Can this work?

[beautyqueen]

We are planning a trip next July for 4 full days before we have to drive to meet up with my family at the beach. We are doing either POLY or GF CL, with DDP, we are very laid back tho and hate to make any ADR's at all.

So has anyone went with the DDP and then actually gotten an ADR on the day you want to use it? Either yourselves making them or in our case I would ask IPO to make it for me? I just am not sure how things will roll and tons of factors will go into if we want our TS to be lunch or dinner.

I will have IPO make one for us in advance for CRT but other than that I would like to just roll with it and see where we can get into.

Thoughts?

 

[TDC Nala]

I am sure you will be able to get in somewhere on property. It just may not be a place you wanted to eat. July is a busy time. I think you should have plans sooner than that or you may end up going out to DTD or one of the outlying resorts for your meals. You may also have trouble getting the times you might want with little kids. And if you want character meals, you might have trouble finding those, too.

 

[Nadjalu]

Personally I would never buy the dining plan without making reservations for where I want to eat.
To many "what ifs" for me.

What happens if you pay that money for TS credits and you end up eating at CS all the time....or even a majority of the time???? A waste of money.

Basically July 4 is a very busy time and people will be making their dining adrs way ahead of you if you wait until you are there. Just like PP said, you MAY get in somewhere but who knows.

To me this "undoes" the reason of "waiting" so you can "choose" what you want.
If you wait and want Crystal Palace (for instance) that evening and they are booked??? And you have to eat say at Cosmic Rays (CS).....wouldn't you rather pick now what you may want than to be disappointed with what you "end up with"????

JMO but if you are doing the dining plan you need adrs, plain and simple.

 

[Disneyadore]

Never again. The first time we visited WDW we had our ears blown full of :"o more restaurants then you can imagen and don't worry".
Well yeah we ended up eating fat stuff like hamburgers, fries,and hot dogs for the whole seven days.
When we tried to get a ADR the just smiled at us and told us the first free spot was weeks ahead.

 

[beautyqueen]

ok so I'm thinking a late lunch or early dinner ADR might work better for us and we can always change our minds and cancel if we don't want it.