Originally Posted By marc66 Has anyone called to make dining reservations recently and found it very difficult to find availability that wasn't after 8:00 at night. My wife called yesterday and had a hard time especially @ Chef Mickey's. We went last year and did'nt have such a hard time making reservations. Just curious.
Originally Posted By sjhym33 As more people use the dining plan and the restuarants get full, people are finding that they need to make reservations early to get into their favorite places to eat. This year seems to be the worst yet. And the people in the park show no mercy for the most part. A friend was in the park on a last minute trip and tried to eat at their favorite restuarant. The place was fully booked which my friend understood but when he asked if he could wait to see if a table opened up, the CM told him NO, we wont have any openings at all. He persisted with...Well what if someone cancels? Can I just wait. The hostess said...I told you NO!
Originally Posted By seafairy1622 I called last week and got Akershues, 1900 Park Fare, Planet Hollywood and Whispering Canyon. They asked what time we wanted I said 5:30-6:00 and we got that too. I did call 90 days ahead of time and they let me make ressies for the whole week. I called about 6:30am. (our time in CA) I was on hold for about half an hour, then had to hurry and get ready for work. I forgot about Akershues in my rush and excitment to get 1900 park fare(I didn't think I would get it.) so I called on my lunch break and was only on hold for 1 min. and got it for breakfast at 8:05am. I would keep trying someone may cancel or ask them what is available at your desired time. Good luck!
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I have noticed that the closer you are to your time in the park the less their is avaible. Like seafairy said, just keep calling someone could cancle at any time. Goodluck
Originally Posted By sharpc Has the number of days been changed to 90 again? It was 180 for a while...
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb It's 90 again, Chef Mickey's and Cindy's may still be 180, but everything else is 90.
Originally Posted By sharpc Oh, Chef Mickey's might be 180? Thats the one place I was thinking about primarily... Chances of reservations?
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Better than Cindy's. I was able to get a breakfast seating on my kid's birthday no problem calling 180 days out (but couldn't get Le Cellier at 90 for the whole week unless I wanted a stinker of a seating).
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 At first I thought that an online for dinning ressies would be wonderful. This is way it may not be, with everyone online at the same time. That would make it difficult, and have the site down with to many people. If they could get rid of that, I think it would be a great idea.
Originally Posted By stitch4336 Good ex[erience report! Called a few hours ago - we are 72 days away from out trip to WDW. I got 5 of the 6 I wanted - all at times I was looking for except for one. We got ressies at Hollywood & Vine, Cape May Cafe character breakfast, Boma for dinner, Liberty Tree Tavern and Spoodles. I had to take a 7:45 for Cape May - wanted a little later, but we'll just get up a little earlier. I was on hold for abou 3 minutes. The CM was nice, explained it was a new system - it did take longer than in the past. The CM did say that they new system is "picky" - if you don't do everything exactly rigth it will return no avails. Overall a good experience. Oh yeah, the one we couldn't get was Sci-Fi Drive In - BUT we are going on Star Wars weekend, and it's a Sci-Fi place, so I'm not surprised! I should have called at 90 days
Originally Posted By stitch4336 Oh yeah....I asked the CM about the possibility of an online booking system for ADRs - and she said that it is the "rumor" there as well. Here's my thought...will they put a systme in place to keep people from overbooking? Say someone isn't sure which place they want to eat at, so they make ressies at 2 or even 3 places for the same night, eating up the avails? Hopefully they'll think of this and put in system in place to prevent it. That would be my only concern. Well along with the "will they have a server/system that can handle the traffic"? Anyone ever try to book the DL Candlelight Procession in their wonderful online system? Two years ago when I did it, the system crashed before tickets even went on sale - and CMs were calling people who had gotten to a certain screen where you could enter your name and number - crazy!
