Dining Alerts

[MIALIAS]

Which one did you use and did it work well?

 

[LKing]

I'm not sure I understand your question.

 

[skellinton]

I'm not sure I understand your question.

I think they meant which ones have you used that have worked well.

 

[wendlle]

I only use Mouse Dining. I sign up for the text alerts and have gotten every single thing I have wanted by using this method.

 

[MIALIAS]

I think they meant which ones have you used that have worked well.

Yes! Thanks for interpreting!

 

[DizMe]

I've also used Mouse Dining, on 4 separate trips. I've only used the free version which means I have to be quick to grab the reservations on the alerts, but I've always gotten what I wanted (though sometimes it took multiple tries).

When you use the free version, you only get emails, not texts. I'm much more likely to see a text come up quickly than an email, but there is a way to have Mouse Dining emails sent as text messages! When you sign up on Mouse Dining, where it asks for your email, put in the following: your cell number (10 digits)@your mobile carrier. Each carrier has a different email ending, so you'll need to know what your carrier's is. I have Verizon, which is @vtext.com.

Say my mobile number is 555-111-3333. To convert my emails from Mouse Dining to text messages, I give Mouse Dining this email address: 5551113333@vtext.com. So when MD sends me an alert, I get a text message and not just an email. If you have a different carrier than Verizon, here are some others: https://www.pcmag.com/archive/how-to-send-email-to-sms-cell-phones-by-carrier-276407

The drawback is that there isn't much info in the text message, so what I learned to do was have my MD account open so when I saw a text alert, I could quickly see the date/time and book it on Disney Dining. It's a bit of work, because you have to be able to get into MD and DD quickly, but it has worked for me several times (I've also missed several, but eventually got everything I wanted).