Should this be allowed?

[magik]

Many years ago, on a trip to Disney with a friend, we ate two character breakfasts in the same day. We had one very early, I want to say maybe 7:30 am at Wilderness Lodge, and one very late, like 10:50 am at the castle.

I never thought twice about this until reading all of the double-booking threads on here.

My friend and I did go to both and ate full meals at both restaurants, treating the late breakfast as an early lunch.

This was over ten years ago, before many people even used the dining reservation system, and it was generally no problem to even just walk up to a table service restaurant and be seated, so double-booking was definitely not an issue then.

Do you all think that if a person intends to eat at both places, it should be allowed, or should there be very strict, only one reservation per meal time period per person? I personally don't have a problem with a person making a reservation for a place they intend to go and eat at, even if that technically turns out to be two breakfasts or two lunches or whatever, but I do think that it's bad to book reservations you don't necessarily plan on going to now that it can be so hard to get reservations. I have no idea how they'd enforce that though unless they did some sort of math like if there are two reservations for the same meal, they must be at least three hours apart or something like that.

Like I said...before reading how big of a problem double-booking is these days and how reservations are getting canceled, it never even occurred to me that my eating those breakfasts both on the same day might be a problem if I tried to do the same thing today.

 

[Poohbug]

I think the point if double booking is so people can choose which restaurant they feel like going to while on their trip. If they are at MK they will keep their MK ADR and not go to the one they booked at EPCOT.

I have no problem if you want to book two breakfast ADRs and you use both. This is not double booking.

 

[castmemberb4]

I agree with the PP the way you had it set up is no different from having a breakfast and a lunch ADR.

 

[crisi]

You had breakfast and lunch. Its possible that in the future both these would be treated as breakfast reservations (the second being before eleven - which is likely to be the breakfast/lunch cutoff) and they will auto de-dupe - but for now they do so manually, and those are likely to be seen as two different meals.

(A lot of food though!)

 

[Evan&Kimberly]

If you ate both of them hey that's cool, Double Booking means that you made both with the intentions of eating at one of them, so your A Ok,

 

[devine]

ITA you did nothing wrong

 

[disnut8]

A double booking would be two meals booked at or near the same time in the same name.

You didn't do anything wrong.

But, I can see where in the future, it's going to be difficult if someone wants to have dinner at, say, Mama Melrose and then go over to Sci-Fi for milkshakes.

 

[disnut8]

auto de-dupe

De-dupe, de-dupe, de-dupe, de-dupe, de-dupe. New theme for the Pink Panther.

 

[YodaGirl]

ITA. Nothing wrong at all.

 

[Amy&Dan]

You did absolutely nothing wrong. Now as to whether you could do that again and not have one of those adr's nuked out of the universe by Disney Dining is another story. I think with two adr's that far apart, they'd leave them alone. But who knows.

This could all just go away if Disney would take a credit card guarantee for all ADR's and charge a fee if you don't show up. That would nip the problem in the bud and stop the double booking. People would know not to as soon as they got the "we'll need to guarantee your reservation with a cc, if you don't arrive within 15 minutes of your time, your card will be charged".

Its why people know not to double book hotels and then not show up at one. Hotels protect themselves with this. And since Disney Dining does this for CRT they should just do it for everything else too.

 

[DisneyMim]

I don't think you did anything wrong. From someone who has been going to WDW since the 1970's I can tell you that things have changed a great deal. I don't like it when people double-book just so they can "think" about which place they want to eat. Not fair. We always call when we want to cancel or change a ressie and most times the CM can't believe that we actually call and cancel. Most people don't. With the way Disney is today and the way their restaurants are today (crowded) I think it's only right to make just one reservation. JMHO.