Hollywood Studios last week of August?

[JKSWonder]

On the day we are planning to go to Hollywood Studios during the last week of August, no restaurants in the park have dinner availability for that day. This seems strange, since Fantasmic is not scheduled that day and there is no EMH that day at that park.

I was wondering if its not really booked, but reservations are being held back because they may add a Fantasmic show to that day? Meaning Fantasmic dinner packages will be added? Do they add shows on days when Fantasmic is scheduled to be dark?

 

[mcd2745]

Sounds like they may not be in the system yet. However, we went the last week in August in 2010 & 2011. Both of those years, ADRs anywhere were incredibly hard to come by, despite it not being a real busy week overall. They were "Free Dining" weeks, though. That's not the case this year - so far. I wouldn't be surprised if people have made ADRs for that week, with the thinking that they will add free dining for that week at some point. Still, there should be some availability if the restaurants are loaded in the system for those dates.

 

[jrw118]

I got the fantasmic for 8/25 at mama melrose for 4:55

 

[jrw118]

Double post sorry

 

[dcolleenkelly]

On the day we are planning to go to Hollywood Studios during the last week of August, no restaurants in the park have dinner availability for that day. This seems strange, since Fantasmic is not scheduled that day and there is no EMH that day at that park.

I was wondering if its not really booked, but reservations are being held back because they may add a Fantasmic show to that day? Meaning Fantasmic dinner packages will be added? Do they add shows on days when Fantasmic is scheduled to be dark?

I know I'm about two months late in responding, so I hope you have figured out your answer by now...but I heard there is a convention taking over the Hollywood Studios park on Wednesday evening, the 28th. So, the park is closing at 6:00. I confirmed the closing time on the disney.go.com website.
(We were planning on going on that day, too. We ended up making a dinner reservation at our resort instead.)

Hope this helps!