Rumors of Light (ROL discussion thread)

[jbkean]

Just got off the phone with Dining, and she was poking around in the system. She doesn't think they've opened up anything beyond breakfast for Tusker House package, as far as she could tell. She expects it to still be coming for lunch and dinner but they seem to be opening availability in phases, so "keep checking back!" :-/

 

[Paigevon]

Yes, my experience as well -- WTHeck? I was checking two minutes before 4:00 a.m. local time and "no passes available; try standby sucker" only. :-(

... Sorry.

 

[Nezumi Fan]

I hate Olaf!!!!! Whose bright idea was to change FP+ booking window from midnight to 7am?!?!?

For sure not my idea! I'm on the West Coast, so you can imagine how "excited" I am about the change. (>_<)

 

[Jobelly]

I rang to try to see if I could switch my 8am tusker reservation to a package and it stated a 2 hour wait due to high call volume!

 

[Nezumi Fan]

But how could Disney not foresee that?! Ugh!! All three devices I'm using have errors or the blue ring of death trying to load.

Your setup sounds like mine, Bridget -- two laptops and a desktop, all three chugging away simultaneously for over an hour with no success, and then it's an hour and twelve minutes on hold for Disney Dining et voila.

 

[Jobelly]

It is a JB package.

That's fab, couldn't get anything around the 8 mark and was trying before the time. Seems as though there was more released at 7 but I'd started lunch and missed them.

 

[rlk]

That's fab, couldn't get anything around the 8 mark and was trying before the time. Seems as though there was more released at 7 but I'd started lunch and missed them.

I just checked and there was 8:15am available for August 28 at Tusker House.

 

[DVC4US]

I was really hoping for a FT dining package but went with the FP instead. For a party of 8 we will use our FP and spend a lot less money(package cost would have been $500-$670) and eat CS at FT or Yak & Yeti - we love both. We would have paid the rumored price of $24 per person at FT but we have no desire to eat at TH or Tiffins and definitely no desire to spend that kind of money for a 15-20 min show. We will visit Nomad and have a drink instead.

For those still trying - it looks like the website is working better now for both dining and FPs. If you are using the app and still having problems, others posted on another thread they had to uninstall the app and re-install it to get it to work.

 

[yulilin3]

@yulilin3 Would you mind linking me to the show times for AK for next week? I know you posted in somewhere but in this morning's chaos...

@tinkerhon I am almost positive they are there!

The times guide you mean?

 

[tashers]

Just curious...did you modify an existing FP to JB or were you selecting from scratch? I'm just wondering if I should cancel the FP that I'm trying to modify and then maybe it would show me JB as an option.

I saw that you got yours finally, but just to answer, I modified an existing one. I was keeping a dinosaur FP as a placeholder for some time now.

 

[DVC4US]

I saw that you got yours finally, but just to answer, I modified an existing one. I was keeping a dinosaur FP as a placeholder for some time now.

I did the same thing. With a party of 8 it was so much easier to modify an existing FP then choose the 8 people I needed out of the 25 on my Friends & Family list. I did this for Soarin' too.

 

[yaya74]

Is there a confirmation that TH JB pckg is eligible for Dining Plan TS credit??

ETA: WDWprepchool noted on its FB page that Dining Plan is accepted for JB pkg despite what it said on the confirmation email.

 

[tinkerhon]

@yulilin3 Would you mind linking me to the show times for AK for next week? I know you posted in somewhere but in this morning's chaos...

@tinkerhon I am almost positive they are there!

Thanks so much !!! Kiddies really excited to see the safari characters !!!

 

[Paigevon]

The times guide you mean?
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Thank you so much!!

 

[Paigevon]

Is there a confirmation that TH JB pckg is eligible for Dining Plan TS credit??

If you count a phone CM's yes as confirmation....

Thanks so much !!! Kiddies really excited to see the safari characters !!!

TH dinner may have been my family's favorite meal overall on a 6 day stay last month! Excited to try to breakfast some time, I have heard great things!

 

[Cluelyss]

Yes, my experience as well -- WTHeck? I was checking two minutes before 4:00 a.m. local time and "no passes available; try standby sucker" only. :-(

Soarin' didn't open until about 7:15

 

[maryj11]

Well I decided not to get the dining package for us because we want to eat at Yak&Yeti. I did get a Jungle Book FP for the last show and Frozen. I wasnt sure about doing the last show because of the hoards of people leaving after it Should I change it to the first show?

 

[DVC4US]

Okay, after a frantic 1 1/2 hours this morning I think our plans for June are finally done. This trip has been crazy to plan for and I have to say if this was my first trip I don't know if I would want to go through this again. I feel for those who don't have a place like this to look for information and don't know all the tricks to use - like going to the app when the website crashes.

So glad to have all of you guys here to pass along information and commiserate with. Thank you everyone!

 

[DVC4US]

Well I decided not to get the dining package for us because we want to eat at Yak&Yeti. I did get a Jungle Book FP for the last show and Frozen. I wasnt sure about doing the last show because of the hoards of people leaving after it Should I change it to the first show?

I did the same thing - we don't want to eat at TH or Tiffins - was hoping for a FT package.

We did the early show - we have a FP for KS at 9:30 - and we didn't want to wait that late for the show. Might be in Nomad by that time having a few drinks!

 

[maryj11]

I did the same thing - we don't want to eat at TH or Tiffins - was hoping for a FT package.

We did the early show - we have a FP for KS at 9:30 - and we didn't want to wait that late for the show. Might be in Nomad by that time having a few drinks!

I'm undecided on changing it to the first show, I don't want it to take forever to get back to our resort because we have an 8:00 am breakfast.