Connecting dining reservation to vacation pkg

[mwmom]

I booked a trip last Sept for a Nov trip and I changed the reservations 3 times bc I kept finding a better deal. We are going again this Nov and staying on property with the dining plan (like last time). But, I have already booked flights and have been looking at prices for Disney property. I want to go ahead and book now just to ensure we have a room, but I know I may find better deals closer to the time we go and may cancel these reservations.

My dining question is this...My 180 day window opens next week. If I book dining reservations that are tied to a room reservation now and I end up changing my room reservation, how would that work? Would I be better off NOT attaching the room reservation to the dining reservation now?

Also, I saw on a post here that you can see what dining reservations are open, but I can't find it on the web site. Does anyone know where I can find that information when my window opens next week?

Thx!

 

[ThreeKMom]

I'm not sure about linking your dining reservations, I would book a room however so you can take advantage of the 180+10 rule. I don't think that if you cancled your room and rebooked somewhere else that your ADR's would be affected. I know if you cancle your trip completely you need to also cancel you ADR's individually.

When you go to the dining site choose the date and enter the # of people then choose a meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner) and then check the box for restaurants participating in the dining plan and choose no preference then click search (or find, I forget what it says exactly) and you will get a list of all open reservation choices for the meal you have selected. Does that make sense? hope this helped!

 

[figment_jii]

The dining reservations aren't really tied to your package reservation. You only need to enter the reservation number to access the 180 + 10 day window. Last year I made the ADRs under one reservation number, then took advantage of a different deal that came later, and re-booked. All of the ADRs remained unchanged. On the only thing I'm not sure what would happen is if you've linked a pre-paid meal (like CRT) to the dining package and then changed/cancelled.

 

[mwmom]

Thanks for the help. Sounds like I will go ahead and book reservation at WL, make dining plans for 180+10 and just not link the CRT reservation to that since you prepay for that one.