Help with ADRs, please.

MataHari22

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Ok, I need to make my ADRs on Saturday morning. I am a planner, but I have to say, I find it ridiculous that we have to do this 180 days out. Although, this is a first time since 2001 that I have more than 3 months to plan my trip. Lol. The last couple were booked only 2-3 months before. So, I am really hopeful that I will be able to book things I can never get. I only have an iPad, but I will get up super early and try to sign on with that and then call in when the phones open up, too.

So, can you help me prioritize what to ask for first, please? I am thinking I should try for the harder ones to get, first, right? Also, on the park days that I would like pre-park breakfast, what are the earliest times to get? It takes me a very long time to eat, because I have swallowing issues, so I would kind of like to get as early a time as I can. Also, I guess I have read that sometimes they change it, and make the opening time even earlier. Is this done at a non EMH park, or are they moving a park that has EMH to an even earlier time?

Seems like from reading a bit, that it's still hard to get ADRs even 180 days out? I have read that I should just keep trying, and I will do that. Any other tips you can give me would be appreciated, thank you.

11/13 ~ HS on this day. I don't intend on doing rope drop. It'll be a wake up without the alarm day, which will still be early. Just don't want to be up at 6am or anything. Will be eating a little breakfast at the resort. I would like to get Hollywood Brown Derby and do the Fantasmic! package. Hoping they still do that. I would like lunch, if I can do it, I think. If not, I'd take dinner, and if I cannot get either, Mamma Melrose, like last year, I suppose.

11/14 ~ AK planned, hours are 9-6 and want a pre-park ADR for Tusker House. I really enjoyed that last year. I was able to eat a couple of things they had. I find AK is a difficult park for me to eat at, so I'd really like to get TH for breakfast.

11/15 ~ MK and hours are posted as 9-7. I would like pre-park open at Crystal Palace. They make over easy eggs to order, and I am able to eat these and it was one of the few meals I got to eat my whole plate of food, so I'd like to do this again. Plus, Tigger is one of my very favs. :D

If I cannot get breakfast there, BOG for lunch or dinner would be good, but this is a hard to get, right? I can swallow the potato soup, so that is another place I was able to actually eat something. Now that I'm thinking of it, maybe I will definitely try for a dinner here, too. No Wishes or parade at night, since it's a MVMCP night. What is the latest ADR that is possible?

11/16 ~ EPCOT and I'm thinking I'd like to try Teppan Edo. For lunch or dinner. If I cannot get that, I will try for Rose & Crown, which has been very good with making something for me to eat in the past.

11/17 ~ MVMCP and I would like to do Afternoon Tea at the GF before the party. I've never been able to get an ADR for this, so I'm hoping this time I will. Last year, we at at the Grand Floridian Café before MVMCP. That would be my second choice.

11/18 ~ MK today, and it probably won't be rope drop, since we had the party the night before. Would like to try BOG for lunch or dinner. Or Tony's I guess, they have worked well the last 2x.

11/19 ~ EPCOT for our last day. Would like Chefs De France for lunch, or dinner. Or if not, I'd try for Coral Reef or Via Napoli.

Thank you everyone. :D
 
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I just made all of my adrs this past Saturday from my ipad and got everything I needed and at the times I wanted. It all took 20 minutes.. I was shocked! I even got BOG lunch and dinner and CRT breakfast. I had no luck last year with BOG so I'm excited. You have a great shot of getting BOG for dinner on the 18th- do this one first! I made sure to do it first for my 8th day and had no problems with lots of times available! Here is what I would prioritize if these were mine....

BOG on 11/18
Tusker House on 11/14
Crystal Palace on 11/15
Teppan Edo on 11/16
Hollywood Brown Derby
Chefs De France
Grand Floridian Cafe (this is still a hidden gem and very easy to get. I booked this twice for breakfast w/ no issue)
Tea at GF

Good luck!
 
Try to put things like CRT and BOG at the end of your trip. I could only get BOG the last day of our vacation for now. If you want to lock something in at the 180 day mark you might want to try for the hard to get places on your last days. I could not find anything else for BOG and from what I hear it's people using their 180 + 10 before us and booking up BOG for the 10 days of our trips before we can get to them. But I hear lots of folks have luck with cancellations as their trip gets closer so I have faith that we'll all get a little pixie dust. Good luck!
 

Ok, I need to make my ADRs on Saturday morning. I am a planner, but I have to say, I find it ridiculous that we have to do this 180 days out. Although, this is a first time since 2001 that I have more than 3 months to plan my trip. Lol. The last couple were booked only 2-3 months before. So, I am really hopeful that I will be able to book things I can never get. I only have an iPad, but I will get up super early and try to sign on with that and then call in when the phones open up, too.

So, can you help me prioritize what to ask for first, please? I am thinking I should try for the harder ones to get, first, right? Also, on the park days that I would like pre-park breakfast, what are the earliest times to get? It takes me a very long time to eat, because I have swallowing issues, so I would kind of like to get as early a time as I can. Also, I guess I have read that sometimes they change it, and make the opening time even earlier. Is this done at a non EMH park, or are they moving a park that has EMH to an even earlier time?

Seems like from reading a bit, that it's still hard to get ADRs even 180 days out? I have read that I should just keep trying, and I will do that. Any other tips you can give me would be appreciated, thank you.

11/13 ~ HS on this day. I don't intend on doing rope drop. It'll be a wake up without the alarm day, which will still be early. Just don't want to be up at 6am or anything. Will be eating a little breakfast at the resort. I would like to get Hollywood Brown Derby and do the Fantasmic! package. Hoping they still do that. I would like lunch, if I can do it, I think. If not, I'd take dinner, and if I cannot get either, Mamma Melrose, like last year, I suppose.

11/14 ~ AK planned, hours are 9-6 and want a pre-park ADR for Tusker House. I really enjoyed that last year. I was able to eat a couple of things they had. I find AK is a difficult park for me to eat at, so I'd really like to get TH for breakfast.

11/15 ~ MK and hours are posted as 9-7. I would like pre-park open at Crystal Palace. They make over easy eggs to order, and I am able to eat these and it was one of the few meals I got to eat my whole plate of food, so I'd like to do this again. Plus, Tigger is one of my very favs. :D

If I cannot get breakfast there, BOG for lunch or dinner would be good, but this is a hard to get, right? I can swallow the potato soup, so that is another place I was able to actually eat something. Now that I'm thinking of it, maybe I will definitely try for a dinner here, too. No Wishes or parade at night, since it's a MVMCP night. What is the latest ADR that is possible?

11/16 ~ EPCOT and I'm thinking I'd like to try Teppan Edo. For lunch or dinner. If I cannot get that, I will try for Rose & Crown, which has been very good with making something for me to eat in the past.

11/17 ~ MVMCP and I would like to do Afternoon Tea at the GF before the party. I've never been able to get an ADR for this, so I'm hoping this time I will. Last year, we at at the Grand Floridian Café before MVMCP. That would be my second choice.

11/18 ~ MK today, and it probably won't be rope drop, since we had the party the night before. Would like to try BOG for lunch or dinner. Or Tony's I guess, they have worked well the last 2x.

11/19 ~ EPCOT for our last day. Would like Chefs De France for lunch, or dinner. Or if not, I'd try for Coral Reef or Via Napoli.

Thank you everyone. :D

I booked my ADR's this week and didnt have a problem getting what i wanted. I searched for the harder to get ones, like CRT, BOG CP, etc first. If you dont have any specific times you are requesting it may be alittle easier for you also. If you cant get the meal that you want, such as breakfast, i would look for maybe an early lunch or even dinner, this way you at least get at the place you wanted. So far the earliest times i saw for breakfast at MK was at 7:00am, but even if you couldnt get until 8, MK doesnt open until 9 so you are still in the park before opening.
As of today, i have seen ADR's out there for the week i am there. i arrive on the 8th and leave on the 15th. Good Luck!!
 
To update:

I did get most everything I wanted as far as restaurants go. The times may be a little wonky, but I will figure out how to make it work, I hope. But for me, it's more important to have the restaurant that I need, since I have so much trouble eating. I wasn't able to get Teppan Edo. In fact, I couldn't even get the calendar to pull up the day. It would stop on 11/12 and not even display through 11/20 as an option to choose. I called and a CM said they would be open for that day, but that she wasn't showing any availability at all. I will just keep trying to see if something opens, I guess. :)

This is what I ended up with:

Fri 11/13 12pm Brown Derby HS
Sat 11/14 10:30 am Tusker House AK
Sun 11/15 10::20 am Crystal Palace MK
Sun 11/15 6:55 pm Tony's MK
Mon 11/16 12 pm Chefs De France Ep
Tue 11/17 2pm Afternoon Tea GF
Wed 11/18 4:55 pm Be Our Guest MK
Thur 11/19 5:25 pm Coral Reef Ep

The only thing I'm a little worried about is the later breakfast times. I need to make sure that I get seated for breakfast, because that is what I will have an easier time being able to eat. I don't want to be seated late, for lunch, because there really doesn't look like there is anything on the lunch menus that I would be able to manage to eat.
 





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