*****Official October 2011 Thread*****

[jfugina]

Do you think so? That helps me feel a bit better, LOL! If I thought we would even be at least planning ahead of time as far as which park we wanted to do on which day, I'd feel better. I just picture us spending a TON of time "planning" while we're actually there - and that seems like a) a huge waste of time since we really only have 4 full days to spend in the parks (since we're losing one day to Sea World) and b) a daily screaming argument waiting to happen. While I sit there like this and wishing someone would have listened to me back in April and at least let me make some freaking ADRs. LOL...

That would drive me absolutely nuts having to wait for everyone to arrive in order to *start* making plans for the day. I know you can't predict the weather 6 months out, but would they at least be willing to make a decision the night before? At least that way, if the decision is to hit one of the Disney parks, you could head to the park of the day and get your ride on while the rest of everyone is on the bus making 25 gazillion stops. The other thing you could do is call Disney Dining and scope out what's available the next day. Your options may be limited, but it's better than "Hi. We're a family of four in the Magic Kingdom, and we're hungry. Help?" (not that that's ever happened to us...)

Good luck whatever you decide to do! I usually make the plan, and then inform everyone else of the plan, and tell them to speak up if they would rather do something different. Unless the weather is a total game-changer, we usually go with the plan and everyone is amazed by how much we were able to get in while just "going with the flow". If they only knew how much time I spent planning their casual "go with the flow" vacation.

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Good Lord! You people were busy today!!! I've updated the list and hopefully added everyone's ADRs accurately. Let me know if I've made any mistakes.

Good morning I got up at around 4:45 am and tip toed downstairs so I would not wake up anybody. I really did not want to get up.. but after all my planning I had to. Even my Maltese Prince did not follow me.. and he is my shadow. Finally around 5:00 am just as I am already to start the ADRs he comes downstairs. Smart puppy.. I too would rather be in bed.

Here is my list.. the only one I wanted later was Le Cellier. I got it @ 1:30 p.m. but actually wanted 2:30 p.m. I am waiting until 7 am to try and get Fantasmic package. The day I had planned to do Fantasmic pkg. 10/23 Mama Melrose was not available. So, I will have to keep trying.

10/23: 50's Prime Time 12:30 p.m.
10/24: Yak & Yeti 12:30 p.m.
10/25: Kona's Cafe 9:00 a.m.
10/25: Le Cellier 1:30 p.m.
10/26: Ohana's 5:00 p.m.
10/26: Via Napoli 12:30 p.m.
10/27: Crystal Palace 12:50 p.m.
10/28: Biergarten 1:00 p.m.

Here are mine:

10/22: 6:30pm The Plaza
10/23: 12:45pm Via Napoli
10/24: 8:00am Kona Cafe
10/25: 1:00pm Yak & Yeti
10/26: 1:55pm Sci-Fi
10/27: 6:00pm Raglan Road
10/28: 1:05pm LeCellier

Catira, you couldn't get MM F! on 10/23? I too had to wait until 7:00 and was on hold for about 15/20 minutes but I eventually got through and was able to get it. Was it a specific time? I know they didn't have anything too late, try back.

Here are my ADR's

10/23 - Mama M. F! - 4:10

10/24 - Garden Grill - 6:00

10/25 - CRT - 4:30

10/26 - Chef Mickey 9:30
Tony's - 6:00

10/27 - AKerhaus - 9:30
Lecel - 6:30

10/28 - 1900 Park - 7:00

And I was able to get my BBB appointment as well. I am so super excited that this is all working out how I wanted it to!! Doesn't get better than that!

Well not to much trouble this Early AM

10/22 7:15 Coral Reef

10/23 5:10 Sci Fi Dine Inn

10/24 7:30 AM Ohana
5:45 Crystal Palace

10/25 MNSSHP
Pirates League 3:25

10/26 None.. doing Counter Service

10/27 6:00 Chefs De France

10/28 6:00 Le Cellier

Got all the times we wanted, only a minor glitch this AM I had to shut down and restart browser right at 5 as it was not reading my reservation number.

Hello All
Its nice to see everyone is having good luck getting their reservations. People think I am crazy when I get up at 345 am to make Disney dining reservations 180 days away. LOL But hey, its what we do right?
These are the ressies I made Saturday morning. Was able to get everything we wanted. My wife and I are celebrating our first anniversary after getting married 11/10/10 at the Wedding Pavilion last year. After doing DxDP for that epic 15 night trip, we decided we love Disney World as much for the food as we do anything else so DxDP 2.0 commence:
10/21 9:45 Kona
1:20 Le Cellier
7:45 Via Napoli

10/22 9:00 The Wave
Thinking Big River for Lunch
6:40 Yachtsman (on our honeymoon this Signature made the DxDP worth it. Paid out of pocket or bill would have been $220...)

10/23 9:15 Boma
1:00 Tusker House
7:00 Grand Floridian Cafe

10/24 9:15 Grand Floridian Cafe (i know,b2b but it worked out better this way)
1:25 Mama Melrose
6:40 Whispering Canyon

10/25 9:05 Kona
12:20 San Angel Inn
7:00 Ohana

10/26 9:30 Tusker House
2:00 Yak n Yeti
7:30 Le Cellier

10/27 9:30 Crystal Palace
then its sadly time to leave... Until next time!!


We do need a place to eat on our arrival night. We were going to do Fantasmic, but I am thinking we wont arrive in time.
I was kinda thinking Narcoossee's, because that was where our reception was but my wife DOES NOT care for sea food... So any suggestions for an arrival night dinner??

Randomly posting our ADRs because I can!!

10/29- Ohana 7:00pm
10/30- Tutto 6:00pm
11/01- Garden Tea Room 3:00pm
11/04- Kona 8:00pm

Well, I never heard from the AKL IPO today, and when I looked at the Disney World web site to see if any reservations had been made for us, it showed that we had no reservations So... I went ahead and made the ADRs myself, 7 hours after our window opened. Thankfully, we still got everything we wanted. I'm still hoping to hear from IPO in regard to the Illuminations Cruise and Sunrise Safari I requested. Here's what our trip looks like now....

10/22/2011
Arrive at AKL early evening. CS dinner and early bed.

10/23/2011
Animal Kingdom.
6:50 dinner at Boma.

10/24/2011
Epcot (mainly Future World).
5:25 dinner at Akershus.
Illuminations Cruise.

10/25/2011
Resort day and DTD.
6:00 dinner at Raglan Road.

10/26/2011
DHS.
5:45 dinner at 50's Prime Time Cafe.

10/27/2011
Sunrise Safari in a.m.
Epcot (mainly World Showcase).
Les Chefs de France at 6:20 p.m.

10/28/2011
MK.
Crystal Palace at 11:30 a.m.

10/29/2011
Departure day. Hang out at resort then maybe mini golf?

 

[BaysMom]

Okay, so I'm now mildly freaking out.

MIL, who is the person making the reservations (hotel, plane, etc) seems to be of the opinion that we should just make one ADR - for CRT if we can get it - and that's it. She wants to do one day at Sea World and thinks we should just wait and see what the "best day is weatherwise" and go that day.

I am a total planner by nature and this is going to make me nuts for the next 6 months. I don't care if we have a plan and decide to scrap it mid-trip, but having no plan at all is going to make me crazy.

I am picturing us spending a LOT of time waiting for my two SILs, who are staying out at ASMu (we are staying at Poly with the ILs), to take the fourteen stops and transfers etc to get to our resort, then an hour while everyone argues about who wants to go to what park and who wants to eat where and when... and spending half the day texting back and forth to figure out where everyone is and when they want to meet back up.

Ugh... have any of you guys ever done a no-plan-at-all trip? Am I doomed to disaster? It might not be so bad if it was just us and my ILs, since we'll be in adjoining rooms of the same resort, but add my two sisters-in-law who are staying somewhere else entirely and it just seems like a recipe for disaster...

Just remember that this is your vacation too!!!! If you want to have some sort of plan... Make it out now, and try to stick to it!! You don't have to let them know 6 months out that you have all teh details planned!!! Just casually mention on the plane that "you and your fam had been excitedly talking about Disney...and you all are thinking of hitting MK first day would be awesome!! Would anyone else like to join us, or do you guys want to split up some??" Then, you can do this for each of the days!! Can you say to your MIL that you think it is a good idea to go ahead and make some ADRs...and that if you all get down there and don't want to keep them, you can cancel?? Just to be safe?? Or again...say, "I know DD wants to eat with Tigger and Pooh - so I think I will try to get a CP ADR...do you guys want to join us that night/am, or do you want to do your own thing??"

When travelling wiht a large group, I don't think it is such a bad thing to split up some!! It will probably save your sanity some. Group planning is hard!!! Especially when it is the "out-laws"..haha.

 

[tannersmama]

10/27/2011
Sunrise Safari in a.m.
Epcot (mainly World Showcase).
Les Chefs de France at 6:20 p.m.

We are at Les Chefs de France also this day, at 6:00.

I may change my last day. right now we are at Le Cel at 6. But I may make that an early lunch and also make a resie for Rose and Crown like at 8. I really really liked Rose and Crown when we were there last.

 

[KEPE]

Mommison, so funny but you described my family to a T! We go away and that is EXACTLY what goes one, O you want to go here for breakfast @ 8? Ok, let's text jim and tell him, can anyone reach steve? O wait now Steve wants to go at 10:30, ok, let's tell Jim and Jack, lol. So funny, it makes me crazy too. I wish you the best of luck, just remember to enjoy the vacation regardless!!!

SJS, the one with the screwed up times was the F! dinner and we couldn't do it online so had to call. I just told her I wanted the latest ressie they had and she gave me 3:30 or 4:10.

Catira, glad it all worked out and they were all happy w/ a lunch reservation. Thanks for the info on the price. I find it odd that they charge you a flat price, I assume like w/ the dinning package you'll get an app. main course and dessert w. a drink, interesting.......

Nikki, thanks for adding my stuff and for all the work you put into the list. It's nice to see everyone's stuff together!!

 

[Mommison]

Just remember that this is your vacation too!!!! If you want to have some sort of plan... Make it out now, and try to stick to it!! You don't have to let them know 6 months out that you have all teh details planned!!! Just casually mention on the plane that "you and your fam had been excitedly talking about Disney...and you all are thinking of hitting MK first day would be awesome!! Would anyone else like to join us, or do you guys want to split up some??" Then, you can do this for each of the days!! Can you say to your MIL that you think it is a good idea to go ahead and make some ADRs...and that if you all get down there and don't want to keep them, you can cancel?? Just to be safe?? Or again...say, "I know DD wants to eat with Tigger and Pooh - so I think I will try to get a CP ADR...do you guys want to join us that night/am, or do you want to do your own thing??"

When travelling wiht a large group, I don't think it is such a bad thing to split up some!! It will probably save your sanity some. Group planning is hard!!! Especially when it is the "out-laws"..haha.

Luckily for me, my MIL is completely computer-phobic so if any ADR's are to be made, it will be all me which helps - like you said, I can just make them and we can always cancel them later if everyone is totally against "having to be places" (sigh...). DH plans to have a come-to-Jesus chat with them about the fact that the last time they took young children to WDW it was 1980 and things are different now. Hopefully they will get why I need to at least have a general plan in place for the children and the two of us, and if it's too much for them they can always do their own thing for part of each day.

Hopefully.

 

[Catira]

Thanks Nikki!

Now what I am going to do for the next 6 months? I know.. now I have to start shopping for clothing, break in some Croc Sandals, and hopefully before I know it October 22nd will be here

We go to Cancun in June and that will help a bit. Can't wait for school to be over and not have to worry about kid's homework, extracurricular activities, or getting one to the elementary and then rushing to drop the other at high school. Hoping DD will have her driver's license this summer so she can take her brother to Jr. High next year and of course drive herself.

 

[PoohNFriends]

Good news is IPO successfully made my 3 ADR's I requested and they showed up with my WDW reservations online. Bad news is I didn't receive an email from them today letting me know everything was successfully booked - of course only concerned about Sunrise Safari and Illuminations Cruise right now. Can someone please tell me if either of those 2 things would normally show up in the reservations on WDW's site? Hoping they normally don't and I receive an email from IPO tomorrow letting me know those were booked also.

Anyways here's our 3 ADR's:
Monday 10/24 Rose & Crown 6:30p
Tuesday 10/25 Sanaa 5p
Friday 10/28 50's Prime Time 1:05p

Tuesday we are tentatively doing a 2nd MNSSHP (assuming we want to go again after going to our 1st Sunday night). Is Sanaa at 5p too late considering it would be our 2nd MNSSHP of the week, we are staying AKV so know traveling to worry about, and just 2 of us? Or would you try to change times or days?

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Good news is IPO successfully made my 3 ADR's I requested and they showed up with my WDW reservations online. Bad news is I didn't receive an email from them today letting me know everything was successfully booked - of course only concerned about Sunrise Safari and Illuminations Cruise right now. Can someone please tell me if either of those 2 things would normally show up in the reservations on WDW's site? Hoping they normally don't and I receive an email from IPO tomorrow letting me know those were booked also.

Anyways here's our 3 ADR's:
Monday 10/24 Rose & Crown 6:30p
Tuesday 10/25 Sanaa 5p
Friday 10/28 50's Prime Time 1:05p

Tuesday we are tentatively doing a 2nd MNSSHP (assuming we want to go again after going to our 1st Sunday night). Is Sanaa at 5p too late considering it would be our 2nd MNSSHP of the week, we are staying AKV so know traveling to worry about, and just 2 of us? Or would you try to change times or days?

 

[Rorey]

that's so weird, they already booked me for my night and charged my credit card and everything- for 10/17. she just said that 10/21 was not available. don't you love how you get different info from different CMs? lol

maybe she said 10/21 wasn't available because it is a MNNSHP night (10/17 is a regular WISHES night). so maybe that is why she was saying it wasn't available? who knows. now i've changed my whole plans and they've already charged me- i guess i'll consider trying to get 10/21 then maybe still if i want to change my schedule back- at least once MNSSHp comes out- hopefully next week?

lol I know and the CM sounded so convincing. She just told me that since the MNSSHP schedule wasn't out that they didn't have the P&P's hours out for those days. She said nothing that since it was a MNSSHP night that there wouldn't be a P&P that night. That's going to suck if I have reschedule my nights to fit that in. gggrrrrr I'm really hoping that MNSSHP schedule comes out next week for sure.

Congrats to all those who got to make ADR's today!!!

 

[MadilynnsMomma]

Oct 23 - CRT - party of 3 - 10:25A
Oct 25 - LTT - party of 3 - 4:30P
Oct 26 - Wonderland Tea Party - party of 1 - 2:00P
Oct 27 - Tusker House - party of 3 - 8:30A
Oct 28 - Pirate's League - party of 3 - 3:10 & 3:30

 

[fuzzyjelly]

I'm up and ready, here we goooooo!

6:05a
Having server problems. It finds my hotel res, then when I confirm it, it says it can't find it! It worked the first time and I had my 7:50 for Le Cel, but now this!!!

 

[stephielela]

ugh! it seems to be taking forever to get logged in for ADR's... still waiting...

 

[lmc318]

This is the most God-awful system ever. I've had to log on 10 times now and every time I go to book my first ressie at CP it says I have to log in again. Then it can't find my reservation. Awful. I'm waiting until the phone lines open up. This is for the birds!!!

 

[fuzzyjelly]

Move over to Internet Explorer. It was doing that to m too when I tried in Firefox.

 

[jjiillee]

This is the most God-awful system ever. I've had to log on 10 times now and every time I go to book my first ressie at CP it says I have to log in again. Then it can't find my reservation. Awful. I'm waiting until the phone lines open up. This is for the birds!!!

My thoughts exactly, this is terrible. you would think they would have a better system, it is Disney.
I got my res time I wanted to 1900 park fare then it said server error so it didn't get confirmed. UGH.

 

[fuzzyjelly]

I got everything I wanted so far. I had to go a bit earlier or later on a few things. I'll be looking for something slightly earlier at Cali Grill. I wanted 8p and got 9:10. I still have a few days of vacation to reserve, but they're outside the 180 days so I have to do them one by one.

I can't see times yet for Cindy's breakfast on the 31st. I can see lunch, but breakfast gives an error. I'm assuming they haven't released it yet for some reason.

I'll call at 7a to find out.

 

[sjs314]

You need to switch browsers, if normally you use IE switch and use Firefox and vice versa .....no idea why but it seems to be working that way

Good Luck everyone, I ended up calling last Friday then found out about changeing browsers afterward.

 

[jjiillee]

I changed browsers from IE to FF and it's still not working. It makes me enter my resort res number every time then it says it can't find my reservation. I think i will just call.

 

[fuzzyjelly]

I just called and was told that CRT is not yet available for breakfast on the 31st. Guess I'll keep trying. Wish me luck!