180 Day Mark! Ready, Set, Reserve! Advanced dining reservations.

An exciting, crucial moment of planning a disney world vacation has finally arived!  Today is the 180 day mark, which means today is the day in which I was able to start booking my advanced dining reservations. And let me tell you, I spent months preparing for this.  I watched youtube videos. I read forums. I researched different websites. Listened to podcasts.  All to get advice from the experts to better prepare myself.  And let me tell you,  I mostly ended up terrified and more confused. Mostly people were ranting and complaining about how difficult it was to get a reservation. And many complains about the site crashing And not working and not allowing people to make reservations for the whole trip. So you can understand why I was so anxious.  So let me tell you how it all went.

Since reservations open up at 6 a.m eastern time,  I got up at 4:40 a.m. This gave me enough time to go to wake up, bathroom, coffee, turn on my computer,  and have everything ready to go.  And then it was showtime! I had several windows open. Each window with the restaurant reservation page already ready to go.  Let me just say.... it went GREAT! I was able to get every single ADR on our wish list. I had no issues. There was a minor hiccup here and there,that resolved easily by simply trying again, and it didnt affect my choices at all. Also, although I initially did not get the time I wanted for a couple restraunts, later at night, when i tried to edit my reservation, I was surprised to find exactly what I initially wanted. So in the end everything came out perfect! So I am so glad it was nothing like what I read in all those forums. I dont know, maybe it was because Disney cracked down on all those sitesthat were booking them and then reselling. Maybe that is what was mak8ng it difficult.

In any case, I am so  glad I managed to book everything we wanted. I will share what the new itinerary looks like with the reservations.
Also, if you are interested, I can share with you some things that helped me book and that I think might also be helpful when booking your ADRs. Just comment below!

'Til next time,  keep Disney dreaming!

Preliminary Disney World Vacation Week

As promised in my previous post, here is what our week in disney world looks like.  Now, this is not set in stone because many things are still up in the air. I still am twoo weeks away from my 180 day mark. So I still don't have my ADR secured. Therefore,  the table service restaurants listed are what I am hoping for.  Also, as we all know, Disney is well known for changing their park hours,  so that might also change my decisions of what days  I  have planned. But for now, this is what have set up. In any case, I can easily  cut and paste and rearrange.

If you look at how I planned my days, you will see that I tried my best to plan so that our dining will be either at the same park or in the vicinity, so to avoid excess time loss in transportation etc.

You will notice there are areas in which I have question marks. These basically mean that I am not quite sure what we are doing and that is open to do whatever we feel like doing at that moment.