jennifertempleton
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2011
Hi, everyone:
We're going to WDW in Feb - dh and I and 2 girls, 6 and 8. First trip!
I had made a couple of reservations a few months ago for places I knew we really wanted but haven't had the time to think about it again in-depth until recently. Needless to say, some of the other places I have discovered that we want to go to are now booked at the best times. I snagged a few other ressies just to get some other things in the books and I am planning to check the others that I would like on a regular basis from now until trip time.
I was just doing some searching for reservations for today/tomorrow/the next day out of curiosity just to see if anything good would be open at the very last minute and was surprised to find multiple openings at the "desirable" places (and I mean desirable for someone with 2 young girls): Crystal Palace B/L, Garden Grill, 'Ohana dinner, Chef Mickey's. Is this typical? If so, I won't waste too much time in between doing too many searches. Or maybe this is an off week ...?
I have booked 5 of our 7 TS meals (2 of which are "keepers" - 1900 for my dd's bday dinner and Akershus for breakfast). My thought is to not book any more (unless, of course, something good comes up), then wait until just before we leave, or when we are already there, to fill in the blanks and hopefully switch some things around. Does it make sense to do it this way? Is there a certain time at which things start to open up as people cancel/rearrange (ie: 2 weeks before, 1 week before, that week, etc.)? Worst case scenario, my things stay as-is, and that would probably be ok.
I don't mind playing it by ear .... we tend to be a bit more spontaneous so it is difficult to not only plan which parks we will go to but where we will eat months in advance! That probably drives some of you 180-day planners nuts!
While I am here, regarding 'Ohana, is there a particular meal (mainly dinner vs breakfast, I guess) where it has more of a luau feel .... or does it always? My girls are into Hawaiian things since they are reading the American Girl Kanani books and I know they woud love a luau but I don't want to do the "real" luau meal. I have a breakfast booked but really wanted to do a dinner since it sounded like more fun ... maybe for our last night at Disney ... but there are no dinner times available. Just wondering if I should keep trying for a dinner or be happy with my breakfast. FYI, I don't want to say that I don't care about the food, but it's more about the experience for us than the food.
Thank you! I have enjoyed hanging around and reading all the posts these past few months.
Jen
We're going to WDW in Feb - dh and I and 2 girls, 6 and 8. First trip!
I had made a couple of reservations a few months ago for places I knew we really wanted but haven't had the time to think about it again in-depth until recently. Needless to say, some of the other places I have discovered that we want to go to are now booked at the best times. I snagged a few other ressies just to get some other things in the books and I am planning to check the others that I would like on a regular basis from now until trip time.
I was just doing some searching for reservations for today/tomorrow/the next day out of curiosity just to see if anything good would be open at the very last minute and was surprised to find multiple openings at the "desirable" places (and I mean desirable for someone with 2 young girls): Crystal Palace B/L, Garden Grill, 'Ohana dinner, Chef Mickey's. Is this typical? If so, I won't waste too much time in between doing too many searches. Or maybe this is an off week ...?
I have booked 5 of our 7 TS meals (2 of which are "keepers" - 1900 for my dd's bday dinner and Akershus for breakfast). My thought is to not book any more (unless, of course, something good comes up), then wait until just before we leave, or when we are already there, to fill in the blanks and hopefully switch some things around. Does it make sense to do it this way? Is there a certain time at which things start to open up as people cancel/rearrange (ie: 2 weeks before, 1 week before, that week, etc.)? Worst case scenario, my things stay as-is, and that would probably be ok.
I don't mind playing it by ear .... we tend to be a bit more spontaneous so it is difficult to not only plan which parks we will go to but where we will eat months in advance! That probably drives some of you 180-day planners nuts!
While I am here, regarding 'Ohana, is there a particular meal (mainly dinner vs breakfast, I guess) where it has more of a luau feel .... or does it always? My girls are into Hawaiian things since they are reading the American Girl Kanani books and I know they woud love a luau but I don't want to do the "real" luau meal. I have a breakfast booked but really wanted to do a dinner since it sounded like more fun ... maybe for our last night at Disney ... but there are no dinner times available. Just wondering if I should keep trying for a dinner or be happy with my breakfast. FYI, I don't want to say that I don't care about the food, but it's more about the experience for us than the food.
Thank you! I have enjoyed hanging around and reading all the posts these past few months.
Jen