Help? Any advice for planning ADRs for a week in August.

[frostymom]

Where to start? We usually just eat when we are hungry. We have a 5 and will be 3 year old when we go in August. We are not sure what parks we will be in on which days yet. But with the restaurants so full last year we could not get ADRs with FD even a month in advance, so we know how important it is to start planning them now, 180 day mark coming in Feb. We will be on the DDP as well.

Please give advice how to start planning our trip in relation to dining reservations.

Thanks

 

[ancestry]

Well what I normally do is develop a rough touring plan/schedule -- i.e. I decide where we are going to be and when such as which park(s) on which days. Then I decide which restaurants I want to eat at in the parks or at the resorts.

Once those two things are determined I make a schedule of when we want to eat, such as do we want our table service for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

By the time I go to make the dining reservations I have a tentative schedule written out of which restaurants we want and what time we want to eat and have a back up restaurant selected in case our first one is not available.

Hope that helps some! Good Luck.

 

[frostymom]

Thanks for the advice! Do you try to think of what parks will have extra hours? We do not usually do park hopper passes as more than one park in a day would be too taxing for the little people.

I am so excited to plan all this and lucky to have this board.

 

[ancestry]

Do you try to think of what parks will have extra hours?

I do. I take the EMH into consideration and determine whether or not we want to take advantage of them on that specific day.

We rely solely on Disney Transportation so I try to take into travel time into consideration. For example if we want to eat at Boma at AKL then I will try to book a dinner at Boma for the day that we are at AK so we can go straight from the park to the restaurant.