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TouringPlans.com raised the possibility this weekend of an online check-in system coming to Disney World Resorts as well as the Disney Vacation Club properties.  Keep in mind this is still in the rumor phase of reporting.

Disney’s Online Check-In service enables Guests to simplify their arrival by allowing them to go online and provide information related to their upcoming stay. On a Guest’s scheduled arrival date, since check-in information will have been provided previously online by the Guest, they may experience a streamlined check-in at select Walt Disney World® Resort hotels or Disney Vacation Club resorts. A welcome folder with their Key to the World Card will be waiting at a designated Disney’s Online Check-In area in the resort hotel lobby. Guests will need to present valid photo ID to pick up the folder and complete check-in. Guests may check-in online beginning 10 days prior to their arrival date.

This is one of those things that I can’t believe has taken this long to develop.  I mean, if you can check-in online for an airline flight you should be able to do so with a hotel.  Plus, I can’t be the only one who has waited on ridiculous lines for check-in, especially at the value resorts.

But whether or not I take advantage of this, should it become reality, depends solely on the flexibility of the system.  For a couple of resorts the location of my room is critical to the reason I picked it.  If I can not somehow influence which specific room on get with this system then I simply would not be interested in using it.