Reservations for Epcot Candlelight Processional Dining Packages begin 10/14

[Sydnerella]

Oh good that means a fun day at work!

But yeah I wonder if that means nothing is getting booked? I see stuff disappear... I can't believe if ANYONE is getting through that we haven't gotten at least something across two MDE accounts and going to our phones or laptops. Hopefully something clears up.

Edit:

Finally about 7:10am I was able to get Le Cellier for 4:30pm (8:15pm show) for Sat Dec 20! I’m happy with that. Would have preferred like 5:30-6pm but oh well.

I am glad you got through eventually! We did too - eventually - for Brendan Fraser N2 on 12/21.

It is SO frustrating after being ready and online at 445am my time - 545 EST and starting at 6am EST going thru 100+ tries on 3 devices (orange "timed out" error messages every time) and a 32-minute phone call with Disney IT (patient pants and kindness on despite my annoyance and stress) I was able to get the 6:45 showtime we wanted with the 3rd restaurant choice on the list - Biergarten at 2pm. Which is totally fine for our family.

Not sure what the issue was for you or others but I see the packages are now all sold out for our date - so the site had to be working for some folks!

*** FYI Bonnet Creek Resort Guests*** CALL DISNEY IT if you have issues booking ASAP! Disney IT told me they had to book CP for me due to the reservation type - despite this being in my window and email confirmation it was open today. My first time not staying at WDW main hotel properties and first time with this bad of a dining reservation issue.... of course we have had them in past but not like this one. Strange thing is she said I needed to do that for all my dining but 30 min later I added a Beak and Barrel on my own. Maybe IT had to activate/add something to my account. Everything was linked prior per the IT person I talked to Saturday and I should have been good to go in their eyes.

 

[zmdisneyworld]

*** FYI Bonnet Creek Resort Guests*** CALL DISNEY IT if you have issues booking ASAP! Disney IT told me they had to book CP for me due to the reservation type - despite this being in my window and email confirmation it was open today. My first time not staying at WDW main hotel properties and first time with this bad of a dining reservation issue.... of course we have had them in past but not like this one. Strange thing is she said I needed to do that for all my dining but 30 min later I added a Beak and Barrel on my own. Maybe IT had to activate/add something to my account. Everything was linked prior per the IT person I talked to Saturday and I should have been good to go in their eyes.

When I was having issues I was wondering if there was something wrong with my reservation, but I remember I had booked a "canary" CP when they first released to see how the process worked. And then much like you, I was able to start booking things after 7am eastern time. I think they just had lots of issues and not many bookings were going through because of the AWS issues in us-east-1 region. I never got through to anyone on the phone but magically my reservations started working after most of the AWS issues were cleared up.

(However, I realize that isn't necessarily 100% with what you were told on the phone, but it seems related)

Excited for Brendan Fraser!

 

[teach22180]

I always search candlelight and then after selecting CP, i select reserve dining…

Is there a reason you are recommending that approach instead?

I could not get a reserve dining tab on that page, so I wanted to just offer another alternative if people were having the same trouble. I could not make any reservations until almost 630, but I really think it was my fault and not a fault with the system.