making adr online

[ndgqccmiller]

Does anyone know if Disney will ever make online reservations for adr available. How great would that be to just be able to go online and make reservations.. This question may have been asked before, but wonder if Disney has ever addressed this?

 

[Bob P]

Hi,

I'm sure they have discussed it.

There are no plans to do it at this time.

Ever? Well, never say never....or never say ever.....

 

[gtalum]

I too was wondering if it's possible to do online, and see it's not. It seems incredibly stupid for Disney to not have this capability. It must cost them a fortune to maintain the phone banks, when a simple web app could do the same work.

 

[ndgqccmiller]

It would be so easy to be able to go online look at a date, then a resturant, then pick from the times avalible. I'm really surpised they haven't done this yet. Oh well I guess were ahead of our time. LOL

 

[debaone]

You would think this would be a HUGE money-saver for Disney. They just need an Internet front end to their existing system.

My bet is that the reason they have not done this is because they would be giving up some control over the reservations process. And, they would need some pretty significant server horsepower to handle all of the requests when ADRs come on line for reservations like CRT.

 

[ndgqccmiller]

Well maybe CRT, Hoop de do revue, and other more complex reservations should be made by phone. But your basic resturants could. I think my boss told me there was areservation machine at Swan. Does that sound right?

 

[conandrob240]

They don't even have a good website for information much less the scale it would take to handle the 100s of restaurants! It would have to handle all the nuiances of knowing the best way to fill up and then timing to turn over tables for every restaurant- way over their heads at this point! I also think they want to control the ressie process more than on-line bookings would allow. If it was on-line, people would be much more likely to double-book, etc.

 

[septbaby]

What restaurant allows you to book online? I'm not aware of any place that does this? And I don't mean at Disney?

 

[Bob P]

What restaurant allows you to book online? I'm not aware of any place that does this? And I don't mean at Disney?

There is a service called opentable.com that allows you to book restaurant reservations online in many major US cities and some overseas cities. Opentable lists over 800 restaurants in the NYC area. There are probably others too, but that's the one I use.

 

[Chuck S]

Perhaps if Disne made credit card deposits required to book online I could see it. Otherwise there is great potenital for problems/abuse of an online dining system.

Folks would book any and all CRT or other popular seating then cancel last mnute. Now, you could say that the system could be designed to eliinate more than one ADR at a given time, but then you have problems with large groups who may want to split up and eat at different restaurants.

As quickly as availability changes at WDW dining, I really see problems trying to do a live online system, and making it extremely user friendly (AKA idiot proof) or protecting everyone from the ADR multi bookers.

 

[dqpowell]

After the Hanna Montana ticketing debacle in the news this week, is there anybody who thinks this kind of thing could be made available and not be subject to abuse?

David

 

[septbaby]

There is a service called opentable.com that allows you to book restaurant reservations online in many major US cities and some overseas cities. Opentable lists over 800 restaurants in the NYC area. There are probably others too, but that's the one I use.

Thanks for sharing. This is still not the actual restaurant and my guess is those restaurants "give" open table a % of timeslots for booking, so they still maintain some control over reservations/customer relations. At Disney the ADR system has full reign over the restuarant, ie. can fully book it.


Again thanks for sharing the information.

 

[evenpar4me]

geez,what a mess that would be,with so many people making multiple ressesies and never cancelling,system would be blocked out....its a miracle its runs as smooth as it does.

 

[dioxide45]

I agree that creating a front end web site would open the system up for more abuse, multiple ADR's. However I think there would be a great benefit to having an online system where you can go in and review and print your ADR's and the details (date, time, ADR#). Perhaps even a cancel only online system.

 

[ndgqccmiller]

I agree with the last poster. They need to do more with there resturant info.

 

[DisMN]

I agree with the last two posters and hope that someday something like this MIGHT be available.....

however, as another person mentioned:

They don't even have a good website for information much less the scale it would take to handle the 100s of restaurants!

For some reason Disney has a terrible website, for finding info particularly. I can't figure it out what with the money Disney could spend to hire the best of the BEST website developers, why they don't have a decent website available to ALL internet users. Can you imagine how horrible a make-your-own-dining-reservation page would be? LOL Sad but true......