Making PS thru WDW-Dine or Grand Gathering?

[Northwoods]

We are registered as a Grand Gathering - we have 10 in our party. But I don't think we are going to do any of the Grand Gathering activities.

My question is: Should I make our dining PS directly or is there some advantage to working on this through the Grand Gathering system?

I need to start makng PS - we arrive on Dec 18th.

Here's our dining plans:

There are so many great places to eat - we are now joking that our trip is planned around our dining choices. 'Eating our way around WDW'. Would love to eat at LeCellier but haven't found a way to fit it in.

Sat 18
Dinner - Wispering Canyon

Sunday (Magic Kingdom day)
Brunch - Chef Mickey
Dinner - Artist Point

Monday (Universal)
Lunch - Emeril's
Dinner - Jiko for some, 1900 Park Fare for the rest

Tuesday (MGM/Epcot)
Lunch - somewhere on the Boardwalk
Dinner - Mama Melrose - Fantasmic Pkg

Wednesday (Free day - No parks)
Lunch ?
Dinner - Hoop Dee Doo

Thursday (universal)
Dinner - Ohana

Friday (Animal Kingdom / Epcot)
Lunch - Flame Tree BBQ?
Dinner - Teppanyaki - CP Pkg

 

[jenjen212]

make your reservations through grand gatherings...

if you call wdw dine, they will transfer you to someone that is a part of the grand gatherings to help you. even grand gatherings reservations will transfer you to their dining people.

i was the person who did all of the reservations for our grand gatherings group with my co-workers in July (we had 16), because of a large party, usually you can only get an early ps or a later ps. for instance for breakfast at chef mickey's our choices were either 7:30am or 11:00am. we ended up getting the early reservation - although most of the people were upset about it, it was better, because then we could hit the parks right after. by the time you finish you breakfast at the later one, it is in the middle of the day and you have wasted half of it...

good luck!