What's your method for ADRs?

[blam84]

Our ADR window opens on Saturday. What's your method? Do you use a computer or the app? Do you have multiple people in the family trying at the same time? Do you open up multiple tabs in your browser and hit reload? What's your method? Would love your help!

 

[thanxfornoticin]

I find different devices have never done much for me, so I'd use the device you are most comfortable with. Be where you have a good wifi/internet/cell signal!! I then prioritize the ADRs in order of importance and popularity - if we are staying at a WDW resort, we might push a popular ADR to later in the trip so you can improve your chances at 60+4 or 5 or 6 days. We'll put something a little simpler earlier in the trip. I handle them all myself, since my account tends to be the coordinator of our tickets, room reservations, ILL/G+, dining etc. We've not found a big advantage to 2 of us being on, but maybe others have.

Maybe get up early a morning or 2 this week and do a practice run. You'll only be able to see what's available 60 days out, but it might give you a little more comfort when you do it for real on Saturday. Good luck and have a nice trip!

 

[blam84]

I find different devices have never done much for me, so I'd use the device you are most comfortable with. Be where you have a good wifi/internet/cell signal!! I then prioritize the ADRs in order of importance and popularity - if we are staying at a WDW resort, we might push a popular ADR to later in the trip so you can improve your chances at 60+4 or 5 or 6 days. We'll put something a little simpler earlier in the trip. I handle them all myself, since my account tends to be the coordinator of our tickets, room reservations, ILL/G+, dining etc. We've not found a big advantage to 2 of us being on, but maybe others have.

Maybe get up early a morning or 2 this week and do a practice run. You'll only be able to see what's available 60 days out, but it might give you a little more comfort when you do it for real on Saturday. Good luck and have a nice trip!

Thanks so much for the suggestions! I am curious whether or not it's possible to log into the same account on different computers and do different reservations at the same time. I'll try to experiment and see what happens.

 

[blam84]

This thread didn't get much action, so in case someone searches and finds it, I want to share the method we used.

Our trip is August 21-28, 2024. 60 days prior to August 21, my wife and I logged on to two separate computers. She used her Disney account (this is key and I will share why later) and I logged in with mine at 5:45am. We opened tabs for each restaurant we wanted to reserve and logged in to the reservation system ahead of time to not have to deal with that and waste time later. We copied and pasted our phone numbers since that is asked for on the final screen prior to completing the reservation. Additionally, we saved our credit card information to our Disney account so it would come up automatically.

For each tab, we entered the amount of people and moved forward to the screen that allows you to choose the date. It was this page that we reloaded until the system opened at exactly 6am ET. Each of us had a list of reservations to make, starting with the most difficult to get. We were unsure of some reservations and learned that one account cannot book an ADR within two hours of the same reservation (you can't book two reservations around the same time at different restaurants and decide later). So, we used the other account to make that reservation and then we will cancel the one we don't want later.

This system resulted in us getting EVERY reservation we wanted at EXACTLY the times we wanted. YMMV. This included Ohana, Sanaa, Les Chefs De France, Hoop Dee Doo Revue, Roundup Rodeo BBQ, Ale & Compass (breakfast), Tutto Italia, and Biergarten.

Hope this helps someone!