World of Color Dining Packages Announced

[angel22]

Just booked WCT for 4:50 on June 11! So excited!!!

The CM said there is no guarantee on the tickets if they run out, so the earlier you eat the more you increase your chances.

 

[kiwitinkerbell]

The "Reserved Seating" part makes me laugh. Written by a true WDW visitor. At DL, there's no "seating".

What do you mean? I have never been to CA and will be visiting Oct 3-8 and thought it would be good to book the dinner package for the show. Thought WOC would be awesome to see but we will have someone with us who can't stand for long periods of time. Is there no seating?

 

[mareed]

I just booked Ariel's Grotto for opening night, June 11 @ 6:00 for the 9:00 show. This is the end our our trip, and we really weren't even sure we were going to try to see WOC, but we'll give this a try!

 

[PinkBudgie]

Wait, let me see if I have this right. You book a package and pay $40 a person for dinner (non character) and then they say you may not get tickets for WOC? If you don't get the tickets, how does your dinner at the Trattoria differ from the peron at the next table who didn't order the package? Can't they set aside a certian number of tickets for the package ahead of time and stop booking when that number is reached? If someone is a no show, then those tickets could be available for a walk up. Will diners compete against each other to hurry through their meal in order to get the last four tickets available? I just don't see how they can charge you just for the opportunity to get the tickets. That can't be right. Did I miss something here???

 

[stitchy626]

For those who have booked....did you have to pre-pay like you do for the F! Premium Seating or is this just a straight forward ADR where you only give your name?

Also does anyone know if the dining line is open on the weekends?

 

[Michelle2]

From what I understood I thought that a previous poster said that you didn't have to prepay, and there was no penalty for cancelling which is so different from the Fantasmic packages. I bet that will change in the future though.
I am thinking I might as well try it!

Can these reservations only be made at the 60 day mark?

 

[stitchy626]

Thanks-I just booked for June 29th

 

[amym2]

Wait, let me see if I have this right. You book a package and pay $40 a person for dinner (non character) and then they say you may not get tickets for WOC? If you don't get the tickets, how does your dinner at the Trattoria differ from the peron at the next table who didn't order the package? Can't they set aside a certian number of tickets for the package ahead of time and stop booking when that number is reached? If someone is a no show, then those tickets could be available for a walk up. Will diners compete against each other to hurry through their meal in order to get the last four tickets available? I just don't see how they can charge you just for the opportunity to get the tickets. That can't be right. Did I miss something here???

I've had those thoughts as well. The CM I spoke with sounded very frustrated that they are not able to guarantee the tickets. I guess they are taking walk-ins for the WOC package at WCT so they don't know how many they'll end up with, but your idea seems to make more sense. They're going to have some pretty ticked off customers. Hopefully the food will be good enough and the dining experience pleasant. But still...

 

[amym2]

For those who have booked....did you have to pre-pay like you do for the F! Premium Seating or is this just a straight forward ADR where you only give your name?

Also does anyone know if the dining line is open on the weekends?

No prepay, just a regular ADR. The CM told me to call if I have any questions and that they're there pretty much all the time, so I assume the dining line is open on weekends.

 

[jodeja]

I'm booked for the 18th of June so I'll let you all know how it goes!

I'm booked for the 18th of June too!
Did you chooose AG or WCT? We are at AG at 5:20.
I chose outdoor seating thinking that it would be a nice view of the water, but now I'm rethinking that because if it's hot we are going to wish we were inside with the AC.
Any thoughts on that?

Oh, and reading the posts on the WOC superthread, it seems that everyone who called to make reservations today was given slightly varying information, in some cases vastly different - everything from "you may or may not get your tickets" to "you are guaranteed to get your tickets"

 

[brenda1966]

When I booked Ariel's she didn't even ask me about indoor or outdoor seating. Ugh! I should have said something. Don't want to sit outside in the heat.

 

[bluegrizzlies1]

wct june 14th at 4pm thanks guys for this thread

 

[Lissame]

I think the thing we all have to remember is that--even with all of the hype about WOC in the parks, I am sure that a huge number (even a majority) of people who will have NO clue about any of this.

I am constantly amazed at the number of people I talk to who have been to DL at least twice over the past few years and have never even heard of or seen Fantasmic. We get a very skewed view of park attendees by reading the message boards.

 

[brenda1966]

What do you mean? I have never been to CA and will be visiting Oct 3-8 and thought it would be good to book the dinner package for the show. Thought WOC would be awesome to see but we will have someone with us who can't stand for long periods of time. Is there no seating?

Since WOC has never run with a crowd we don't know, but the way it is laid out now, it is all standing room only. So if you think of the standing-room-only sections in the back of Fantasmic in WDW -- that is what it is. That is also how at least half of the Fantasmic viewing in DL is: Standing. There are some "sitting" sections of Fantasmic viewing, but you are sitting on the ground. Not on steps, not on bleachers, on the ground.


I will be very interested to hear if people book the dining package and then don't get tickets. That would be SO uncool. There's really no excuse for it. A set number of tickets should be pulled at the start of the day for the restaurants. I'm going to ask for tickets before I agree to sit down and pay!

Also, while the Lasagne may be to die for at the Wine restaurant, there was no mention of it when she ran down the entree's for W0C dining. It's a set menu and I don't expect the food to be very good at either place. I'm just looking to get the golden ticket.

 

[emacat]

From what I read earlier, the general idea is to pull the tickets each morning for the reserved dining packages. So, those tickets will be set aside for the diners. And on the Disneyblog, it states that those doing the dining package will receive tickets for special seating (standing, whatever. I don't care about one vs. the other).

 

[emacat]

I'm just looking to get the golden ticket.

LMAO!! That's what it's like, a Golden Ticket!!

 

[NewbieMouse]

WCT @ 4pm June 13th - yippee! Thanks for the heads up.

ETA: No prepayment, just like a regular ADR.

 

[aprincess@mail.com]

So we are or may be guaranteed the "golden ticket" ?
I am still going to try with the rest of you guys!
Hopefully I can book early ressies for AG on July 18th! "fingers crossed"
Thanks for the tread guys!
I immediately had to call hubby and let him know how much more $ I was gonna add to our trip. LOL
But, I think the same as you guys, it does sound pretty reasonable. Plus I was expecting a dessert package not a dinner package for the "guaranteed golden ticket"...

 

[Raindown]

Wait, let me see if I have this right. You book a package and pay $40 a person for dinner (non character) and then they say you may not get tickets for WOC? If you don't get the tickets, how does your dinner at the Trattoria differ from the peron at the next table who didn't order the package? Can't they set aside a certian number of tickets for the package ahead of time and stop booking when that number is reached? If someone is a no show, then those tickets could be available for a walk up. Will diners compete against each other to hurry through their meal in order to get the last four tickets available? I just don't see how they can charge you just for the opportunity to get the tickets. That can't be right. Did I miss something here???

I'm still as confused as you. I'll probably be there opening night, sans dinner.

 

[iheartdisney]

OK, I gotta say...I was so unexcited about WoC, thinking it was Fantasmic! with different scenes. Then I watched the video in that link, and now I am like
WOW!!!!!
I can't wait!