Be Our Guest Lunch FastPass Thread [PLEASE read the FAQs in the first post!]

[Tiggerfan79]

I got ours for 11/19 but then I had to get one for my brother and niece and theirs is 10 minutes later. Hopefully, we can still sit together?

Seating is first come first serve so just check in together since you have a half hour window in your fast pass time.

 

[meowmarie]

No, it will not be on our magic bands. Just walk up to the counter and give them your name. I took a screen shot picture of my reservation so I have proof on my phone that I have one! I don't trust it either.

lol Wow, but "it's a fastpass and not a reservation." Riiigghht....

 

[jhammond3966]

Trip Report - BOG FP+ Lunch Edition:

Just got back from our Disney trip. Ate at BOG for lunch on Sunday (party day).

Here's how it works at the park. There is a booth at the end of the bridge with two checkin people. You give them your NAME and they check your reservation by name. They then do one of two things (a) give you one of the Rose RFID things you all likely have seen pictures of; or (b) scan one of your magicbands. The people in front of us got a Rose thing, we did not. I scanned my magicband and our food found us presumably using that to track my location. We did preorder our food and so did they so maybe they are testing which way works better?

Okay so you're checked in, then you get in line. The line for FP+ reservation people was all the way to the start of the bridge where you initially check in. (Note: it seemed to be 100% FP+ reservation people). Line didn't take too long to get up to front. Maybe 10-15 minutes.

At the front of the line they ask if you preordered or not. People who did not preorder got sent to the right to the line of people waiting to Order on their multiple order screen kiosks. People who did preorder; went to the left to wait for them to let you go find a table. That wait was maybe another 5 minutes. The time to get through the still need to order area likely took longer as you had to wait for a ordering station to open up, then go through the process of ordering. One person ahead of us who had preordered wanted to make a French onion soup they had preordered count as a snack credit, and they got sent over to the other line of people waiting to order to make that change.

Preordering will save you a good 10-15 minutes folks. Highly recommend.

When we got up to the front of the preorder line (of only a few families), the CM checked our reservation (by name again), asked if we were on the dining plan (we were not), then sent us to the checkout counter/cash register person. Paid with my magicband and she sent us on our way to find a table. Maybe 5 minutes from getting sent to the preorder line, to paying, then on to our table.

We stopped at a few tables trying to decide where to sit. The room with the "Rose" is pretty dark and gets lots of traffic of people going to check out the "Rose". We were waiting for a table to open up in that room since you can't eat in there during dinner, but quickly realized it would be annoying having other guests constantly coming in and out around you. We were one of those people after we are. Took the kids to see the Rose, took some pictures. Tried not to be bothersome to the people eating around us. But seemed like it would be annoying to try to eat at any of the tables near the Rose or on the path to/from. Be aware of that reality if you decide to sit in there.

We ended up at a table in the main dining hall, right by the window where it was snowing outside. Really cool spot. Highly recommend. Quiet, peaceful, out of the traffic pattern.

After switching tables twice before settling on the one by the window, I was worried our food would go to the wrong table. It didn't. Food magically arrives via rolling cart pretty quickly. After we picked our table, my wife went to get her drink and the food arrived before she got back. Really easy and quick. Certainly so much easier than any other counter service restaurant.

Food was pretty good too. All around.

We arrived at 11:30 and were out of there, with bathroom break, taking photos by Rose and photos by the mosaic tile window near the entrance by 12:30-12:45. Plan on it taking an hour to an hour plus 15-30 minutes more depending on if you still have to order and how slowly your group eats. It sounded like you have the option of soups coming out as a first course, so doing that would likely add to the time too.

Thoughts:

(1) be prepared for it to take 10-20 minutes to get to your table from the point you check in. So if you have hungry kiddos get there at the start of your time window, probably can even arrive earlier.

(2) definitely preorder your food. Really seemed to be the same process ordering there vs preordering. You don't even have to preorder at the time you make the reservation. You can preorder anytime before it seems and change anything right up to that day it seems.

(3) be aware that there will be lots of people coming in and out of the Rose room if you choose to eat in there.

(4). I asked and CM's don't know anything about future plans for FP+ continuing for lunch or it going to ADR for lunch.

Enjoy. Overall it was an A++ counter service experience.

Ps crowds at MK are much lower on the mornings of the party days it seems. People who only have party tickets can't get in until 4pm and it seems like people who are not going to the party that night go to other parks on party nights (unless they have park hopper). Even if you are not planning to go to the party that night, I recommend going to MK on mornings of party days for the lighter crowds. Rope drop the next day (non-party) had a lot more people and more people in the parks by 10 than the party day did. Main point, I don't think it being a "party day" will make BOG FP+ lunch harder to get than any other day.

 

[hollygolitely93]

I made a reservation (oops...fp+) for one day of our trip. Went in to make for another day and it says it will cancel my existing one. I've read of others going multiple days with FP+ so figured I'm doing something wrong. Thoughts?

 

[LovesBelle]

Trip Report - BOG FP+ Lunch Edition:

Thank you for taking the time to write that up! That was very helpful, especially the tip about not eating near the rose.

 

[mousebit]

Thank you, jhammond3966! All good to know!

 

[jcemom]

Thanks for the report! It sounds as if things have changed since we were there last.

It only took us about five minutes from checking in to the point where we were placing our order. We were out in under 45 minutes total from the time we checked in, found a table (in the west wing), ate, took a few pictures, and got back outside.

 

[JeninTexas]

Thank you Jhammond for your detailed report. All good to know.

 

[scard192]

I made a reservation (oops...fp+) for one day of our trip. Went in to make for another day and it says it will cancel my existing one. I've read of others going multiple days with FP+ so figured I'm doing something wrong. Thoughts?

you can only have one FP+ at a time. After you use the first one you can make another one if there is availability. That is how others used more than one

 

[NC Disney Fan]

Trip Report - BOG FP+ Lunch Edition:

Just got back from our Disney trip. Ate at BOG for lunch on Sunday (party day).

Here's how it works at the park. There is a booth at the end of the bridge with two checkin people. You give them your NAME and they check your reservation by name. They then do one of two things (a) give you one of the Rose RFID things you all likely have seen pictures of; or (b) scan one of your magicbands. The people in front of us got a Rose thing, we did not. I scanned my magicband and our food found us presumably using that to track my location. We did preorder our food and so did they so maybe they are testing which way works better?

Okay so you're checked in, then you get in line. The line for FP+ reservation people was all the way to the start of the bridge where you initially check in. (Note: it seemed to be 100% FP+ reservation people). Line didn't take too long to get up to front. Maybe 10-15 minutes.

At the front of the line they ask if you preordered or not. People who did not preorder got sent to the right to the line of people waiting to Order on their multiple order screen kiosks. People who did preorder; went to the left to wait for them to let you go find a table. That wait was maybe another 5 minutes. The time to get through the still need to order area likely took longer as you had to wait for a ordering station to open up, then go through the process of ordering. One person ahead of us who had preordered wanted to make a French onion soup they had preordered count as a snack credit, and they got sent over to the other line of people waiting to order to make that change.

Preordering will save you a good 10-15 minutes folks. Highly recommend.

When we got up to the front of the preorder line (of only a few families), the CM checked our reservation (by name again), asked if we were on the dining plan (we were not), then sent us to the checkout counter/cash register person. Paid with my magicband and she sent us on our way to find a table. Maybe 5 minutes from getting sent to the preorder line, to paying, then on to our table.

We stopped at a few tables trying to decide where to sit. The room with the "Rose" is pretty dark and gets lots of traffic of people going to check out the "Rose". We were waiting for a table to open up in that room since you can't eat in there during dinner, but quickly realized it would be annoying having other guests constantly coming in and out around you. We were one of those people after we are. Took the kids to see the Rose, took some pictures. Tried not to be bothersome to the people eating around us. But seemed like it would be annoying to try to eat at any of the tables near the Rose or on the path to/from. Be aware of that reality if you decide to sit in there.

We ended up at a table in the main dining hall, right by the window where it was snowing outside. Really cool spot. Highly recommend. Quiet, peaceful, out of the traffic pattern.

After switching tables twice before settling on the one by the window, I was worried our food would go to the wrong table. It didn't. Food magically arrives via rolling cart pretty quickly. After we picked our table, my wife went to get her drink and the food arrived before she got back. Really easy and quick. Certainly so much easier than any other counter service restaurant.

Food was pretty good too. All around.

We arrived at 11:30 and were out of there, with bathroom break, taking photos by Rose and photos by the mosaic tile window near the entrance by 12:30-12:45. Plan on it taking an hour to an hour plus 15-30 minutes more depending on if you still have to order and how slowly your group eats. It sounded like you have the option of soups coming out as a first course, so doing that would likely add to the time too.

Thoughts:

(1) be prepared for it to take 10-20 minutes to get to your table from the point you check in. So if you have hungry kiddos get there at the start of your time window, probably can even arrive earlier.

(2) definitely preorder your food. Really seemed to be the same process ordering there vs preordering. You don't even have to preorder at the time you make the reservation. You can preorder anytime before it seems and change anything right up to that day it seems.

(3) be aware that there will be lots of people coming in and out of the Rose room if you choose to eat in there.

(4). I asked and CM's don't know anything about future plans for FP+ continuing for lunch or it going to ADR for lunch.

Enjoy. Overall it was an A++ counter service experience.

Ps crowds at MK are much lower on the mornings of the party days it seems. People who only have party tickets can't get in until 4pm and it seems like people who are not going to the party that night go to other parks on party nights (unless they have park hopper). Even if you are not planning to go to the party that night, I recommend going to MK on mornings of party days for the lighter crowds. Rope drop the next day (non-party) had a lot more people and more people in the parks by 10 than the party day did. Main point, I don't think it being a "party day" will make BOG FP+ lunch harder to get than any other day.

Can I ask you a question? DId you see a standby line? I talked with the dining reservationist yesterday and told her my understanding was that there were no longer a standby line, that it all had to be done via FP. She said that she was sure that was not the case because they would have been told. I even read her the blurb from this site and on Disney Food Blog. Again, she said that it was not FP only. Could you tell, is it only FP?

 

[2009CAN]

I made our BOG FP yesterday for Nov 19. I selected what we were going to eat, etc. But the FP is not showing up in my account. Is this normal?

 

[Laura's Dad]

I made our BOG FP yesterday for Nov 19. I selected what we were going to eat, etc. But the FP is not showing up in my account. Is this normal?

It has nothing to do with My Disney Experience. It is it's own website and identity. You will be fine.

 

[2009CAN]

It has nothing to do with My Disney Experience. It is it's own website and identity. You will be fine.

Thank you!
One more question. I'd like to see if the FP for lunch is available on a different day. When I go to check I get a warning that if I click on a different day, my current reservation will be deleted. What will happen if I click on "okay" and then there is nothing available on the new day? Will it not delete the current one until I have another secured?
Thank you!

 

[jcarwash]

Okay so you're checked in, then you get in line. The line for FP+ reservation people was all the way to the start of the bridge where you initially check in. (Note: it seemed to be 100% FP+ reservation people). Line didn't take too long to get up to front. Maybe 10-15 minutes....

...We ended up at a table in the main dining hall, right by the window where it was snowing outside. Really cool spot. Highly recommend. Quiet, peaceful, out of the traffic pattern.

On getting in line (what??!)...WOW -- with my BOG FP+ in February, there was no FP+ line at all. There was a long standby line of course. Things are changing!

On the tables next to the main dining hall windows...this is where I chose to sit as well. Nice spot!

 

[jcarwash]

Can I ask you a question? DId you see a standby line? I talked with the dining reservationist yesterday and told her my understanding was that there were no longer a standby line, that it all had to be done via FP. She said that she was sure that was not the case because they would have been told. I even read her the blurb from this site and on Disney Food Blog. Again, she said that it was not FP only. Could you tell, is it only FP?

As of last week, easywdw.com was reporting (from onsite observations) that BOG was still handing out return-time tickets for standby guests. So, not FP only per that report.

 

[Tiggerfan79]

Thank you!
One more question. I'd like to see if the FP for lunch is available on a different day. When I go to check I get a warning that if I click on a different day, my current reservation will be deleted. What will happen if I click on "okay" and then there is nothing available on the new day? Will it not delete the current one until I have another secured?
Thank you!

You can only have one fast pass at a time. You can check for a different day and replace the current one you have. Don't cancel the first one though, just replace it with a new one.

 

[Debby7]

Has anyone had experience with being unable to make a BOGlunch FP for the correct number of people because of a split reservation? i.e. I have a split reservation: four nights in a studio with just my husband and myself then 4 nights in a grand villa with our children and grandchildren. I want to make a FP for lunch on the 2nd day of the 2nd reservation, but the site only sees my husband and myself, not the rest of our group who want to attend also.

If you have had the same type of experience, was anyone able to resolve it ?
It has been suggested that we make the FP for the 2 the site sees , and just show up with the additional 3 guests and a copy of my hotel reservation.
Thoughts?

 

[geffric]

Boo Hoo..I got the email for my Nov 16th week stay at a disney resort and when i clicked on the link it said that the whole week at any time did not have any fast passes available..does any one know what gives with that??

 

[Volkswagenphreak]

Boo Hoo..I got the email for my Nov 16th week stay at a disney resort and when i clicked on the link it said that the whole week at any time did not have any fast passes available..does any one know what gives with that??

they are only available at 27days out from the day you want to get the reserevation

 

[geffric]

they are only available at 27days out from the day you want to get the reserevation

Thanks but i am at 27 days for most of my stay..but still no room..i am confused..