Question about PS/ADRs

[mamatojon]

Hi everyone, I have a question I hope you can answer. We are going to WDW in January, from the 15th to the 27th. For this trip, we would like to try a few different restaurants, ones which take ADRs The thing is, we hate planning where we eat. We have had one PS in all of our trips and it was such a pain, we weren't hungry, and we didn't want to go to MGM that day.

I'm wondering if it wouldn't be too terribly hard to just walk up during the time that we are going. What restaurants do you think are horribly crowded regardless of crowd levels?

We would really like to try the following:
Whispering Canyon - breakfast
Kona Cafe - Breakfast
Biergarten - Lunch or Dinner
Crystal Palace - lunch
Plaza restaurant - lunch or dinner
Tony's Town Square REstaurant - lunch
San Angel Inn - Dinner
Liberty Tree Tavern - Dinner
Boma - dinner
Cape May Cafe - dinner

I am making ADRs for Chef Mickeys and the Fantasmic package at Hollywood and Vine because those are the only two that I know we will be very dissapointed if we miss. What do you think about the rest? I won't be heartbroken or anything if we miss them and I don't mind waiting up to 25 minutes or so.

Thanks in advance!

 

[CarolMN]

For the dates you are going, I don't think you will have much trouble doing "walk up" for any of the restaurants you listed. You might have some trouble on the first two days (it's MLK Holiday weekend), but other than that, you should be fine - especially since you don't mind waiting up to 25 minutes. If you want to increase your chances, eat earlier or later than the norm.

Best wishes -

 

[tjmouse]

The only one I would try to make a PS for is Crystal Palace. While getting a PS 90 days in advance is never that difficult, walk ups can be. Since it's in the MK, right there on Main Street, they get a lot of walk ups. I was there in March (before spring break crowds) and they were turning people away. So, that is really the only one I would worry about.

 

[K9pal]

Another thing to keep in mind is that you can make same day ADR's. That's helped us a lot in the past.