Do I really need to be online at midnight for booking?

[JulieMcD]

Hi All!

My 75 day window opens at midnight tonight. We are only wanting to book meet and greets and a somewhat early PAT.

Do I really need to be online at midnight to book? I wake up at 530 am, would that be good enough?

We have never cruised, but have done multiple WDW trips. I am a huge planner and am used to being online at midnight for fastpasses.

Thanks!!

 

[AshleiCal]

If you want to do the princess meet or the frozen one, I would suggest signing in at midnight. If you don't get them online you can usually get tickets from guest services after you board, but it's not guaranteed. PAT will just depend what gold and silver have already chosen.

 

[dragynally]

Hi All!

My 75 day window opens at midnight tonight. We are only wanting to book meet and greets and a somewhat early PAT.

Do I really need to be online at midnight to book? I wake up at 530 am, would that be good enough?

We have never cruised, but have done multiple WDW trips. I am a huge planner and am used to being online at midnight for fastpasses.

Thanks!!

Your best chances are at at midnight but I've booked cruises late and have still be able to book everything I wanted. And when I say late I mean way past 75 days. Like 30. But 5:30am doesn't sound late enough to be a huge problem.

 

[lklgoodman]

There's no way to know how quickly things will fill up. How disappointed would you be if you waited until the morning and you weren't able to get what you wanted? I signed up for the things I wanted for our last cruise(2 months ago on the Fantasy) at mid-night and was able to get what I wanted at 90 days out. When I checked at 6am the next morning to see about changing the times I had chosen all the meet and greets were already taken. Could you go to sleep and then set an alarm to get up at midnight?

 

[GoofyLovingFamily]

There is no guarantee that the system is working at midnight. Lately there has been glitches. We could not get PAT until 1:30 am last month. Activities opened close to midnight.

 

[JulieMcD]

Thanks everyone! I am going to play it on the safe side and set my alarm for midnight.

 

[Bear3412]

Yes

 

[mandylovesdisney]

Hi All!

My 75 day window opens at midnight tonight. We are only wanting to book meet and greets and a somewhat early PAT.

Do I really need to be online at midnight to book? I wake up at 530 am, would that be good enough?

We have never cruised, but have done multiple WDW trips. I am a huge planner and am used to being online at midnight for fastpasses.

Thanks!!

I'd say no. I've never had an issue getting what I wanted and like someone else said....if you can't get princess tix online...go to guest services onboard. I booked 40 days out once and got a PAT of 11:30. That's still early.

 

[Garyjames220]

Thanks everyone! I am going to play it on the safe side and set my alarm for midnight.

Or you could play it even safer and just not go to bed till after midnight

 

[dragynally]

Let us know how your booking went.

 

[knighta37]

I was an hour late and the excursions I wanted and the sports simulators had all booked up. Got everything else we wanted though. Caveat is that we are first timers and the cruise (8th April Eastern 7 day) is full.

 

[Trera]

Just keep checking back. People change their minds and drop excursions all the time.

Good Luck

 

[Dug720]

Just keep checking back. People change their minds and drop excursions all the time.

Good Luck

This.

Plus there is a chance the excursions and sports thingy were booked up by all those with earlier check in dates. That's what I'd be telling myself anyway. Lol.

 

[hanscarlet]

next time have a travel agent do it for you if you don't like waking up at midnight... how did you make out btw? did the PAT work? that has been glitchy for me in the past

 

[JulieMcD]

next time have a travel agent do it for you if you don't like waking up at midnight... how did you make out btw? did the PAT work? that has been glitchy for me in the past

Everything went great. PAT and bookings all available right at midnight. Didn't take long at all. Thanks everyone!