Disney DON'T bring back 180-day in advance reservations.

[Jcruise86]

I hope Disney doesn't bring back 180-day in advance restaurant reservations, I don't want to plan out which park I'll be visiting each day 6 months from now.

We went to Paris in the summer of 2019 & it was less of a hassle to plan than our trip to Disney World two years earlier. I'm grateful that Universal Orlando gets this.

 

[0FF TO NEVERLAND]

I'm cool with 3 months for resort guests and 2 months for Non

 

[Schneewittchen37]

I feel you.

DH is always like "I don't know what I want for dinner 6 months from now."

 

[TTA Rider Matt]

I’m with you on this, but more so, I would be opposed to the old FP+ system coming back. I love planning Disney trips, don’t get me wrong, but when you have dining and attraction reservations, it‘s just too much to plan for ahead of time. With dining especially though, park hours often aren’t even available when 180 days comes around.

 

[Grumpy by Birth]

My only concern is that if they DO bring back FP+ with a 60-day reservation window, it will fall on the same day to make ADRs and FP+ reservations, which will make life a lot more difficult on that morning. Maybe allow 45 days for ADRs so that we already have those taken care of when the FP+ morning rolls around (assuming they go back to a similar process as they had pre-COVID).

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I’m with you on this, but more so, I would be opposed to the old FP+ system coming back. I love planning Disney trips, don’t get me wrong, but when you have dining and attraction reservations, it‘s just too much to plan for ahead of time. With dining especially though, park hours often aren’t even available when 180 days comes around.

I agree with the last bit. I like the pre-planning windows but they need to actually publish park hours with sufficient notice to allow people to plan.

I hated not having pre-booked FastPasses on my recent COVID trip. Between FP+ and rope drop over 7 park days, I always knew that I had 28 attractions that I could ride with no wait. There aren't even 28 rides that get a major wait to begin with, which means I didn't really wait for anything, ever.

 

[TTA Rider Matt]

I agree with the last bit. I like the pre-planning windows but they need to actually publish park hours with sufficient notice to allow people to plan.

I hated not having pre-booked FastPasses on my recent COVID trip. Between FP+ and rope drop over 7 park days, I always knew that I had 28 attractions that I could ride with no wait. There aren't even 28 rides that get a major wait to begin with, which means I didn't really wait for anything, ever.

I’ve gone twice since COVID, but I “throw out” my July trip from last year because I was literally in the parks a week after reopening and the parks were empty. I’ll speak more based on my trip from 2 weeks ago. We pretty much waited 25-45 minutes for every ride, once or twice we waited longer than that. Flight of Passage, we waited 35 minutes, midday. MMRR we waited less than 30. Without the CM’s accommodating FP people, they are able to move the standby lines along more smoothly. I didn’t miss FP+ at all, and while I’m not opposed to them reintroducing it, I hope it looks different than the booking 60 days in advance.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

I'd be happy to have dining reservations stay at 60 days, but if they bring back FP I wouldn't want to do them both on the same day....that would be Something like 75 days for ADR and 60 days for FP could work well.

 

[Schneewittchen37]

I’ve gone twice since COVID, but I “throw out” my July trip from last year because I was literally in the parks a week after reopening and the parks were empty. I’ll speak more based on my trip from 2 weeks ago. We pretty much waited 25-45 minutes for every ride, once or twice we waited longer than that. Flight of Passage, we waited 35 minutes, midday. MMRR we waited less than 30. Without the CM’s accommodating FP people, they are able to move the standby lines along more smoothly. I didn’t miss FP+ at all, and while I’m not opposed to them reintroducing it, I hope it looks different than the booking 60 days in advance.

I'm with you here. Visited the parks during EASTER WEEK or (OMG second worst week of the year). The longest lines we encountered were 40ish minutes. A lot of the headliners were practically walk on in the last hour or 2 of the day. FP's are evil.

 

[loves to dive]

Even with the old way, you didn't have to plan that far in advance. The only ADRs I've ever booked more than the night before in advance have been - tea at GF because that is a hard get, I've booked it a month in advance, V&As I booked about 2 weeks in advance, Ogas I booked 3 days in advance. That's it, I've done CG day of, I've done BOG day of, I've done LeCellier day of. I did book the F&W special dinners in advance because I love those. I was there two weeks ago and booked HBD for lunch the morning of, Chefs de France the afternoon of. I looked every morning ish to see what was available and there was always something for that afternoon/night had I wanted it but I was pretty much eating from F&G booths. I will say having park hoppers helps since you aren't limited to a certain park.

We also never booked FPs in advance. I might book them the night before if we had made up our mind what park we wanted to go to the next day but only one or two in the morning and never more apart than however close you were allowed to book them. Sometimes I would book one while standing in line for a ride but only if it was about 30 min. out from the time we were expected to get off the ride.

To be fair, in the last 7 or so years we have been going at least once a year so we were never worried about not getting to eat somewhere or ride something. We are also not ride centric, we like to ride them but there are a number we can't ride because my son has nerve damage in his spine. We like to try new places to eat and try not repeat restaurants so it's kind of fun to throw the dart at the board and see what we hit.

 

[MarkS2112]

As long as resort guests get a longer window than offsite I could live with 3 months. But I will usually grab blocks and constantly change over time as our plans change. I don’t mind FP+ on same time because I can plan those around dining. Usually it’s not an issue.

 

[mac_tlc]

Some wait times this week : 50 for MMRR, 55 for Soarin’ , Space Mtn was between 35 and 55, Splash was 65, Test Track was 45 before it broke, 85 for ToT,

Bring back FP+.

Also I find the park reservation limit of 3 for AP holders to be quite a pain.

I’ll be glad when there is no park reservation, FP+, longer ADR windows .

mac_tlc

 

[gharter]

I agree with not having the 180 day rule, but also think that there should be more benefits for staying on grounds.
I like the idea of ADRs at 90 days for on site and 60 days for off site.