AP holder park reservations

[Add-On-Itis]

Dumb Question. new passholder here. Where and how do I see/find out Good to Go Days? I don't see any in the calendar.

 

[brockash]

Currently, if you are entering a WDW park using an AP, you will need a park reservation for your first park of the day, every day. It doesn't matter if you're onsite or not. There are a few exceptions, like if Disney declares a good-to-go day (usually because of lower crowds expected that day. You also can enter the parks after 2PM without a park res, except (I believe), MK on weekends. If you are staying onsite, you can make park reservations for the length of your stay, including check-in and check-out days.

You can, but I have to call every single time because it does not recognize it for some reason. It will only allow me to reserve 5 days. Then I have to call, they say they've been having problems with this and IT is working on it; they book my other days and nothing ever gets fixed. It's definitely frustrating.

 

[HopperFan]

Dumb Question. new passholder here. Where and how do I see/find out Good to Go Days? I don't see any in the calendar.

You go to the AP Availability Calendar. It is clearly marked when a day is Good to Go. If you don't see any it is because there is none at this time. Note I've never seen them far in advance, more like within 30 days or less.

 

[Miffy]

Go to the Annual Passholder Admission Calendar and you can see what park days are available to reserve and which are good-to-go days. Right now, I'm not seeing any good-to-go days.

If you have an on-site hotel reservation, go to the Plans & Tickets page, where you can see all your reservations. Near the top of the page is a link to Park Reservations. Click Make a Reservation and on the next screen you'll see Make or Modify Them Park Reservations. Then you'll have yet another screen(!) and a choice of either Guests with Tickets or Guests with Tickets and a Hotel Reservation (by this, they mean an on-site Disney hotel reservation). Click that and you'll see what's available.

If your travel dates are far in advance, you won't see good-to-go days, since they aren't posted that far in advance.

I've had trips where there were zero good-to-go days posted when I made my park reservations and after I got there, there were several good-to-go days.

If you do have an on-site stay reserved, you can make your park reservations right now, even if your trip isn't until, say, December.

 

[thanxfornoticin]

You can, but I have to call every single time because it does not recognize it for some reason. It will only allow me to reserve 5 days. Then I have to call, they say they've been having problems with this and IT is working on it; they book my other days and nothing ever gets fixed. It's definitely frustrating.

Sorry to hear that. I've booked park reservations for 9 stays over the past 3 years, and never had an issue booking the entire trip. Always want to do it through the "annual passes and hotel reservation" link, if it's a trip you're staying onsite. To be honest, it's possible I never got to more than 5 park reservations on a single reservation, though, as we'll often do a resort day in there. That's probably the 'trouble' spot.

It really does seem like it's time to move on from this requirement, though. I understand why they started it initially, to better monitor crowd levels coming through a pandemic. But seems like they've moved beyond that by now and could really do without it.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Dumb Question. new passholder here. Where and how do I see/find out Good to Go Days? I don't see any in the calendar.

Not a dumb question, veteran ap holder and I encountered the same confusion but it's due to your timing. Disney only releases good to go days like a few weeks out and through easter week Disney is expecting high crowds so there won't be good to days.

 

[gottalovepluto]

...it's possible I never got to more than 5 park reservations on a single reservation, though, as we'll often do a resort day in there. That's probably the 'trouble' spot.

No @brockash is just a part of a stupid tech glitch. Most APs don't have issues making length of stay reservations, even over 5 days.

@brockash years back I had park reservations issues where I made a reservation and showed up and was told I didn't have a reservation, finally guest relations at one of the parks got hold of IT who did a deeper look or something into my account. They had to delete my old APs, apparently they stayed in the system and caused issues where my park reservations were trying to link to my expired APs instead of my current one or something convoluted like that. Never heard of anyone else having that particular glitch but I haven't had an issue since. I know it's different from your issue but might be worth asking if they can clear those out of your account next time you're getting into the weeds with IT if you've had more than 1 AP.

 

[brockash]

No @brockash is just a part of a stupid tech glitch. Most APs don't have issues making length of stay reservations, even over 5 days.

@brockash years back I had park reservations issues where I made a reservation and showed up and was told I didn't have a reservation, finally guest relations at one of the parks got hold of IT who did a deeper look or something into my account. They had to delete my old APs, apparently they stayed in the system and caused issues where my park reservations were trying to link to my expired APs instead of my current one or something convoluted like that. Never heard of anyone else having that particular glitch but I haven't had an issue since. I know it's different from your issue but might be worth asking if they can clear those out of your account next time you're getting into the weeds with IT if you've had more than 1 AP.

No @brockash is just a part of a stupid tech glitch. Most APs don't have issues making length of stay reservations, even over 5 days.

@brockash years back I had park reservations issues where I made a reservation and showed up and was told I didn't have a reservation, finally guest relations at one of the parks got hold of IT who did a deeper look or something into my account. They had to delete my old APs, apparently they stayed in the system and caused issues where my park reservations were trying to link to my expired APs instead of my current one or something convoluted like that. Never heard of anyone else having that particular glitch but I haven't had an issue since. I know it's different from your issue but might be worth asking if they can clear those out of your account next time you're getting into the weeds with IT if you've had more than 1 AP.

Thanks; I'll try that...I'll be calling in the next month to make my next trips reservations.

 

[js]

I just feel like it is something in their system that needs to be turned off or switched but no one is doing it LOL Like we aren't getting to the correct people. It just doesn't make any sense to me. I sort of calk it up to another Disney computer glitch that just doesn't get fixed.

 

[mousiemom]

So, no matter on/off site you have to make park reservations?

 

[scrappinginontario]

So, no matter on/off site you have to make park reservations?

If you will be entering a park using an Annual Pass (the theme of this thread) yes, you will be required to make a park reservation. The few exceptions are covered here

You do indeed need to make park reservations. This is why people in this thread are complaining!

However, if you're going to a park after 2 pm, you do not need a park reservation except for MK on Saturdays and Sundays. And also on Good to Go Days, you don't need a park reservation.

And here

Currently, if you are entering a WDW park using an AP, you will need a park reservation for your first park of the day, every day. It doesn't matter if you're onsite or not. There are a few exceptions, like if Disney declares a good-to-go day (usually because of lower crowds expected that day. You also can enter the parks after 2PM without a park res, except (I believe), MK on weekends. If you are staying onsite, you can make park reservations for the length of your stay, including check-in and check-out days.

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

So, no matter on/off site you have to make park reservations?

If you want to enter a park before 2 pm, then yes.

 

[Wood Nymph]

Dumb Question. new passholder here. Where and how do I see/find out Good to Go Days? I don't see any in the calendar.

Our experience has been that Good to Go days aren't set by Disney until close to the actual date, like maybe less than 2 weeks before the date you want. There isn't any announcement. You just have to be looking for them.

 

[OKW Lover]

I'm local and have had an AP for a very long time. I seldom have any problem getting a reservation - often on the same day - for the desired park. If I make three park days every week (I'm retired) I almost never see a park blocked out. Maybe once every few months.

When you think about it, all you need to do is reserve any park, tap-in and then go to your desired park. Want to go to the MK but it's blocked? Reserve Epcot, tap-in there, then hop the monorail. It kind of makes me wonder just what the whole reservation thing is really accomplishing.

 

[thanxfornoticin]

Our experience has been that Good to Go days aren't set by Disney until close to the actual date, like maybe less than 2 weeks before the date you want. There isn't any announcement. You just have to be looking for them.

That's our experience, too. In fact, I'm not sure we've looked for them in advance, but instead see them pop up closer to our trip - the app just shows our previous park reservation isn't needed because it's a good to go day - really not that helpful, really. I suppose if someone isn't staying on-site and is restricted to a certain number of days on an AP, the G2G days would open up a slot for them. Other than that, not sure it helps much. We've been hoping they become more frequent, and eventually move to eliminating the park reservations altogether - but that obviously hasn't happened yet.