I don't understand

[Banana Pancakes]

I saw a photo of two laptops open and the caption said something to the effect of being ready to make ADRs. Why would someone have 2 laptops side by side to make reservations?

 

[Aliceacc]

My guess is that they wanted something really tough, like CRT, and were planning to constantly refresh just before the lines opened until they got through??

Honestly, for my family, no ADR, no FP+, no nothing is worth quite that level of anxiety. But to each their own.

 

[EricaW]

You don't want to risk one freezing!

 

[EricaW]

My guess is that they wanted something really tough, like CRT, and were planning to constantly refresh just before the lines opened until they got through??

Honestly, for my family, no ADR, no FP+, no nothing is worth quite that level of anxiety. But to each their own.

I like using a Disney travel agent so they take on the stress lol

 

[Aliceacc]

I like using a Disney travel agent so they take on the stress lol

Ditto

 

[SouthernBuckeye]

So two people can book at the same time? My husband and I split the list so we can book faster on our phones for 180+ day. Fun!

 

[Banana Pancakes]

So two people can book at the same time? My husband and I split the list so we can book faster on our phones for 180+ day. Fun!

Wait, how? You mean he and I can make reservations simultaneously??

 

[wilkeliza]

Wait, how? You mean he and I can make reservations simultaneously??

Yep you just need your own MDE accounts.

 

[DisBuckMan]

Honestly, for my family, no ADR, no FP+, no nothing is worth quite that level of anxiety. But to each their own.

We feel the same way. It's really not worth that kind of stress to us.

We used to go during the fall, by far our favorite time of the year. Now, with FD, we're just not willing to go through all that to be able to eat where we want to eat. We've changed our vacation time to late spring. No problems making our reservations at all.

If they'd ever do away with the FD promo, we'd be more than happy to resume going in the fall.

 

[SouthernBuckeye]

We both used the same MDE account and it still worked well. Maybe we'd be even faster if I had used my own!

 

[mzpoirot]

I did my reservations with two laptops side-by-side....

I got every reservation I wanted quickly - it allowed me to have tabs open for each restaurant (ordered from hardest to get to easiest - split amongst the laptops) and I just hit "Refresh" right at 6am EST so my dates would be available and booked every reservation alternating between laptops. You don't have to have separate accounts....the only stipulation is you can't book a reservation of both laptops at the same second. I just logged into my account on both computers!

I'm a planner - so it was kinda fun for me! I got PPO BOG, Lunch with an Imagineer, Rose & Crown near Illuminations time and O'hana dinner during Wishes plus a few more - it took be about 10 minutes total.

 

[JillyBean0502]

My hubby and I use the two accounts and load up both laptops on our 180 day lol. Others think we are ridiculous but takes a lot of stress off of getting those important ADRs when you get the split the list in half

 

[mcgill93]

I did my reservations with two laptops side-by-side....

I got every reservation I wanted quickly - it allowed me to have tabs open for each restaurant (ordered from hardest to get to easiest - split amongst the laptops) and I just hit "Refresh" right at 6am EST so my dates would be available and booked every reservation alternating between laptops. You don't have to have separate accounts....the only stipulation is you can't book a reservation of both laptops at the same second. I just logged into my account on both computers!

I'm a planner - so it was kinda fun for me! I got PPO BOG, Lunch with an Imagineer, Rose & Crown near Illuminations time and O'hana dinner during Wishes plus a few more - it took be about 10 minutes total.

Would you be

I did my reservations with two laptops side-by-side....

I got every reservation I wanted quickly - it allowed me to have tabs open for each restaurant (ordered from hardest to get to easiest - split amongst the laptops) and I just hit "Refresh" right at 6am EST so my dates would be available and booked every reservation alternating between laptops. You don't have to have separate accounts....the only stipulation is you can't book a reservation of both laptops at the same second. I just logged into my account on both computers!

I'm a planner - so it was kinda fun for me! I got PPO BOG, Lunch with an Imagineer, Rose & Crown near Illuminations time and O'hana dinner during Wishes plus a few more - it took be about 10 minutes total.

Would you be willing to share the details of how you do this? Do you set all of the tabs up the night before, with everything entered but the date? When you hit refresh, does it leave your time and party size alone, or does it bring it back to baseline? Just wondering if the site signs you out if you set it up too far in advance, so and details on how you set this up would be much appreciated! I am doing this tomorrow morning and I am so stressed!

 

[maj42169]

I do mine with the computer and my iPad at the same time. I open the Disney experience app on the iPad and have it gong while I'm also online through the computer.

 

[mzpoirot]

What I do is just log on that morning - I haven't tried doing it the night before. Once I have both computers up I log onto my account on both computers and then open a tab for each restaurant. So I made a list of the restaurants I wanted in order from hardest to get all the way to easiest. I then divided the list so the first tab on both computers were the top two hardest to get and so on. When 6am EST hits I hit refresh on the first two tabs (hardest ones on each computer) and then entered my date, number of people and time I wanted. I think as soon as you hit "Refresh" it resets any of the preferences you had like time and people in your party......so it probably wouldn't be worthwhile to have those selected prior to hitting refresh.
Good luck - let me know how you make out with your selection! I am reading that a lot of people are having a hard time getting Akershus right now (group I'm in had a lot of people hit the 180 mark today)

 

[mcgill93]

What I do is just log on that morning - I haven't tried doing it the night before. Once I have both computers up I log onto my account on both computers and then open a tab for each restaurant. So I made a list of the restaurants I wanted in order from hardest to get all the way to easiest. I then divided the list so the first tab on both computers were the top two hardest to get and so on. When 6am EST hits I hit refresh on the first two tabs (hardest ones on each computer) and then entered my date, number of people and time I wanted. I think as soon as you hit "Refresh" it resets any of the preferences you had like time and people in your party......so it probably wouldn't be worthwhile to have those selected prior to hitting refresh.
Good luck - let me know how you make out with your selection! I am reading that a lot of people are having a hard time getting Akershus right now (group I'm in had a lot of people hit the 180 mark today)

Thanks so much! I was able to get everything I wanted except for 'Ohana - but I will keep stalking the system. . I appreciate your help!