I'm not sure I can wait! Dec 2010!

hey there- i was able to book all my ressies at 190 days out so give it a try! and scary enough, it was actually tough getting a few of them- Le Cellier was totally booked for one evening.......i assume they are holding some spots for the candlelight processional packages for later, but if not- that's pretty scary!!

so what do you do that you work the overnight shift? so glad you might be getting a break and switching to a different shift! :)

so where did you stay in Dallas? that's where I live! ;)

yes, on the ticket situation/dining- everyone is right, they require that each person that wants to get dining must have at least a one day ticket. I know, it takes a master's degree to figure out the ticketing process! :lmao:


Yeah, I am hoping we are successful at booking these ADR's. It's become more complicated than I had anticipated.

I work in a hotel. I am SO GLAD I am getting to finally switch shifts. It's based on seniority and about 8 months ago the girl who was working nights (who was way more senior than me) decided to switch to days, so it bumped me all the way down. We have 2 overnight shifts, and I was second from the bottem in seniority, and no one had quit/been fired in the almost 2 years I have been here, until now. Thankfully, I should be able to get back to the 3-11 shift by the 21st. :woohoo:

We stayed at the Aloft hotel. It was pretty cool, definitely a modern and trendy hotel, a lot of the older guests didn't like it, but I thought it was great. Some of their staff was less than stellar, but the hotel itself was great. I had never really been to Dallas before, but I liked it. The rehearsal dinner was in Plano, and the wedding and reception were at the Old Red courthouse. It was a beautiful place to get married. I think I have flown through DFW before, and I have to say, I enjoyed flying into Love much better (yay for SW).

As for the ticket situation, this may change my future plans... stay tuned!
 
Ok, well today is 190 days before we check in for our first (and only) night at the Contemporary! That also means that at 5 am, we can book our ADR for California Grill (hoping for 8pm). Normally this would be fantastic news, since I will obviously be wide awake and at a computer at 5 am. Unfortunately, our computers here do not have a new enough version of Internet Explorer, and I can't download a newer version since I am not a system administrator! :scared1: I managed to sweet talk my dad into getting up at 5 to do it (after all it's his trip too!) but I would really feel better about it if I was doing it. I might try bringing in a laptop tomorrow, but I lent my mini to my sister to use for her trip to Paris so I'd have to haul her huge heavy laptop into work, and I would prefer not to draw that much attention to myself, since I would like to keep my job. The ADR's for the 17th aren't very special, or essential to our happiness, so I won't need him to do those, they can wait till I get home, but Friday :rolleyes1 well we need to make our before-the-park-opens Tusker House ADR's that day... Same thing for Saturday, just at CP instead... we will see. I will cross my fingers and hope for the best!

As for the ticket thing, I am beginning to think that I will have to drop my trip in January for the marathon. I know that it might sound silly, but the extra $ I would have to spend on tickets for that trip might put me over the limit. Plus if I don't go, I could always do a solo trip the next year for the marathon, and maybe even stay longer since I would't just be coming off a week long trip less thana month prior. We will see, I think I will wait till the end of the summer to decide, see how my training progresses etc. It's non-refundable registration and it's NOT cheap!

We started our Disney movie theme nights on Monday! We did Ratatouille, which none of us had ever seen, in tribute to my sister who is spending the summer there taking classes for college. I put a tablecloth and cloth napkins and china on the table and we had an onion soup, croissants, and crepes for dessert. I also pulled out some framed prints and a mini eiffel tower from my last trip there. The soup was awesome (though I got the recipe off of allears.net, and it was listed as a Le Cellier recipe, not from France, but close enough), and the crepes were a bit tricky, but they worked out in the end. I will post pics later. DS of course had chicken nuggets and corn... he's not old enough for soup :rotfl2:

Hopefully I will have an update in a few hours about a perfect CG ADR!!!
 
UGH!!!! my dad called me at work to tell me that the dining reservations system is down for maintenance!! are you kidding me??? i told him to go exercise and then try again :lmao: hey, at least if it's down, no one else is makin online adr's yet either!
 
Woo Hoo!!! :banana: Well, my dad stuck it out and when the system came back up, he snagged us a 7:45 pm ADR at California Grill!!!! We were hoping for 8, but this is close enough. Since we will be staying at CR that night we can make sure DS takes a late nap, and then head to dinner and see Holiday Wishes (it's a MVMCP night) as we are finishing up and then crawl back to our rooms!! 1 down, many more to go! (I've decided to probably bring in my sisters laptop tomorroe, I can't hadle the stress! :rolleyes1)
 

I have a dumb question. How are you making ADR's at 190 days?
 
I have a dumb question. How are you making ADR's at 190 days?

It is being discussed heavily on the Dec. 2010 thread:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2329631&page=45

but here is the abbreviated version

"Yes, if you are staying at a Disney Resort you can book 190 days out. Here's the link.
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/reservations/dining/
When you click on the calendar and put in your date it will ask you to log in and enter your confirmation # and date of arrival. The only drawback is I had to do this every morning but I got what I wanted. Good luck. "

Basically you log into the system as usual, but instead of putting your arrival date, put the date that is 180 days from the day you want the reservation. For some reason Disney has not implemented a way to prevent people from doing this, and from what I've read they are aware of it, as are many of the travel partners who offer to make reservations for their clients, because they don't have the access and are trying to get it.

This morning we are trying for Le Cellier ( long shot I know) at anytime of day. We have many contigency plans though :laughing:
 
We managed to get our ideal Le Cellier time! :lovestruc

Today we booked for 12/17:

Biergarten @ 12:30 pm~ never been here, but I'm pretty sure DS will love the noise and music

Le Cellier @ 7:45 pm~ this was my mom's #1 choice for this trip. I'm so glad we got it, I was really starting to freak out after reading reports saying it was booked solid.

I believe Epcot has EMH's that night, so since we will be getting a late start, we should be able to last through Illuminations at least. We will be spending most of our time in the WS anyways that day, so I'm not sure we will need to stay late, but it's good to know we can if we want! The plan is to finish up at dinner just in time to catch Illuminations, but we have another full day et Epcot if we can't get out in time, which I'm sure is a distinct possibility.

Tomorrow: trying for an 8 am Tusker house and dinner at 'Ohana!
 
And our luck continues! Today we got ADR's at Tusker House (8 am!) and 'Ohana (8 pm). Does anyone know how long a meal tends to last at 'Ohana? I was hoping to catch Wishes from there, but the beach after dinner wouldn't be bad either!
 
Well, we got our Crystal Palace breakfast ADR at 8:05 am! :cloud9: I wonder why theirs doesn't start till 8:05 instead of 8 like Tusker House? Wierd. Anyways, we still have to wait to call in our dinner res for CRT. I also added a lunch to our 12/18 AK day at Yak and Yeti. My dad's finally off the hook, I will be able to be home to make the rest of the ADR's (not many left at this point) but since he was the one sacrificing sleep :worship: I figured we should eat at a place he loves. :lovestruc Once we are done with all our ADR's we will still have 2 credits per person. Since they can be used for any kind of meal we will probably just use them for CS meals to fill in any gaps. I know it's not the most cost effective use of the plan, but there is just no room for more food! :scared1:
 
Why do you have to call in your CRT one? Just curious, as even thoug hwe don't have a trip booked, I am hoping to go in Dec, and tomorrow is 180 days from DD's birthday. I thought I would get up early and book online, if possible CRT for her b-day. That wasy if we go, we wil lhave that. If not, I will just cancel it.
 
I haven't been able to find it online, and I read a few posts saying that it wasn't available for the online booking system. I think it might be because you have to prepay? :confused3 I wish it was online, it's so much easier! I'm going to go looking now to see if I can find out why... That's an awesome birthday meal!
 
I haven't been able to find it online, and I read a few posts saying that it wasn't available for the online booking system. I think it might be because you have to prepay? :confused3 I wish it was online, it's so much easier! I'm going to go looking now to see if I can find out why... That's an awesome birthday meal!

I may have done something wrong, but yesterday I was palying around and put in Dec 8 and it came up with a time for me to book. I didn't book because thats not the date I want, but as far as I know, I could've went further. I'll let you know.
 
Wow, it would be awesome if I could book today! I will check when I get home for sure! I read that for some reason Fantasmic packages, dinner shows, and CRT were unable to be done onlline. I think the only thing these have in common is the pre-payment, but I don't see why you couldn't pre pay online? Who knows, Disney likes to keep things complicated just to keep us on our toes! :rotfl:
 
OK, I just tried it for Dec 9th and it I got all the way to check out page. I didn't check out, as thats not the date I want. It might be different if you are on the plan already. I plan on paying this OOP, so I would have to put my credit card in.
 
It looks like you can book online (which is fantastic) but not at 190 days out like you can with the rest. This leads me to believe the 190 ADRs are not a glitch in the system, since it is obvious they are keeping people from booking at CRT. This is however excellent news, it means i can just hop online on the 19th! I did book a Tony's Town Square for our mvmcp night just in case...
 
I had read today the the glitch was fixed. Whether that is true or not I don't know.
 
i'm leaning towards the line of thinking that it's not a glitch. regardless, we were able to book our 12/22 ressies today :yay: so it's not fixed. So now I am just waiting on CRT (i can book 6/19) and Candlelight processional package, which a CM told me today looks like they will be booking in August, but in the same breath she told me to check back daily, lol. We also booked our plane tix today!!

We arrive at MCO at 2:15 pm on the 16th (perfect timing, our rooms at CR should be ready by the time we get there) and we depart at 5:40 pm on the 22nd, which is also nice since we will have a half day at MK before we leave!
 
Yeah, I am hoping we are successful at booking these ADR's. It's become more complicated than I had anticipated.

I work in a hotel. I am SO GLAD I am getting to finally switch shifts. It's based on seniority and about 8 months ago the girl who was working nights (who was way more senior than me) decided to switch to days, so it bumped me all the way down. We have 2 overnight shifts, and I was second from the bottem in seniority, and no one had quit/been fired in the almost 2 years I have been here, until now. Thankfully, I should be able to get back to the 3-11 shift by the 21st. :woohoo:

We stayed at the Aloft hotel. It was pretty cool, definitely a modern and trendy hotel, a lot of the older guests didn't like it, but I thought it was great. Some of their staff was less than stellar, but the hotel itself was great. I had never really been to Dallas before, but I liked it. The rehearsal dinner was in Plano, and the wedding and reception were at the Old Red courthouse. It was a beautiful place to get married. I think I have flown through DFW before, and I have to say, I enjoyed flying into Love much better (yay for SW).

As for the ticket situation, this may change my future plans... stay tuned!
too funny, we use that Aloft in plano for all our folks that come in town on business. i work just miles from there and i live in Plano. :) what a coincidence. and yea for the other shift. i bet the third shift gets really old!!

Woo Hoo!!! :banana: Well, my dad stuck it out and when the system came back up, he snagged us a 7:45 pm ADR at California Grill!!!! We were hoping for 8, but this is close enough. Since we will be staying at CR that night we can make sure DS takes a late nap, and then head to dinner and see Holiday Wishes (it's a MVMCP night) as we are finishing up and then crawl back to our rooms!! 1 down, many more to go! (I've decided to probably bring in my sisters laptop tomorroe, I can't hadle the stress! :rolleyes1)

We managed to get our ideal Le Cellier time! :lovestruc

Today we booked for 12/17:

Biergarten @ 12:30 pm~ never been here, but I'm pretty sure DS will love the noise and music

Le Cellier @ 7:45 pm~ this was my mom's #1 choice for this trip. I'm so glad we got it, I was really starting to freak out after reading reports saying it was booked solid.

I believe Epcot has EMH's that night, so since we will be getting a late start, we should be able to last through Illuminations at least. We will be spending most of our time in the WS anyways that day, so I'm not sure we will need to stay late, but it's good to know we can if we want! The plan is to finish up at dinner just in time to catch Illuminations, but we have another full day et Epcot if we can't get out in time, which I'm sure is a distinct possibility.

Tomorrow: trying for an 8 am Tusker house and dinner at 'Ohana!
yeah for all the ressies- so did you get everything you wanted? sounds like you got great times for Cali Grill and Le Cellier!!! :thumbsup2
 
So far we have gotten ALL the ressies we want! I still am waiting till Saturday to get CRT at 5pm on the 19th, (before MVMCP) and still hoping to convert one of our 4 Epcot ressies into a CP package. We also booked our flights, so now we just need get our tix for MVMCP! I start my new shift 6/21, so this is my 3rd to last overnight! I am training my replacement tonight, and it's going well, and it's nice having someone to chat with, especially since he is a friend of mine! Tomorrow I will start posting a new, more detailed itinerary!
 
I booked CRT for the 10th in hopes we are going.. I figure I can cancel if we don't and it will be snatched right up. I wanted 5 too, but I got 4:15. That was fine for me. I figure we'll do MVMCP too that night if we go...and I am think MK in the day as well, as it's DD's b-day and I will try to make her a BBB apointment as well.
Now to just get DH to agree to go.
 












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