Online check in & touring plans room request

[maranara]

We leave for Disney in 9 (!) days and I just got an email from Disney that I can/should check in online. I've got my room request through Touring Plans all ready to go...if I do online check in, should I skip any room requests? Or should I make the same basic ones that I've made through touring plans? (ie, lower floor, close to pool) We're staying at AKL if that makes a difference...I'm so new to this...I don't want to make a mistake! THANKS!

 

[loves to dive]

Won't hurt to make them on line, especially if they are the same ones. Frankly, I never make anything but very broad requests, just the things you can make on line and then I tell them arriving early is more important than everything else. I've always gotten everything I've requested except the arriving early, go figure.

 

[Disneylover99]

I do both.

 

[Arthur92]

No harm in adding it in.

 

[maranara]

Thank you! I will do both - I was just scared that somehow I would request a lower floor on both and the two requests would cancel each other out.

 

[AngiTN]

I also do both, provided I have very general requests, like near elevator or lower floor.
Just don't select a room on a higher floor on TP and then select lower floor on the online check in.
As long as the requests are the same, it's good.

 

[Dug720]

As long as the requests don't cancel each other out, no reason not to make it.

For my upcoming AoA stay in a LM room, I've verbally requested 4th floor lake view. For my TP fax set-up, I have "Priority 1 - 4th floor; Priority 2 - Lake View; Priority 3 - Corner room" which matches the room number I selected for the request.

When I get to online check-in time, I'll go ahead and check in - but if the requests cancel out what I've already said, I'll leave that part blank.

 

[cigar95]

Len recommends not adding separate requests during online check-in, even if you intend them to be the same. Apparently early on there were a couple cases where the wording wasn't identical, the room assigners were unsure, and the whole request got ignored.

 

[willmccready]

I've never checked in online, do you manually enter requests or do you select from options based on your resort?

 

[Princess Minnie321]

I've never checked in online, do you manually enter requests or do you select from options based on your resort?

When I did online check in for our November trip, there was no place for comments. I was able to select from options such as high floor, low floor, near elevator.

 

[caliope]

I do both but keep them the same general categories.

 

[Mollygirl21]

When I did online check in for our November trip, there was no place for comments. I was able to select from options such as high floor, low floor, near elevator.

That's what I found when I looked at the online checkin last week so I just left it and didn't complete the checkin. Our TA has already put in requests for us.