Bringing Mom to WDW for MY bday, Sept '09! Day 4 Part 1..AK and Tusker House 12/30!

[disneygirlinnj]

Congrats on getting all of your ADRs!!! So glad you got all of them!!

Thank you! And after I post this post... I have another slight update to make too

Congrats on the ADRs!!! Man I need to plan a trip!

Thank ya! And YES! You do need to plan a trip!!!

Kudos to great ADRs...I called this morning and got everything I was trying for the first part of my ressie. I will have to call again on Tuesday and hope to get the rest of mine so wish me luck. I guess we will both be down there at the same time and Happy Birthday from one Libra to another (my bday is 10/2)!!!

Happy Birthday fellow libra

Grats on the great ADRs! Keep an eye out for us on these two days, we'll be at the same parks. No dining plans in common but we'll be at Tokyo Dining, hopefully at a table with a view for Illuminations, while you're at Teppan Edo.

I'll definitely have an eye out for ya

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Ok SO...

So yesterday when my ADR window opened, I wasn't able to get Crystal Palace before park opening. Only 9am and you guys heard about that. Today was the exact 90 day mark of the day I want the ADR and I had heard that they open up more tables on the 90 day mark. Sure enough... I logged on (even before 6am because my 90+10 dates were unlocked yesterday) this morning at like 5:50 and I got an 8:15am ADR! SOOO HAPPY! I quickly snatched that up and cancelled my 9am ADR.

Then fast forward to exactly 6am this morning... for the heck of it I try to see if any 8:05am slot open. And yet again... IT WAS!!! So I try to quickly grab it and put it in my cart, click continue... and then? The screen just goes white! I've read of this happening to other guests and the ADR was made. But I never even got a blank confirmation email? So I have to call Disney Dining in an hour just to make sure I don't have 2 ADRs made.

But I'm happy! Got my birthday breakfast before park opening!

**** UPDATE!!!

I DID GET 8:05AM!!! I tweaked another ADR of mine and when it listed the confirmation information, it showed my 8:05am Crystal Palace ADR right under it!! SOO HAPPY! Just cancelled the 8:15am one as well****

 

[jenjolt]

Ok SO...

So yesterday when my ADR window opened, I wasn't able to get Crystal Palace before park opening. Only 9am and you guys heard about that. Today was the exact 90 day mark of the day I want the ADR and I had heard that they open up more tables on the 90 day mark. Sure enough... I logged on (even before 6am because my 90+10 dates were unlocked yesterday) this morning at like 5:50 and I got an 8:15am ADR! SOOO HAPPY! I quickly snatched that up and cancelled my 9am ADR.

Then fast forward to exactly 6am this morning... for the heck of it I try to see if any 8:05am slot open. And yet again... IT WAS!!! So I try to quickly grab it and put it in my cart, click continue... and then? The screen just goes white! I've read of this happening to other guests and the ADR was made. But I never even got a blank confirmation email? So I have to call Disney Dining in an hour just to make sure I don't have 2 ADRs made.

But I'm happy! Got my birthday breakfast before park opening!

Congratulations!!! I just got done booking reservation at exactly the 90 day window that we hadn't until now been able to get and I'm so excited!! Before park opening ADRs are fantastic!!! I'm going to be like you and all this week I'm getting up at 5am (in my neck of the woods LOL) to be able to see if I can tweak some times and then call at 6am to cancel my other ones!!

Isn't it so exciting when you get exactly what you want!!

 

[dawnbu40]

YAY for getting CP before park opening! I love being in the parks before they open!

 

[teruterubouzu]

Congratulations on getting such great ADRs! The breakfast at Crystal Palace looks really good.

 

[LouDisney]

Yay!! So glad you got everything you wanted!

 

[catherines_mama]

Congrats on all your ADRs, they look perfect! And how cool to do it online.. and get CP before opening. We were there before open on Friday and it was SO fun. We had an 8:20 so we took some time taking pics everywhere.

SO FUN!

Okay, I have GOT to catch up with your plans...

 

[Malibelle]

yay for getting everything you wanted. I was pretty succesfull too online today! So much better than calling and being on hold!

 

[jenny105]

Glad you got all the ADRs you wanted!

 

[KatGarcia]

Thats awesome! Now you can have birthday girl pics virtually alone in MK!

 

[MyMuse]

Congrats! Congrats! ​

It sounds like you'l have a lovely time now that your ADRs are in order.

Hopefully, I'll have the same luck for my (I think!) December trip. Not sure if I'm staying on-site, though.

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Yay!!! Congrats!!

 

[racefanof88]

Congrats on getting the ADR changes you wanted. Now you have me wanting to go in and change mine again . I really would love to have another Le Cellier . Yesterday when I went and changed some of mine I got the blank screen TWICE. Then I had to start all over and thank goodness they were all still there. It is funny though, when I was making The Plaza it bounced from 7:15pm to 7:00pm which is the time I wanted on the first try........

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Congrats on getting the ADR changes you wanted. Now you have me wanting to go in and change mine again . I really would love to have another Le Cellier . Yesterday when I went and changed some of mine I got the blank screen TWICE. Then I had to start all over and thank goodness they were all still there. It is funny though, when I was making The Plaza it bounced from 7:15pm to 7:00pm which is the time I wanted on the first try........

I would definitely call and double check to make sure you didn't double book! When my screen went blank I never got a confirmation email or anything. I tried to book it again and the time slow was already full. Then I had made a different ADR for GFC and when that confirmation came up, the one where the screen went blank came up too! So I had to cancel a few to make sure I wasn't double booked. So confusing!

 

[ILuvCrush]

I'm sooo excited that you got all your ADRs!!

I'm intrigued by the fact that more tables open up on the exact 90th day

Jenjolt and 2xcited2sleep made all our ADRs this time... so i didn't get to play with the new system yet.... but I'll be sure to keep that little caveat in mind when I am making them for my November trip!!

BTW...I'm a Libra too

Paula

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Thanks everyone on the congrats on ADRs! I slacked a little checking this thread so I dont' have time to individually reply to all of you...


So October hours were just posted to travel agents. Remember when I said I wanted to avoid DHS at all costs on Fantasmic days?! Well guess what's going on at DHS on Oct 1st...the day I'm planning on heading over there?! Yup... Fantasmic!!

Looking at my schedule, and all the ADRs I'd have to do over..I think we're going to just suck it up and head over there on that day. We don't really need to do everything and I'm in no rush to run around the park so we'll try to take our time. I know we dont want to see Indiana Jones, Lights Motor Action show, Beauty and the Beast, American Idol (although I've never seen it...I honestly cant stand the real show), Sounds Dangerous, the backlot tour and a few others. Cross your fingers the park isnt chaos!

 

[jenny105]

We're going to DHS on a Fantasmic Day a week and a half before you. If I have a new laptop by then, I'll PM you and let you know what it was like, how crazy it was, etc.

I can't stand AI either. Ryan Seacrest's voice drives me insane.

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

I'm sure you'll be fine on the Fantasmic day, if you get there at rope drop then you'll probably be fine. Do all of those big things first like RNRC, TOT, and TSM (if you're doing them) and then do the other stuff. Should work out all right. And hey it might not be so bad in the morning/early afternoon cause maybe most of the people won't get there until later for Fantasmic. Hope it all works out!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

We're going to DHS on a Fantasmic Day a week and a half before you. If I have a new laptop by then, I'll PM you and let you know what it was like, how crazy it was, etc.

I can't stand AI either. Ryan Seacrest's voice drives me insane.

Ugh! Ryan Seacrest drives me nuts! I'll cross my fingers it's not busy for either of us at DHS!

I'm sure you'll be fine on the Fantasmic day, if you get there at rope drop then you'll probably be fine. Do all of those big things first like RNRC, TOT, and TSM (if you're doing them) and then do the other stuff. Should work out all right. And hey it might not be so bad in the morning/early afternoon cause maybe most of the people won't get there until later for Fantasmic. Hope it all works out!

Thank you Yeah, we'll definitely try to do all the big stuff first. Mom will like TSM I think and then i can just go run and do TOT and RNRC on my own while she shops or hangs out. We're planning early mornings every day (although i hope we can stick to that! ha) so it shouldn't be too bad!

 

[jenny105]

Ugh! Ryan Seacrest drives me nuts! I'll cross my fingers it's not busy for either of us at DHS!

Do you watch the Soup? I love that Joel McHale rips on him all the time!