IMPORTANT!! Book Park Reservations ASAP!

I always panic when I see post about folks going. "going to disney gonna book for (1 month away). Disney was already a hard park to book on a wim. Now it's near impossible. They might do the park passes at 180 days out. I feel like the open for years ahead is a tad much.
 
Could you book a package to hold your dates? That can be cancelled with no penalty if you decide to do something different - even if “different” means offsite with separate tickets.

The problem with this though is if you cancel your onsite reservations then your park reservations will automatically be cancelled as well.
 
The problem with this though is if you cancel your onsite reservations then your park reservations will automatically be cancelled as well.
The park reservations will not cancel as long as you have other tickets in your account.
 
The park reservations will not cancel as long as you have other tickets in your account.
Which makes me wonder how accurate this will be moving forward. As more and more capacity is added to the parks, I’m sure there are many people who make park reservations, just in case, and never bother to cancel, forget to cancel, or think they’ve cancelled by cancelling an onsite reservation.
 

any suggestions on how to make park reservations for April 2022? Expecting several new headliners to be open by then and have not been to WDW since November 2016 so have not experienced TSL, Star Wars land, FOP.... I had made FP+ for our April 2020 trip but feel like a lot will have changed by next April. 2 DGDs will be 16 and 11.
 
any suggestions on how to make park reservations for April 2022? Expecting several new headliners to be open by then and have not been to WDW since November 2016 so have not experienced TSL, Star Wars land, FOP.... I had made FP+ for our April 2020 trip but feel like a lot will have changed by next April. 2 DGDs will be 16 and 11.
You can go the Disney website now and buy your tickets and make your park reservations. All parks are available on all days for April 2022.
 
Which makes me wonder how accurate this will be moving forward. As more and more capacity is added to the parks, I’m sure there are many people who make park reservations, just in case, and never bother to cancel, forget to cancel, or think they’ve cancelled by cancelling an onsite reservation.
WDW is conducting sweeps which will erase park reservations that don't have valid ticket media for that date.
 
You can go the Disney website now and buy your tickets and make your park reservations. All parks are available on all days for April 2022.
yes, we have tickets, just not sure how many days/which days at each park. maybe this far in advance it doesn't matter.
 
any suggestions on how to make park reservations for April 2022? Expecting several new headliners to be open by then and have not been to WDW since November 2016 so have not experienced TSL, Star Wars land, FOP.... I had made FP+ for our April 2020 trip but feel like a lot will have changed by next April. 2 DGDs will be 16 and 11.

I would say book at least 2 days at HS to maximize your chances of getting a BG, 2 days at MK and one each in the remaining parks. If you have park hoppers, you can hop to Epcot any day. I suggest getting a Touring Plans membership to have access to their planning tools. While others will say their crowd calendars are worthless, they’re a much better guess than nothing.
 
I don’t.
That’s why it seems like a kind of useless system, especially as capacity gets back to normal levels
AP holders can only reserve 3 days without a resort reservation. I don’t think the issue of people making reservations they don’t use is the big issue you’re thinking it is. As an AP holder I’m definitely trying to make sure I maximize my 3 reservations I’m allowed, not just throwing dates at a wall hoping I can make them and forgetting about them lol.
 
I would say book at least 2 days at HS to maximize your chances of getting a BG, 2 days at MK and one each in the remaining parks. If you have park hoppers, you can hop to Epcot any day. I suggest getting a Touring Plans membership to have access to their planning tools. While others will say their crowd calendars are worthless, they’re a much better guess than nothing.
thanks, plan to sign up for Touring Plans, always do for our trips, well worth the money.
going to make park reservations today, I was over thinking it as to which day to reserve for which park.
arrival day - EP (flying in, only a partial day)
2 days MK
2 days HS
1 day Ak
1 day EP - might need a full day due to ratatouille and Guardians of the Galaxy.
we do have PH
 
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AP holders can only reserve 3 days without a resort reservation. I don’t think the issue of people making reservations they don’t use is the big issue you’re thinking it is. As an AP holder I’m definitely trying to make sure I maximize my 3 reservations I’m allowed, not just throwing dates at a wall hoping I can make them and forgetting about them lol.
That makes sense and is good info. I didn’t know.
Thanks!
 
I went ahead and booked our park days for the first week of December, just in case. I also left the Tuesday open with the hopes of a MVMCP as historically Tuesdays were one of the party days.

I wasn't going to bother, but now that the CDC is dropping guidelines left and right, I feel like more people will be booking, especially for Christmas season.
 
That makes sense and is good info. I didn’t know.
Thanks!
No problem! It’s actually been awful for local APs from my understanding. I’m an out of state AP that usually has a resort reservation so I’m planning well ahead of time and have not experienced those frustrations.
 
No problem! It’s actually been awful for local APs from my understanding. I’m an out of state AP that usually has a resort reservation so I’m planning well ahead of time and have not experienced those frustrations.
I also typically have an AP, but like you, with a resort reservation.
I feel for the locals.
 
I went ahead and booked our park days for the first week of December, just in case. I also left the Tuesday open with the hopes of a MVMCP as historically Tuesdays were one of the party days.

I wasn't going to bother, but now that the CDC is dropping guidelines left and right, I feel like more people will be booking, especially for Christmas season.
We did the same thing, hoping for a party, but the week of Thanksgiving. I’m mentally preparing myself for the crowds, as in the past I’ve been a January or February visitor. I have been Easter time before for work, so fingers crossed!
 
While I'd say this is true for guests planning a trip in the next 6-8 months, it's not really necessary further in advance than that. Right now anyway, park availability in 2022 is pretty wide open.

We want to go in March 2022, but being Canadian, I can't logistically fork over thousands of dollars to buy tickets until I know our border will actually be open for us to get there...
Same here - we’re in the UK, with a trip booked for late-November-into-December 2022 (rescheduled from the same period this year). We shall be waiting at least until the UK & US governments open the borders with some indication of permanency before we even *think* about paying for park tickets that we may never be able to use; we’re in that age bracket where booking for late 2022 is almost a bit of a gamble that our health will still be sufficiently good to fly transatlantic, and going beyond that just increases that gamble. Being able to transfer park tickets to a new date isn’t necessarily helpful for us.

We’re hoping that everything will be substantially back to normal by early 2022 and we can finish making our plans with some confidence. And that we won’t be expected to wear face masks on the 9 1/2 hour flight (not to mention in the airports at each end). Or arrange COVID tests at each end before the flights, or isolate after arrival at either end (although in that latter case we would have to cancel, of course).

DW’s worry is that by the time we can sensibly buy park tickets there won’t be any park reservations available. (As an aside, if WDW is going to permanently yield manage entry to the parks they should just sell tickets for specific parks/dates. It would be so much better than having to buy a ticket and then hope there’s a reservation available, and they could still arrange all the ‘four days for the price of three’ stuff at the checkout if they wanted to…
 











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