Split Stay-Can't Book for Whole Reservation?

[Little E]

Hi Disfriends!

I have a split stay coming up. DH and I are staying at BW from November 9-11 and then we are staying at GF from November 11-16. Today is my 60 day ADR window, and the systems is only letting me book meals from November 9-11. I was under the impression that I could book all my meals starting today, and I'm not sure what to do?

Any advice? Or was I mistaken in thinking that I could book meals for the full duration of our trip?

 

[RuntheMouse]

Hi Disfriends!

I have a split stay coming up. DH and I are staying at BW from November 9-11 and then we are staying at GF from November 11-16. Today is my 60 day ADR window, and the systems is only letting me book meals from November 9-11. I was under the impression that I could book all my meals starting today, and I'm not sure what to do?

Any advice? Or was I mistaken in thinking that I could book meals for the full duration of our trip?

Split stays have multiple booking days. You can book your GF ADRs 60 days from that check-in. LLBooking is for entire length of stay even with split stays.

 

[Little E]

@RuntheMouse Thank you so much for your post...this is really helpful info! I'm thinking I got the ADR booking window and LL info mixed up. I thought I could book ADRs for my entire stay like I can book LL for my entire stay. I'll set my alarm again two days from now to hopefully snag my other dining reservations.

 

[Penguins9192091617]

@Little E If you call in, the phone CM will be able to “link” your 2nd reservation in the background to your first stay, and they will be able to book your ADR’s for the 2nd leg of your trip.

I just did this a few weeks ago. Just make sure you have all your ADR’s for the 2nd leg of your trip ready to go to provide to the CM.

 

[Little E]

@Penguins9192091617 I called WDW this am and they told me I was out of luck! No one offered to do this for me. My two trips are linked in MDE. When I call back, what do I need to ask/say to the CM I speak with?

Edit to add: I just called WDW again, and again they told me I was out of luck. I need to book my remaining ADRs when my second 60 day window opens in a couple days. @Penguins9192091617 I think you got some serious pixie dust!

 

[Penguins9192091617]

@Penguins9192091617 I called WDW this am and they told me I was out of luck! No one offered to do this for me. My two trips are linked in MDE. When I call back, what do I need to ask/say to the CM I speak with?

Did you call the Dining Reservation line?

I called 407-939-3463 and they were happily able to do it.

 

[Little E]

Did you call the Dining Reservation line?

I called 407-939-3463 and they were happily able to do it.

Yep. I called Disney Dining twice this am, and got the same response both times...two reservations means two ADR dining windows. Because I'm DVC, I even called DVC Member Services, and they also said the same thing. I think you got some awesome pixie dust!

 

[Memorymakerfor4]

My understanding (and I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong), is that the poster above got a little pixie dust and that's not normal protocol for dining. This came up a few years ago on the DVC boards because I think it did use to be possible to call in and do that, but they stopped sometime around Covid.

**Just saw you posted that you called as I was finishing up typing.

 

[Little E]

@Memorymakerfor4 Thanks for confirming my suspicions of pixie dust. Yay for @Penguins9192091617! I'll set my alarm again and log in right at 7 am for my new ADR window later this week and hope for the best. I'm not worried about most of my ADRs, but I'm starting to sweat a little about snagging brunch at Topolino's Terrace. We want a late Saturday morning brunch, and I know it's a really hard reservation to get. I was so hoping to have a shot at getting it this am.

 

[Penguins9192091617]

My apologies about providing the wrong info! I had no idea that it was not a common practice/protocol.

 

[Sherlee]

I have to agree with Penguins. I have a split stay end of October and WDW-DINE was able to book my entire week two weeks ago. I just had to provide both confirmation numbers, was put on a brief hold while she got authorization, and we went through the week. I called back two hours later to make a couple of changes and went through the same process. One note, even though the ADR's were in my MDE, I could not modify them until I was 60 days out from my second half of my stay.

Edited to add: maybe it is because it is a DVC res and can't be linked?

 

[Simba's Mom]

Those are egrets! They're related to herons.

Edited to add: maybe it is because it is a DVC res and can't be linked?

My understanding (I'm DVC also) is that it used to be possible, maybe DVC did link the reservations, but last year, it wasn't allowed (at least not for my split stay), so I don't expect for my January split stay either. Supposedly that's one of the changes since COVID (that you could book ADRs for the entire stay, even though it was at 2 different hotels), but since last year was my first split stay since COVID shut-down, I don't know if that's one of those things that went away with COVID and never came back.

 

[leebee]

Hi Disfriends!

I have a split stay coming up. DH and I are staying at BW from November 9-11 and then we are staying at GF from November 11-16. Today is my 60 day ADR window, and the systems is only letting me book meals from November 9-11. I was under the impression that I could book all my meals starting today, and I'm not sure what to do?

Any advice? Or was I mistaken in thinking that I could book meals for the full duration of our trip?

We are doing a split stay at the same time you are! We are at CSR until the 11th and then ASSp until the 16th. It was pretty funny to look at the thread and see my travel dates!

 

[kylenne]

My understanding (I'm DVC also) is that it used to be possible, maybe DVC did link the reservations, but last year, it wasn't allowed (at least not for my split stay), so I don't expect for my January split stay either. Supposedly that's one of the changes since COVID (that you could book ADRs for the entire stay, even though it was at 2 different hotels), but since last year was my first split stay since COVID shut-down, I don't know if that's one of those things that went away with COVID and never came back.

I can’t speak to DVC stays but for regular hotel side split stays pre COVID it was hit or miss whether or not you could book ADRs for length of trip. You were supposed to be able to, and I distinctly remember doing so, but sometimes it would break for a while, then come back, then break, etc. Covid is when it seemed to go away permanently outside of these weird reported exception cases with people calling.

 

[wdwfan94]

Hi Disfriends!

I have a split stay coming up. DH and I are staying at BW from November 9-11 and then we are staying at GF from November 11-16. Today is my 60 day ADR window, and the systems is only letting me book meals from November 9-11. I was under the impression that I could book all my meals starting today, and I'm not sure what to do?

Any advice? Or was I mistaken in thinking that I could book meals for the full duration of our trip?

Tip: in this situation book a single stay that overlaps both parts of your split stay. In your example just book any Disney resort for the dates November 9-16 and cancel the resort stay after securing your ADRs.

This will cause the system to allow booking for both parts of your split stay.