Be Our Guest Lunch Fastpass

[Merida3]

And then it gets a little weirder. . .so, I tried a number of things to work around the error message. I tried changing my email address in my profile (didn't work). I tried clearing browser (didn't work). Then I invited my husband (who is on our hotel reservation) to help "plan" through MDX (as if!). I used his email address and our reservation number to log into Be Our Guest. It worked--I got in! But, once again, the four people who popped up on our reservation were NOT the people we are traveling with, but rather four men! I figured I'd give it a shot anyway, since the reservation was under my husband's name and we needa ressie for 5 people, anyway, and tried to book a table, but when I went to the available dates, all I got was May 1-7, which I figure are those other people's travel dates. Those aren't the dates I need. I hit May 7, anyway, just to see if it was available (it wasn't), but when I tried to go back and check a different date, I got the error message again. Has anything like this happened to anyone else?

Sort of. When I first logged on, I used the wrong reservation # from our luggage tags (which the site allowed!) and made a FP reservation. I realized my error today and tried to change the reservation # associated with my account. I didn't want to not have a valid FP or interfere with someone else's FP. I couldn't figure it out, called technical support, and got nowhere. Luckily the # I used is not affiliated with a reservation yet, but it could be---or the restaurant might cancel the FP after it sees I don't have a valid reservation #. Luckily I was able to create a new account with husbands email and correct reservation #. So we cancelled the first FP and scheduled a new one with his acct. Sounds to me as though you could easily fiddle with the #s or enter one incorrectly and cause the problem you've encountered. It's crazy that their computer system doesn't have safeguards for this sort of thing.

 

[ChgoMusicGirl]

Just got a FP+ for 6/10! I'm so excited!!!

 

[MelAR05]

Just got an email invite for a FP to BOG lunch! And our trip is in 28 days. I had already made reservations using the website recommended from here. So we are good to go.

 

[jenjersnap]

Do invites go to DVC guests too? Anyone know?

 

[wondermama16]

Thanks so much ... it worked like a charm. I'm glad I took the time to check, as I see we need a little re-arranging to make lunch at Be Our Guest work into our plans. Can't wait. (Book for the first week of June!)

 

[cfriend416]

Does anyone else find it odd that Disney is still insisting it is invite only while it clearly is not? It would be incredibly easy to make it so that only email addresses that have received the invite can log in. Or to include a code in the email that you would need to log in. So if they are insisting it's invite only, why don't they do that? It just seems so odd.

Btw, I don't think they should do either of these things. We weren't "invited" in February and I was so glad we were able to get a FP anyway b

 

[chris1013]

Do invites go to DVC guests too? Anyone know?

Yes, they do. My brother received and invite and they are staying with dvc points.

 

[scard192]

seems like a lot more posts all of a sudden from on site guests that are getting invites. Many multiple threads, but noticing many more than before. Wonder if Disney will soon offer it to all on site guests via invitation. and e-mails invites in advance of arrival date.

 

[jenninaustin]

Got one for June 11th!!!

 

[Stefecatzz]

Does anyone else find it odd that Disney is still insisting it is invite only while it clearly is not? It would be incredibly easy to make it so that only email addresses that have received the invite can log in. Or to include a code in the email that you would need to log in. So if they are insisting it's invite only, why don't they do that? It just seems so odd.

Btw, I don't think they should do either of these things. We weren't "invited" in February and I was so glad we were able to get a FP anyway b

seems like a lot more posts all of a sudden from on site guests that are getting invites. Many multiple threads, but noticing many more than before. Wonder if Disney will soon offer it to all on site guests via invitation. and e-mails invites in advance of arrival date.

I could not see the point in only allowing randomly invited guests for a FP+, until I thought about it a bit more. If it makes guests happy and makes their experience more magical, why not extend it to all resort guests? Unless they are afraid of it being detrimental to the experience in some way for those who do not have a FP?

As of now, only those of us who are aware of the link & process w/out the invite are booking FPs and those who get the email. Maybe if they offered it to anyone & everyone, it would be too chaotic and take away from the experience for everyone there?

 

[ellone]

Do invites go to DVC guests too? Anyone know?

Yes. We recently received an invite. Exactly 4 weeks before our arrival.

 

[jenjersnap]

Yes, they do. My brother received and invite and they are staying with dvc points.

Yes. We recently received an invite. Exactly 4 weeks before our arrival.

Awesome, thank you!

 

[englishrose47]

I'd say keep it. If you are nervous about "proving" it, just bring a copy of the new email! Have fun

That's what I just did Thanks

 

[ForeverAlice]

First time reading this thread.... Just got email and tried to make fastpass immediately nothing available.... Do people ever remember to cancel? I am guessing probably not because there is no cc involved....

 

[RCivicman2]

We also got an invite but upon check each day of our vacation there are no slots available all week. Kind of a bummer after getting the cool invite and feeling good about it.

 

[Ismo]

When are both of your trips for?

From what I understand, the FP+ for BoG are not opening up until middle of the month before your trip. So if you are going next month, they would be opening up soon. Until that time you would be able to go through the whole booking process only to see that there are no times available for your trip dates.

 

[dcsetman]

THANK YOU!!! I GOT MAY 16!!

Yay ! Booked ours for May 4 - for the exact time slot I needed.

 

[Bluegrasslass]

I got my email invite on Sun the 13th, but when I tried to make the lunch reservation for BOG I got a message saying there were no more FP's avail- for the entire week of May 11-17th! I called the Disney line & was told the same thing by both CM & tech support. Yet today I see posts from others who WERE able to make res for the same time/date I was trying to as of yesterday. What gives? Anyone else have this issue? This our 1st trip to WDW & it's already starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth!

 

[jcarwash]

I got my email invite on Sun the 13th, but when I tried to make the lunch reservation for BOG I got a message saying there were no more FP's avail- for the entire week of May 11-17th! I called the Disney line & was told the same thing by both CM & tech support. Yet today I see posts from others who WERE able to make res for the same time/date I was trying to as of yesterday. What gives? Anyone else have this issue? This our 1st trip to WDW & it's already starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth!

I've found that when you're on a page showing you time slots for a day -- or lack thereof -- that you can keep reloading that same page in your browser and different time slots will appear. Or sometimes during a reload it says none are available. Next reload, different times appear. It's worth a try.

 

[jaysmom4285]

Yes, keep trying the website. If it's showing that there are no FP+ at all for the days you're looking at, that usually means that for some reason those dates haven't opened up to you yet. There seems to be no consistency or logic to when dates open up for different people. Some have been saying their dates opened up over a month prior, and some don't seem to be able to make FP+ until it's within a week or so of their reservation. So just keep trying the site - eventually it will let you make a FP+, just in its own good time. And it's been pretty well demonstrated that the CMs and tech support know little or nothing about BOG FP+, since it isn't a part of the regular FP+ system, so I wouldn't take anything they say about it as gospel.