Marathon Weekend 2026

[marty3d]

Mine opened today and I definitely noticed this. We're finally going to try Beak and Barrel and Geo-82!

My ADRs open Monday. I can’t do Beak & Barrel for the first time by myself - might have a family mutiny over that. But Geo 82 is definitely on my list.

 

[Herding_Cats]

My ADRs open Monday. I can’t do Beak & Barrel for the first time by myself - might have a family mutiny over that. But Geo 82 is definitely on my list.

I mean.....you don't have to tell them.....

 

[GuinnessRunner]

All this talk of airport shutdowns has me worried… defo cant drive from the UK! Fingers crossed it works out soon, and sorry for anyone that is caught up in it.

Not a guarantee but at least Delta has said they don’t expect to adjust international flights in their cutback.

 

[accm]

We have a short weekend trip at the beginning of December that I’m slightly worried about. I can deal with our return flight getting cancelled/delayed, but not our flight down. I haven’t heard anything about international flights getting canceled, so I hope we’re ok. I just checked, and we’re a 25hr drive away, which is a nonstarter with 2 kids.

I only had to book one ADR - Topolinos for brunch, which had completely open availability. What a change from a couple of years ago. Thankfully my friend booked us for Artists Point, because there was nothing available for 7 for me, and only 9pm for 4.

 

[accm]

Speaking of ADRs, I cannot believe how good of a deal the free kids dining plan promo is. Even with going to places that are a “bad” use of a credit (hoop Dee doo and Artists Point) we’re still coming out way ahead.
Also, since we’re doing a 3 way split stay, and there are 4 of us, we’re going to end up with 12 mugs. We do not need 12 mugs, my friend already claimed 3, but we’ll have at least 5 available if anyone is interested

 

[JackosinDIS]

Speaking of ADRs, I cannot believe how good of a deal the free kids dining plan promo is. Even with going to places that are a “bad” use of a credit (hoop Dee doo and Artists Point) we’re still coming out way ahead.
Also, since we’re doing a 3 way split stay, and there are 4 of us, we’re going to end up with 12 mugs. We do not need 12 mugs, my friend already claimed 3, but we’ll have at least 5 available if anyone is interested

If any of your stay is at BLT I’ll happily take a couple of mugs from you

 

[camaker]

Good afternoon RunDisney All-Stars! Welcome to this week's edition of Sundays are for Disney (SAFD). We've started to enter the ADR window for Marathon Weekendm so let's talk about dining. What's your approach to dining during MW? Are you ADR heavy, a "go with the flow" counter servicer or something else entirely?

SAFD: I'm a solo traveler and, as a general rule, prefer to go with what I'm feeling on a given day, so I don't do too many ADRs. It's almost always counter service at whatever park I happen to be in. The exceptions to the rule, though, have been getting an ADR at Via Napoli for quattro formaggi pizza on the first day of my trip and another ADR for my post-marathon dinner. I was hoping to get an ADR at Le Cellier post-marathon, but they've apparently already dried up. I've got a Space 220 reservation for now, instead.

 

[KellyKateri]

This is so nice of you!! We’re doing a split stay between Coronado/Rivera/Yacht, we’d love to take 2 off your hands!

Speaking of ADRs, I cannot believe how good of a deal the free kids dining plan promo is. Even with going to places that are a “bad” use of a credit (hoop Dee doo and Artists Point) we’re still coming out way ahead.
Also, since we’re doing a 3 way split stay, and there are 4 of us, we’re going to end up with 12 mugs. We do not need 12 mugs, my friend already claimed 3, but we’ll have at least 5 available if anyone is interested

 

[Zutroy]

SAFD: I don’t do ADR for race weekends because I never know how hungry I’ll be or when I’ll want to eat. For MW I usually stay club level at the Poly/GF or get a villa at BLT and use the kitchen to cook my meals. I can count on a bunch of uncrustables, bananas, bagels, oat meal, and other foods I like eat during race weekends at club level.

 

[marty3d]

Good afternoon RunDisney All-Stars! Welcome to this week's edition of Sundays are for Disney (SAFD). We've started to enter the ADR window for Marathon Weekendm so let's talk about dining. What's your approach to dining during MW? Are you ADR heavy, a "go with the flow" counter servicer or something else entirely?

SAFD: I'm a solo traveler and, as a general rule, prefer to go with what I'm feeling on a given day, so I don't do too many ADRs. It's almost always counter service at whatever park I happen to be in. The exceptions to the rule, though, have been getting an ADR at Via Napoli for quattro formaggi pizza on the first day of my trip and another ADR for my post-marathon dinner. I was hoping to get an ADR at Le Cellier post-marathon, but they've apparently already dried up. I've got a Space 220 reservation for now, instead.

SAFD: I'll be going solo this year too - I'm actually going to be doing something very similar. I have a split stay so my ADRs for Thursday/ Friday opened today and I booked Geo82 for Friday night. I'm hoping to get Geo82 for Sunday night post marathon celebration when the rest of my window opens tomorrow. If I get it I'll switch into Via Napoli on Friday. Other than that I will likely wing it based on what I'm feeling.

BTW, we did Space 220 last year for the post marathon celebration. DS and I splurged and upgraded to the Ribeye. Certainly was not lacking for post-marathon protein intake

 

[RuntheMouse]

SAFD: We don’t do a lot of table service, it gets to be too much for us. I did go ahead and grab 2 Geo-82 reservations for MW because we really love it there. Also got a Yak & Yeti lunch reservation for after Up Close with Rhinos. We might be the only one with zero interest in Beak & Barrel so I didn’t grab that.

We have 2 more ADR windows for the remainder of our trip but I doubt I’ll try for anything else.

 

[JackosinDIS]

SAFD: we are going heavy on table service, as we have friends coming with us (their first time to Disney!). Going for Yak & Yeti after my 10k, Ohanas on the Saturday, and Chef Arts for brunch after marathon (if DH finishes in time…). We’re also going to be hitting the parks every day to show them round, so have Beak and Barrel, Ogas and a few others. Think I’ll need to do another few 10ks when I get home to shift the weight!