Is online check in worth it?

[ardt64]

I have always done the online check in before, but it seems that they ask all the same questions when I get to the ship. We are travelling with a number of people so I will need to gather a lot of passport numbers etc this time. Does it really save time to do it in advance?

Lisa

[CTCruisers]

I think so. With our last 2 cruises, the check-in process went smoothly and quickly. The only thing we had to do was show our boarding pass and passports. Then we had to sign a form that we were not sick. Other than that, they just gave us our keycards.

[susie8862]

By doing it on-line...you eliminate all of the paper work. Meaning, that if you do NOT do it on-line, the people behind you at the cruise port-check-in are waiting and waiting ....very inconsiderate. Please do it on-line. This is what causes a major back up when people do not do it.

 

HAVE A GREAT TIME..:o:o:o

[Chigirlcruzin]

You don't need to gather everybody's info. Have them do it themselves.

[DaveRRT]

you have to be checked in and hr or 2 before sailing, dont remember how long, or you dont get on the ship, so do it online just in case somthing happens on the way to the ship

[ardt64]

I remember in the past it seemed like they retyped everything I had already done at home. But of course if it does save me, and everyone behind me time, I will do it.

[tdk]

Why would you not do it online....you want the start of your vacation to be as easy and seamless as possible. Like somebody else said have the ones old enough and able do their own.

[katiel53]

Last month when we were on Carnival Dream, all we did was show our passports and we then got our room key. So simple, that I can't imagine not doing it online.

[yng.cruzan.cple]

I'm new to this, where do I go to check in and when should I do it?

[tdk]

I'm new to this, where do I go to check in and when should I do it?

 

Carnival. Com then go to manage my cruise

[Sailor's Momma]

I'm new to this, where do I go to check in and when should I do it?

 

 

Go to carnival.com and login. Click manage my account. Click your upcoming cruise name. Click things to do before you go (I believe). I would double check, but their website is running really slow. :-/ It will prompt you though a series of questions. I believe that you can do it at anytime. I did mine weeks ago. We leave the first week of January. I have done it numerous months before. It is easy.:D

[bbohbbneedacruise]

At POM all we did was scan our credit card and passport at the Kiosk and then went and picked up our S&S cards. Easy peasy. In fact we did not even have a line to wait in.

The lines were at the regular counter where paperwork was flying here and there, LOL

[MrFunInTheSun]

Yes. Only thing you need to produce to them is your passport. Or birth certificate and picture id if you do online check in. Goes pretty smooth, they no longer need cc as that information was placed online with check in.

 

 

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[Rudyard]

I think so. With our last 2 cruises, the check-in process went smoothly and quickly. The only thing we had to do was show our boarding pass and passports. Then we had to sign a form that we were not sick. Other than that, they just gave us our keycards.

 

This. Combined with getting to the port early, it literally took us twenty minutes to go from the parking lot to the Lido deck when we cruised Triumph last month :) Online is the way to go.

[texymouse]

you have to be checked in and hr or 2 before sailing, dont remember how long, or you dont get on the ship, so do it online just in case somthing happens on the way to the ship

 

Only if you have not done the online check in. I have been dead last getting on the ship right before the ship left once when I booked the day of a hurricane cruise that left that day.

 

I also checked in after 3 pm for a ship departing at 4 pm... and there were still maybe a hundred or two hundred checking in when I went to board after checking in. No one seemed concerned.

[SadieN]

At POM all we did was scan our credit card and passport at the Kiosk and then went and picked up our S&S cards. Easy peasy. In fact we did not even have a line to wait in.

The lines were at the regular counter where paperwork was flying here and there, LOL

 

 

:)Another reason to get a passport.:)

[ccruisequeen]

We traveled with two other couples. I sent them their booking numbers and a link to the website and they did their own check in. I did my own cash SS account and applied that on board at the ATM. Very smooth.

[zqvol]

I have always done the online check in before, but it seems that they ask all the same questions when I get to the ship. We are travelling with a number of people so I will need to gather a lot of passport numbers etc this time. Does it really save time to do it in advance?

Lisa

 

 

There is no advantage or disadvantage in doing it. They still scan your passports, and grab your CC info.

[OCruisers]

Always, we do it in advance! It does save time!

 

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[BigDfromTN]

I may be wrong... BUT I dont think you can print your boarding pass until you do the online check in.

 

As stated, Have others do their own check ins.

[bonnys]

Do it online...that is one less thing to do at the port.

[Alliezona09]

Also some ports ask to see your boarding pass which you wouldn't have unless you check in online~before they allow you to enter the building, so there's a good enough reason for me to do it online~ They've asked to see my boarding pass at Galveston, Long Beach & San Pedro~

[Chigirlcruzin]

There is no advantage or disadvantage in doing it. They still scan your passports, and grab your CC info.

 

They actually no longer run your CC if you enter the info at online check-in. My last Carnival check in took less than 2 minutes...passport verification verification, hand over the sail and sign, and we were ready to go!

[McMacy]

Go to carnival.com and login. Click manage my account. Click your upcoming cruise name. Click things to do before you go (I believe). I would double check' date=' but their website is running really slow. :-/ It will prompt you though a series of questions. I believe that you can do it at anytime. I did mine weeks ago. We leave the first week of January. I have done it numerous months before. It is easy.:D[/quote']

 

I did it yesterday, it's a piece of cake.

[Rosefloater]

Then we had to sign a form that we were not sick.

 

No more forms to sign. It is done verbally now.

 

Goes pretty smooth, they no longer need cc as that information was placed online with check in.

 

I was surprised they didn't ask to see the credit card for confirmation when we checked in 2 weeks ago.