Today is "Reservation Day"!

[MainMom]

And another update. A ton of slots opened up in the last hour or two (maybe three). Now on the 31st, I'm doing lunch at Liberty Tree Tavern and dinner at Be Our Guest. I had multiple slots to choose from. I also added dinner on June 4th at the 50s Prime Time Cafe which was previously unavailable. Again, now I find multiple slots available. Someone populated a database with more slots.

But still no Space 220 on the 29th.

What time would you say they opened up and what time zone are you?

 

[Lloydian]

What time would you say they opened up and what time zone are you?

I'm in Arizona (which is MST, and this time of year, that matches PDT). At 9:30AM (12:30PM in Florida), I couldn't find anything. When I randomly went back at 2:30PM (5:30PM in Florida), I saw the openings. So somewhere in that 5-hour window, I think databases were populated. And when I searched yesterday multiple times, it matched my morning result today.

What happened was I had made a reservation yesterday for lunch at Liberty Tree Tavern. This morning, family members asked me to change it to Ohana since I found that opening, so I did. A few hours later, they suggested that maybe we should stay in the park and that I should go back to Liberty Tree Tavern. When I repeated my search I found multiple openings for Be Our Guest for lunch, so I expanded my search.

 

[MainMom]

I'm in Arizona (which is MST, and this time of year, that matches PDT). At 9:30AM (12:30PM in Florida), I couldn't find anything. When I randomly went back at 2:30PM (5:30PM in Florida), I saw the openings. So somewhere in that 5-hour window, I think databases were populated. And when I searched yesterday multiple times, it matched my morning result today.

What happened was I had made a reservation yesterday for lunch at Liberty Tree Tavern. This morning, family members asked me to change it to Ohana since I found that opening, so I did. A few hours later, they suggested that maybe we should stay in the park and that I should go back to Liberty Tree Tavern. When I repeated my search I found multiple openings for Be Our Guest for lunch, so I expanded my search.

Thank you! I make my ADR’s tomorrow and any info about possible drops is appreciated!

 

[PinkPixel]

Yeah, I ended up not getting much of what I wanted. My biggest problem appears to be that we're there for a week (5/28-6/5), but 6/1-6/3 are tied up with the Galactic Starcruiser. While I got reservations for Saturday the 4th, nothing I wanted in the 5/29-5/31 range was available. And I mean nothing. Not even flexibility would allow me to book Ohana or Be Our Guest, to say nothing of Space 220. That really surprised me, and I've been booking these vacations for decades now. I thought I was smarter.

Did you try the Galactic Starcruiser line? I’m wondering if they have ability to reserve beyond the website or not, they haven’t said explicitly one at or another.

 

[JiminyCricketNJ]

If I have a split stay, 6/10-6/13 at BLT and then 6/13-6/17 at Beach Club, can I make the entire week of dining reservations 60 days in advance? Or do I have to do the first stay 60 days out and then the second set 60 days before 6/13? I have never done a split stay so any help is appreciated! Also, is the time now 5 a.m. not 6 a.m.? (Somewhere on a thread, I throught I read people saying they tried right after midnight online and were able to make reservations?? ) TIA!!!

 

[Lou'sMommy]

If I have a split stay, 6/10-6/13 at BLT and then 6/13-6/17 at Beach Club, can I make the entire week of dining reservations 60 days in advance? Or do I have to do the first stay 60 days out and then the second set 60 days before 6/13? I have never done a split stay so any help is appreciated! Also, is the time now 5 a.m. not 6 a.m.? (Somewhere on a thread, I throught I read people saying they tried right after midnight online and were able to make reservations?? ) TIA!!!

I had a similar situation with a split stay at the Poly starting on 5/31 then Beach Club on 6/3. I was able to book the first four days (the days at Poly including check-in and check-out day) on 5/31 minus 60 (last Friday). Yesterday was 60 days before we check into the Beach Club, so I was able to book the reservations for the remainder of our trip then.

Both mornings I was at my computer by 4:50 am central time to try to make the reservations. On both days, I was unable to do so until 5:00 am - that is 6:00 eastern - not a minute earlier.

I had pretty good luck using the Chrome browser and multiple tabs on my pc. At one point, I started getting really weird error messages so I switched to my iPad and was able to finish up there. You might want to have multiple devices where you are logged in and ready just in case. Also, be sure that you have a credit card already associated with your Disney account so you don't have to enter that info when trying for the reservations.

It was a pain to get up so early twice and was something I didn't think about when booking our split stay. However, the good news is that I was able to get every reservation we wanted for our group of 5. That included BOG for dinner right on our first day! We also got Kona Cafe, Skipper's Canteen, Beaches and Cream, Cape May, Biergarten and Brown Derby.

Some of the times were not exactly perfect but were pretty close. I have been able to modify one of the times by using Touring Plans reservation finder.

Good luck getting your reservations!

 

[JiminyCricketNJ]

I had a similar situation with a split stay at the Poly starting on 5/31 then Beach Club on 6/3. I was able to book the first four days (the days at Poly including check-in and check-out day) on 5/31 minus 60 (last Friday). Yesterday was 60 days before we check into the Beach Club, so I was able to book the reservations for the remainder of our trip then.

Both mornings I was at my computer by 4:50 am central time to try to make the reservations. On both days, I was unable to do so until 5:00 am - that is 6:00 eastern - not a minute earlier.

I had pretty good luck using the Chrome browser and multiple tabs on my pc. At one point, I started getting really weird error messages so I switched to my iPad and was able to finish up there. You might want to have multiple devices where you are logged in and ready just in case. Also, be sure that you have a credit card already associated with your Disney account so you don't have to enter that info when trying for the reservations.

It was a pain to get up so early twice and was something I didn't think about when booking our split stay. However, the good news is that I was able to get every reservation we wanted for our group of 5. That included BOG for dinner right on our first day! We also got Kona Cafe, Skipper's Canteen, Beaches and Cream, Cape May, Biergarten and Brown Derby.

Some of the times were not exactly perfect but were pretty close. I have been able to modify one of the times by using Touring Plans reservation finder.

Good luck getting your reservations!

Thank you so much!! This is great information and really helpful! (BTW you have some awesome reservations; I hope I am half as lucky).
Have a wonderful trip!

 

[Lloydian]

Did you try the Galactic Starcruiser line? I’m wondering if they have ability to reserve beyond the website or not, they haven’t said explicitly one at or another.

That's an interesting idea. I did call them to add the Batuu Excursion Oga's Cantina visit to my trip, but it didn't occur to me to ask about anything else.

 

[PAdisMOM]

If I have a split stay, 6/10-6/13 at BLT and then 6/13-6/17 at Beach Club, can I make the entire week of dining reservations 60 days in advance? Or do I have to do the first stay 60 days out and then the second set 60 days before 6/13? I have never done a split stay so any help is appreciated! Also, is the time now 5 a.m. not 6 a.m.? (Somewhere on a thread, I throught I read people saying they tried right after midnight online and were able to make reservations?? ) TIA!!!

I just did my ADRs for a split stay yesterday. I had read a few comments where people said that they could book the first part on the app but if you call Guest services, they can book the rest of your stay over the phone. I thought I'd give it a try and it worked!! It has to be guest services-not Disney dining (although Disney dining transferred me to guest services when I asked if it could be done). I hope this helps

 

[JiminyCricketNJ]

I just did my ADRs for a split stay yesterday. I had read a few comments where people said that they could book the first part on the app but if you call Guest services, they can book the rest of your stay over the phone. I thought I'd give it a try and it worked!! It has to be guest services-not Disney dining (although Disney dining transferred me to guest services when I asked if it could be done). I hope this helps

Thank you!!

 

[Alex Baker]

I was up bright and early this morning to book dining reservations. It took about an hour with glitches and the dreaded Stitch ate this page but I was successful booking all my dining including Topolino's , Rose and Crown (will check back for fireworks pacakge), Trattoria al Forno and Beaches and Cream among others.

How about my fellow DISers? Anyone else book dining today for their upcoming trip?

Hello! Glad you got mostly what you wanted! What day of your trip is your Topolinos for? Did you get a good time?

 

[Gizmo74]

I just did my ADRs for a split stay yesterday. I had read a few comments where people said that they could book the first part on the app but if you call Guest services, they can book the rest of your stay over the phone. I thought I'd give it a try and it worked!! It has to be guest services-not Disney dining (although Disney dining transferred me to guest services when I asked if it could be done). I hope this helps

I wish I would have known this could be done. I am going Memorial Week and could not get some of the places I wanted by the time my second reservation started.

 

[ZerasPride]

Hello! Glad you got mostly what you wanted! What day of your trip is your Topolinos for? Did you get a good time?

I believe I started on reservation day with reserving Topolino's first since it was almost 10 days from our check in day and I had no problem scheduling a 10:00 breakfast time. It is the one reservation I am excited about the most!

 

[JiminyCricketNJ]

So this is my update on split stay dining reservations. I was able to reserve for 6/10-6/13 on the app at 6 a.m. Could not reserve for second half of my stay, so at 7 a.m. I called WDW DINE and waited until 8:55 (15 minute wait it said....LOL), spoke to a nice CM who looked up my 2 reservations and said she would transfer me to Guest Services since they had to make my reservations for 6/14 and beyond. She said it was an 8 minute wait. I was on hold until 10:30 (hour and a half) and it transferred to the survey and then dropped the line. Ugh....