Wow! Y'all weren't kidding about it being hard to get through!!

[mami2emily]

This morning, at precisely 6:55am EST I started dialing the (407) phone number to get a reservation at CRT. Kept hitting my phone's flash and redial button up until 7:15am. Couldn't get through at all. Circuits were busy was the only recording I heard for 20 minutes. Argh!! I've been calling at different times today and I still can't even get a ringing tone...just "circuits busy".

One of my neighbors, who practically lives at Disney...he goes so often...said to just try walking in at CRT the day I'll be in the park. That they usually have a few tables for walk-ins, but not a lot of people know about it. This is how he usually gets into CRT for breakfast as they have yet to get through on the phone reservations.

I'll keep trying...three more mornings to try. If not, guess it'll have to be Plan B!

 

[zurgswife]

thing about walking in is that the park has to be open to do it....so you will have to wait until 9 am or so.... Otherwise they check the names of people with ressies and only let them through the main gate...

 

[mickeyluv71]

Originally posted by mami2emily
This morning, at precisely 6:55am EST I started dialing the (407) phone number to get a reservation at CRT. Kept hitting my phone's flash and redial button up until 7:15am. Couldn't get through at all. Circuits were busy was the only recording I heard for 20 minutes. Argh!! I've been calling at different times today and I still can't even get a ringing tone...just "circuits busy".

I'll keep trying...three more mornings to try. If not, guess it'll have to be Plan B!

Since you've gotten the "all circuits busy" message throughout the day, my guess would be that it has something to do with people on the gulf ocast trying to make arrangements about Isidore...or lines knocked down because of winds, etc. from the edges of the storm as that message tends to indicate wide-spread phone circuit use throughout a state in my experience. That's a phone company message...not a WDW message...in my experience, the WDW message just asks you to hold for the next available cast member.

Best of luck getting through! I've never tried it myself, but others on the boards have encouraged people to call later in the day as well as calling on other mornings as sometimes there are people from the same party all making ressies so that they get one, then they cancel out the ones that aren't needed as soon as they talk with the others.

HTH!!

~Beth

 

[Ithastobe]

I've been trying too....no luck! So I went to plan B (which is Lunch at Tony's for characters). Sure wish they had more of the princesses around! (I also tried Epcot and no luck). Hoping for a cancellation - but if that doesn't happen, we'll enjoy what we have.

 

[WDW2002]

I would call in a couple days to see if there are any cancellations. And again at 14 days to see if anyone didn't mail in deposit. Also 2 days out. In other words KEEP TRYING!!