BoG February 25th Victory Thread!

[ekatiel]

Has ANYONE been able to book an ADR online AFTER 6am EST????
Based on my experience, and from what I'm reading on the boards, the only people who were able to get an ADR did so BEFORE 6am EST.

I was not able to, and I was on right at 6am EST. However, there was LOTS of availabilty at at first, and then over the course of 30 minutes, it slowly disappeared, making me think that others were able to get reservations. Just reached the 200 call mark. Still not getting through. . .

 

[RemyIsMyFave]

The Cast Member I chatted with could not help me with this specific problem. She did say the lag time between email confirmation and showing up in the My Disney Experience has happened before. I asked that if you were able to get an email confirmation with a reservation number whether it was guaranteed and she said yes. But we'll see....

 

[chitownpeeps]

Crazy question. If I have a confirmation number from Disney can't you just show the piece of paper if they do not show up in our MDE?
If all else fails I am going to do that and say how would I know they are not in my MDE I have a confirmation?
Really hoping I have these reservations. I did not sleep all night. Then saw the posts that people were getting them so went on at 4:45 my time to get them.

 

[Cassarye]

I was able to get a reservation at 12:20 and got the confirmation email but it is not showing on my MDE. Not on the PC or the app.

 

[cariann77]

The Cast Member I chatted with could not help me with this specific problem. She did say the lag time between email confirmation and showing up in the My Disney Experience has happened before. I asked that if you were able to get an email confirmation with a reservation number whether it was guaranteed and she said yes. But we'll see....

Thanks for updating!!! I guess we'll wait and see. Hopefully, the system will catch up soon.

 

[mickeyfan32]

My mom actually got through on the phone but no openings for our dates. I'm hoping people will cancel when it gets closer. Hoping for pixie dust. Not the way I wanted to start my morning.

 

[Misfit]

I'm not sure how to link direct quotes but on here http://www.disboards.com/threads/just-made-bog-adr-for-lunch.3383573/page-9 Peasandcarrots talked to someone in support and they said if you got the email you definitely have a reservation

 

[rdw]

Is anyone's reservation showing up on MDE? I got a confirmation number, but nothing showing on MDE.

I made 2 separate reservations (different days). One I made at 3 am and one at 4:20 am (eastern time). The 3 am one showed in MDE immediately. The one at 4:20, I have the email but no MDE.

All done through the app. Clearly, the system is having a lot of issues handling the volume.

I randomly checked the app to practice and be ready to search when I happened to wake up at 3 and was shocked (and lucky) to see an available time so I grabbed it.

Good luck everyone! Hope this is sorted out soon!

 

[kelby86]

I was able to get through (to wait on hold) to disney dining via phone by calling at exactly 7 AM EST... waited on hold for over 40 minutes, once I was connected to a CM I was told they are unable to make ANY dining reservations as their system is going through an "enhancement." No timeline or estimated time of when it will come back up. She told me to try to call back in an hour. Oh man - we broke the reservation system!

 

[WeDisney4]

What did the CM say to do? Are we going to have to make reservations again?

She advised me to just keep trying.

 

[Rose77]

The Cast Member I chatted with could not help me with this specific problem. She did say the lag time between email confirmation and showing up in the My Disney Experience has happened before. I asked that if you were able to get an email confirmation with a reservation number whether it was guaranteed and she said yes. But we'll see....

Thanks for this information. I hope that is true!

Crazy question. If I have a confirmation number from Disney can't you just show the piece of paper if they do not show up in our MDE?
If all else fails I am going to do that and say how would I know they are not in my MDE I have a confirmation?
Really hoping I have these reservations. I did not sleep all night. Then saw the posts that people were getting them so went on at 4:45 my time to get them.

I hope so, but how can we prove that we didn't cancel the reservations after printing out the paper? And what if, because of this fiasco, BOG is crazy overbooked. That would not be fun for anyone.

 

[Stacey012345]

Kept hitting "reserve" on final booking screen from 5:59am, finally got confirmation number 7:46am!! Wahoo!!!

 

[RasberriPie13]

I scored 3 reservation 2 for lunch and 1 for Dinner for my Trip in Aug. I am so excited! I got them 5 am on a hunch I checked and it was opened. Yay!!!!

 

[MIChessGuy]

System shows nothing a full 180 days out, and I'm just a party of one. D'oh. Maybe it is just a system overload of some sort.

 

[disneyboo2]

Got mine at 8:40 GMT, bit sneaky of them to not open at the usual time! There is a huge threat on a UK disney forum of happy people. I got August 13th at 12:45 without any problems, have an email and it showing up on MDE

 

[Virgderon]

I got one for March 1st, but like everyone else I got the confirmation e-mail but nothing else. Its not on my list of reservations. I plan on showing up Sunday with the printed confirmation in hand. They better not give me a hard time!!!!!

 

[drcmk]

I scored 3 reservation 2 for lunch and 1 for Dinner for my Trip in Aug. I am so excited! I got them 5 am on a hunch I checked and it was opened. Yay!!!!

Are you actually going to eat at the restaurant three times during your vacation? I'm asking because maybe a sizable number of people took ADRs that they plan to cancel and then those of us that weren't so lucky might have a chance once other people do cancel.

 

[theheartonfire03]

Someone on this thread: http://www.disboards.com/threads/bog-lunch-reservation.3383592/

said that CM on the phone they are having technical difficulties and no reservations have gone through.

I really hope that's not the case.. mine was booked like everyone else, received email but not in MDE.

 

[eyeheartgoofy]

I tried on my phone @ 6:05am but lunch wasn't even showing up. I tried again around 7:45am and there is no availability.

I made a dinner ADR @ 180 days, but our dates shifted so I had to let it go and figured we would just use the FP option for lunch. Oh, well.

 

[wizzytoon]

For all of you who didn't get an email confirmation. Check your spam box that's were mine were. Good luck!