I know the feeling....we have been trying to get reservations for 9 since June and even the CL IPO could not get them at the 180+ day mark. We have never experienced a log jam like this before for ADRs. We are going during a week without Free Dining so there should have been availability. Keep trying and good luck!
A suggestion - please don't get angry... ALL personal opinion, not the truth of god....
There are MANY non Disney owned Restaurants ON PROPERTY. A good number of these will be higher end restaurants - sorry about that. Being independently owned - they DO have other booking mechanisms than MDE.
The ones we know of....
Fulton's
Portabello
Il Mulino
Shula's
TRex
Boathouse
BluZoo
RaglanRoad
RainForest
So - an option? Google these restaurants. I believe all of them have mechanisms that are totally independent of WDW for booking a table. A minimum of THREE of these (when we have done this in the past), expressed surprise that WDW's MDE showed them as "full".
I know the feeling....we have been trying to get reservations for 9 since June and even the CL IPO could not get them at the 180+ day mark. We have never experienced a log jam like this before for ADRs. We are going during a week without Free Dining so there should have been availability. Keep trying and good luck!