180 days - which to book first...ADR's, EMM or tour?

[SFMommy]

Our 180 day mark will be in late May for our stay over Thanksgiving.

Which of these should I book first...

ADR's
EMM (MK) - Are these released at 180+ days? Is this available to book online or only by phone?
Rhino Experience at AK - I pretty sure I have to call for this?

Just wondering if I should prioritize the ADR's or the EMM. I think I'll have to wait another hour for the phone lines to open in order to book the Rhino tour, right?

And just to confirm...ADR's at 6:00 a.m. and phone for tours at 7:00 a.m. EST?

Since I'll be waking up before 3:00 a.m. here in California, I want to have everything organized and know what I'm doing beforehand...since I'll be half asleep! Thanks!

 

[kniquy]

ADR's
EMM (MK) - Are these released at 180+ days? Is this available to book online or only by phone?
Rhino Experience at AK - I pretty sure I have to call for this?

ADR's first. Usually any special events like dessert parties and EMM are not released until a few months ahead. Have a look park plan - if you have in park ADR's then if you are not 100% sure which park you will be in you can book multiple ADR's just as long as they don't overlap -- they usually need to be at least 1 hour and 15 minutes apart. so for example you want to eat lunch at BOG but you also want to eat lunch at Tusker - because you don't know exactly what park you will be at you could book BOG for noon and then book tusker for 1:15 on the same day. Or book lunch in one park and dinner in another. It is really tough to know 6 months out what your final plans will look like. As they start releasing park hours/bookable events then you can cancel what you don't need. The negative is that you are holding up 2 reservations, but WDW has created this monster. So do be kind a release reservations once you know what your plans are.

I have done this and have typically been able to release reservations at least 4 months out so certainly plenty of time for others to snag the reservations i cancel.