I'm so excited! Don't give up!

[courtneymarieclare]

We're going to WDW the week between Christmas and New Year (yes, we're crazy). I've had ADRs for a while that I'm pretty satisfied with, but I was still trying to tweak things, specifically NYE when we were supposed to eat dinner at 4:10 pm! Well, in the past couple days, I have been able to:

-Book a LeCellier lunch for our last day
-Get a late reservation on NYE at Les Chefs de France, which enabled me to cancel our Chefs reservation on a different day to schedule
-Dinner at Narcoossee's to watch Wishes!

Yay!

So to everyone hoping for something: Keep Trying!!!

 

[GoofySon'sMom]

We are going the same week and I have been tweaking our reservations as well. Every time I think things are 'perfect', I see someone's review of something and hop in to check for changes. I changed our Crystal Palace lunch to a breakfast on a different day and book Liberty Tree Tavern for lunch.

There are still reservations out there ... just need to keep at it!

 

[shawnh199]

I agree - Keep trying, especially a few days out. We arrive on Sunday, and I was finally able to book Le Cellier after trying 2-3x daily for almost 90 days.

 

[chocovrdmicears]

We are leaving on Wed. and over the past 3 days I was able to get Chef Mickey's for dinner at 5:30 on our arrival night, breakfast at 1900 Park Fare, and dinner at Whispering Canyon. I was also finally able to push out my lunch reservation at 50's Prime Time to a dinner time.
My ADR's are DONE...I swear (at least I did to DH)that I will absolutely positively NOT look, adjust, tweak, perfect or change them again.

 

[west&east]

Thank you for the encouragement. We are going 12/18-12/23 and I would like to make some changes to our ADRs but have had no luck so far. I also would prefer for our Crystal Palace lunch to be a breakfast,and I have not been able to book a dinner at Whispering Canyon or Ohana.

Please honestly share how often you are checking the online system for openings and do you have any other tips?

 

[west&east]

After I posted my last message, I went back and checked CP again and got a 10am breakfast for Sat 12/19!
Now I am wondering if my kids are going to want to break so early from their first morning in MK to have a breakfast. Will decide soon and let you all know if I am going to cancel the breakfast.

 

[chocovrdmicears]

Thank you for the encouragement. We are going 12/18-12/23 and I would like to make some changes to our ADRs but have had no luck so far. I also would prefer for our Crystal Palace lunch to be a breakfast,and I have not been able to book a dinner at Whispering Canyon or Ohana.

Please honestly share how often you are checking the online system for openings and do you have any other tips?

Honestly? don't tell...but probably 2 or 3 times a day. I would probably have checked more often if it didn't take soooo long.. (not sure if it is the Disney website or my ancient computer). I haven't found any particular time of day to be better if that helps you at all.

 

[chocovrdmicears]

After I posted my last message, I went back and checked CP again and got a 10am breakfast for Sat 12/19!
Now I am wondering if my kids are going to want to break so early from their first morning in MK to have a breakfast. Will decide soon and let you all know if I am going to cancel the breakfast.

I came across the same thing...I was finally able to get a 10:30am breakfast at 1900 Park Fare on our Epcot day, but I canceled it. I know my family will not be willing to leave the park after only an hour and a half there on our first day.