We're not free diners but ARE coincidently going on August 16. Free dining always USED to start the week or so after so this was the first time I had to make ADR's at the same time. WHAT a pain. I was literally on the phone for 1 hr. 48 minutes. The biggest problem for me this go-around was that DS wants to see Fantasmic (again). I could do without it but.... Anyway, now that they're only doing the show 2-3 times / week it's super extra hard to get a Fantasmic pkg. By the time I got thru yest. morning there was only 1 time left at only 1 restaurant for only 1 day of the week we're there.
NOT the restaurant we wanted (Brown Derby) and NOT the time we wanted (3:40). I don't know if we'll keep it or not. I had called last week for pricing for the pkg. at the various participating restaurants and last week was told $46.99 pp for Brown Derby and yesterday was told $50.05 pp.
We've never eaten at the Brown Derby but I cannot imagine ANY meal being worth that much. Esp. for DS who's now 12 but will probably eat from the children's selections.
If I can talk him out of seeing the show again without a hissy fit I will.
ALSO, BTW, I'm a double booker and freely admit it and here's why. I HATE, HATE, HATE being forced to make ADR's so far ahead and hate having to commit to being in a certain park at a certain time months in advance. If they would hold some slots back to give out at say 2 weeks I'd have a much better idea what I really want and it would eliminate this mess. We want some flexibility with our plans and like to be a little spontaneous. We usually only do about 3 TS meals over a week so I made 3 reservations at San Angel Inn (1 for lunch and 2 for dinner, all on diff. days 'cuz I don't know yet where / when we will be). I
WILL call back and cancel the 2 that we don't want once we know what we're doing. Likewise, I made 3 ressies for Tony's Town Square for diff. days because I don't know yet what are plan is going to be and I made 2 ressies for lunch at Tusker House. I have all of the Disney phone numbers programmed into my cell (Dining,
DCL,
DVC etc.) and I
WILL call and cancel what we don't want to keep out of those - there will be someone who didn't know they needed to call 90 days ahead who will be calling at the last minute who will get lucky and will get whatever I cancel. Making ADR's was never my idea of fun and double booking is what they get for forcing them on people if they want to eat a TS meal - especially since the invention of the dining plan, which we don't do. We just want to eat what we want, when we want, where we want. Double booking is a pain in my butt too and is not how I prefer to do it. But the dining plan has forced me to plan in this manner.
I don't even get the free dining! (Not that I want it.)
my clock doesn't have a 9:85 on it...That might have been this persons problem.
. You should see me on the day that I need to call DVC for my annual NYE reservation. Let's just say that "practice makes perfect", LOL.
So I want to be blame someone, maybe the school board or Disney for offering Free Dining while the children in Florida are still on summer break or Disney for bring the ADRs back to 90 days or myself for not wanting to have my children miss too much school ...well, not myself because school is important....but any of the other ones will do.
Some dream huh?
