Hard to get ADRs help

[tash439]

Does anyone know what the app or site is that allows you to pay for dining searches and be notified when something shows availability? I seen these posted somewhere, but can't remember where!

 

[bbak30]

www.disneydiningbuddy.com

 

[bbak30]

ugh. ok disney dining buddy dot com. without the spaces. lol

 

[tash439]

Thank you!

 

[mommy2hannahgrace]

Experience with this site? does it work??

 

[wencherous]

Experience with this site? does it work??

I started using it this weekend and have received a notification but I was too slow (4 minutes from text to seeing no open time, 4 stinking minutes!).

 

[50sPrimeTime]

ohhhhhh....I didn't know a site like this existed! Amazing! Maybe now I can snag something at Magic on Halloween

 

[ryan43110]

Ok, I had tried the website mentioned earlier, paid my 8 bucks and a month later not one notification. I looked for other websites and found Disney dining scout dot io this is only 3.99 for 6 months and for the same service but unlimited searches. So far it's been great

 

[kmn952]

I got Be our guest on a Halloween party night using Disney dining buddy!!!!

 

[MsEeyoreLover]

Oh I might have to try this! I really want to do Be Our Guest for my trip between 8/27-9/1 .. Should I hold off a bit before trying out disney dining buddy? Or should I be patient and wait and see if something opens up?

 

[jen8544]

Thanks for the info!

 

[JessLyn]

I just wanted to add my experience with Disney Dinning Buddy.

I was looking for a reservation (California Grill) for 4 people on a specific day between 6-7:30pm. I had no interest in anything earlier or later. Dinning Buddy will search your time as well as 2 hours before and 2 hours after. So, if I put in 7pm, it searches from 5-9pm. There is NO WAY to limit the time. So, I got a text message every hour, on the hour, for an 8:50pm reservation that was available. So, I changed my desired time to 6:40pm (so that I wouldn't keep getting texts for the 8:50 reservation). Then, I kept getting text messages every hour on the hour for a 5:15pm reservation. Again, no way to adjust this. So, I kept getting text messages once an hour 24 hours a day (including the middle of the night). I even ended up booking the 5:15 one just to stop the notifications for that; but then another time opened up at 5:30 and I couldn't book both of them. So, I ended up just shutting off the notifications for this one.

The other reservation that I was searching for was arrival day Ohana dinner between 6-7:30pm. Well, from my experience with my California Grill reservation request, I knew that the site looks once an hour, on the hour, every hour. Well, I ended up searching myself whenever I thought about it and noticed that it wasn't on the hour. I ended up finding the reservation I wanted (7pm - perfect) on my own, with no help at all from DDB.

I paid for DDB to search for both of these reservations and it did not help me one bit. I have heard other people have fantastic results from the website, and those people seem to be quite happy with the service. I just wanted to offer another point of view. Best of luck with your reservations, no matter what you end up trying.