OK, here's how I did with my ADRs...
Kouzzina: This one’s a natural because we check in to the BoardWalk on our first evening and can just walk over, plus I want to try it cuz it’s new! We may also end up eating breakfast there sometime during our stay.
Coral Reef: I wanted a sit-down lunch for our first day in Epcot, and I miss the pepperjack cheese grits and our shark buddy, Steve. I’m just not crazy about having to backtrack from World Showcase to make an afternoon meal here, but nothing else in World Showcase sounded good.
Jiko: I thought we could spend the evening of our first day in Animal Kingdom for Extra Magic Hours. Now I know TGM and others tell you to avoid EMH like the plague because it’s a crowd magnet, but we’ve never been to AK after dark, so it will be worth it even just to walk around and look at stuff. But I’m hoping for a night-time ride on Everest... Anyway, I hadn’t planned to eat at Jiko again, but it was awfully convenient to make a late dinner reservation for after the park closes.
’50s Prime Time Cafe: OK, this is a place I have absolutely no interest in, and the reviews do nothing to change that. But one time we stopped in here to use the restroom, and DH looked around with his mouth agape and asked, “What is
this place...?” in wonderment as I dragged him out, snapping “Nothing! It’s nothing. We don’t want to go here.” Since I grudgingly have to spend at least a morning in DHS for DH’s sake (that’s a mouthful!), I figured I could make him that much happier by letting him finally eat here.
Todd English’s bluezoo: Now this is a place I’ve been dying to get back to, and I know DH is going to love the food. It’s part of another crazy scheme, this time to do DHS in the morning, Epcot in the afternoon, eat dinner between the two, then go back to DHS for Osbourne Lights while everyone is in Fantasmic!, and end up in Epcot in time for IllumiNations! Whaddya think? Are your feet getting tired just thinking about it?
The Plaza: Somebody was baggin’ on The Plaza on the Restaurants board the other day, and it really got my dander up! I think the burgers here are just as good or better than those at the vaunted Beaches & Cream, and it’s definitely the best table service restaurant in the MK for consistency and quality at the level it aspires to. Tony’s may have steak and seafood, but if they perpetually overcook and over-season them, what’s the point? I’ll take a perfectly cooked burger and fries with a chocolate-chocolate milkshake over that any day!
Bistro de Paris: We haven’t been here since our honeymoon, and I’d like to see if I’m more impressed with the food than last time. I think we had fancy-dinner fatigue (or maybe I had steak fatigue) by this point on our honeymoon, so the place didn’t really stand out to me – other than the romantic atmosphere and fun view of IllumiNations through the window!
Yachtsman Steakhouse: We’ve had two excellent meals here, and I can’t stop dreaming about the filet side of the Porterhouse we split last time. (This time I’m going to figure out a way to keep it all to myself!) I really enjoyed my dinner at Shula’s with Jensey, but I don’t remember what my cowboy cut tasted like the way I remember Yachtsman’s Porterhouse. Plus the bread basket alone is worth a trip – I’m bringing Ziplocs in my purse, Grandma-style!
California Grill: We’ve enjoyed both meals we’ve had here, and it’s walking distance from our room at Bay Lake Tower—what could be bad? However it may get dropped if A) we can’t find another time to do the Magic Kingdom dessert party or B)
D23’s “Magic & Merriment” event for members on Dec. 12 & 13 turns out to be something we want to do and can get into...
Le Cellier: OK, I still can’t figure out if I continue to eat here for the food or for the hype. I do really like the cheese soup... and the mushroom filet with cream cheese mashed potatoes is very nice, if overpriced. I dunno – I just made the reservation cuz I could!
Biergarten Candlelight Processional Package: This is a restaurant that DH has been wanting to try and I have been avoiding as long as I can. After all my agonizing over whether to buy the Candlelight Processional dinner package, I found out that CP is Jensey’s absolutely favoritist Christmas activity, so I thought we should do it “right.” Paying $17/person more than the cost of a regular dinner there (and $26/person more than lunch, which is when we prolly would have gone otherwise) is tough to swallow, but when I think of how much cheaper it is to see the popular 8:15 show by eating there than at the Tier 3 restaurants like Le Cellier, I feel slightly better. Plus maybe our special reserved fireworks-viewing section will be Italy!
The Wave: I’m not crazy about the menu descriptions here, but I want to try it at least once because it’s new. Since we’re doing
MVMCP the last night of our stay (Jensey strikes again!), I thought we could have a big honkin’ lunch here to minimize the amount of ghastly counter-service food we have to eat at the MK that night. We may do breakfast here too...
Can't wait to hear where and what you'll be munching 
I'm always that way! Our trip in November 2008 we were there for 9 days. I woke up at 6 a.m. (because I had to have an hour to prepare 
) every day for 9 days to make ADR's (as we didn't have resort reservations until a month before our trip) AND I had another phone dialing to try and get an IllumiNations cruise at the same time. It was a nightmare (and such an adrenaline rush)! One of those days I passed out after making them and I was two hours late for work! 
Bosses sure don't understand the importance of ADR's!
I bet I will be asleep at my desk tomorrow morning when I finally get to work after being up so early to make the ressies! I will need lots of 
I have to confess, the idea of a Disney cruise gets less and less appealing to me the more I learn about it. 
I think I am just not a big-ship cruise type of person. But if I were going to go, I think you're right - the DIS Podcast Cruise would be the way to start! 
So far, I don't think you're missing much, since you don't even have to be a member to go to D23 Expo (and the discount for members is pretty small).
I'm so glad I never have to try for another IllumiNations cruise as long as I live... 
Good luck!!! 
So wait, it won't take DVC confirmation numbers online? Those are the only one's I have. I don't want to lose out on an hour just because of that! Also, I am doing a split stay the first ressie 9-14 and then the second 16-22 can I book for all of it when I put the first one in? I am wondering if I am going to have to call. This is so hard. 
you passed out? I'm counting myself lucky now, I only felt like I was going to pass out but didnt 
Also... I'm getting a Christmas box?! Boy am I a lucky little bozo! 
