minutes standing in line after hours of traveling. And then the actual check in process takes like 20 minutes while trying to keep our little kids calm. When we stay at regular hotels we can do online check in with the click of a button and go straight to our rooms.

WDW really has it down now. We do online check in, and they text us the room number and we can use our phone app to get in the room. We skip the front desk totally.

Oh have they set this system up since we went this past winter? We were exhausted when we got to Port Orleans and stood in the wrong place in the reception area waiting to check in, nobody acknowledged us then a long line formed and we had to go to the back of that. 4yo DD was tired and hungry. Fun times.

We used it last month. But also 18 months ago and during COVID.

It was a breeze. But we did the pre check on on the Disney app.

Not an option at Port Orleans

Yes it is. Just Google it. You link everything up in the Disney World app.

yeah we had the app. It wasn't an option for us, or for the long line of people waiting at the front desk. And we definitely take advantage of online check in when it's available. So my experience is not that WDW is on top of this at all.

Why wasn’t it available? Was this many years ago?

It was last year. Is it that hard for you to imagine that an app might say you have to go to the front desk to check in? Have you every even been to Port Orleans?

Do you really think this was a specific Port Orleans problem? Or perhaps an app glitch? Or issue with your particular room or something else? You made a blanked statement that at this hotel its not an option which is false.

I definitely got the impression it wasn't available. Why do you even care? You've clearly never been there. Are you a Disney employee?

Got the impresssion. Ok. Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing. No need to spread misinformation or tell everyone who has been there that they in fact are ones who are wrong.

I am the earlier poster, and yes, I agree. Everyone checking in to a WDW resort should just take the time to understand the app. It really is nice to go right to your room.

Another person who has not been to Port Orleans.

You can "check in online" sure, but then you get there and you have to go to the front desk they have to assign your room to you - in other words you have to check in in person. In other words online check in is not a real check in.

I don't know what your problem is, but it was for us.

They texted us when our room was ready and gave us the room number. We went right to the room and used our phone to unlock the door using the WDW app.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is checking in at resorts so awful? It's frustrating to pay so much money and then spend 15+ minutes standing in line after hours of traveling. And then the actual check in process takes like 20 minutes while trying to keep our little kids calm. When we stay at regular hotels we can do online check in with the click of a button and go straight to our rooms.

WDW really has it down now. We do online check in, and they text us the room number and we can use our phone app to get in the room. We skip the front desk totally.

Oh have they set this system up since we went this past winter? We were exhausted when we got to Port Orleans and stood in the wrong place in the reception area waiting to check in, nobody acknowledged us then a long line formed and we had to go to the back of that. 4yo DD was tired and hungry. Fun times.

We used it last month. But also 18 months ago and during COVID.

It was a breeze. But we did the pre check on on the Disney app.

Not an option at Port Orleans

Yes it is. Just Google it. You link everything up in the Disney World app.

yeah we had the app. It wasn't an option for us, or for the long line of people waiting at the front desk. And we definitely take advantage of online check in when it's available. So my experience is not that WDW is on top of this at all.

Why wasn’t it available? Was this many years ago?

It was last year. Is it that hard for you to imagine that an app might say you have to go to the front desk to check in? Have you every even been to Port Orleans?

Do you really think this was a specific Port Orleans problem? Or perhaps an app glitch? Or issue with your particular room or something else? You made a blanked statement that at this hotel its not an option which is false.

I definitely got the impression it wasn't available. Why do you even care? You've clearly never been there. Are you a Disney employee?

Got the impresssion. Ok. Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing. No need to spread misinformation or tell everyone who has been there that they in fact are ones who are wrong.

I am the earlier poster, and yes, I agree. Everyone checking in to a WDW resort should just take the time to understand the app. It really is nice to go right to your room.

Another person who has not been to Port Orleans.

You can "check in online" sure, but then you get there and you have to go to the front desk they have to assign your room to you - in other words you have to check in in person. In other words online check in is not a real check in.

Sorry you couldn’t figure it out. Maybe these directions will help you next time:

https://www.portorleans.org/my-disney-experience.php

There was nothing we could have done differently to have our room assigned ahead of time. The link you posted acknowledges that rooms are not assigned ahead of time in every case. We arrived quite late and were exhausted. We didn't arrive before the standard check in time. There was no reason why our room couldn't have been assigned online, but it wasn't, and I suspect this happens quite often given the lines at the front desk. But go ahead, stay at Port Orleans and see for yourself instead of acting like I'm incompetent for not being able to do something you yourself have never done.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is checking in at resorts so awful? It's frustrating to pay so much money and then spend 15+ minutes standing in line after hours of traveling. And then the actual check in process takes like 20 minutes while trying to keep our little kids calm. When we stay at regular hotels we can do online check in with the click of a button and go straight to our rooms.

WDW really has it down now. We do online check in, and they text us the room number and we can use our phone app to get in the room. We skip the front desk totally.

Oh have they set this system up since we went this past winter? We were exhausted when we got to Port Orleans and stood in the wrong place in the reception area waiting to check in, nobody acknowledged us then a long line formed and we had to go to the back of that. 4yo DD was tired and hungry. Fun times.

We used it last month. But also 18 months ago and during COVID.

It was a breeze. But we did the pre check on on the Disney app.

Not an option at Port Orleans

Yes it is. Just Google it. You link everything up in the Disney World app.

yeah we had the app. It wasn't an option for us, or for the long line of people waiting at the front desk. And we definitely take advantage of online check in when it's available. So my experience is not that WDW is on top of this at all.

Why wasn’t it available? Was this many years ago?

It was last year. Is it that hard for you to imagine that an app might say you have to go to the front desk to check in? Have you every even been to Port Orleans?

Do you really think this was a specific Port Orleans problem? Or perhaps an app glitch? Or issue with your particular room or something else? You made a blanked statement that at this hotel its not an option which is false.

I definitely got the impression it wasn't available. Why do you even care? You've clearly never been there. Are you a Disney employee?

Got the impresssion. Ok. Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing. No need to spread misinformation or tell everyone who has been there that they in fact are ones who are wrong.

I am the earlier poster, and yes, I agree. Everyone checking in to a WDW resort should just take the time to understand the app. It really is nice to go right to your room.

Another person who has not been to Port Orleans.

You can "check in online" sure, but then you get there and you have to go to the front desk they have to assign your room to you - in other words you have to check in in person. In other words online check in is not a real check in.

Sorry you couldn’t figure it out. Maybe these directions will help you next time:

https://www.portorleans.org/my-disney-experience.php

There was nothing we could have done differently to have our room assigned ahead of time. The link you posted acknowledges that rooms are not assigned ahead of time in every case. We arrived quite late and were exhausted. We didn't arrive before the standard check in time. There was no reason why our room couldn't have been assigned online, but it wasn't, and I suspect this happens quite often given the lines at the front desk. But go ahead, stay at Port Orleans and see for yourself instead of acting like I'm incompetent for not being able to do something you yourself have never done.

Just stop doubling down on this. Online checkin is available there like every other WDW resort. That doesn’t sometimes there aren’t issues. Fact is, it works for some people. Stop denying the obvious. You’ve been called out a few times. It IS available but may not work every time for every person for whatever reason. You are saying it’s never an option. Not true.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is checking in at resorts so awful? It's frustrating to pay so much money and then spend 15+ minutes standing in line after hours of traveling. And then the actual check in process takes like 20 minutes while trying to keep our little kids calm. When we stay at regular hotels we can do online check in with the click of a button and go straight to our rooms.

WDW really has it down now. We do online check in, and they text us the room number and we can use our phone app to get in the room. We skip the front desk totally.

Oh have they set this system up since we went this past winter? We were exhausted when we got to Port Orleans and stood in the wrong place in the reception area waiting to check in, nobody acknowledged us then a long line formed and we had to go to the back of that. 4yo DD was tired and hungry. Fun times.

We used it last month. But also 18 months ago and during COVID.

It was a breeze. But we did the pre check on on the Disney app.

Not an option at Port Orleans

Yes it is. Just Google it. You link everything up in the Disney World app.

yeah we had the app. It wasn't an option for us, or for the long line of people waiting at the front desk. And we definitely take advantage of online check in when it's available. So my experience is not that WDW is on top of this at all.

Why wasn’t it available? Was this many years ago?

It was last year. Is it that hard for you to imagine that an app might say you have to go to the front desk to check in? Have you every even been to Port Orleans?

Do you really think this was a specific Port Orleans problem? Or perhaps an app glitch? Or issue with your particular room or something else? You made a blanked statement that at this hotel its not an option which is false.

I definitely got the impression it wasn't available. Why do you even care? You've clearly never been there. Are you a Disney employee?

Got the impresssion. Ok. Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing. No need to spread misinformation or tell everyone who has been there that they in fact are ones who are wrong.

I am the earlier poster, and yes, I agree. Everyone checking in to a WDW resort should just take the time to understand the app. It really is nice to go right to your room.

Another person who has not been to Port Orleans.

You can "check in online" sure, but then you get there and you have to go to the front desk they have to assign your room to you - in other words you have to check in in person. In other words online check in is not a real check in.

Sorry you couldn’t figure it out. Maybe these directions will help you next time:

https://www.portorleans.org/my-disney-experience.php

There was nothing we could have done differently to have our room assigned ahead of time. The link you posted acknowledges that rooms are not assigned ahead of time in every case. We arrived quite late and were exhausted. We didn't arrive before the standard check in time. There was no reason why our room couldn't have been assigned online, but it wasn't, and I suspect this happens quite often given the lines at the front desk. But go ahead, stay at Port Orleans and see for yourself instead of acting like I'm incompetent for not being able to do something you yourself have never done.

Just stop doubling down on this. Online checkin is available there like every other WDW resort. That doesn’t sometimes there aren’t issues. Fact is, it works for some people. Stop denying the obvious. You’ve been called out a few times. It IS available but may not work every time for every person for whatever reason. You are saying it’s never an option. Not true.

I'm being accused of not being able to navigate online check in, when in fact it was not available to us or to many other people.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is checking in at resorts so awful? It's frustrating to pay so much money and then spend 15+ minutes standing in line after hours of traveling. And then the actual check in process takes like 20 minutes while trying to keep our little kids calm. When we stay at regular hotels we can do online check in with the click of a button and go straight to our rooms.

WDW really has it down now. We do online check in, and they text us the room number and we can use our phone app to get in the room. We skip the front desk totally.

Oh have they set this system up since we went this past winter? We were exhausted when we got to Port Orleans and stood in the wrong place in the reception area waiting to check in, nobody acknowledged us then a long line formed and we had to go to the back of that. 4yo DD was tired and hungry. Fun times.

We used it last month. But also 18 months ago and during COVID.

It was a breeze. But we did the pre check on on the Disney app.

Not an option at Port Orleans

Yes it is. Just Google it. You link everything up in the Disney World app.

yeah we had the app. It wasn't an option for us, or for the long line of people waiting at the front desk. And we definitely take advantage of online check in when it's available. So my experience is not that WDW is on top of this at all.

Why wasn’t it available? Was this many years ago?

It was last year. Is it that hard for you to imagine that an app might say you have to go to the front desk to check in? Have you every even been to Port Orleans?

Do you really think this was a specific Port Orleans problem? Or perhaps an app glitch? Or issue with your particular room or something else? You made a blanked statement that at this hotel its not an option which is false.

I definitely got the impression it wasn't available. Why do you even care? You've clearly never been there. Are you a Disney employee?

Got the impresssion. Ok. Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing. No need to spread misinformation or tell everyone who has been there that they in fact are ones who are wrong.

I am the earlier poster, and yes, I agree. Everyone checking in to a WDW resort should just take the time to understand the app. It really is nice to go right to your room.

Another person who has not been to Port Orleans.

You can "check in online" sure, but then you get there and you have to go to the front desk they have to assign your room to you - in other words you have to check in in person. In other words online check in is not a real check in.

Sorry you couldn’t figure it out. Maybe these directions will help you next time:

https://www.portorleans.org/my-disney-experience.php

There was nothing we could have done differently to have our room assigned ahead of time. The link you posted acknowledges that rooms are not assigned ahead of time in every case. We arrived quite late and were exhausted. We didn't arrive before the standard check in time. There was no reason why our room couldn't have been assigned online, but it wasn't, and I suspect this happens quite often given the lines at the front desk. But go ahead, stay at Port Orleans and see for yourself instead of acting like I'm incompetent for not being able to do something you yourself have never done.

Just stop doubling down on this. Online checkin is available there like every other WDW resort. That doesn’t sometimes there aren’t issues. Fact is, it works for some people. Stop denying the obvious. You’ve been called out a few times. It IS available but may not work every time for every person for whatever reason. You are saying it’s never an option. Not true.

I'm being accused of not being able to navigate online check in, when in fact it was not available to us or to many other people.

You also said it is NOT an option, ever. Not true.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is checking in at resorts so awful? It's frustrating to pay so much money and then spend 15+ minutes standing in line after hours of traveling. And then the actual check in process takes like 20 minutes while trying to keep our little kids calm. When we stay at regular hotels we can do online check in with the click of a button and go straight to our rooms.

WDW really has it down now. We do online check in, and they text us the room number and we can use our phone app to get in the room. We skip the front desk totally.

Oh have they set this system up since we went this past winter? We were exhausted when we got to Port Orleans and stood in the wrong place in the reception area waiting to check in, nobody acknowledged us then a long line formed and we had to go to the back of that. 4yo DD was tired and hungry. Fun times.

We used it last month. But also 18 months ago and during COVID.

It was a breeze. But we did the pre check on on the Disney app.

Not an option at Port Orleans

Yes it is. Just Google it. You link everything up in the Disney World app.

yeah we had the app. It wasn't an option for us, or for the long line of people waiting at the front desk. And we definitely take advantage of online check in when it's available. So my experience is not that WDW is on top of this at all.

Why wasn’t it available? Was this many years ago?

It was last year. Is it that hard for you to imagine that an app might say you have to go to the front desk to check in? Have you every even been to Port Orleans?

Do you really think this was a specific Port Orleans problem? Or perhaps an app glitch? Or issue with your particular room or something else? You made a blanked statement that at this hotel its not an option which is false.

I definitely got the impression it wasn't available. Why do you even care? You've clearly never been there. Are you a Disney employee?

Got the impresssion. Ok. Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing. No need to spread misinformation or tell everyone who has been there that they in fact are ones who are wrong.

I am the earlier poster, and yes, I agree. Everyone checking in to a WDW resort should just take the time to understand the app. It really is nice to go right to your room.

Another person who has not been to Port Orleans.

You can "check in online" sure, but then you get there and you have to go to the front desk they have to assign your room to you - in other words you have to check in in person. In other words online check in is not a real check in.

Sorry you couldn’t figure it out. Maybe these directions will help you next time:

https://www.portorleans.org/my-disney-experience.php

There was nothing we could have done differently to have our room assigned ahead of time. The link you posted acknowledges that rooms are not assigned ahead of time in every case. We arrived quite late and were exhausted. We didn't arrive before the standard check in time. There was no reason why our room couldn't have been assigned online, but it wasn't, and I suspect this happens quite often given the lines at the front desk. But go ahead, stay at Port Orleans and see for yourself instead of acting like I'm incompetent for not being able to do something you yourself have never done.

Just stop doubling down on this. Online checkin is available there like every other WDW resort. That doesn’t sometimes there aren’t issues. Fact is, it works for some people. Stop denying the obvious. You’ve been called out a few times. It IS available but may not work every time for every person for whatever reason. You are saying it’s never an option. Not true.

I'm being accused of not being able to navigate online check in, when in fact it was not available to us or to many other people.

You also said it is NOT an option, ever. Not true.

Afaik it is not an option. I don't know what to tell you. There was no reason why it wasn't available to us and that we had to wait for 30 minutes at dinner time with a hungry preschooler (yes I took her to the restaurant myself, I guess it's too much to ask to have dinner together as a family after a long trip). You've never even been there! Jfc.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is checking in at resorts so awful? It's frustrating to pay so much money and then spend 15+ minutes standing in line after hours of traveling. And then the actual check in process takes like 20 minutes while trying to keep our little kids calm. When we stay at regular hotels we can do online check in with the click of a button and go straight to our rooms.

WDW really has it down now. We do online check in, and they text us the room number and we can use our phone app to get in the room. We skip the front desk totally.

Oh have they set this system up since we went this past winter? We were exhausted when we got to Port Orleans and stood in the wrong place in the reception area waiting to check in, nobody acknowledged us then a long line formed and we had to go to the back of that. 4yo DD was tired and hungry. Fun times.

We used it last month. But also 18 months ago and during COVID.

It was a breeze. But we did the pre check on on the Disney app.

Not an option at Port Orleans

Yes it is. Just Google it. You link everything up in the Disney World app.

yeah we had the app. It wasn't an option for us, or for the long line of people waiting at the front desk. And we definitely take advantage of online check in when it's available. So my experience is not that WDW is on top of this at all.

Why wasn’t it available? Was this many years ago?

It was last year. Is it that hard for you to imagine that an app might say you have to go to the front desk to check in? Have you every even been to Port Orleans?

Do you really think this was a specific Port Orleans problem? Or perhaps an app glitch? Or issue with your particular room or something else? You made a blanked statement that at this hotel its not an option which is false.

I definitely got the impression it wasn't available. Why do you even care? You've clearly never been there. Are you a Disney employee?

Got the impresssion. Ok. Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing. No need to spread misinformation or tell everyone who has been there that they in fact are ones who are wrong.

I am the earlier poster, and yes, I agree. Everyone checking in to a WDW resort should just take the time to understand the app. It really is nice to go right to your room.

Another person who has not been to Port Orleans.

You can "check in online" sure, but then you get there and you have to go to the front desk they have to assign your room to you - in other words you have to check in in person. In other words online check in is not a real check in.

Sorry you couldn’t figure it out. Maybe these directions will help you next time:

https://www.portorleans.org/my-disney-experience.php

There was nothing we could have done differently to have our room assigned ahead of time. The link you posted acknowledges that rooms are not assigned ahead of time in every case. We arrived quite late and were exhausted. We didn't arrive before the standard check in time. There was no reason why our room couldn't have been assigned online, but it wasn't, and I suspect this happens quite often given the lines at the front desk. But go ahead, stay at Port Orleans and see for yourself instead of acting like I'm incompetent for not being able to do something you yourself have never done.

Just stop doubling down on this. Online checkin is available there like every other WDW resort. That doesn’t sometimes there aren’t issues. Fact is, it works for some people. Stop denying the obvious. You’ve been called out a few times. It IS available but may not work every time for every person for whatever reason. You are saying it’s never an option. Not true.

I'm being accused of not being able to navigate online check in, when in fact it was not available to us or to many other people.

You also said it is NOT an option, ever. Not true.

Afaik it is not an option. I don't know what to tell you. There was no reason why it wasn't available to us and that we had to wait for 30 minutes at dinner time with a hungry preschooler (yes I took her to the restaurant myself, I guess it's too much to ask to have dinner together as a family after a long trip). You've never even been there! Jfc.

And now you have been corrected. So you can simply say “Too bad it didn’t work for us.” And yes, I have been there. Get over it.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is checking in at resorts so awful? It's frustrating to pay so much money and then spend 15+ minutes standing in line after hours of traveling. And then the actual check in process takes like 20 minutes while trying to keep our little kids calm. When we stay at regular hotels we can do online check in with the click of a button and go straight to our rooms.

WDW really has it down now. We do online check in, and they text us the room number and we can use our phone app to get in the room. We skip the front desk totally.

Oh have they set this system up since we went this past winter? We were exhausted when we got to Port Orleans and stood in the wrong place in the reception area waiting to check in, nobody acknowledged us then a long line formed and we had to go to the back of that. 4yo DD was tired and hungry. Fun times.

We used it last month. But also 18 months ago and during COVID.

It was a breeze. But we did the pre check on on the Disney app.

Not an option at Port Orleans

Yes it is. Just Google it. You link everything up in the Disney World app.

yeah we had the app. It wasn't an option for us, or for the long line of people waiting at the front desk. And we definitely take advantage of online check in when it's available. So my experience is not that WDW is on top of this at all.

Why wasn’t it available? Was this many years ago?

It was last year. Is it that hard for you to imagine that an app might say you have to go to the front desk to check in? Have you every even been to Port Orleans?

Do you really think this was a specific Port Orleans problem? Or perhaps an app glitch? Or issue with your particular room or something else? You made a blanked statement that at this hotel its not an option which is false.

I definitely got the impression it wasn't available. Why do you even care? You've clearly never been there. Are you a Disney employee?

Got the impresssion. Ok. Sounds like you had no idea what you were doing. No need to spread misinformation or tell everyone who has been there that they in fact are ones who are wrong.

I am the earlier poster, and yes, I agree. Everyone checking in to a WDW resort should just take the time to understand the app. It really is nice to go right to your room.

Another person who has not been to Port Orleans.

You can "check in online" sure, but then you get there and you have to go to the front desk they have to assign your room to you - in other words you have to check in in person. In other words online check in is not a real check in.

Sorry you couldn’t figure it out. Maybe these directions will help you next time:

https://www.portorleans.org/my-disney-experience.php

There was nothing we could have done differently to have our room assigned ahead of time. The link you posted acknowledges that rooms are not assigned ahead of time in every case. We arrived quite late and were exhausted. We didn't arrive before the standard check in time. There was no reason why our room couldn't have been assigned online, but it wasn't, and I suspect this happens quite often given the lines at the front desk. But go ahead, stay at Port Orleans and see for yourself instead of acting like I'm incompetent for not being able to do something you yourself have never done.

Just stop doubling down on this. Online checkin is available there like every other WDW resort. That doesn’t sometimes there aren’t issues. Fact is, it works for some people. Stop denying the obvious. You’ve been called out a few times. It IS available but may not work every time for every person for whatever reason. You are saying it’s never an option. Not true.

I'm being accused of not being able to navigate online check in, when in fact it was not available to us or to many other people.

You also said it is NOT an option, ever. Not true.

Afaik it is not an option. I don't know what to tell you. There was no reason why it wasn't available to us and that we had to wait for 30 minutes at dinner time with a hungry preschooler (yes I took her to the restaurant myself, I guess it's too much to ask to have dinner together as a family after a long trip). You've never even been there! Jfc.

And now you have been corrected. So you can simply say “Too bad it didn’t work for us.” And yes, I have been there. Get over it.

Lol now you say so

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FYI you could have just said "we went there and it worked for us" instead you chose to tlattack me. You're a rude pos

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Anonymous wrote:FYI you could have just said "we went there and it worked for us" instead you chose to tlattack me. You're a rude pos

No. Because people are reacting to “It’s not an option at PO”. You were wrong, just own it. No need to deny everyone else’s experience again and again.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI you could have just said "we went there and it worked for us" instead you chose to tlattack me. You're a rude pos

It was said above and you still argued about it. I’m beginning to see why many things in life might be hard for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Just stayed at two lovely Hawaiian resorts and didn't have to wait at all. In fact, I can't remember the last time I waited to check in somewhere. Can you give examples OP?

Anywhere in Mexico. They move at a glacial pace.

“They”? Who is “they”?

Mexicans!

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DisneyWorld was amazing. You can pre-check in before arriving and then use your cell phone as the room key. You do not even have to go to the front desk at all! Never saw this done anywhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is checking in at resorts so awful? It's frustrating to pay so much money and then spend 15+ minutes standing in line after hours of traveling. And then the actual check in process takes like 20 minutes while trying to keep our little kids calm. When we stay at regular hotels we can do online check in with the click of a button and go straight to our rooms.

WDW really has it down now. We do online check in, and they text us the room number and we can use our phone app to get in the room. We skip the front desk totally.

Oh have they set this system up since we went this past winter? We were exhausted when we got to Port Orleans and stood in the wrong place in the reception area waiting to check in, nobody acknowledged us then a long line formed and we had to go to the back of that. 4yo DD was tired and hungry. Fun times.

You just don't know what you are doing. We checked in at PO on the app and used the app as a room key last October.

Agree. You can do online check-in on the app a month before your reservation starts.