kniquy
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2014
We are going during a fairly busy week in April - not Easter but the 3rd week for our school spring vacation. I was right on the computer at 6am. I even checked a few minutes before but yes they open them up right at 6:00am on the dot.
My first attack was to get Ohana - no problem there were a variety of times available, even the prime time dinner of 6pm and 8pm (in order to view fireworks from there).
After that was BOG lunch - again no problem.
Those were really my only 2 hard reservations to get.
I did kind of mess things up because i changed to make it a split stay so i was only able to book for our first 4 nights. So I have to do it all again on Thursday. I know i could call to have them make reservations, but i just like being able to think through and see my options.
One important note that might be helpful for some -- I had both my computer and phone with MDE app. I felt that the phone app was quicker than my computer. I have a mac, our home wifi often is slow, but even with my phone using the same wifi I felt that the reservations were much quicker using the app vs the computer. There seemed to be more steps to getting through the confirmations on the computer -- which could delay you if you had multiple hard to get reservations on your wish list. So if you have a hard to get reservation you might have better luck with the MDE app.
Just my experience others may have different feed back on which method is quicker.
My first attack was to get Ohana - no problem there were a variety of times available, even the prime time dinner of 6pm and 8pm (in order to view fireworks from there).
After that was BOG lunch - again no problem.
Those were really my only 2 hard reservations to get.
I did kind of mess things up because i changed to make it a split stay so i was only able to book for our first 4 nights. So I have to do it all again on Thursday. I know i could call to have them make reservations, but i just like being able to think through and see my options.
One important note that might be helpful for some -- I had both my computer and phone with MDE app. I felt that the phone app was quicker than my computer. I have a mac, our home wifi often is slow, but even with my phone using the same wifi I felt that the reservations were much quicker using the app vs the computer. There seemed to be more steps to getting through the confirmations on the computer -- which could delay you if you had multiple hard to get reservations on your wish list. So if you have a hard to get reservation you might have better luck with the MDE app.
Just my experience others may have different feed back on which method is quicker.
I'm thrilled with our plans! Although my PC was slower in loading the pages, I found that the app did not have the same times available that I saw on the computer. I'll probably play around and tweak some of my plans in the next six months, but over all I am very happy!
