Newbie needs help with online advanced dining reservations

[HDCooper]

Hello. My 90 days will be tomorrow. I read that I can make the reservations online, tomorrow morning starting at 6:00 a.m. Since I am staying at the resort, I can also do the plus 10 days. I have logged into "my vacation," but I am wondering if it will automatically know to open the plus 10 days.

I am on the free dining plan. I looked today at reserving CRT (just for practice) and it said that I had to pay now. How does this work?

Also, I see where there is a date range, that you can choose, but there is not a time range. Lets say I want to eat at CRT at 3:00, if that is not available, will it bring up another time for that day?

Thanks in advance

Heather

 

[Nadjalu]

Hi Heather,

6am is the time that DW says it opens to book online. However people are reporting that they are able to do it at 3am EST. So maybe get a jump on it then???

I don't know anything about booking CRT, since I didn't do it but I can help with your other questions.

You will need to retrieve your resort ressie number and put that in. Then it should bring up your itinery. Your +10 should automatically open up when you choose the "date range" option. Mine didn't on the first restaurant but when I went to the next one it did.

Another helpful tip is to have multiple tabs (windows) open and set for the place you want. That way you can just go on to each new tab and refresh and book it. Saves alot of time.
Doing your most popular or most important for you places first are best as you are fighting the others for limited space. (this so make us feel like cattle running to the food.... ) But basically that is what is happening.

Once you have the restaurant in your cart you can move on to the next one. You don't have to check out each time, that is nice. But be aware once in your cart you only have a short time before they take it out of there. I have heard 20mins to 2 hours. Now I didn't chance it, I made sure I was checked out by 17 mins.

As you put in a specific time the system will check within an hour of that time, if nothing it will give you alternative restaurants to choose from. If you want to try another time do so, just because you see the other places doesn't mean your rest. doesn't have any time available that day.

Hopefully I have covered most of it for you. Good luck!

 

[Hootch]

Also, I see where there is a date range, that you can choose, but there is not a time range. Lets say I want to eat at CRT at 3:00, if that is not available, will it bring up another time for that day?

The system searches discreet time ranges, but I have yet to figure out what the range actually is. One recent example when I was looking for something at Citricos. I was using the date range. The first search I put in 7:00 PM and a couple of things for shortly after 8:00 PM popped up. I then tried a 9:00 PM search which came back with an 8:35 PM opening. Definitely try different times.

Another thing that appears to happen is that with a date range it will provide a maximum number of results. The results start with a particular day and if all fall on that same day no others will be shown.

 

[HDCooper]

Thank you!!