Booking The Beak & Barrel on Aug. 14th

[gottalovepluto]

With Scott's post "date to be shared later" makes me think it's not tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956040675121561649

Concur. I’m glad he shared that.

 

[Mle8308]

I haven't been able to read all 20 pages, did anyone actually get a reservation? Tom Bricker reported that supposedly some people were able to before the crash, but no actual confirmation. Anyone here? I got the hyena error this morning. I was woken up at 6am by a transformer on a powerline exploding in front of my house, no power, so I figured I'd see if I could get a reservation. Nope. Power (and A/C) was restored in about 2 hours! It's been hot here in Boston!

 

[meekey7197]

I haven't been able to read all 20 pages, did anyone actually get a reservation? Tom Bricker reported that supposedly some people were able to before the crash, but no actual confirmation. Anyone here? I got the hyena error this morning. I was woken up at 6am by a transformer on a powerline exploding in front of my house, no power, so I figured I'd see if I could get a reservation. Nope. Power (and A/C) was restored in about 2 hours! It's been hot here in Boston!

Touring plans said they did…

 

[Karalee402]

Took my one and only to college on Tuesday. Been using the planning of my September trip as a distraction while trying not to think about the fact that he won’t be with us

Sending lots of love your way; it's SO hard, isn't it? We're going in Sept, too, and it'll be the first time she's not with us. So strange, but so grateful for the distraction!

 

[gottalovepluto]

I haven't been able to read all 20 pages, did anyone actually get a reservation? Tom Bricker reported that supposedly some people were able to before the crash, but no actual confirmation. Anyone here? I got the hyena error this morning. I was woken up at 6am by a transformer on a powerline exploding in front of my house, no power, so I figured I'd see if I could get a reservation. Nope. Power (and A/C) was restored in about 2 hours! It's been hot here in Boston!

Nobody here did kinda sounds like only some bloggers and bots were successful. Does leave one wondering how those bloggers got so lucky

 

[Mle8308]

Nobody here did kinda sounds like only some bloggers and bots were successful. Does leave one wondering how those bloggers got so lucky

Funny, you must have read my mind! I was going to post just that! Hmmm..... It's funny, I have actually stopped following and watching a lot of the more popular vloggers/bloggers because it's a little frustrating to see how much free stuff they get and how they are so catered to by Disney. Guess I'm a little jealous! But I don't trust their opinions anymore because if they don't stay positive and report that everything is the next best thing ever, they will lose their freebies. So not really honest experiences or feedback. I hope the age and novelty of vlogging/blogging/influencers ends sooner rather than later.

 

[han22735]

Nobody here did kinda sounds like only some bloggers and bots were successful. Does leave one wondering how those bloggers got so lucky

Paid the bots

 

[wdwfan94]

This morning in a nutshell:

 

[lisset005]

Disney and their tech.... I will never understand how a company of this size has such horrific website/app

For reals!!!

 

[CaroM8]

Funny, you must have read my mind! I was going to post just that! Hmmm..... It's funny, I have actually stopped following and watching a lot of the more popular vloggers/bloggers because it's a little frustrating to see how much free stuff they get and how they are so catered to by Disney. Guess I'm a little jealous! But I don't trust their opinions anymore because if they don't stay positive and report that everything is the next best thing ever, they will lose their freebies. So not really honest experiences or feedback. I hope the age and novelty of vlogging/blogging/influencers ends sooner rather than later.

I feel the same about some popular Disney vloggers - there is one I watch a lot (I don't know if we are allowed to say the name on here) but she is super honest and real - if she does not like something (she does mostly restaurants/snacks) she is not afraid to say it.

 

[Mle8308]

I feel the same about some popular Disney vloggers - there is one I watch a lot (I don't know if we are allowed to say the name on here) but she is super honest and real - if she does not like something (she does mostly restaurants/snacks) she is not afraid to say it.

If it's something we can't discuss, it will usually get blocked or "bleeped" out. You can talk about vloggers/bloggers. There are a few "favorite vlogger" threads.

 

[swummyh20]

Unreal to hear BLOGGERS managed to score them. Says a lot about priorities of the park and how much weight social media carries for their advertising. Ugh! I’ve had a long DAY AS WE ALL HAVE. Thanks for sticking through it with me

 

[Madteaparty001]

Disney and their tech.... I will never understand how a company of this size has such horrific website/app

According to DH who used to work IT storage for a fortune 500 company the short answer is money. The long answer is outsourcing, cheap equipment and/or not local equipment (his company had 2 data centers they had built within an hour of the headquarters that they managed and the yearly budget for that was in the millions), and finally lack of retention in qualified staff which leads to projects being unfinished or finished poorly. His company was in the finance sector so having servers down for even a few seconds cost big money and heads rolled, when Disney servers go down the audience waits for it to come back up, money isn't really lost.

 

[lisset005]

I trust this company to propel me at high speed, in the dark, in an attraction that was built 50 years ago. But it’s now 2025 and they can’t even open adrs for a new restaurant.

... You ain't wrong though...

 

[Boopuff]

Unless bloggers are getting a "freebie" from Disney, the system was hacked by bots. My DH works in the industry that tries to prevent bots. In a nutshell here's what a bot does: lets say there are 100 virtual log in slots, the bot literally scoops up all those slots leaving everyone to fight for a few places. This is a very simplistic view. Private people can utilize bots and so do many of the other reservation sites. The last thing I saw said reservations won't open until tomorrow so I think any blogger claims are false.

 

[focusondisney]

The last thing I saw said reservations won't open until tomorrow so I think any blogger claims are false.

I think so too. Or they were given preselected ADRs by a Disney PR team.

 

[Anal Annie]

So how many of you will get up early again tomorrow morning "just in case" and how many will just wait for Disney to release more info about this mess?

 

[focusondisney]

Looks like no need to get up early tomorrow. The WDW website still says check back for updates.

 

[Shannon G]

I don’t follow Scott Gustin - what is his source that a new date will be shared later or that the new booking date will be next week? The info on the Disney site & in the app just says it won’t be today and to check back for updates.

 

[focusondisney]

I don’t follow Scott Gustin - what is his source that a new date will be shared later or that the new booking date will be next week? The info on the Disney site & in the app just says it won’t be today and to check back for updates.

I’m not sure, but he does always have accurate information.