{"id":1940,"date":"2019-08-19T07:09:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T11:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backtothemouse.com\/index.php\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2019-07-31T20:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T00:46:17","slug":"disney-cruise-line-boarding-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backtothemouse.com\/index.php\/disney-cruise-line-boarding-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Cruise Line Boarding Process"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boarding A Disney Cruise Line Ship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You’ve booked your Disney Cruise, paid for it, scheduled your excursions, booked mixology classes, and got that highly prized cabana.  What now?  It’s time to get on board!  We will walk you through the process! <\/p>\n

There are many ways to arrive at the Disney Cruise Terminal (we have examples for Port Canaveral and Miami).  You can arrive by Disney transfer, RideShare (Taxi\/Uber\/Lift\/Limo), or private car.   In the case of Disney Transfer, your luggage will be taken care of for you.  If you arrive through some other means, there are luggage porters out front that will take your luggage and make sure it gets on the ship. You do have to make sure you have the Disney Cruise Line luggage tags on your bags. Your name and room number are on these tags. Once you hand the bags to the luggage porter, the next time you will see them will be on the ship.  <\/p>\n

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Luggage Tags<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n

After you have dropped off your luggage, you will proceed to the cruise terminal itself.  At this point, the cruise terminal may or may not be open.  We try to arrive a little bit before our port arrival time (we always select the earliest one available).  I like to be in the cruise terminal as early as possible so we can check for available upgrades and get on board early so our vacation can begin.<\/p>\n

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Disney Cruise Terminal Building at Port Canaveral<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Disney Cruise Terminal Building in Miami<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once you are at the entrance of the cruise terminal, you will encounter a crew member or port terminal employee that will want to check your cruise documentation.  They are looking for the booklet that Disney Cruise Line sent you<\/a>.  They will also verify that your citizen documentation matches up to your cruise documentation.   This will be a passport for non-United States Citizens (if leaving from the United States).  If you are a United States citizen leaving from a United States port and returning to the same port (a closed loop cruise), you can use some sort of government picture id with your birth certificate.  A passport will always work for a United States citizen. <\/p>\n

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Cover of Cruise Documentation<\/figcaption><\/figure>
<\/figcaption>Once your documentation has been verified, you will be allowed to proceed to the security screening.  This screening will be very similar to what you would encounter in an airport.  You will have to send your bags through an X-ray machine and you will proceed through a metal detector.  The security is run by the port terminal, but they will be looking for some of Disney Cruise Line’s prohibited items (Taken directly from https:\/\/disneycruise.disney.go.com\/faq\/prohibited-items\/list\/<\/a>):<\/figure>\n
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Items prohibited on board ship and on Castaway Cay<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n