the ADR thing is frustrating... until!

[TNS_Tinkerbell]

Back story, never been to WDW, am a DL pro. Never made ADR using the online, I have done phone DL rez's but its different, and was for Napa Rose.

On Sunday, I reached my 180 day mark and really, really wanted Cinderella's.
I go and select my date, and wham not available. Really, I did the right thing 180 days in advance?!

I try again later in the day and same message... later at night I realize we are staying on property and I see it gives me 10 days pre-booking...

Well, its 9pm PST and that's about 12am EST and so online is close.
I find out it is open at 6 am EST, which is 3 am my time.

SO what does a girl do?

Well my loving DD is sick with Croup and woke up at 1:25am this morning...
Well my DW and I, cuddled and comforted her and at 2:47am I decided to try my luck for the 3am starting time.

At 2:50am (Which is should be 5:50am EST) it worked, I logged in, completed my confirmation number for my disney hotel rez, and was allowed to book.

Cinderella by the way, was completly booked... this is crazy we are going in off time in September! AND ITS BOOKED SOLID, more than 180 days in advance, how is this possible?!?!?

We did however manage to score a SATURDAY night dinner rez, at 6:55pm for our last night in the park, I even paid up full to secure it.

So I hope this is as magical of a place for dinner, as my DW and I are celebrating our Honeymoon/Anniversary (We were married Sept. 10 2012) but have been saving and planning this dream honeymoon of ours...

I guess I needed to rant, because I can not believe how frustrating the whole ADR thing is... how do people do this on the phone????? Craziness.

At least we got the Cinderella Royal Table and a bunch of other places on our list... yes, it is was 3:00am PST, but in the end, it was worth the 20 minutes of sleep deprivation. Or I hope so, cause I pre-paid and its not cheap for that one dinner! LOL!

So cheers, here to a long 179 more days to get to WDW.. and 187 days until the $133, dinner at Cinderella and her castle!



Now, all I need is a little sleep and I will be on my way!

 

[davedmaine]

Back story, never been to WDW, am a DL pro. Never made ADR using the online, I have done phone DL rez's but its different, and was for Napa Rose.

On Sunday, I reached my 180 day mark and really, really wanted Cinderella's.
I go and select my date, and wham not available. Really, I did the right thing 180 days in advance?!

I try again later in the day and same message... later at night I realize we are staying on property and I see it gives me 10 days pre-booking...

Well, its 9pm PST and that's about 12am EST and so online is close.
I find out it is open at 6 am EST, which is 3 am my time.

SO what does a girl do?

Well my loving DD is sick with Croup and woke up at 1:25am this morning...
Well my DW and I, cuddled and comforted her and at 2:47am I decided to try my luck for the 3am starting time.

At 2:50am (Which is should be 5:50am EST) it worked, I logged in, completed my confirmation number for my disney hotel rez, and was allowed to book.

Cinderella by the way, was completly booked... this is crazy we are going in off time in September! AND ITS BOOKED SOLID, more than 180 days in advance, how is this possible?!?!?

We did however manage to score a SATURDAY night dinner rez, at 6:55pm for our last night in the park, I even paid up full to secure it.

So I hope this is as magical of a place for dinner, as my DW and I are celebrating our Honeymoon/Anniversary (We were married Sept. 10 2012) but have been saving and planning this dream honeymoon of ours...

I guess I needed to rant, because I can not believe how frustrating the whole ADR thing is... how do people do this on the phone????? Craziness.

At least we got the Cinderella Royal Table and a bunch of other places on our list... yes, it is was 3:00am PST, but in the end, it was worth the 20 minutes of sleep deprivation. Or I hope so, cause I pre-paid and its not cheap for that one dinner! LOL!

So cheers, here to a long 179 more days to get to WDW.. and 187 days until the $133, dinner at Cinderella and her castle!



Now, all I need is a little sleep and I will be on my way!

Nothing is completely booked at the 180 day mark; a lot of times, the bookings don't open for restaurants that early. Also, don't stress -- you have plenty of time. Sounds like you fell under the 180-day hysteria that a lot of people here suffer from.

 

[wdw4rfam]

Nothing is completely booked at the 180 day mark; a lot of times, the bookings don't open for restaurants that early. Also, don't stress -- you have plenty of time. Sounds like you fell under the 180-day hysteria that a lot of people here suffer from.

Yes, people dont realize that some places dont "open up" for ADR's on time at the 180 mark. Sometimes its just a computer thing, sometimes they dont open up untill the next day, etc. When we went to book ours at 180, it was telling me no availabilty for 3 of the ones I was trying. I called and they told me they didnt open up to try back the next day. Sure enough, all were available.

 

[TNS_Tinkerbell]

Nothing is completely booked at the 180 day mark; a lot of times, the bookings don't open for restaurants that early. Also, don't stress -- you have plenty of time. Sounds like you fell under the 180-day hysteria that a lot of people here suffer from.

LOL! Maybe, but when I read everywhere to book at the 180 + 10 day mark, and this is our first trip... I wanted to be prepared.

Well not too prepared, as we only booked one table service per day... this is the reason we decided against the dining plan, it was too much food.

We share, and quite frankly, are excited about Epoct and trying different foods from around the world.

Quite literally!

 

[froggy922]

Back story, never been to WDW, am a DL pro. Never made ADR using the online, I have done phone DL rez's but its different, and was for Napa Rose.

On Sunday, I reached my 180 day mark and really, really wanted Cinderella's.
I go and select my date, and wham not available. Really, I did the right thing 180 days in advance?!

I try again later in the day and same message... later at night I realize we are staying on property and I see it gives me 10 days pre-booking...

Well, its 9pm PST and that's about 12am EST and so online is close.
I find out it is open at 6 am EST, which is 3 am my time.

SO what does a girl do?



Well my loving DD is sick with Croup and woke up at 1:25am this morning...
Well my DW and I, cuddled and comforted her and at 2:47am I decided to try my luck for the 3am starting time.

At 2:50am (Which is should be 5:50am EST) it worked, I logged in, completed my confirmation number for my disney hotel rez, and was allowed to book.

Cinderella by the way, was completly booked... this is crazy we are going in off time in September! AND ITS BOOKED SOLID, more than 180 days in advance, how is this possible?!?!?

We did however manage to score a SATURDAY night dinner rez, at 6:55pm for our last night in the park, I even paid up full to secure it.

So I hope this is as magical of a place for dinner, as my DW and I are celebrating our Honeymoon/Anniversary (We were married Sept. 10 2012) but have been saving and planning this dream honeymoon of ours...

I guess I needed to rant, because I can not believe how frustrating the whole ADR thing is... how do people do this on the phone????? Craziness.

At least we got the Cinderella Royal Table and a bunch of other places on our list... yes, it is was 3:00am PST, but in the end, it was worth the 20 minutes of sleep deprivation. Or I hope so, cause I pre-paid and its not cheap for that one dinner! LOL!

So cheers, here to a long 179 more days to get to WDW.. and 187 days until the $133, dinner at Cinderella and her castle!



Now, all I need is a little sleep and I will be on my way!

I've heard a lot of chatter from some folks on these boards and others that I follow that they are also having problems getting an ADR for CRT. From what I have gathered, Disney has not "loaded" any tables available for booking after Sept. 4. Anyone who has been trying to book a table after Sept 4 is also getting that same message and when the call the CM, tell them to just keep calling back to check. Not sure what is going on with Disney's reservation for CRT, but keep trying. Good luck

 

[BabyCrazyKCmommy]

Yes we are having issues for Sept 10t seems to be the concensus that the system for some reason is not loaded for that day but is for days beyond as we have one for the 14th but really want the 10th since we are hoping its a MNSSHP day. Keep trying for the day you want, it always changes.