Should I let my TA make ADRs????

[CoryBelle21]

We're using Small World Vacations for our Sept trip. This is the first time we've booked a Disney trip AND the first time we've used a travel agent.

Our ADR window opens on the 24th of March and our travel agent has offered to make all of our ADRs for us. She sent us an excel sheet to fill out if we want her to do the ressies. It has us fill in a restaurant and preferred time for each ressie and asks for an alternative restaurant in case she can't get the one we want.

This convenience was a selling point for us when we decided to us a travel agent. But now I'm second guessing. I'm a serious control freak and I'm having trouble handing off such an important piece of our trip.

For one thing, we've picked out which restaurants we want to visit and it's less important to us which date/time we get. As long as we get to eat in all those restaurants at some point during our trip, we'll be ok. We have park hoppers so a little hopping won't kill us. If she couldn't get something for the day we want, we'd want her to shuffle things around an switch it with another restaurant on another day. But the spreadsheet doesn't seem build for this kind of flexibility.

Plus, I know that if I let her do it, I'll still wake up at 6 and will be on pins and needles until I hear from her. And what if she has other clients with the same travel date. If she does us second, we could miss out on some things.

On the other hand, my fiance thinks it's crazy to do something ourselves when someone is getting paid to do it for us.

So what would you do? Should I just do my ADRs myself? Or should I try to make it clear in the spreadsheet that the restaurants are more important than the days?

 

[vicki_c]

I wouldn't let any TA make my reservations unless I knew from personal experience or recommendations from people I trusted that the TA would be online making them at 6 AM. Because if they aren't going to do that, I'd rather make them myself. But a good Disney TA should be doing that, IMO.

I can't speak to Small World's policies or if they differ by agent at Small World, but not all TAs or agencies do things before their normal work hours which often don't start until 8 or 9 a.m.