ADR for everyday?

[DreaminDisney]

Just wondering what everyone else does...
Do you make an ADR for everyday or just a few for a few days and hope you can get a ressie for the other places when there?
I understand with the free dining you're probably better off having reservations but in general... Besides CRT do you have ADR for everything else?

 

[Bob P]

Yes, we always make ADR for our table service meals. It's free and you can always cancel later.

 

[rocky41102]

This is our first trip in September, but I made ADR's for all our dinners. Actually I've made a few different ones because I keep changing my mind. My plan was to make an ADR at the restaurants we thought we really wanted to go to so we had everything in place and wouldn't have to chance it. But I also figured we can change or cancel them when we get there if we decide something else looks good or we go to a different park. It's probably better to make the ADR just so it's there. You can always call and cancel them.

 

[MNSusan]

I make one ADR for each day, either lunch or dinner. That way, I know I'll be able to sit down and have at least one decent meal a day. The other meal (we always do b-fast at the resort) is typically counter service at whatever park we happen to be in that day.

 

[Leota]

I tend to make an ADR a day unless DS & I are there for a short commando trip. Also, if I am traveling with my friends, we might make 1 meal a big deal - we tend to get carried away & wind up eating CS.
Part of what I enjoy in WDW is sitting down to a nice meal.

 

[ahappydisneymommy]

I am going to try to make one for everyday. There is one day that I think we may do two TS. It is just really difficult when you don't know the hours or when you will be where.

 

[Amyg]

This will be our first trip to WDW and I will definitely make all my ressie's for TS meals! Hopefully everything works out as planned so we won't have to cancel any of them!

 

[unixadm]

Every Day......most of the places we want to eat at are popular and would fill up.

You can see our Intinerary HERE

 

[DreaminDisney]

Every Day......most of the places we want to eat at are popular and would fill up.

You can see our Intinerary HERE

Looks like you have a great plan.
Have an awesome time!

 

[annie1995]

Can anyone tell me what the best times to make ADR's are for dinner? Do you go early to avoid the resturant being really busy, or late? I have never done this before, and its kind of hard to figure out when you want to eat 35 days out. Anyway, any advise would be greatly appreciated!


35 days, 12 hours, 7 minutes until our next trip to WDW!!!

 

[4theloveofdisney]

We like to book a few ADR's (Ps's) and leave a few days open as well. You never know if you'll find magic in the unplanned!!!

 

[unixadm]

Can anyone tell me what the best times to make ADR's are for dinner? Do you go early to avoid the resturant being really busy, or late? I have never done this before, and its kind of hard to figure out when you want to eat 35 days out. Anyway, any advise would be greatly appreciated!


35 days, 12 hours, 7 minutes until our next trip to WDW!!!

Depends on who you are going with! In our case, we have a 4 year old and 2 1/2 year old (almost 3). They are used to eating dinner between 5 and 6pm so I set all our meals to be around 5:30pm. Any earlier and they probably wouldn't eat (and would be hungry later), and any later and they would be cranky.

As far as crowds, it depends on the restaurants. If it is a restaurant with a view of fireworks such as California Grill, 'Ohana, Narcoosees, Rose and Crown, etc, it will be busier at a later time since people want to eat dinner and see the fireworks while still there. You may want to do that and book for the later time, or go for an earlier time to have less crowds.

What I've seen is that the earlier dinner ressies usually get seated right away and have less people than the later, but again, it depends on where, time of year, etc.

 

[kdtwiss]

well, I planned like crazy for our last trip, then family members threw in some monkey wrenches....
but if I had NOT made ADRs we would have been stuck with CS much more than we were. Now some CS is fine, but let me tell you - yoiu do NOT want to be in MGM without an ADR! CS there is God Awful! It was very hard for me to plan a dinner 2 or 3 months in advance, but well worth it when we actually got to have dinner in a nice restaurant! I recall especialy enjoying lunch at CP on a nearly 100 degree day! tHANK gOD i had made plans - everyone was just about ready to pass out!

 

[It's A Happy Day]

First of all it would depend on who was going. i would be more likely to fly by the seat of my pants and go unplanned if just me and DH. However if the kids are coming (mine are 3 & 4) I would definitely make ADR's so that you know you are guaranteed at least something. You can always change your mind, cancel an ADR, and/or schedule something else while there if you don't want to visit the preplanned place. I would not want to explain why we couldn't get _______ (fill in the blank) to hungry and sometimes tired and cranky kids when you walk up to a TS and can't get a table. If you don't want to make all ADR's I would at least make the must do's ie: CRT breakfast, Norway Princess breakfast as these are "Hot" ressies and hard to come by - even if just the adults!

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

I have a limited time in WDW, so I plan on making ADR's for 2 meals each day.

 

[aubriee]

Considering the number of people I saw turned away in both January and May, you better believe I'd make ADRs for every meal I could. It doesn't cost anything and if you wake up in a mood for something else, all you have to do is call, cancel, and try to reschedule something else, but at least you would be guaranteed a place to eat, while everyone else might have to eat CS. I programmed Disney Dining into my cell phone, in case I changed my mind while at the parks.

With the free dining program, I feel the TS places are going to be packed with people who would normally eat CS. I can see alot of very unhappy free MYW diners angry because they can't use their TS credits because they didn't bother to make ADRs. I can also see alot of very unhappy campers that never knew about the free dining program or even ADRs getting angry because the TS restaraunts are too crowded or not taking walk ups. I saw this this past May when a couple at Mama Melrose, who had apparently never heard of PS couldn't believe the rest of us had called 90 days before and that all walk ups were being turned away.

For my Sept trip I made ADRs 89 days out and got everything we wanted, including CRT, CM, CP, and Le Cellier. After we got my D-I-L to finally make her mind up, I called back and made a couple of changes (she wanted Cap'n Jacks and Big River Grille over Whispering Canyon and Bomas ). I'm already having fun deciding where to take my mom during our Dec trip, but am almost through and will be calling at exactly 90 days to book them all (thank goodness for the new 90+10 rule).

 

[crisi]

We have one a day (plus a character breakfast) ever since the horrible trip with toddlers. That trip, having very little idea of how we'd do with little kids, we though "winging it" would be our best bet - after all, early Feburary isn't busy. I learned I get really cranky when I can't find a place to sit down and eat! And a week of chicken fingers is really not all its cracked up to be.