Leaving a reservation if wait (or other) reason prevents you from staying

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I have been unable to find any tool to close the thread myself. If you would like to direct me to it, I'd be happy to do so. I am replying because I opened this thread and feel some sense of obligation to the conversation.

I don't believe I am being rude and I certainly don't believe I'm being any more rude to those people you're describing as "trying to be helpful".

There are a few options:

1) "Report" it and request it to be closed (probably the easiest is to report your own post):


2) "Unwatch" the the thread where you would only be notified via 'Alerts' should someone quote you by which you can disregard that alert and opt not to respond:


3) Ignore the thread when it comes up via 'Alerts'


And this next statement isn't meant as disrespect-while I understand starting a thread and wanting to respond out of politeness you aren't technically under an obligation to do so and it does no good to continually respond and noting you want the thread closed, people are beating a dead horse, your questions have been answered, etc when you don't really want to because you've stated you want the thread to 'die out'. It may also send a mixed message continually responding (and to posts you support as well as liking other people's posts that you agree with as that means you're still at least somewhat invested in the thread by reading people's posts) when you've expressed multiple times that you just want the thread to go away. Again no disrespect meant just giving a different perspective. With all that being said I don't have anything else to offer regarding the situation (I've said my opinion) just trying to give you information regarding your options.

 

[nkereina]

I think some posters are overreacting or jumping to conclusions with the OP's question. It IS a valid question - if you show up to your ADR and need to leave for WHATEVER reason, is there a blanket policy that WDW will charge you the no show fee because you didn't stay or does it satisfy the requirement of showing up and thus avoiding the charge? We've confirmed that there is no blanket policy on this, so the best answer is that its up to the restaurant's discretion. And IMO, if you have a valid reason for not being able to keep your ADR after you've already checked in for it, if you are honest and transparent with the restaurant as to why you need to leave, they will more than likely waive any no show fee. People call the dining line all the time with BS "I got sick" excuses to get the charges reversed. This would be a more valid situation, since its likely not in someone's plan to check-in and then leave without eating.

 

[sharadoc]

We have, once, at BOMA. My son has autism and waiting is difficult, although at AKL, there is stuff to look at so he can usually handle it. After about 30 minutes, he was getting very anxious and started to freak out. I went to the podium and asked how long it would be and they couldn't give me an estimate. I told them (and showed them) my son freaking out and told them I couldn't wait any longer. Not their fault, they can't predict how long people are going to linger at their table and a 7:30 reservation was probably still to close to peak eating time.

They were gracious and cancelled. Funny thing is, they were all out of buzzers so they had my number to text me when the table was ready. We went to eat at Mara and got a text within 10 minutes, right when we got our food, that our table was ready. Bummer, we love BOMA but it didn't work out.