The NEW Official November 2010 Countdown & Planning Thread ~ Come join us! (Part 1)

[lakepaige]

I couldn't book LTT online earlier today, either, and it wasn't even an MVMCP night. I guess I'll call.


My ADRs are almost complete. I didn't really have everything ready to go on my ADR day, but I like how things are working out.

So far I have:

'Ohana
Crystal Palace
Best Friends Breakfast w/ Lilo and Stitch
LeCellier
Les Chefs de France
Tony's (I'd rather this be LTT)
Fantasmic Dinner Pkg at Mama Melrose's
Donald's Safari Breakfast
LeCellier again (may change)
Boma

I just need to do a little more tweaking and I'll be all set.

 

[lakepaige]

Oh, and I forgot...

I booked at CBR for our same dates. Now my name won't have a big ? next to it on the first page of our thread!

 

[sjs314]

Thanks for the tip! Even though I haven't bought tickets yet I just called, and the woman asked nothing about whether or not we had MVMCP tickets. Asked for a 5:45 at LTT, got a 6:30 - we'll take it! Might hang on to the Plaza ressie for a bit in case we decide 6:30 is later than we want to eat, but I'm glad to know we've got it!

My ADR day is tomorrow, just wondering what day did you make a ressie for LTI for? I already have my tickets for MVMCP for Nov 8th and wondering if I will have trouble getting a ressie for dinner after reading you had to take a 6:30 ressie

 

[CrazyaboutGoofy]

I'm so jealous! I want one!!! I hope this is a sign of things to come! FD would save us $1370 or something crazy like that. I'm happy for you! But still really jealous.

Make sure you created a profile on WDW website. Then start booking a reservation, but save the offer. I also picked other dates around when we are going and saved those offers too. Every once in awhile, I go on WDW website and change my offers to different dates. I did this for my husband and my mom. My husband also got a pin via email this morning. I hope it works for you, like it did for me

BTW - the email comes from Disney Destinations

 

[lizzyb5280]

My ADR day is tomorrow, just wondering what day did you make a ressie for LTI for? I already have my tickets for MVMCP for Nov 8th and wondering if I will have trouble getting a ressie for dinner after reading you had to take a 6:30 ressie

My ADR is for 11/11. I just tried back again to see if I could get an earlier time (closer to 5), and all she had was a 4:35, so I opted to stick with the 6:30. Now I wished I had called at 6am (I'm in central time) when the phone lines opened! After all, I was still up from making my online ADRs at 5! If I were you, I'd make the rest of my ressies online at 6am Eastern, then hit the phone lines when they open an hour later to try for a decent time at LTT.

 

[ntheory]

Sent my email off on Friday with my ADR choices. Got an email before 7 yesterday that I have all of them!! Woohoo!!!!! Can't wait!!


One of my ressies was for the Castle on MVMCP on the 8th. No issues getting it at all. 5:35, I think.



Anyone know if the doors at the Polynesian are metal?????

 

[sjs314]

My ADR is for 11/11. I just tried back again to see if I could get an earlier time (closer to 5), and all she had was a 4:35, so I opted to stick with the 6:30. Now I wished I had called at 6am (I'm in central time) when the phone lines opened! After all, I was still up from making my online ADRs at 5! If I were you, I'd make the rest of my ressies online at 6am Eastern, then hit the phone lines when they open an hour later to try for a decent time at LTT.

Thank You and Yes that sounds like a plan, if I can't get a decent time I will just go with our 1st plan of eating Boma's at the resort before heading over to MK

 

[lizzyb5280]

Thank You and Yes that sounds like a plan, if I can't get a decent time I will just go with our 1st plan of eating Boma's at the resort before heading over to MK

Okay, scratch what I just told you! Something told me to try again online, and despite the fact that the CM on the phone didn't have anything, I got a 5:30p ADR on Nov 11! Woo-hoo! Will now cancel the 5:40 Plaza and 6:30 LTT. I am beyond happy right now.

Oh, and for your sake, I checked out Nov 8. Not sure of your group size, but I can tell you that at this time they had a 5:30p slot open on the 8th for our group of three had we wanted it.

 

[sjs314]

Okay, scratch what I just told you! Something told me to try again online, and despite the fact that the CM on the phone didn't have anything, I got a 5:30p ADR on Nov 11! Woo-hoo! Will now cancel the 5:40 Plaza and 6:30 LTT. I am beyond happy right now.

Oh, and for your sake, I checked out Nov 8. Not sure of your group size, but I can tell you that at this time they had a 5:30p slot open on the 8th for our group of three had we wanted it.

Hopefully online booking will be working when I call tomorrow morning (fingers crossed) I hate dealing with CM's sometimes
We are only a party of 2 so maybe just maybe I will get lucky

Thanks again and congrates on getting a new ressie time

 

[Nermel9]

Don't add me to the official list yet...but I think I'm going back again in November! It was such a great time to go last year that I don't think I can resist going again this year, and I already got the ok from my husband! I'm just having a hard time deciding which resort to stay at, I REALLY want to stay at WL, which is where we stayed last November, but I'd like to try to save money and do the smart thing, which would be staying at a mod. And I have no idea which mod to pick, they all look great! I'll let you all know once I book, should be in the next day or so!

 

[WAHkoMom]

Here's my funny ADR story.

I knew I had to go into Boston this morning for work, but I wanted to be on the phone at 7:00 am to make my ADRs (because that is what you do when you are 180 days out, right??!!)

So, I printed out the restaurants I wanted on the dates I wanted and drove to the train station parking lot earlier than usual, so I could be parked and ready to call in on my cell phone and make my ressies.

I pull in just after 7:00, so I'm a little tense to start with (and feeling slightly rediculous that I'm stressed about not calling in at 7 on the dot ) but I turn the radio off and take out my cell phone and my paper and go to dial 407 WDW-DINE. But I have a blackberry phone and the numbers don't have the traditional phone keys with the alphabet letters on them, so I don't know what the WDW-DINE translates to!

I pulled up the WDW website on my BB, but I don't have the touchscreen, so it's not easy to navigate. I know there is a footnote on one of the pages with both the letters and the numbers for the reservation line, but I can't scroll to it!! I'm getting really frustrated, and then my screen freezes. I can't escape, can't disconnect, can't turn the bleeping thing off, NOTHING! Don't the BB gods know I need to make my ADRs????

I now pull the battery out (which requires that I first take the plastic case off, which I haven't taken off for quite a while so it took some coaxing) as this is the only way I think I will be able to start over. While the phone is restarting, I flip my ressie paper over and draw a telephone keypad along with what I think the numbers are. Have I mentioned I've worked for the phone company for 23 years? Well, I have, and I knew there are no letters on the 1 or the 0 keys. So, this is how I (FINALLY) figured out the phone number for ADRs!!! Once I dialed the number and heard the pixie dust sound, I was so relieved!!

I hope that comes across as comical and frustrating as it really was for me this morning, because I was cursing and laughing at the same time.

I waited on hold for less than 4 minutes and had a very friendly CM who waited patiently while I fumbled to take the phone off speaker (I hadn't had a full cup of coffee yet) and she then proceeded to place the following reservations for me:

Chef Mickey's (6:30 pm)
Teppan Edo (6:30 pm)
Mama Melrose's (5:25 pm)
California Grill (7:35 pm)
Supercalifragilistic breakfast (9:00 am)

Other than Mama Melrose's, I got all the timeslots I was looking for, so I'm super happy!

The CM asked if we were celebrating any special occassions, and I told her about our 15th wedding anniversary, which she noted for us.

At this point, the only thing still up in the air about is MVMCP, because I'm not sure if the kids resally want to do it, and it's a good chunk of money that we can use for other things.

Good luck to the rest of you with your ADRs!

 

[ksueboo]

WAHkoMom! That's quite a story! Glad it all worked out in the end!

 

[Rootskate]

Here's my funny ADR story.

I knew I had to go into Boston this morning for work, but I wanted to be on the phone at 7:00 am to make my ADRs (because that is what you do when you are 180 days out, right??!!)

So, I printed out the restaurants I wanted on the dates I wanted and drove to the train station parking lot earlier than usual, so I could be parked and ready to call in on my cell phone and make my ressies.

I pull in just after 7:00, so I'm a little tense to start with (and feeling slightly rediculous that I'm stressed about not calling in at 7 on the dot ) but I turn the radio off and take out my cell phone and my paper and go to dial 407 WDW-DINE. But I have a blackberry phone and the numbers don't have the traditional phone keys with the alphabet letters on them, so I don't know what the WDW-DINE translates to!

I pulled up the WDW website on my BB, but I don't have the touchscreen, so it's not easy to navigate. I know there is a footnote on one of the pages with both the letters and the numbers for the reservation line, but I can't scroll to it!! I'm getting really frustrated, and then my screen freezes. I can't escape, can't disconnect, can't turn the bleeping thing off, NOTHING! Don't the BB gods know I need to make my ADRs????

I now pull the battery out (which requires that I first take the plastic case off, which I haven't taken off for quite a while so it took some coaxing) as this is the only way I think I will be able to start over. While the phone is restarting, I flip my ressie paper over and draw a telephone keypad along with what I think the numbers are. Have I mentioned I've worked for the phone company for 23 years? Well, I have, and I knew there are no letters on the 1 or the 0 keys. So, this is how I (FINALLY) figured out the phone number for ADRs!!! Once I dialed the number and heard the pixie dust sound, I was so relieved!!

I hope that comes across as comical and frustrating as it really was for me this morning, because I was cursing and laughing at the same time.

I waited on hold for less than 4 minutes and had a very friendly CM who waited patiently while I fumbled to take the phone off speaker (I hadn't had a full cup of coffee yet) and she then proceeded to place the following reservations for me:

Chef Mickey's (6:30 pm)
Teppan Edo (6:30 pm)
Mama Melrose's (5:25 pm)
California Grill (7:35 pm)
Supercalifragilistic breakfast (9:00 am)

Other than Mama Melrose's, I got all the timeslots I was looking for, so I'm super happy!

The CM asked if we were celebrating any special occassions, and I told her about our 15th wedding anniversary, which she noted for us.

At this point, the only thing still up in the air about is MVMCP, because I'm not sure if the kids resally want to do it, and it's a good chunk of money that we can use for other things.

Good luck to the rest of you with your ADRs!

That is priceless! Sounds like something that would happen to me!

 

[sjs314]

Here's my funny ADR story.

I knew I had to go into Boston this morning for work, but I wanted to be on the phone at 7:00 am to make my ADRs (because that is what you do when you are 180 days out, right??!!)

So, I printed out the restaurants I wanted on the dates I wanted and drove to the train station parking lot earlier than usual, so I could be parked and ready to call in on my cell phone and make my ressies.

I pull in just after 7:00, so I'm a little tense to start with (and feeling slightly rediculous that I'm stressed about not calling in at 7 on the dot ) but I turn the radio off and take out my cell phone and my paper and go to dial 407 WDW-DINE. But I have a blackberry phone and the numbers don't have the traditional phone keys with the alphabet letters on them, so I don't know what the WDW-DINE translates to!

I pulled up the WDW website on my BB, but I don't have the touchscreen, so it's not easy to navigate. I know there is a footnote on one of the pages with both the letters and the numbers for the reservation line, but I can't scroll to it!! I'm getting really frustrated, and then my screen freezes. I can't escape, can't disconnect, can't turn the bleeping thing off, NOTHING! Don't the BB gods know I need to make my ADRs????

I now pull the battery out (which requires that I first take the plastic case off, which I haven't taken off for quite a while so it took some coaxing) as this is the only way I think I will be able to start over. While the phone is restarting, I flip my ressie paper over and draw a telephone keypad along with what I think the numbers are. Have I mentioned I've worked for the phone company for 23 years? Well, I have, and I knew there are no letters on the 1 or the 0 keys. So, this is how I (FINALLY) figured out the phone number for ADRs!!! Once I dialed the number and heard the pixie dust sound, I was so relieved!!

I hope that comes across as comical and frustrating as it really was for me this morning, because I was cursing and laughing at the same time.

I waited on hold for less than 4 minutes and had a very friendly CM who waited patiently while I fumbled to take the phone off speaker (I hadn't had a full cup of coffee yet) and she then proceeded to place the following reservations for me:

Chef Mickey's (6:30 pm)
Teppan Edo (6:30 pm)
Mama Melrose's (5:25 pm)
California Grill (7:35 pm)
Supercalifragilistic breakfast (9:00 am)

Other than Mama Melrose's, I got all the timeslots I was looking for, so I'm super happy!

The CM asked if we were celebrating any special occassions, and I told her about our 15th wedding anniversary, which she noted for us.

At this point, the only thing still up in the air about is MVMCP, because I'm not sure if the kids resally want to do it, and it's a good chunk of money that we can use for other things.

Good luck to the rest of you with your ADRs!

I would have been done for when there were no letters on the phone , glad it all worked out in the end

Today was my ADR day and I could not sleep , woke up at 2:25 turned on the computer and played with the reservation system one last time, took dog out, made coffee finally it was 6 am.
I was able to get everything we wanted but I did panic when the system said I had to check out you could only have 10 saved reservations in your cart checked out and went back in to add my final 3.

I had to switch my days for Le Cellier and Biergarten since there were only late ressies for Le Cellier so took one for the nite Epcot has EMH since we will probally be there later. Think I will keep checking to see if I can snag an earlier ressie for Le Cellier , I don't want to be eating and miss Illuminations even though I plan on seeing them the night before.

Here's my list

Mon Nov 8
Liberty Tree Inn 5:45pm (MVMCP) DH & Myself
HDDR 9:30pm- DS and wife

Tue Nov 9
Boma 9:00am
Biergartem 5:05pm

Wed Nov 10
Boma 9:00am
Le Cellier 8:15pm

Thur Nov 11
Boma 9:00am
50's PrimeTime 4:30pm

Fri Nov 12
Boma 9:00am
Fultons 2:20pm
Boma 8:30pm

Sat
Boma 7:30am
Crystal Palace 11:55am

 

[lizzyb5280]

Great list! (And I'm glad to see you were able to get LTT without any trouble!)

 

[sjs314]

Great list! (And I'm glad to see you were able to get LTT without any trouble!)

Thanks ! I am happy with the time too, I did not want to eat too early if we are going to be staying late that night.

 

[Amirah95]

What would have been so cool is there was an MVMCP the week of Nov. 1. To be able to do MNSSHP and MVMCP would have been great! Oh well.

 

[weHEARTmickey]

I would have been done for when there were no letters on the phone , glad it all worked out in the end

Today was my ADR day and I could not sleep , woke up at 2:25 turned on the computer and played with the reservation system one last time, took dog out, made coffee finally it was 6 am.
I was able to get everything we wanted but I did panic when the system said I had to check out you could only have 10 saved reservations in your cart checked out and went back in to add my final 3.

I had to switch my days for Le Cellier and Biergarten since there were only late ressies for Le Cellier so took one for the nite Epcot has EMH since we will probally be there later. Think I will keep checking to see if I can snag an earlier ressie for Le Cellier , I don't want to be eating and miss Illuminations even though I plan on seeing them the night before.

Here's my list

Mon Nov 8
Liberty Tree Inn 5:45pm (MVMCP) DH & Myself
HDDR 9:30pm- DS and wife

Tue Nov 9
Boma 9:00am
Biergartem 5:05pm

Wed Nov 10
Boma 9:00am
Le Cellier 8:15pm

Thur Nov 11
Boma 9:00am
50's PrimeTime 4:30pm

Fri Nov 12
Boma 9:00am
Fultons 2:20pm
Boma 8:30pm

Sat
Boma 7:30am
Crystal Palace 11:55am

Just goin' on a hunch here, but I think you might like Boma for breakfast?

 

[RobinHoodGirl]

My ADR day is Friday and at 7am is when I'm getting ready for work/commuting (and I suck at waking up early ).

I'm just getting really nervous about getting Le Celler for Nov 12th (it's my birthday and I need to eat here again!). Someone put my mind at ease and doing ADRs at 9am that day will still give me a chance at a reservation for that day.

Also I'm going to try doing it online... but it seems scary. Is it? And can I add reservations at a later date?

This may be the most stressed out I've been planning this trip so far!! Thank goodness for Dis to help me. I love you guys

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Don't add me to the official list yet...but I think I'm going back again in November! It was such a great time to go last year that I don't think I can resist going again this year, and I already got the ok from my husband! I'm just having a hard time deciding which resort to stay at, I REALLY want to stay at WL, which is where we stayed last November, but I'd like to try to save money and do the smart thing, which would be staying at a mod. And I have no idea which mod to pick, they all look great! I'll let you all know once I book, should be in the next day or so!

Good luck! Let us know!

ps -- the mods are great, we love CBR and POR!!

Here's my funny ADR story.

I knew I had to go into Boston this morning for work, but I wanted to be on the phone at 7:00 am to make my ADRs (because that is what you do when you are 180 days out, right??!!)

So, I printed out the restaurants I wanted on the dates I wanted and drove to the train station parking lot earlier than usual, so I could be parked and ready to call in on my cell phone and make my ressies.

I pull in just after 7:00, so I'm a little tense to start with (and feeling slightly rediculous that I'm stressed about not calling in at 7 on the dot ) but I turn the radio off and take out my cell phone and my paper and go to dial 407 WDW-DINE. But I have a blackberry phone and the numbers don't have the traditional phone keys with the alphabet letters on them, so I don't know what the WDW-DINE translates to!

I pulled up the WDW website on my BB, but I don't have the touchscreen, so it's not easy to navigate. I know there is a footnote on one of the pages with both the letters and the numbers for the reservation line, but I can't scroll to it!! I'm getting really frustrated, and then my screen freezes. I can't escape, can't disconnect, can't turn the bleeping thing off, NOTHING! Don't the BB gods know I need to make my ADRs????

I now pull the battery out (which requires that I first take the plastic case off, which I haven't taken off for quite a while so it took some coaxing) as this is the only way I think I will be able to start over. While the phone is restarting, I flip my ressie paper over and draw a telephone keypad along with what I think the numbers are. Have I mentioned I've worked for the phone company for 23 years? Well, I have, and I knew there are no letters on the 1 or the 0 keys. So, this is how I (FINALLY) figured out the phone number for ADRs!!! Once I dialed the number and heard the pixie dust sound, I was so relieved!!

I hope that comes across as comical and frustrating as it really was for me this morning, because I was cursing and laughing at the same time.

I waited on hold for less than 4 minutes and had a very friendly CM who waited patiently while I fumbled to take the phone off speaker (I hadn't had a full cup of coffee yet) and she then proceeded to place the following reservations for me:

Chef Mickey's (6:30 pm)
Teppan Edo (6:30 pm)
Mama Melrose's (5:25 pm)
California Grill (7:35 pm)
Supercalifragilistic breakfast (9:00 am)

Other than Mama Melrose's, I got all the timeslots I was looking for, so I'm super happy!

The CM asked if we were celebrating any special occassions, and I told her about our 15th wedding anniversary, which she noted for us.

At this point, the only thing still up in the air about is MVMCP, because I'm not sure if the kids resally want to do it, and it's a good chunk of money that we can use for other things.

Good luck to the rest of you with your ADRs!

OMG that is hilarious!!!

I'm so glad everything worked out in the end!

Here's my list

Mon Nov 8
Liberty Tree Inn 5:45pm (MVMCP) DH & Myself
HDDR 9:30pm- DS and wife

Tue Nov 9
Boma 9:00am
Biergartem 5:05pm

Wed Nov 10
Boma 9:00am
Le Cellier 8:15pm

Thur Nov 11
Boma 9:00am
50's PrimeTime 4:30pm

Fri Nov 12
Boma 9:00am
Fultons 2:20pm
Boma 8:30pm

Sat
Boma 7:30am
Crystal Palace 11:55am

Looks great!

My ADR day is Friday and at 7am is when I'm getting ready for work/commuting (and I suck at waking up early ).

I'm just getting really nervous about getting Le Celler for Nov 12th (it's my birthday and I need to eat here again!). Someone put my mind at ease and doing ADRs at 9am that day will still give me a chance at a reservation for that day.

Also I'm going to try doing it online... but it seems scary. Is it? And can I add reservations at a later date?

This may be the most stressed out I've been planning this trip so far!! Thank goodness for Dis to help me. I love you guys

In-case you didn't know, you can do it at 6:00am online!! It's so simple and much faster than calling. (and not scary at all!) And yes, you can book more ADR's later and cancel some later if needed. Good luck!