Split stays and ADRs?

[Bucketfoot]

We are doing our first split stay in Jan/Feb and my wife recently learned that when booking ADRs 60 +10 does not apply across a split stay.

How do you guys deal with this, are there any good ways to be able to work with/around this limitation?

 

[BamaGuy44]

We are doing our first split stay in Jan/Feb and my wife recently learned that when booking ADRs 60 +10 does not apply across a split stay.

How do you guys deal with this, are there any good ways to be able to work with/around this limitation?

In the past it was often possible to call Disney Dining and they would treat it as one stay. Not sure if they still do it, and of course you have to wait until they open at 9am, so it wouldn't work for those "battle it out at 4am" ADRs.

I've never done it myself, but people have been known to make a reservation for the same week somewhere else (All-stars, etc) then cancel after the ADRs are made. Apparently the ADRs will remain in place after the hotel is cancelled.

With how competitive ADRs have become, they really should not penalize us for split stays, very frustrating.

 

[thecbco]

In previous years I was successful by calling Disney Dining, and they would treat the split stay as one, allowing me to make dining reservations for the entire time over the phone. However, for this past year, that hasn't been the case. My suggestion would be to try to book your most desired dining ressie for the last few days of your first stay. Then if you can't snag it, you'd be able to try again when the window opens for the next part of your split stay. Good luck!

 

[chicagodisfan]

I wouldn’t stress about it too much. We had a split stay in March and there were a bunch of reservations that I couldn’t get at 60 days +. With the window being shortened to 60 days and the new cancellation policy, people are changing and cancelling things all the time. I modified our Storybook Dining from a late dinner to a much better time the day of. And I modified our Space 220 lunch three times the day before. The dining finders were really helpful with the hard to get ADRs.

 

[🍀TwinsMom]

We also always do split stays and are bit by the ADR issue. Honestly, it IS getting much better, as chicagodisfan said. It's super annoying though. As DVC, we're all pretty much long-term, die-hard planners, so I think we all want this stuff buttoned up way ahead of time, LOL, but it does seem to always work out. The new cancellation policy is very helpful, too.

 

[Bucketfoot]

Time to ask a few more things here.

If we were to book a parallel stay at another resort and use that reservation for our ADRs, should we hold off on linking our park reservations to our DVC stay until after we cancel the hotel reservation?

Just wondering if anyone who has experience doing this is aware of any gotchas that we need to look out for!

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

Time to ask a few more things here.

If we were to book a parallel stay at another resort and use that reservation for our ADRs, should we hold off on linking our park reservations to our DVC stay until after we cancel the hotel reservation?

Just wondering if anyone who has experience doing this is aware of any gotchas that we need to look out for!

You can select what hotel reservation to attach a park reservation to. (We’ve sometimes held multiple hotel reservations when we’re not sure which one we’re going to stay at). There’s no downside to having multiple other than tying up funds. If you end up cancelling the hotel reservation the park reservation is attached to though you will lose the ability to modify it, so you should cancel it and rebook it with the correct hotel reservation.

 

[DaveNan]

You can select what hotel reservation to attach a park reservation to. (We’ve sometimes held multiple hotel reservations when we’re not sure which one we’re going to stay at). There’s no downside to having multiple other than tying up funds. If you end up cancelling the hotel reservation the park reservation is attached to though you will lose the ability to modify it, so you should cancel it and rebook it with the correct hotel reservation.

That’s for park reservations. For ADR, they are not tied to a particular room reservation. You can cancel the second, longer and not split reservation once you are in your 60 day window with no issues.

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

That’s for park reservations. For ADR, they are not tied to a particular room reservation. You can cancel the second, longer and not split reservation once you are in your 60 day window with no issues.

Correct, the question I was responding to specifically referred to park reservations. For ADR’s, you don’t lose the ADR if you cancel the resort reservation, even if you end up with no resort reservation. With that said, it’s really not hard to get ADR’s anymore the night before or even morning of, so I don’t know that it’s worth the effort to create a second resort reservation solely for the purpose of bridging a split stay.

 

[Bucketfoot]

That’s for park reservations. For ADR, they are not tied to a particular room reservation. You can cancel the second, longer and not split reservation once you are in your 60 day window with no issues.

Even though it appears that the ADR is not actually tied to a reservation, we just figured to be safe we would plan to cancel the extra reservation when the last day of our stay would be ADR eligible.