They will text you when the room is ready, with number but if I were you, I would still go to the desk. We usually do and usually get to check in way early. Not only that-but have gotten upgraded either to preferred Or waterview, and this past September to a King Jr Suite at Coronado. Not that always happens, we were blown away, but a person has to decide to spread that pixie dust. Anytime we did just online check in our rooms were not ready early. (We get there like 7:00 am)
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Yet we are arriving to Disney property this Tues. night at 9PM. We will have traveled 6 hours and 45 minutes from Pensacola. We would like to go directly to our Pop Century Room. So....I'll get a TEXT that same day?
Yes- you will get a text, well before your 9:00 pm arrival time. On the day you check in. We drive at night, and it is about 8 1/2 hours so know how it is to want to go to a room.I gave you a "like" because I LIKE your desire to be helpful
Yet we are arriving to Disney property this Tues. night at 9PM. We will have traveled 6 hours and 45 minutes from Pensacola. We would like to go directly to our Pop Century Room. So....I'll get a TEXT that same day?
That is why we go to the desk, with such an early arrival.
And every once in a blue moon they ooops and a text doesn't come through for room ready. An upside to going through the online check in is they do manually reset your magic bands to make sure everybody in the room magic bands actually open the door. We've had that problem and I believe @Tuvalu has had recent problems with some of her MBs too. Out of our family mine work, sons work but DD had half of her MB on MDE suddenly go dormant, found to be deactivated somehow but not by us.
On the slight chance it happens Pop has a huge parking area up front of the lobby. Park there temporarily and check in up front and then move car near your assigned area. The lobby isn't normally crowded at that time of night. That part I speak from experience as I checked into that resort 3 different times in 4 days in May!!! (flights kept getting cancelled due to mega thunderstorms) But hey I did get to ride the Tragical Express 3 times from Pop to MCO in 4 days before I sadly returned home.)
Have a great time. Godspeed
Also even though we always got the text before we arrived there always seemed to be a problem with the charging privlages being activated so we end up having to go to the desk anyway.And every once in a blue moon they ooops and a text doesn't come through for room ready. An upside to going through the online check in is they do manually reset your magic bands to make sure everybody in the room magic bands actually open the door. We've had that problem and I believe @Tuvalu has had recent problems with some of her MBs too. Out of our family mine work, sons work but DD had half of her MB on MDE suddenly go dormant, found to be deactivated somehow but not by us.
On the slight chance it happens Pop has a huge parking area up front of the lobby. Park there temporarily and check in up front and then move car near your assigned area. The lobby isn't normally crowded at that time of night. That part I speak from experience as I checked into that resort 3 different times in 4 days in May!!! (flights kept getting cancelled due to mega thunderstorms) But hey I did get to ride the Tragical Express 3 times from Pop to MCO in 4 days before I sadly returned home.)
Have a great time. Godspeed
You should be able to. I want to say it that way because it doesn't always work for me. I think the last time I got a room ready text was in 2015 (this is going a couple times a year usually). I've even tried removing bands and for some dumb reason I don't get a text or e-mail until I stop at the front desk. No joke, I get the notification the moment someone at the front desk pulls my info up.I gave you a "like" because I LIKE your desire to be helpful
Yet we are arriving to Disney property this Tues. night at 9PM. We will have traveled 6 hours and 45 minutes from Pensacola. We would like to go directly to our Pop Century Room. So....I'll get a TEXT that same day?
I checked in 2 days ago. It was fine. I am at Animal K now
You're lucky. Twice in the last 3 visits we never got the room text and had to go to the desk to see what rooms we were in.