Any tips? My ADR priority list

[Baklava]

So my window opens tonight. I mean, 3 am tomorrow, but effectively, tonight. Here's my game plan for booking order. If I've made any mistakes in prioritizing hard-to-get items, I'd love some feedback.

Oh- and do I book Pirates and Pals as an ADR or do I call in for that as a separate thing?

First timer. Soooooooooo excited!


ADR PRIORITY


1/14 BOG for early lunch 11:00
1/10 Pirate and Pals Fireworks Voyage Check-in 6:30 @ Contemporary
1/13 HoopDeeDoo Revue 6:15
1/14 Spirit of Aloha 5:15
1/8 Tusker House Breakfast- before park opening if possible. (8 is earliest)
1/7 1900 Park Fare Breakfast- 9:00 AM (non-rope drop day, monorail to MK after)
1/10 Raglan Road (Time for the dancers at 5:00- maybe 4:30?)
1/12 Hollywood and Vine 8:00
1/6 Asherkus 1:00
1/6 Rose and Crown 6:30 Should say 7:30
1/10 Splitsville (with bowling- early lunch) 11:00
1/9 Captain’s Grille (Lunch, Yacht Club- go by boat) 1:00
1/7 Whispering Canyon - 8:30 PM(short bus ride from and to MK?)
1/8 Sanaa Dinner 5:30
1/9 Sci-Fi 7:00
1/13 T-Rex 12:00 **Hinges on Hoop Dee Doo
1/11 Marrakesh 12:00
1/11 Coral Reef (latest is 9)
1/15 Rainforest Cafe (11:00)
1/15 Jiko (6:30)
1/12 Late dinner at Boatwrights?

 

[ErinsMommy]

So my window opens tonight. I mean, 3 am tomorrow, but effectively, tonight. Here's my game plan for booking order. If I've made any mistakes in prioritizing hard-to-get items, I'd love some feedback.

Oh- and do I book Pirates and Pals as an ADR or do I call in for that as a separate thing?

First timer. Soooooooooo excited!


ADR PRIORITY


1/14 BOG for early lunch 11:00
1/10 Pirate and Pals Fireworks Voyage Check-in 6:30 @ Contemporary
1/13 HoopDeeDoo Revue 6:15
1/14 Spirit of Aloha 5:15
1/8 Tusker House Breakfast- before park opening if possible. (8 is earliest)
1/7 1900 Park Fare Breakfast- 9:00 AM (non-rope drop day, monorail to MK after)
1/10 Raglan Road (Time for the dancers at 5:00- maybe 4:30?)
1/12 Hollywood and Vine 8:00
1/6 Asherkus 1:00
1/6 Rose and Crown 6:30
1/10 Splitsville (with bowling- early lunch) 11:00
1/9 Captain’s Grille (Lunch, Yacht Club- go by boat) 1:00
1/7 Whispering Canyon - 8:30 PM(short bus ride from and to MK?)
1/8 Sanaa Dinner 5:30
1/9 Sci-Fi 7:00
1/13 T-Rex 12:00 **Hinges on Hoop Dee Doo
1/11 Marrakesh 12:00
1/11 Coral Reef (latest is 9)
1/15 Rainforest Cafe (11:00)
1/15 Jiko (6:30)
1/12 Late dinner at Boatwrights?

This is the order I would do first are: BOG, 1900 Park Fare, Akershus, H&V, Sci-Fi, Coral Reef, and Rainforest. Then do the rest in whatever order. The ones for DTD although you'll still likely find an ADR for them if your booking at your 180 day window, if you can't you can still call them directly as I've been able to with all and get a table that way or through Opentable.com.

Also your window will open at 6:00 a.m. EST if online and 7:00 a.m. if calling.

 

[Baklava]

This is the order I would do first are: BOG, 1900 Park Fare, Akershus, H&V, Sci-Fi, Coral Reef, and Rainforest. Then do the rest in whatever order. The ones for DTD although you'll still likely find an ADR for them if your booking at your 180 day window, if you can't you can still call them directly as I've been able to with all and get a table that way or through Opentable.com.

Also your window will open at 6:00 a.m. EST if online and 7:00 a.m. if calling.

Thanks for the tips! We'll probably leave RFC as a lower priority because we have Landrys Club and can always just walk up if we need to and have a pretty short wait.

We're on the West coast so 6 am EST is 3 am here. >wibble< Ah well, it's all in service of the cause...

 

[KristiK]

I agree with above....a lot of those are ones that are nearly impossible to get lately!

 

[barbliny]

ADR PRIORITY


1/14 BOG for early lunch 11:00
1/10 Pirate and Pals Fireworks Voyage Check-in 6:30 @ Contemporary
1/13 HoopDeeDoo Revue 6:15
1/14 Spirit of Aloha 5:15
1/8 Tusker House Breakfast- before park opening if possible. (8 is earliest)
1/7 1900 Park Fare Breakfast- 9:00 AM (non-rope drop day, monorail to MK after)
1/10 Raglan Road (Time for the dancers at 5:00- maybe 4:30?)
1/12 Hollywood and Vine 8:00
1/6 Asherkus 1:00
1/6 Rose and Crown 6:30

This what I noticed right away -- did you mean to plan an early dinner at Raglan Road and then Pirate and Pals with a check-in of 6:30 on the same day? I think that it will be unlikely that you would eat dinner, with the intention of watching the dancers at 5:00, and then be at the Contemporary 2 hours after sitting down at Raglan Road. I find the buses to and from Downtown Disney to be the absolutely most unpredictable bus routes - we once waited over an hour for a bus back to the Beach Club.

And Rose and Crown - is the hope to be able to watch Illuminations from your table? The 6:30 time might be too early - even if you are eating 3 courses. I think 7:00 may be better.

 

[Baklava]

This what I noticed right away -- did you mean to plan an early dinner at Raglan Road and then Pirate and Pals with a check-in of 6:30 on the same day? I think that it will be unlikely that you would eat dinner, with the intention of watching the dancers at 5:00, and then be at the Contemporary 2 hours after sitting down at Raglan Road. I find the buses to and from Downtown Disney to be the absolutely most unpredictable bus routes - we once waited over an hour for a bus back to the Beach Club.

And Rose and Crown - is the hope to be able to watch Illuminations from your table? The 6:30 time might be too early - even if you are eating 3 courses. I think 7:00 may be better.

Our hope was to eat from 4:30 to 5:30 and then have an hour to get to the Contemporary. Will it take longer? We could also grab a cab if that makes it work.

Rose and Crown should say 7:30. That's a typo.

 

[Trinity88]

I found Tusker pre park open very difficult to get (I still don't have one and I've been trying since 180). Just an fyi

 

[barbliny]

Our hope was to eat from 4:30 to 5:30 and then have an hour to get to the Contemporary. Will it take longer? We could also grab a cab if that makes it work.

I'm not familiar enough with the state of the buses these days with the construction to say definitively. Or how the roads are around there these days for taxis.

I would be a little uncomfortable with an hour to get to the Contemporary on the bus.

One other travel option that would get you away from the unpredictability of the DD buses is to take the boat from DD to Port Orleans, and then get a bus to the Magic Kingdom to get to the Contemporary.

 

[Baklava]

I'm not familiar enough with the state of the buses these days with the construction to say definitively. Or how the roads are around there these days for taxis.

I would be a little uncomfortable with an hour to get to the Contemporary on the bus.

One other travel option that would get you away from the unpredictability of the DD buses is to take the boat from DD to Port Orleans, and then get a bus to the Magic Kingdom to get to the Contemporary.

I may go ask on the transportation board to be sure.

 

[elsbit]

I just booked Pirate and Pals today. I had been waiting for weeks for it to open up for 12/19. I have not looked, but I would be surprised if your January dates would be up yet. I had to call in order to book it. I was told to be there at 7:45 PM, as fireworks are scheduled to be at 9:00 PM. So perhaps your reservation will work if it is the same time frame....