at the 180 day mark you can book 10 days worth of dining if you are staying on property. This effectively makes your last (10th) day's ressie at the 190 day mark, hence the confusion. You must wait until 180 days from the first day of your stay to begin making ADRs
And don't you love it when you get a CM that doesn't know what they are doing? I just called to make an additional ADR for October 23 - 4 days after we arrive so we are within the 180+10 days and the CM mumbles "that's too far out". I hung up.
Well, I called and got ressies early. I have always thought it was 190 and when I didn't hear from my travel agent, my husband got nervous and called to make those "hard to get's". They let us make all our reservations for our trip October 23rd!
When I told my travel agent, she couldn't believe it. I guess they can get in big trouble for that.
as with the previous poster, so many times you can't get something to which you are entitled, it's nice for it to work in our favor once in a while!! Hope you have a geat trip