Why do I have chest pain over ADR?

[saralexander97]

Okay DISer's I have three days till I can make my ADRs
Yes I am a little excited, DH and I have had our awesome disney eateries picked out since last July. It was great way to keep the kiddoz occupied while hiking in the rain in Colorado. Then the long wait for December park hours to come out in June to make final day by day plans. Now I am just three days out from making reservations and I will have to be honest, Im getting anxious. So Im turning to the boards for advice, you guys never steer me wrong

I have been practicing online making reservations so that I can be efficient. What time will I be able to make my reservations on the 16th? I live in Central Time Zone and Florida is in Eastern, so they are an hour ahead.

This is the order that I plan on making my reservations, what do you guys think, any suggestions? Should I move any up or down?

Le Cellier (CP) dinner
Cinderella’s Royal Table breakfast
Chef Mickeys breakfast
Narcosse dinner
Donald’s Breakfast Safari
Hoope De Doo Review late show
Ohana’s Dinner
Ohana’s Breakfast
Biergarten dinner
Garden Grill dinner
Kona breakfast
Teppan Edo lunch
Sci-Fi lunch
Boma breakfast
San Angel Inn lunch
Tutto Italia dinner
Askerhaus (OOP) boys going to US, mommy daughter day =)
T-Rex

 

[OhThePain]

Whoe... slow down. There is no need to get yourself all worked up with the chest pains and anxiety and whatnot. Take a breather for a moment. Too much is made about being on at the exact time people can make ADR's. You have to remember most people don't realize how far in advance they can make their reservations. It's really a bit blown out of proportion, IMO. Just relax.

Now, to answer your questions, you can be online to make your ADR's at 5AM your time which would be 6AM Eastern and if you wanted to call you can call an hour later (6AM your time).

Also, are you on the DxDP and How long will you be there? Do you go often and how old are your kids? I only ask because sometimes, IMO, people who don't go often and think of their Disney trip as once in a lifetime event focus too much on eating and not enough on everything else there is. Of course, if you are every year/every other year type of people then the amount of time dining isn't as much of an issue. Just want to make sure your not overplanning meals.

Thirdly, you may have an issue booking HDDR. It seems as of late that some of the pre-purchase/ticket meals have had some delay in getting into the system. Just because you may not be able to get it on yout 180 day, doesn't mean it isn't available. Just keep checking back.

 

[3pletprincesses]

I agree with OhThePain. Don't stress about it like that. I have had to change my dates by 9 days for our trip at the end of August and have been able to get every reservation that I wanted almost at the time I was hoping for a party of 8 except for le cellier and F! Package which I'm still working on it. Not bad 2 reservations out of 17 and yet me reservation include CRT 1pm, Ohana 7:30am, CP 8:10am, Ohana Dinner 6pm, Coral Reef 11:30 am, califonia Grill, Yatchman, Citricos, Tusker house 8:30am.

 

[juliebug1997]

I think your list looks good.

 

[Cafeen]

This is the order that I plan on making my reservations, what do you guys think, any suggestions? Should I move any up or down?

Yes, the priority order has changed a bit...

Top Priority.
1. 'Ohana (Dinner) (and prepare to be flexible!)
2. Le Cellier (CP Dinner) (Normally Le Cellier Dinner would be down below, but figuring the CP package may make it a bit tougher)
3. CRT (Breakfast)
4. Chef Mickey (Breakfast)
5. Garden Grill (Dinner)

High Priority. Make these after the above are set, but in any order
Tusker House Breakfast (Donald's Safari)
Akershus
'Ohana (Breakfast)
Teppan Edo (Lunch)

Regular Priority. Make these whenever
Narcosse dinner
Hoope De Doo Review late show
Biergarten dinner
Kona breakfast
Sci-Fi lunch
Boma breakfast
San Angel Inn lunch
Tutto Italia dinner
T-Rex (For best results, call this restaurant, they only release some of their tables to Disney Dining)

At least, that's what I would do. 'Ohana dinner is the single most difficult reservation to get right now (though, again, not sure about the CP packages) outside of F! packages (and in some cases, even tougher).

 

[rapunzels]

As far as your list of calling priority, I would bump up Ohana's to right after CRT. Also to remember CRT is going to take you a few moments longer because of entering your credit card info.

 

[saralexander97]

Whoe... slow down. There is no need to get yourself all worked up with the chest pains and anxiety and whatnot. Take a breather for a moment. Too much is made about being on at the exact time people can make ADR's. You have to remember most people don't realize how far in advance they can make their reservations. It's really a bit blown out of proportion, IMO. Just relax.

Now, to answer your questions, you can be online to make your ADR's at 5AM your time which would be 6AM Eastern and if you wanted to call you can call an hour later (6AM your time).

Also, are you on the DxDP and How long will you be there? Do you go often and how old are your kids? I only ask because sometimes, IMO, people who don't go often and think of their Disney trip as once in a lifetime event focus too much on eating and not enough on everything else there is. Of course, if you are every year/every other year type of people then the amount of time dining isn't as much of an issue. Just want to make sure your not overplanning meals.

Thirdly, you may have an issue booking HDDR. It seems as of late that some of the pre-purchase/ticket meals have had some delay in getting into the system. Just because you may not be able to get it on yout 180 day, doesn't mean it isn't available. Just keep checking back.

Okay, Im doing my yoga breathing, thanks for the good vibes =)
Yes we are on the DxDP and we will be there for 8 days, this will be our third trip as a family. The first two times we toured Disney commando style and was exhausted after each day. This time we want to have a relaxing vacation eating, seeing parades and shows, and just enjoying the resorts.
I do agree with you, I may be overplanning our meals, but I figure we can just cancel and someone else will get a chance to dine =)

I have read about the HDDR, I will definitely keep checking back, thanks for the tip.

 

[saralexander97]

Yes, the priority order has changed a bit...

Top Priority.
1. 'Ohana (Dinner) (and prepare to be flexible!)
2. Le Cellier (CP Dinner) (Normally Le Cellier Dinner would be down below, but figuring the CP package may make it a bit tougher)
3. CRT (Breakfast)
4. Chef Mickey (Breakfast)
5. Garden Grill (Dinner)

High Priority. Make these after the above are set, but in any order
Tusker House Breakfast (Donald's Safari)
Akershus
'Ohana (Breakfast)
Teppan Edo (Lunch)

Regular Priority. Make these whenever
Narcosse dinner
Hoope De Doo Review late show
Biergarten dinner
Kona breakfast
Sci-Fi lunch
Boma breakfast
San Angel Inn lunch
Tutto Italia dinner
T-Rex (For best results, call this restaurant, they only release some of their tables to Disney Dining)

At least, that's what I would do. 'Ohana dinner is the single most difficult reservation to get right now (though, again, not sure about the CP packages) outside of F! packages (and in some cases, even tougher).

OMG, just what I was looking for, you are awesome!!!!
Im switching it around now.

 

[starousse]

Sara, Don't think your crazy, I've been extremely anxious too. My ADR window opens this Saturday, and like you, I plan on being up at 6am and have been organizing my list and practicing with the online system. My husband thinks that I'm insane for waking up on a Sat morning at 5 am to get a CRT ressie. Here's my lineup.
Any suggestions for me?

Whispering Canyon- Lunch
Artist Point- Dinner
Chefs de France-Lunch
Le Cellier-Dinner
CRT-Breakfast
Liberty Tree Tavern-Lunch
Cali Grill-Dinner
50's Primetime-Lunch
Flying Fish-Dinner
Chef Mickey-Breakfast
Ohana-Dinner
Tuskerhouse-Breakfast
Jiko-Dinner
T-Rex-Lunch
Narcoosees-Dinner

 

[red712371]

I'm so happy that I am not the only person who feels that WDW dining should be considered a competetive sport! My day is tomorrow...I will be up at 4:30 Chicago time to be ready for 5:00 online. Wow...it will be a long day. Good luck to all of you.

 

[daaasmith]

good luck to all of you with your ressies! I made ours at the 180+ mark for the last week of September and got all of them we wanted. I hope your adventure with ADR's is as easy. I have a lot of the same ones that are listed: Garden Grill, O'Hana (B and D), Le Cellier, Chefs de France, Boma, Whispering Canyon, Tusker House, Cape May Cafe, among others. Good luck and have a great trip!

 

[saralexander97]

Whispering Canyon- Lunch
Artist Point- Dinner
Chefs de France-Lunch
Le Cellier-Dinner
CRT-Breakfast
Liberty Tree Tavern-Lunch
Cali Grill-Dinner
50's Primetime-Lunch
Flying Fish-Dinner
Chef Mickey-Breakfast
Ohana-Dinner
Tuskerhouse-Breakfast
Jiko-Dinner
T-Rex-Lunch
Narcoosees-Dinner

I guess we will be up at 5AM together
Your line-up looks great, you must be on the DxDP. I would love to do all signature dinners but we have the kiddoz. I am do excited about Narcoosees and I still may change one of my dinners to Jiko since we are staying at AKL. When is your trip?

 

[saralexander97]

I'm so happy that I am not the only person who feels that WDW dining should be considered a competetive sport! My day is tomorrow...I will be up at 4:30 Chicago time to be ready for 5:00 online. Wow...it will be a long day. Good luck to all of you.

GOOD LUCK TOMORROW Let me know how it goes
It is a sport, I have been training for the past three days practicing making my reservations online. I have been coming up with a plan of attack for months, now the time is almost here and Im so excited!. The unfortunate thing is that I will still have 180 days till vacation.

 

[red712371]

I got everything I wanted close to the times that I wanted this morning. Whew! Glad that is over. Now the countdown can truly start! You guys might think I am crazy, but I have a big box that I call the "vacation kitty" and as I buy stuff throughout the year for vacation, I just throw it in the box. Let the vacation madness began!

 

[3pletprincesses]

I got everything I wanted close to the times that I wanted this morning. Whew! Glad that is over. Now the countdown can truly start! You guys might think I am crazy, but I have a big box that I call the "vacation kitty" and as I buy stuff throughout the year for vacation, I just throw it in the box. Let the vacation madness began!

We have a Disney box where we put everything from one trip to the next and we keep adding to it all the time. You are far from crazy. I'm sure you will find many that do the same around here.

even crazier... I went last October and since winter is cold and miserable here and we had nother trip planned for May, I simply washed our clothes when we got home and repacked everything. Our may suitcases were ready in November lOL

 

[red712371]

Love that idea! I just can't wait.

 

[starousse]

We're going Dec 15-22nd.

 

[saralexander97]

Okay this is how I was this morning delerious!! I could not sleep much last night afraid I would miss my alarm clock for ADR day. I woke up this morning around 503, eyes dry because of course I forgot to take my contacts out and went to town making reservations.

Everything worked out perfectly besides two reservations HDDR (you cant even pick a date past october) and Le Cellier on December 17th, I could make reservations on the 15th and 18th. Probably due to CP packages, which is exactly what I want. I will try in July or August, but if it does not work out its just not meant to be, I mean OMG I will be in Disney for Christmas with my family thats all that really matters. Right?

One thing that I did have issues with is making reservations for CRT, it stated that I had to pay for the meal, so I put my credit card number in and clicked on confirm reservation and an error screen popped up. Then I attempted to make the reservation again and it stated that I already had a reservation, but it did not charge my card, so I am a little confused about that. I have a reservation number so I hope I am good to go.