Online booking!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DuffGT06]

I was checking out restaurants & one had book reservations & the online ADR site pulled up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Where did you see it?! I'd really like to go check it out.

 

[taylor5]

If you go to DISCOVER, then DINING, the restaurant list will pull up & some of them have the option to BOOK RESERVATION, when you click there the online screen pulls up.

 

[disneylovinfamily]

it seems very time consuming to do it, we will have to see what happens in the days ahead. My date to book is saturday.

 

[DuffGT06]

If you go to DISCOVER, then DINING, the restaurant list will pull up & some of them have the option to BOOK RESERVATION, when you click there the online screen pulls up.

Oooh, I see, I see! That's very exciting, I'm going to go through and see which ones offer it so I'm prepared when my ADR date comes up.

 

[DuffGT06]

Here are all the park restaurants listed as of 12:10pm EDT. Most of them are on there, with a few exceptions (I noticed LTT, H&V). I'll take a look at resorts next and post that in a few.

They lock the calendar out so you can't book until the 90 day mark.

I would love to hear from someone once they try this the morning of their booking date. Is the site up? Does it crash?

Magic Kingdom:
The Crystal Palace
Cinderella’s Royal Table
Tony’s Town Square
The Plaza Restaurant

EPCOT:
Biergarten Restaurant
Restaurant Marrakesh
Teppan Edo
Le Cellier Steakhouse
The Garden Grill Restaurant
Tutto Italia Ristorante
Rose & Crown Pub & Dining Room
Les Chefs de France
Tokyo Dining
San Angel Inn
Bistro de Paris
Akershus Royal Banquet Hall
Coral Reef
Nine Dragons Restaurant

Animal Kingdom:
Rainforest Café
Yak & Yeti
Tusker House Restaurant

Hollywood Studios:
Mama Melrose Ristorante Italiano
The Hollywood Brown Derby
50’s Prime Time Café
Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater

 

[DuffGT06]

Animal Kingdom Lodge:
Boma-Flavors of Africa
Jiko-The Cooking Place

Animal Kingdom Villas:
Sanaa Restaurant

Beach Club Resort:
Cape May Café

Contemporary Resort:
The Wave Restaurant
Chef Mickey’s
California Grill

Coronado Springs Resort:
Maya Grill

BoardWalk:
Spoodles
Flying Fish Café

Dolphin Resort:
Shula’s Steak House

Grand Floridian Resort & Spa:
Citricos
Narcoossee’s
The Chef’s Domain at Citricos

Old Key West Resort:
Olivia’s Café

Polynesian Resort:
Ohana
Spirit of Aloha Show
Kona Café

Wilderness Lodge:
Whispering Canyon Café
Artist Point

Yacht Club Resort:
Yachtsman Steakhouse
Captain’s Grille

If any are added later, let me know and I can edit my post to include all. I'm thinking I will call AND be online, especially since Hoop Dee Doo Revue doesn't seem to be on there and we want to catch that.

 

[disneylovinfamily]

I will be intersted after tomorrow morning to see how this plays out!

 

[KYMickey]

I've been playing with the system for awhile and all I can say is "it needs to be improved". It may look very pretty but it's certainly not very user friendly nor fast. If you're going to try to plan your dinners for a week you're going to have to jump all over the place to get it done. It's also going to take quite a while.

They should've given you a "quick screen" we just went to pull down menus where you select the restaurant, date and time and then hit enter. Also if what you entered is not available it should give you restaurants in the same approximate area as options not ones in a completely different area of the park!

Except for the fact you can make your reservations starting an hour earlier I certainly don't see any big advantages to the system. They would've been much better off copying the open table reservation system in just use each area instead of the city sorting. It's very quick and efficient and gives you everything you need.

 

[Condorman]

I've been playing with the system for awhile and all I can say is "it needs to be improved". It may look very pretty but it's certainly not very user friendly nor fast. If you're going to try to plan your dinners for a week you're going to have to jump all over the place to get it done. It's also going to take quite a while.

They should've given you a "quick screen" we just went to pull down menus where you select the restaurant, date and time and then hit enter. Also if what you entered is not available it should give you restaurants in the same approximate area as options not ones in a completely different area of the park!

Except for the fact you can make your reservations starting an hour earlier I certainly don't see any big advantages to the system. They would've been much better off copying the open table reservation system in just use each area instead of the city sorting. It's very quick and efficient and gives you everything you need.

I agree with you about Opentable. I've been playing with the system myself. For anyone skilled enough at Internet bi-play, you CAN have two or more IE / Firefox windows open and perform simultaneous reservations. It's tricky, but it does work.

 

[ThurlFan]

For anyone skilled enough at Internet bi-play,

I thought this was a family-friendly board?

 

[mae5731]

Hoop Dee Doo is on there now, along with several others.

 

[anthony2k7]

this is such a bad idea, its going to get so abused.

Oh well, at least the restaurants will be quieter when half the reservations never turn up!

Thankfully you have to phone still for 90+10 reservations apparently?

 

[scooter15]

How will the site verify you are a resort guest?

Thanks.

At least with the CM site, there's an area where you have to enter your resort reservation #. That will link your priority seating with your resort reservation so when you check in, it will be in the system and front desk.

 

[anthony2k7]

How will the site verify you are a resort guest?

Thanks.

it doesnt. its open to anyone, to book anywhere as many times as they like!

totally ridiculous system considering how impossible it was to get ADRs already.

 

[KYMickey]

I agree with you about Opentable. I've been playing with the system myself. For anyone skilled enough at Internet bi-play, you CAN have two or more IE / Firefox windows open and perform simultaneous reservations. It's tricky, but it does work.

Yes I played around with that too, it works pretty good but as stated by someone else it doesn't make it very family friendly! The system is so cumbersome it's ridiculous, they certainly couldn't come up with a simpler system. This one may look pretty, but it's far from speedy. Maybe that's part of the idea, it will take somebody an hour to book a week's worth of reservations so other people will have a chance. You can't login early and get everything before everyone else gets a chance is it take so long!

 

[danajune]

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!

I don't know if I'm excited or angry?!

or scared? or relieved?

....

 

[princessCKL]

I just added 2 adrs to my ressie for July 28 - Aug 8 online. I did have to retrieve my resort reservation first with ressie number and my phone number.

I added celebrations to ADRS that I had made previously by phone for the same trip.

 

[jlewisinsyr]

I don't know why they didn't outsource this whole function to OpenTable, they don't seem to have a problem outsourcing everything else...

At least with the OpenTable system, its tried, tested and WORKS fast and efficiently.

 

[Condorman]

I don't know why they didn't outsource this whole function to OpenTable, they don't seem to have a problem outsourcing everything else...

At least with the OpenTable system, its tried, tested and WORKS fast and efficiently.

That might have been a possibility, except for all those out there who use TAs or are DVC members, and are now having an impossible time bringing up their reservations or making new ones. This, in addition to the new system incorporating recreation and other reservable activities that an outsourced entity might not have been able to wrap their talent around. Considering how unnecessarily convoluted Disney's entire reservation system is, Opentable.com would have taken one look at the mess and slapped themselves in the forehead while shouting, "Oy!"

 

[KYMickey]

This, in addition to the new system incorporating recreation and other reservable activities that an outsourced entity might not have been able to wrap their talent around. Considering how unnecessarily convoluted Disney's entire reservation system is, Opentable.com would have taken one look at the mess and slapped themselves in the forehead while shouting, "Oy!"

That's what Disney gets for creating their own software packages instead of using an efficient system with modifications to meet their needs. Maybe they should've taken this as an opportunity to break the mold and actually look at using an efficient system! If you have a bad system and never make it better by adding to it, you can only make it better by starting over.