What happens if not everyone comes to a dining reservation?

[Nicnicnic.nic]

I have a dining reservation for tonys restaurant in magic kingdom for myself, my husband, my daughter and my son. There is a chance that my husband and son will not make it in time (due to my son's nap time). Will there be a penalty fee if they don't come? I don't want to change the time of the reservation because I'm timing it around the parade which my daughter wants to see.

 

[gottalovepluto]

No penalty on that one, you just lower the amount of guests when you check in. Might even be able to do it when checking in on the app.

 

[epcothotel]

Nope, you can book a reservation for 8 people and have 1 person show up and still no fee for the people who no show

 

[gharter]

Not an issue as long as 1 person shows up.

 

[pens4821]

As others said, just let them know when you check in. Last year we reserved 8, but the other family backed out morning of. It was Tutto Italia and we had one of the first reservation times of the day. Told them and there were no issues.

I will say I did feel bad. I looked into dropping the reservation as soon as we found out, but there was nothing available for 4 at that time. I hate that we took up a reservation of 8 from someone else that could’ve wanted it when we only had 4.

 

[Sandi]

I'm so glad you asked this question. This summer I'm visiting with my sister, niece, and (hopefully) daughter. My daughter might have to pull out of the trip due to work and I was worried about having to adjust our ADRs. I'll plan to make them for 4 and just not worry about it.