Has anyone had success booking dining? I mean......for the love of churros!

[julesann]

There are a couple paid third party apps that people here use to notify them when reservations come open. I don't want to support that type of thing and I don't like having to click through a third party to go to my Disney account. I just don't trust their security. But, those are options and plenty of people here sing their praises.

I want to add in that you don't need to click through the third party app to get to Disney account. I find it faster when I get an alert from a third party service to simply note the date/time of the available ADR and go directly to my Disney account to book it.

 

[the1dog]

Just wanted to let everyone know that I was able to get all of the reservations I wanted for our trip Dec. 12-17. But...in order to do that I was up at 3 am every morning since Wednesday to accomplish it. Ridiculous, for sure, but after reading on the boards about the wait times for food and how hard it was to get reservations, I figured it would be worth it. Drastic times call for drastic measures, I guess! I got Trader Sam's for Sunday, Blue Bayou and Carthay Lounge for Monday, Napa Rose for Tuesday, Carnation Cafe and Lamplight Lounge for Wednesday, and Oga's and Cafe Orleans for Thursday. So thanks to everyone for input and tips that I gleaned here!

 

[Miffy]

Deleted. Posted in wrong thread.

 

[BadPinkTink]

a mis understanding, nothing to see here,

 

[Miffy]

this is the Disneyland California section and a thread about getting ADR at Disneyland California , California Adventures and Downtown Disney

Oh, so sorry. I was just reading the New Posts and didn't realize. I'll delete it.

 

[SOCALMouseMommy]

I’m going to be releasing Napa Rose for Friday 10/22 at 6:30pm. If anyone wants to try for it PM me and we can coordinate.

 

[princessmocha]

So just to clarify, reservations go live at 6am EST and hasn't been doing the wonky sometimes at 5:45 or earlier like WDW ones have, right. I mean, I am going to be up earlier, just in case, but just wanted to check!

 

[Disney0010]

That was my experience last week on all three days that I booked reservations.

So just to clarify, reservations go live at 6am EST and hasn't been doing the wonky sometimes at 5:45 or earlier like WDW ones have, right. I mean, I am going to be up earlier, just in case, but just wanted to check!

 

[the1dog]

Yes, that was my experience also. I booked 5 days in a row last week and each day the reservations were released at exactly 3 a.m. Pacific time. I tried at just a few minutes before, but they were not available.

 

[DizMe]

Does anyone know about Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen Dec 13-16? It seemed like it was always open for reservations the first few days I was booking my ADRs and suddenly it disappeared. I purposely got other "hot" reservations and waited for JK but now there's nothing anywhere, which is just a little odd considering how many reservations there were before. My sis and I love to go there but I can't really complain since we got a bunch of other good reservations. Just kind of curious if something happened.

 

[roxy72]

Just wanted to let everyone know that I was able to get all of the reservations I wanted for our trip Dec. 12-17. But...in order to do that I was up at 3 am every morning since Wednesday to accomplish it. Ridiculous, for sure, but after reading on the boards about the wait times for food and how hard it was to get reservations, I figured it would be worth it. Drastic times call for drastic measures, I guess! I got Trader Sam's for Sunday, Blue Bayou and Carthay Lounge for Monday, Napa Rose for Tuesday, Carnation Cafe and Lamplight Lounge for Wednesday, and Oga's and Cafe Orleans for Thursday. So thanks to everyone for input and tips that I gleaned here!

We did the same! We woke up just before 3am to ensure we'd actually be awake and ready to go at 3am, and booked all our reservations, including Blue Bayou (my sweetie will love it), Carnation Cafe, Trader Sams, Lamplight Lounge brunch (if only we could switch our park reservation to start at DCA on this day thou!), Carthay Circle Lounge, Storytellers.. ay ay ay. We'll probably cancel 1 or 2 the day before since that's a LOT of reservations, but waking up early at 60 days out was the only way to 100% secure our reservations.

 

[ter-moo]

Just curious if anyone has had any luck with CALLING for dinner reservations. I have been checking maniacally for days for ressies on December 1-3, to no avail. (pretty much all that's available is DTD places) Sometimes in the past (and I know the past hasn't had any real bearing on things lately) I found that CM's could find things that the web site couldn't.

This is making me so sad since we've been saving up all our Disney credits on our Chase Disney card during the shutdown and have enough to have a LOT of nice meals while there. For the first time, I'm worried that we won't be able to have those.

 

[longtimedisneylurker]

Just curious if anyone has had any luck with CALLING for dinner reservations. I have been checking maniacally for days for ressies on December 1-3, to no avail. (pretty much all that's available is DTD places) Sometimes in the past (and I know the past hasn't had any real bearing on things lately) I found that CM's could find things that the web site couldn't.

This is making me so sad since we've been saving up all our Disney credits on our Chase Disney card during the shutdown and have enough to have a LOT of nice meals while there. For the first time, I'm worried that we won't be able to have those.

I believe all the dine line employees have not been asked to return. Disney is forcing everyone to arrange their dining on their website and app.

 

[FeistyDisneyMom]

Just curious if anyone has had any luck with CALLING for dinner reservations. I have been checking maniacally for days for ressies on December 1-3, to no avail. (pretty much all that's available is DTD places) Sometimes in the past (and I know the past hasn't had any real bearing on things lately) I found that CM's could find things that the web site couldn't.

This is making me so sad since we've been saving up all our Disney credits on our Chase Disney card during the shutdown and have enough to have a LOT of nice meals while there. For the first time, I'm worried that we won't be able to have those.

Your best bet would be signing up for one of the notification services mentioned in the thread, to pick up any cancellations as they come up.

I too wish they would staff the phone lines again - I have to make reservations for 7-15 people at a time, and doing it online is impossible.

 

[ter-moo]

Your best bet would be signing up for one of the notification services mentioned in the thread, to pick up any cancellations as they come up.

I too wish they would staff the phone lines again - I have to make reservations for 7-15 people at a time, and doing it online is impossible.

I did sign up for Mouse Dining. So far, nothing.

 

[tankgirl!]

Does anyone have info on Storyteller's for Thanksgiving? Right now there is no availability, but the last time I checked it was showing as "closed." I'd love to go but I might have missed the very brief window when it was available. Thanks!

 

[longboard55]

Storytellers is open

 

[ktlm]

I did sign up for Mouse Dining. So far, nothing.

Don't give up! I had the free service set up for quite a while before our October trip for alerts and it worked for one of the reservations I wanted, and then when I still didn't have everything I really wanted (and the times I wanted), I paid for the other service about a week and a half before our trip. Both are great--- and I noticed that about a week before our trip and especially all the way through our trip-- my phone was blowing up with alerts. I already had gotten the rest of what I wanted with the paid service before we arrived, but I certainly would have had lots of options. People change things at the last minute. For example, we were supposed to do Minnie's breakfast our last morning (Sunday)-- but it had been so crowded in the parks and we had gotten so much less done than usual on this trip (but had already seen a ton of great characters and felt satisfied with that aspect) that we decided we didn't want to spend the time there and cancelled the day before. I'm sure someone got an alert and was thrilled to grab it. Hopefully you will pick up everything you want.

One thing you do need to do is go into Mouse Dining every few days and be sure your alerts are still showing as active. I noticed that mine were turning off. I feel like maybe it was happening when I would click on an alert to try to get the reservation, but the Disney website would tell me I was too late it was gone. Maybe mouse dining assumed that I had gotten it? Or maybe they only last a certain amount of time? Not sure, but I did have to reactivate alerts several times.

 

[GBRforWDW]

I did sign up for Mouse Dining. So far, nothing.

Lots of restaurants have walk up wait list as well. I know that's not always helpful when you would rather plan your meal times ahead, but definitely check in at the restaurants for availability day of if the alerts aren't able to help you out.

 

[FeistyDisneyMom]

Does BB have a walk-up list or is it reservation only right now?