Should Disney change ADR’s to 90 days?

[Nancyg56]

If they would ever change them, they should change them to industry standard which is somewhere between 14-28 days...

I doubt that would work with the volume of folks who are in WDW daily. Can you imagine the assault on the reservations system?

 

[TwoMisfits]

I doubt that would work with the volume of folks who are in WDW daily. Can you imagine the assault on the reservations system?

Not much different than the assault that happens at 180...it's still one day where everyone dives on for reservations...and there'd be less need for everyone to get double/triple reservations if they had their FPs set...

 

[mom2rtk]

Not much different than the assault that happens at 180...it's still one day where everyone dives on for reservations...and there'd be less need for everyone to get double/triple reservations if they had their FPs set...

I agree with the PP that there would be a much greater hit that close to the actual date. Disney IT has a reputation of not being able to handle things like that. Waiting until 2-4 weeks out means you just have a lot more people committed to their trips. Far fewer people plan 6 months out.

 

[maxiesmom]

If they would ever change them, they should change them to industry standard which is somewhere between 14-28 days...

That would never work. It is a struggle now to plan FPs around your ADRs, trying to do it less than a month out, ewwwww.

 

[TwoMisfits]

That would never work. It is a struggle now to plan FPs around your ADRs, trying to do it less than a month out, ewwwww.

You'd be planning ADRs around reserved FPs, known park hours, and known park events...you'd know when you'd need to eat and in what park - there'd be no need for multiple reservations, making that issue disappear overnight...maybe then leading to no-show fees disappearing with them...

 

[maxiesmom]

You'd be planning ADRs around reserved FPs, known park hours, and known park events...you'd know when you'd need to eat and in what park - there'd be no need for multiple reservations, making that issue disappear overnight...maybe then leading to no-show fees disappearing with them...

I'm a fan on the no show fee. And the problem would then become trying to get ADRs that work with your FPs. You think it is hard booking 180 days out, a month out would be a nightmare, imho.

Btw, Disney changes thing up to and including the day of. And I'm sorry, but there is no need for multiple reservations now.

 

[mom2rtk]

You'd be planning ADRs around reserved FPs, known park hours, and known park events...you'd know when you'd need to eat and in what park - there'd be no need for multiple reservations, making that issue disappear overnight...maybe then leading to no-show fees disappearing with them...

People would still double book. And no show fees aren't going anywhere, no matter what the booking window is.

 

[TwoMisfits]

I'm a fan on the no show fee. And the problem would then become trying to get ADRs that work with your FPs. You think it is hard booking 180 days out, a month out would be a nightmare, imho.

Btw, Disney changes thing up to and including the day of. And I'm sorry, but there is no need for multiple reservations now.

And yet multitudes will tell you they need all those multiple res so they can have somewhere to eat in the right park, working around their FPs, b/c they might only get 7D MT and Pandora only one day of their trip and if it's X day, they have to have an AK/MK restaurant picked for every day of their trip, plus the ones in EPCOT and their hotel...

Read these boards and you'll see just from board members that many pursue this strategy.

And it's no harder to be up at 180+10 than 28 - same process, just closer to the trip with more knowns known. There wouldn't be any more issues that PPO breakfasts are no longer PPO, that reservations got kicked for private events, that Disney just shortened/lengthened park hours or added parties for the day and now I can't eat there, that I can only get a FP for Pandora on the day I have my CRT res and I'd never get either again, etc...

 

[maxiesmom]

And yet multitudes will tell you they need all those multiple res so they can have somewhere to eat in the right park, working around their FPs, b/c they might only get 7D MT and Pandora only one day of their trip and if it's X day, they have to have an AK/MK restaurant picked for every day of their trip, plus the ones in EPCOT and their hotel...

Read these boards and you'll see just from board members that many pursue this strategy.

And it's no harder to be up at 180+10 than 28 - same process, just closer to the trip with more knowns known. There wouldn't be any more issues that PPO breakfasts are no longer PPO, that reservations got kicked for private events, that Disney just shortened/lengthened park hours or added parties for the day and now I can't eat there, that I can only get a FP for Pandora on the day I have my CRT res and I'd never get either again, etc...

Disney can and does adjust park hours closer than a month out. No pre park ADR is ever safe, they even adjust day of at times.

And just because a bunch of people mass book ADRs doesn't make it any less tacky.