Hello,
I think I remember saying that I would let you know how it worked for me when I actually got to the 27-day mark, so here I am!
To recap, I am a single woman traveling with a family of four, and we have two separate room reservations, and two separate
MDE accounts (we're linked as Friends and Family).
When I first logged on to the Be Our Guest website, I used my email and the family's 12-digit confirmation number (it was before the 60-day mark, so I used the memory maker confirmation number; it was only later that I learned that this number is linked to the family's resort reservation, and I have my own number which is connected to my resort reservation), and it had grouped me with the mom, daughter and son from the other family. Then, I used the family's email and my 12-digit number to access Be Our Guest for the dad.
The 27-day mark for the day we want to have lunch is today, and we live in Pacific Time, so at 11:00pm last night I logged on and tried to make the FP+ reservations. Something really weird is that it had switched some of the names around, so the other family was now grouped together on the account that used my email (the one that I had originally made using their 12-digit number), and I was alone on a separate account which used the family's email (that was the account I made using my 12-digit number). No big deal, just weird. The only explanation I can think of is that it is connected to the memory maker, since that's the only change we really made between when I made the Be Our Guest accounts and now. We changed the Memory Maker account so that I am the primary account holder, instead of the dad, since I will be staying at Disney 3 days longer than the rest of the family and we just wanted to make sure it would still work for me after they leave.
Anyway, at 11:00pm Pacific Time, I logged on and tried to go to the date, but it still said no FP+ were available for that day. I logged out and logged back in, so maybe 2-3 minutes had passed, and then it all worked perfectly! I chose direct-to-table and I figure if we change our minds about the food we can always make those changes later or when we get there. I was able to get exactly the time slot that we wanted (and matching time slots for both reservations), and there were lots of other options available, too (just refresh the page, as the FAQ says). Yay!!!
The only unfortunate thing is that the family I am traveling with doesn't know how popular Be Our Guest is, and their attitude is like, "well, we'll look at the menu the night before and if we like the food and if the timing is convenient then we'll eat there and if we don't make it there's no penalty if we don't show up" and I'm like, "no! I worked too hard for this! we have to eat there!!!" But, I've tried to explain that it's hard to get in and that it's a really nice quick-service meal (we're on the QS dining plan), so hopefully it'll all work out. I'll try to remember to post here again just to let people know how the process works with skipping the line, getting our food, etc. Since we're going in mid-January, I wonder how long the stand-by line would even be?
Thanks, Andre, for your great post and your amazing follow-up to everyone's questions. I wouldn't have been able to do it without you!
Edit/P.S.: I made the reservation on an android smart phone, using Chrome. I would have preferred to have done it on a computer, but I was in the car so that wasn't an option. There were no problems, though!
. So.. my question is.. if i have made my FP+ for lunch but have already changed our arrival time once, will the system allow for another time change?
Sorry i hope this makes sense.
