Dining tidbits I learned this trip

[juniperberry123]

1. Sci Fi does not use the online wait list for walk up tables. You have to go there in person, and there is no list, you just have to get lucky and ask for a walk up when a walk up table in the back (picnic table, not car) is available.

2. Beaches and Cream does use online check in for their walk up bar stools. If you try to check in with a cast member for a walk-up spot, they will tell you to go online. But there is no “list” in the normal sense of the word. You have to keep reloading until a waiting list spot opens up, and then be the first to click it.

3. We had a great experience at the Space 220 Lounge. I was only able to book 2 tables for 2 (within 10 minutes of each other). When we checked in, I asked if it would be possible to wait to be seated near each other, and the cast member checking us in said she could try but not promise, which we were totally fine with. Then she went ahead and switched us to a reservation for a party of 4, so we all got to sit at the same table. It was super nice of her.

 

[Her Dotness]

3. We had a great experience at the Space 220 Lounge. I was only able to book 2 tables for 2 (within 10 minutes of each other). When we checked in, I asked if it would be possible to wait to be seated near each other, and the cast member checking us in said she could try but not promise, which we were totally fine with. Then she went ahead and switched us to a reservation for a party of 4, so we all got to sit at the same table. It was super nice of her.

I hope you thought to email guest relations and rave about this CM.

Guest compliments go in the CM's personnel file and may lead to a better job in future.

Besides, who doesn't like to know their efforts were appreciated?

 

[Simba's Mom]

2. Beaches and Cream does use online check in for their walk up bar stools. If you try to check in with a cast member for a walk-up spot, they will tell you to go online. But there is no “list” in the normal sense of the word. You have to keep reloading until a waiting list spot opens up, and then be the first to click it.

Can you explain this a little more please? DH has just announced, 2 weeks before our trip, that he really wants to go to Beaches and Cream. And, of course, there are no reservations available. When we go, we do prefer the bar stools at the counter over a table (there's just two of us, and there's more to see at the counter). Might we get them by walk up?