Brain Cramp: Practical application of the 90 + 10 rule

[malcontent]

I really think I knew this at one time!

Assume a 14 night/15 day stay at a WDW resort.

90 days before day 1, ADR's could be made for days 1 to 10. That's the easy part.

However, when can ADR's be made for days 11 through 15?

After making ADR's for days 1 through 10 at the 90 day mark, could you then make ADR's for day 11 the next day, day 12 the day after that, etc?

OR

Do you have to wait 10 days before making your next ADR's, making them 90 days before day 11 for day 11, 90 days before day 12 for day 12, etc?

I'm sure this has been asked and answered many, many times, but without a search function, I guess it has to be asked one more time!

 

[vicki_c]

You can either call day by day for the last days, or else you can wait until your last day (well 90 days before your last day), and make all the days 11-15 ADRs then. I have not heard of anyone being able to call on Day 11 and making Day 11-15 reservations. But YMMV, as in all things that involve a Disney CM.

 

[malcontent]

Sooo . . .

If you are staying 15 days at a WDW resort, you have to call once at the 90 day window to make your first 10 days worth of ADR's, then you wait 10 days, and then call every day for the next 5 days to book your ADRs for days 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 respectively, correct?

 

[kat3668]

Sooo . . .

If you are staying 15 days at a WDW resort, you have to call once at the 90 day window to make your first 10 days worth of ADR's, then you wait 10 days, and then call every day for the next 5 days to book your ADRs for days 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 respectively, correct?

Nope you will just need to wait the 10 days then you may make all the Adrs for the rest of your trip.

 

[malcontent]

Nope you will just need to wait the 10 days then you may make all the Adrs for the rest of your trip.

Hoooh boy, now I'm really confused!!


If you made your 10 days worth of ADR's at 90 days out, 10 days after making those ADR's, you would then be 90 days from day 11 of your vacation. You could then make ADR's for day 11, but not day 12 since you would be 91 days away from day 12. You'd have to wait another day. And you would then have to wait another 2 days to make ADR's for day 13, etc.

I could very well be missing something. Am I?

 

[vicki_c]

Hoooh boy, now I'm really confused!!


If you made your 10 days worth of ADR's at 90 days out, 10 days after making those ADR's, you would then be 90 days from day 11 of your vacation. You could then make ADR's for day 11, but not day 12 since you would be 91 days away from day 12. You'd have to wait another day. And you would then have to wait another 2 days to make ADR's for day 13, etc.

I could very well be missing something. Am I?

This is how I think it works as well. I didn't think you get a 2nd "+10" advantage for the latter part of your trip, but I don't know that for sure.

 

[kat3668]

I was assuming that there was 2 seperate ressies for that stay. I see now that there is no clarification on that. If you have a split ressie then you may book the 90+10 option as it is a seperate reservation number. If you are on the same ressie I'm not sure although it seems to me like they should let you do it as you are staying on site.
Sorry I confused you. I think you got it right.

 

[malcontent]

I was assuming that there was 2 seperate ressies for that stay. I see now that there is no clarification on that. If you have a split ressie then you may book the 90+10 option as it is a seperate reservation number. If you are on the same ressie I'm not sure although it seems to me like they should let you do it as you are staying on site.
Sorry I confused you. I think you got it right.

Thanks, Kat, 'cause I think you may accidentally be on to something. Is there anything wrong with booking as a "split stay" at the same resort, booking a 15 day vacation as a 10 and 5 so you only have to make 2 phone calls for ADR's????

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

This is what happened to me in March 2008 for our September 2008 ADRs:

At 180 days, I made reservations for my check-in date + 10 days . At 180 + 10 days from day 11 (or the next day) and so on with the remaining days, I was able to make ADRs.

If I had called at the 180 day mark for day 11, yes you can make ADRs for days 11-15. Or you can make them day to day at 180 + 10 for those remaining days.

Obviously though, it's 90 days now.

 

[squirrel]

The only disadvantage is if it's at the end of Free Dining , then you wouldn't get Free Dining on the second part of the trip. Or you would have to have AP or buy another one day pass to get Free Dining on the second half of the trip.

I was wondering this also, as last year we booked in May for the Free Dining and with it being 120 days, I could just book everything at once. It would be nice if we can book day 11-15 on the same day after waiting 10 days.