Date Inconsistencies

[MiddKid]

I don't want to pretend anyone is going to read this and respond in the next 4 hours but here we go...

It's Saturday, February 18th. According to my official reservation page, Disney says I can book my dining on February, 19th for my trip beginning on Friday, August 18th. Fantastic. I've spent most of the evening getting my ducks in a row before I wake up at 3am (west coast) to start booking.

As I'm tinkering around with the Disney site, I click on the date drop down in the dining reservation website and it allows me to click 8/15. 8/16 and 8/17 are greyed out, then it shows my trip starting on 8/18 highlighted in blue. Just looking at this would suggest that tomorrow 8/16 will show up, Monday 8/17 shows up, then Tuesday at 3am I can book 8/18...my arrival date.

I checked on two different browsers...the same. I re-checked the Disney site, still says I can make dining reservations tomorrow.

Even crazier...went to the wdwinfo calculator for 180 days and it says for a 8/18 arrival I can make reservations on 2/20. I went to another website...it says 2/19. A third and fourth website said 2/19.

To recap:
- the official reservation as well as 3 "calculators" all say tomorrow (or today as you're reading this), 2/19
- wdwinfo's says 2/20
- judging by what I can/can't click on right now on the Disney reservation site, I wouldn't be able to select my date until 2/21

So confused. Will still get up at 3am but not feeling good that 8/18 will be available!

 

[nursejackie]

I've just read your post (it's 7.30am on Sunday in UK) and I checked WDW info calculator for your dates and it said 2/19 for arrival date of 8/18, but disney's own website wouldn't let me go past 8/16 to book ADR's. Strange. Our hardest to obtain ADR's we usually call as it opens so your only other choice is to call in the morning when they open (sorry don't know what time zone you are in), I think they open at 7am eastern time. That's how we book BOG and our other most important ADR's at the 180 +10 day window (we stay onsite).

 

[nursejackie]

https://touringplans.com/walt-disney-world/dining-reservations#

Interesting reading

 

[MiddKid]

I've just read your post (it's 7.30am on Sunday in UK) and I checked WDW info calculator for your dates and it said 2/19 for arrival date of 8/18, but disney's own website wouldn't let me go past 8/16 to book ADR's. Strange. Our hardest to obtain ADR's we usually call as it opens so your only other choice is to call in the morning when they open (sorry don't know what time zone you are in), I think they open at 7am eastern time. That's how we book BOG and our other most important ADR's at the 180 +10 day window (we stay onsite).

At least I'm not crazy! Yes, the WDW site seems to be stuck two days behind!

 

[nursejackie]

I find the whole booking process for this and fastpasses so frustrating. A few years ago I got up at 4.30am to book fastpasses at 5am (UK time) when the window opened at midnight eastern time and for nearly a full hour I was freaking out as it wouldn't let me book anything, we stay on site so can book the first 14 days of our trip on that day too. Eventually it let me book but an hour later than the supposed booking time. Disney's booking systems are bad for my health for sure.

Now they've changed the FP booking times to 7am eastern time I have to take the day off work as that is midday in UK. At least I'm not tired when booking those.

Good luck with your ADR's, but I'm sure you know that people over book and even if you don't get exactly what you want today, they often become available if you stalk the disney and disboard websites.