Whispering Canyon Advice needed

[xmas16]

We will be staying at the WL, and I made a ADR for the evening we check in. The earliest ressie I could get was 6:20pm. That is at least an hour later than what we feel comfortable with. We will have a full day at the parks and I fear that this time of 6:20pm may be asking too much for the kids (5 and 8) to wait for dinner. This is what I have been thinking in order to try to move up that time.

1. keep calling WDW-Dine to look out for cancelled ADR's
2. Inquire the day of check in to see if any cancellations.
If nothing works I'll play it by ear and if I feel the kids won't make it I'll simply cancel.

I'm new to this but does this sound reasonable? Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks

Steve

 

[KatMark]

We will be staying at the WL, and I made a ADR for the evening we check in. The earliest ressie I could get was 6:20pm. That is at least an hour later than what we feel comfortable with. We will have a full day at the parks and I fear that this time of 6:20pm may be asking too much for the kids (5 and 8) to wait for dinner. This is what I have been thinking in order to try to move up that time.

1. keep calling WDW-Dine to look out for cancelled ADR's
2. Inquire the day of check in to see if any cancellations.
If nothing works I'll play it by ear and if I feel the kids won't make it I'll simply cancel.

I'm new to this but does this sound reasonable? Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks

Steve

I would keep calling to see if you can change your time or stop at the podium the morning of your day and see if they can fit you in. We went in September (sorry...we won't be going back) and we had a 5:15 ADR. We were seated close to 6:00.

 

[Kim1964]

Your plan sounds reasonable. We've cancelled plans when the kids were just too beat to enjoy it....why pay all that money to have them falling asleep in their plates? If you decide not to go just be sure you let them know so they can release the table to someone else.

 

[got2luvtink]

Have you tried the ADR Cancel/trade sticky on the top of this board? We were able to trade/get CRT and some other reservations with other DISers. It might be a long shot, but IMHO, it's worth a try.

 

[jdb1232]

Keep trying for cancelations, you never know. We were at the Whispering Canyon in October of 08. We had a 4:05 reservation for dinner. While we were in line to be seated several people came up and attempted to get a table. It wasn't in the cards. The host had no tables until late in the evening, after 8:30pm.