Disney Cruise Line recently began mailing guests booked on upcoming cruises the new pre-arrival direct mail booklet they announced back in October.
The booklet comes in a full color envelope featuring the Disney Wonder sailing into the sunset.
The new Welcome Aboard booklet includes information specific to your Disney Cruise ship and itinerary. Including a lovely cutaway view of the ship.
Below you can preview the full Welcome Aboard booklet for our upcoming DCL Blog Group Cruise on the Disney Magic February 20, 2020.
In the original announcement, it was stated Welcome Aboard booklet will be mailed approximately one week after the reservation is booked. One booklet will be mailed per reservation. Please note, Placeholder reservations will not receive the booklet until their booking is moved onto an actual sail date.
Booklets are sent directly to the primary Guest on the reservation. At this time, an alternative address cannot be accommodated. If the address of the primary passenger is not on file, the Welcome Aboard booklet will not be sent out.
The Welcome Aboard booklet is mailed up to 120 days prior to vacation. For reservations confirmed within 119 days or less, a Welcome Aboard booklet is not generated.
This new booklet is being sent after booking as previously mentioned, and will eventually be followed by a luggage tag mailer which launched in May.
For more details on these new direct mailings, please check out our posts where we took a look at the variations for the Disney Fantasy, Disney Dream, and Disney Wonder of the booklet.
What do you think about the new Welcome Aboard booklet from Disney Cruise Line?
we just got ours this week after booking about 6 weeks ago.
I think this first wave may be going out outside the previously mentioned criteria. Our came last week for a cruise booked in September 2018, and is ~90 days out.
Weve been waiting for ours. Didn’t realize we had to book 120 days in advance. we booked about 70. Sad that we won’t get one.
Received ours last week as well and our sailing is 220 days out. The other cabins reserved for our party haven’t received theirs. So might be some variation on dates.
Hey, you’re on the boat right after us. We get off the Magic on the 20th.
I am thinking that the stateroom photos are customized for the category booked – I assume you have a veranda for your cruise? We have a deluxe inside stateroom for the Wonder in June, we got our booklet yesterday, and it showed an inside room.
Received one for a cruise next July! Nice booklet but a waste. I’d much rather have the previous booklet that included cruise specific info (itinerary, port adventures and other activities booked) and the luggage tags.
If we booked in Mid October 2019 for April 2021 will we get one? If yes, when?
At this time it seems completely random. I would give it time for the process to establish itself and see if they stick to the previously announced timelines.
We hot our about 4 weeks ago and I think a neat touch would be to have the front Disney cruise logo in the color of your castaway status.
We received one for our Fantasy cruise in August, 2020 a couple of weeks ago (booked our cruise back in March). Neat little booklet.
We have two cruises booked and so far nothing … are they sending to the UK as we do not always get the same things as you do in the US, the welcome home picture postcards being a case in point.
Interesting regarding the timing if when they send it. Never got ours for the Wonder in January nor anything for the Fantasy next summer. No big loss as long as we get our luggage tags still.
The book is very cool but the envelope graphics are always a tough one for us as we generally don’t tell our kids until right before (to avoid the 3,000,000,000 questions that come along) so we will be on the lookout and in “mailbox lockdown” until this arrives.
Yeah, one of our kids saw the envelope and asked “Are we going on another cruise?” We went with “We’re just looking into it” and they seemed satisfied.
Brett, Sign up for Informed Delivery on the USPS website and you can see what’s in your mail before it arrives.
Got ours about a month ago…nice touch but I’d rather have the onboard credit back Disney!!!
Ive booked a cruise on the Magic in March 2020 and still haven’t gotten this
We have two staterooms booked in the same household for the same cruise and we got our books 10 days apart from each other. I think they are still working out the kinks on this one. The book is okay, miss the old version with some more details on the itinerary and such.