Everything Park Reservations - Please Read Post 1

[IRISH249]

Question about making park reservations for December 22-29, 2022. What’s the best way to make our daily park reservation if the hours of operation have not yet been posted? If we want to rope drop for a particular park but it turns out it has a later opening time than we anticipated, I’m afraid it will mess up our plans. Any guidance is welcome.

 

[Lisa P.]

Park hours will be adjusted closer to the actual dates. That's peak season so you can expect park hours to be expanded.

 

[IRISH249]

Park hours will be adjusted closer to the actual dates. That's peak season so you can expect park hours to be expanded.

So would the recommendation be make my reservations and hope to adjust as the hours are updated?

 

[CarolynFH]

So would the recommendation be make my reservations and hope to adjust as the hours are updated?

That’s what I would do. Book park reservations now, watch for hours to be released about 75 days before and extended as time gets closer.

 

[GBRforWDW]

So would the recommendation be make my reservations and hope to adjust as the hours are updated?

Park hours will be the same every day of the week for each park. You're not likely to be able to adjust them in the final week when they finalize the actual hours, so I'd say set the dates and forget them.

One thing to note, if you're not going to the Christmas party on the 22nd, magic kingdom should have the Christmas party parade during the day starting on the 23rd through the end of the year.

 

[musicguy856]

According to several news articles, starting tomorrow they are making some changes to the reservation system that will allow you to modify reservations without cancelling them first if you don't have an AP (APs have been able to do this for nearly a year now). Also it is rumored that APs and regular tickets will be able to make reservations together.

 

[DMS1228]

Looking at MDE today (leaving for our trip Saturday) I noticed that it looks very different in the way the park reservations are displayed with our party. Each person is now listed separately with a park pass each day and not grouped together. Anyone else see this on their MDE??

 

[Marionnette]

Looking at MDE today (leaving for our trip Saturday) I noticed that it looks very different in the way the park reservations are displayed with our party. Each person is now listed separately with a park pass each day and not grouped together. Anyone else see this on their MDE??

Mine is the same as yours. Everyone's park pass is listed separately. It sure makes MDE even more cluttered than before.

 

[DMS1228]

Mine is the same as yours. Everyone's park pass is listed separately. It sure makes MDE even more cluttered than before.

Must be due to the new system, but it looks terrible!

 

[Mrs.AMC]

Question, is this how it reads for everyone? I thought it is odd that the only choices are

Book Park Reservation
and
Book Park Reservation for Hotel Guest with AP

What about Book Park Reservation for Hotel Guest with Tickets? It seems strange that's not an option, No? Or is that an option on others?


My MDE is just a disaster. They took what was 1 reservation on 1 day for 2 people and it now shows 1 reservation for 2 and 2 single reservations for 1 for the same day. For every single day we had booked. So each day now looks like this. Thankfully, it's a short 2 day trip

But, I do love the new way to book for AP and Ticket guests on 1 resort stay.
I cancelled all my reservations for our stay in March just to test it out.
First, as above, it took all of our reservations and made them singles so both DH and I went from 1 reservation for 2 to 4 single reservations for each day. How we got duplicated for each day I have park reservations for every day I have no idea. But anyway, I cancelled all 20 individual reservations and rebooked using the Hotel Resort option. I was able to book both DH and I with or AP and DGD with a ticket together. It was very nice and so much better than before and will eliminate the problem we had in July where some of our dates couldn't be booked for the same park.

Oh, and if you just click on the option to book Park Reservations and select a mixture of Ticketed guests and AP you get this message

and it won't let you continue. The option is greyed out.

 

[musicguy856]

Question, is this how it reads for everyone? I thought it is odd that the only choices are

Book Park Reservation
and
Book Park Reservation for Hotel Guest with AP

What about Book Park Reservation for Hotel Guest with Tickets? It seems strange that's not an option, No? Or is that an option on others?
View attachment 696496

My MDE is just a disaster. They took what was 1 reservation on 1 day for 2 people and it now shows 1 reservation for 2 and 2 single reservations for 1 for the same day. For every single day we had booked. So each day now looks like this. Thankfully, it's a short 2 day trip
View attachment 696490
But, I do love the new way to book for AP and Ticket guests on 1 resort stay.
I cancelled all my reservations for our stay in March just to test it out.
First, as above, it took all of our reservations and made them singles so both DH and I went from 1 reservation for 2 to 4 single reservations for each day. How we got duplicated for each day I have park reservations for every day I have no idea. But anyway, I cancelled all 20 individual reservations and rebooked using the Hotel Resort option. I was able to book both DH and I with or AP and DGD with a ticket together. It was very nice and so much better than before and will eliminate the problem we had in July where some of our dates couldn't be booked for the same park.

Oh, and if you just click on the option to book Park Reservations and select a mixture of Ticketed guests and AP you get this message
View attachment 696494
and it won't let you continue. The option is greyed out.

The only time a resort reservation comes into play is when you have an annual pass, since you can book park reservations for the length of your hotel stay and are not subject to the 3-5 day limit depending on your pass tier. You can book those 3-5 days plus the entire length of your onsite resort stay.

With regular tickets, you can hold reservations for every day of your ticket regardless of whether you're onsite.

 

[zmdisneyworld]

Question, is this how it reads for everyone? I thought it is odd that the only choices are

Book Park Reservation
and
Book Park Reservation for Hotel Guest with AP

What about Book Park Reservation for Hotel Guest with Tickets? It seems strange that's not an option, No? Or is that an option on others?
View attachment 696496

My MDE is just a disaster. They took what was 1 reservation on 1 day for 2 people and it now shows 1 reservation for 2 and 2 single reservations for 1 for the same day. For every single day we had booked. So each day now looks like this. Thankfully, it's a short 2 day trip
View attachment 696490
But, I do love the new way to book for AP and Ticket guests on 1 resort stay.
I cancelled all my reservations for our stay in March just to test it out.
First, as above, it took all of our reservations and made them singles so both DH and I went from 1 reservation for 2 to 4 single reservations for each day. How we got duplicated for each day I have park reservations for every day I have no idea. But anyway, I cancelled all 20 individual reservations and rebooked using the Hotel Resort option. I was able to book both DH and I with or AP and DGD with a ticket together. It was very nice and so much better than before and will eliminate the problem we had in July where some of our dates couldn't be booked for the same park.

Oh, and if you just click on the option to book Park Reservations and select a mixture of Ticketed guests and AP you get this message
View attachment 696494
and it won't let you continue. The option is greyed out.

Yes it's awful. And in the phone app it's even worse -- it just says "Date - Park" and "1 Guest" with not indication who each one is for... for 9 people. So if I wanted to cancel for just 1 person I'd have to guess which was which.

 

[Mrs.AMC]

The only time a resort reservation comes into play is when you have an annual pass, since you can book park reservations for the length of your hotel stay and are not subject to the 3-5 day limit depending on your pass tier. You can book those 3-5 days plus the entire length of your onsite resort stay.

With regular tickets, you can hold reservations for every day of your ticket regardless of whether you're onsite.

Ah, of course. Makes sense

 

[ccudmore]

Here’s a question I haven’t seen asked before; if I have a park reservation for one day of my stay, but decide not to go to the park that day, and not cancel the reservation, does it still use up a day of my park ticket?

 

[ScubaCat]

Does anyone else's WDW plans show 3 or 4 guests for each reservation, with the same name for each guest? It looks like my part of 3 is a party of 17 now!

 

[ScubaCat]

My September 4th plans for 3 of us (I hid the names but the icons have the same name next to each)

I have 2 separate entries for myself, one for 1 of me and one for 3 of me If I had multiple personalities or identities, this would be great!

 

[CarolynFH]

Here’s a question I haven’t seen asked before; if I have a park reservation for one day of my stay, but decide not to go to the park that day, and not cancel the reservation, does it still use up a day of my park ticket?

Nope! You have to tap into a park to use a day of your ticket.

 

[ccudmore]

Nope! You have to tap into a park to use a day of your ticket.

Thanks for the answer. That’s what I guessed/hoped

 

[scrappinginontario]

Here’s a question I haven’t seen asked before; if I have a park reservation for one day of my stay, but decide not to go to the park that day, and not cancel the reservation, does it still use up a day of my park ticket?

No but also want to mention if you purchased tickets as part of a resort package, I don’t believe you can use the tickets before you resort stay begins. If you purchased Resort and tickets separately you can use the tickets any day you have a park reservation.

As @CarolynFH said, if you don’t go to a park you will not use a park ticket although it’s good to cancel your reservation if this happens as it allows others to use that reservation.

Does anyone else's WDW plans show 3 or 4 guests for each reservation, with the same name for each guest? It looks like my part of 3 is a party of 17 now!

The app was updated today to allow park reservations to be changed as opposed to cancelled and rebooked. Others are reporting seeing what you are.

 

[ScubaCat]

The app was updated today to allow park reservations to be changed as opposed to cancelled and rebooked. Others are reporting seeing what you are.

They ran a migration script to the new system and it rebooked a park pass for every ticket you have attached to your profile. So all my non-expiring park hoppers each got a park pass. If I had 3 clones made of myself, all 4 of us could enter the park.