Did a little experiment with ADR's, and thought y'all might want to know (some of you may have already done/know this, but was interesting to me, nonetheless):
So, I have split party ADR's for H&V on 12/5 and I have split party ADR's for H&V on 12/4. I had pretty well decided we wouldn't be going there on 12/4, so I opted for an experiment (I was a laboratorian, and my science brain NEEDS TO KNOW how things work, lol!)
So...I had read (I think from Lisa F), that if you just cancel an ADR, it can take a long time to get pushed back into the system, but that if you make another reservation for the same time, it forces it out immediately. So, I got on my mom's
MDE and my MDE and canceled our split ADR for 6:00 on 12/4...I did each step at the exact same time, one on my phone and one on my laptop. I used both to make another random ADR in order for it to push out my H&V immediately (I wanted to see if I could then pick it up for 9). Well! My mom's party of 4 got pushed out IMMEDIATELY, and I could see it right then as available to pick up. My party of 5 wasn't. It told me it would be canceling my H&V reservation since I was trying to make another reservatin for the same time, and I told it to confirm that and it was okay. I kept checking and checking and checking...no party of 5. The party of 4 was still there. I waited and waited and checked again: no party of 5, but the party of 4 was still there. Went back into my MDE and it DID NOT CANCEL my party of 5! I don't know why/how! It had warned me that it would be canceled. So, I manually canceled it...and waited and watied and checked and waited...still party of 4 was there, but party of 5 was not. About 10 min later, the party of 5 showed in the system! They party of 4 was there as well. It would NOT let me book a party of 9, 10, 8, or 7. I could book a party of 4, 5, or 6, but nothing larger. I guess it's two 6-top tables that aren't near each other/moveable? I'm wondering if when we make ADR's, it doesn't just book a random table of however many, but that it goes ahead and assigns a physical table? I don't know. And, it's nothing that will shake the earth, but my curiosity gets the better of me sometimes.
Anyway...just found that interesting, so I thought I'd share. As always, Lisa F was right! With the exception of it just NOT canceling my H&V, for some weird reason (and STILL allowing me to make another ADR for the same time), when I made another ressie on my mom's account, it pushed my current one into the system immediately. When I found my current ADR still in my account and I just cancelled it manually...it took up to 10 min to show up in the system.
So now...I'm still holding onto my split party H&V for 12/5 and hope we are able to get seated together.

I have one ADR for 8, so I'm real hopeful that adding on one person shouldn't be a huge problem. But going to 9 from 8 is a bigger deal than going from 3 to 4, so I guess we'll see. We're flexible that night, so if we need to wait a while, we can.
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