So the day has finally came! Check in day! You’re giddy with excitement! I know I was. But what really goes on during check in? That is what we are going to be talking about today.

A couple of days before you arrive, you’ll get an itinerary stating your role and location, check in information, including what time you should check in and where. You’ll also find out when you have to do casting, drug testing, and attend the housing meeting on the itinerary.

On Check In Day, you’ll walk up (or more like drive through security) to your housing complex and head to the clubhouse. The person greeting you at the door will hand you a program guide with your information on the back. If you decided to bring your car they’ll hand you a form on how to get your car decal from DORMS.

The next station will be where you take your housing ID photo. Then it gets printed out right then and there. Next you’ll head over to the next station. There you hand in all your forms. During this time they’re hand you a bunch of stuff; bus schedule, a welcome letter from whatever complex you’re living in, things like that.

After that, you’ll take a seat and fill out the forms for your car online via DORMS. Once you completed that, you’ll show that you completed the forms, show your car’s registration, driver’s license, and insurance. Then they’ll do whatever they need to do on their part, hand you your car decal. You’re pretty much done after that.

Depending on what time casting is, you’ll either go to casting or start moving in to your apartment, but let’s take some time and take about casting.

For casting, you would head over to Chatham and wait for the bus that will take you over to the casting building. Before you do head over, make sure you have all your I 9 documents with you!! Once at the casting building, you’ll line up and wait before they take you into an office and go over your I 9 documents, go over all the information, all that. While they are doing that, they’ll give a form to fill out.

After that is done, you’ll go over to the next station with the form you filled out. They’ll ask you if you have any questions about the Disney Look (which by the way if you haven’t read that post “The Disney Look”, you should totally check it out. I went into detail about the Disney Look). They’ll check for the basics: allotted ear piercings, no visible tattoos, if your make up is natural and on point.

Next you’ll go to a different room with different tables set up with different CMs from Disney training services. They will tell you to open up an email you get after check in. The email will contain your training schedule for the three days after Traditions. They’ll go over that and make sure you don’t have any questions.

The next station after that is security. This is where you hand over that form you filled out earlier in casting. Here they go over to see if you are convicted of a felony and do your fingerprints. I remember when they did mine, my pinky fingers would not scan for whatever reason. So I had to write down all the places I lived in. I had to text my parents and my siblings if they knew one of the addresses of the houses we lived in. I was three when we moved so I didn’t know the address.

Once all of that is completed, you are free to go. Just hop back on the bus and head back to your housing complex. Finish moving in and get to know your roommates!

Oh, I should note that depending on your role, you might have to do a drug test. But since how you check in has changed since I was a CP, I don’t know if it’s the same process or not.

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