Welcome aboard, James!
Isn't this exciting? Your voyage is coming up, and you need to line up some of your daily activities now. There are pretty cool
port adventures for your port days, so it's really best to make your reservations as early as you can since there are some excursions that do fill up fast.
When you go online on the
My Cruise Activities page, you'll make those port adventure and onboard activity choices for each day of your voyage. In that same online system, you'll be asked to setup your onboard account with a credit card to keep on file. You'll be able to make the reservations, but you won't see the charges on your credit card until your voyage. Just in case you need to make changes, you can make these without penalty at least 3 days before your sail date.
Disney Cruise Line will not charge your credit card yet -- you'll actually see the charges towards the tail end of your trip. To make sure you've got the correct excursions reserved, you can just refer back to the online system -- it should be saved in there already. Once you are onboard, you'll also get actual tickets for your port adventures in your stateroom on embarkation day.
I hope this helps, James. Please do let us know if you have additional questions that we can help with.
Happy planning!
~ Dolly