Should Disney get rid of Reservations or find ways to improve them?

Haha handful of time a day. During the day thing get very busy and there may only be a short window of downtime where I can look. Time is the most precious thing you have and Disney should be helping you to reduce the time it takes to book your vacation.

Why would they revamp that aspect if all of the locations are full? The request is, "Well, it's booked solid, but make it easier for us to all fight for the already full sections!"
On a side note, what languages do you code in? I'm ready to jump off a cliff with this freelance assembly project I have going on :badpc:
 
Why would they revamp that aspect if all of the locations are full? The request is, "Well, it's booked solid, but make it easier for us to all fight for the already full sections!"
On a side note, what languages do you code in? I'm ready to jump off a cliff with this freelance assembly project I have going on :badpc:

LOL I'm a .net dev so to a assembly project... *cold shiver* I feel for you.
 
1) I have read the comments about changing the system.
2) But, no one has offered a system that would work for everyone.
3) I think none exists.
4) So, let's keep what is working.
5) if you plan a vacation trip six-months out, what is wrong with planning the meals that far out?
 
1) Sound reasonable from the guest point-of-view.
2) But, for any eatery, what if there are no walkups?
. . . the empty tables remain empty
. . . there is no way to make up for lost capacity
3) So, for an eatery, advanced ressies are a must.

There are plenty of restaurants (outside of Disney) that don't take any reservations at all and only offer walk-up and are perfectly profitable. I understand your point that they can predict staffing better if they have reservations planned. But if Disney can operate a whole theme park and predict staffing etc then they can leave 10% of available tables for walk-ups.

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5) if you plan a vacation trip six-months out, what is wrong with planning the meals that far out?

You only plan FP+ 2 months out. If you can't get your FPs to line up with your dining then it isn't a great experiance.

I imagine a website where you log-on and go day one, Magic Kingdom book FP for Jungle Cruise 12noon, the system then suggests a 12:45 reservation for Crystal Palace as you are close by, then you book your after FPs and move on to day two. A seamless experiance of planning food and attractions.

But as others said, the volume of people trying each day might be too much for the system!
 

Shorten the 6 month booking time. Way too much time is wasted checking for reservations over a 6 month period. more importantly, Disney should start charging a deposit per reservation, not just using a credit card to hold the reservation. That would vastly reduce the multiple reservations that people make for one time frame.
 
Haha handful of times a day. During the day thing get very busy and there may only be a short window of downtime where I can look. Time is the most precious thing you have and Disney should be helping you to reduce the time it takes to book your vacation.


I don't know. I think that the ONE time it was really important for my family to book all the ADR's I really wanted was the first time we all went after my DGD was born. The window was 90 days. WE honestly looked at the trip as a once and done. My DD and I discussed it and decided we were going to book Club Level and hope those folks could help us. and they did. That was the last time i booked CL so that the IPO could book ADR's. They do this for us when we book that level, but I can do it myself too. I believe that the entire obsession of having to book every meal that you (in general you) think will make the perfect trip is the problem. Somewhere along the line I see folks booking parks around dining because they think if they miss a certain meal the trip is doomed. Dining is a big part of our vacation, but it is NOT the vacation, so if we cannot get into one we get into another. My time is precious, just like anyone else's, but if I decide it is important to try to get a specific ADR, I know I have to allocate some time. Just think about what your trip would be like if the window was reduced to 30 days and you were competing with a condensed version of the same number of people to secure you ADR's. You think you are glued to a computer now? That would be the perfect nightmare for me.

Shorten the 6 month booking time. Way too much time is wasted checking for reservations over a 6 month period. more importantly, Disney should start charging a deposit per reservation, not just using a credit card to hold the reservation. That would vastly reduce the multiple reservations that people make for one time frame.

They did and then needed to bump it back up. More folks wanted teh 180 days than wanted the 90 day window.

I think that the FP and the ADR window should be closer together. I don't know how you do that when there are different booking rules for FP+ and ADR's, but that might free up the JIC ADr's.
 
I think number of ADRs should be limited to one for each meal. That way, wouldn't really matter if people booked a year or a week in advance, at least it would eliminate having multiple ADRs for the same dinner on the same day. After all, that's how FP+ works. You can't have 10 FP+, then decide later which ones you want to cancel.
 
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Making the window shorter will only increase the competition and be worse for those who can and do plan further in advance. Do you really want to have more people trying to make ADR's all at the same time. Disney can hardly handle the volume now.

I wish they would go back to the days when you would make the reservation on the day you wanted to dine in the park at a Kiosk like they used to do in Epcot
You really want to spend valuable park time in line to make reservations?
 
I understand the arguments, however I think reservations at 60 days for WDW would be a mess. The reason why it works at DL is because there is so many more restaurants within walking distance and so many guests are just there are day trips. I think generally the early bird gets the worm is a good saying. It's all fair- they say when you can book, etc.

I think there are also a small percentage of restaurants that must be booked 6 months in advance. I know last time when we went (2014) I did not have a problem making small changes in our reservations.

I am one of those who overbook restaurants. (and cancel when plans get firmer) The fee if you don't cancel I think helps insure that people can check for reservation for that day or the next day.
 
I think number of ADRs should be limited to one for each meal. That way, wouldn't really matter if people booked a year or a week in advance, at least it would eliminate having multiple ADRs for the same dinner on the same day. After all, that's how FP+ works. You can't have 10 FP+, then decide later which ones you want to cancel.
That restriction is already in place. But people keep finding ways around it.
 
Making the window shorter will only increase the competition
Not understanding that. Its the same number of people dining per date and the same number of spots available per date.
 
That restriction is already in place. But people keep finding ways around it.

The way it works now, you can make more than one ADR for dinner on any given night. That's what I'm saying should be corrected. One ADR per evening, that's it. I think that would greatly improve the situation.
 
Not understanding that. Its the same number of people dining per date and the same number of spots available per date.

6 months out you have a lot of people who booked their vacations booking ADR's. 5 months out more folk have booked their resorts and are now looking for ADR's. 4 months out you have more folks planning vacations and booking ADR's. If Disney waited until 30 days out, the system would likely crash. You now have all of those folks who would have booked dining 5 months, 4 months, 3 months earlier, all of them online and calling at the same time. It may be the same number of spots available per date, but the number of folks all vying for those spots at the same time is increased exponentially.
 
The way it works now, you can make more than one ADR for dinner on any given night. That's what I'm saying should be corrected. One ADR per evening, that's it. I think that would greatly improve the situation.
The way it works now, you can't make two ADRs within 2 hours of each other. So, you want to extend that window?
 
The way it works now, you can make more than one ADR for dinner on any given night. That's what I'm saying should be corrected. One ADR per evening, that's it. I think that would greatly improve the situation.

And what about those folks who may book dinner early , and then coffee and dessert later on in the evening, or who sit with their kids for dinner and then go out for an adult meal?
 
OK, you're talking about the transition period from the existing window to a shorter one, right? How about if the change gets made in increments?
 
I think number of ADRs should be limited to one for each meal. That way, wouldn't really matter if people booked a year or a week in advance, at least it would eliminate having multiple ADRs for the same dinner on the same day. After all, that's how FP+ works. You can't have 10 FP+, then decide later which ones you want to cancel.
That would not work either. For example, on Dec 23 we have a adr for Coral Reef at 7ish and one for Le Cellier for 8ish. My 15 and 16 yo DDs did not want to eat at Le Cellier they think it is boring. So we are splitting up for that dinner. My parents and my DH and I are dining at Le Cellier and the girls selected Cral Reef because they wanted to watch the fish. There are lots of groups made up of multi generations, multi couples, and families that I am sure also might break into smaller groups and thus their MDE will have more than one dinner ADR on certain nights.
 
Exactly this.
Everything opens and closes constantly.

Exactly this.

We changed our plans after our FP+ booking window, and I got CRT at 7pm the first time I looked at 59 days out. I regularly look at ADRs (because I like to imagine where I could be eating tomorrow if only I was at WDW!... :rolleyes1) and I'm surprised at how often I could book Be Our Guest or Tusker House or any other restaurants we'd love to it at. I have a choice of breakfast ADRs for BOG tomorrow, for example, including pre-opening.

We booked our holiday at 16 months out. Waiting until 6 months out to be able to book anything fun is killing me! I can't wait for that time to roll around for our ADRs!
 





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