ADR day

That's awesome! That is so frustrating though when you make sure you are online and ready for that window to open and glitches happen! Can't wait to hear about your Victoria and Albert's experience. We're looking at this for Jon's 40th birthday next year.

Congrats for getting your bookings Sally-Ann.

Allie, we have done V & A also, but not the Chefs Table. It is wonderful but it is a lot of food!! Scrappy was done by our third course and we still had 3 to go plus dessert!

Woo hoo!!! ADR day is always a fantastic day and you got a phenomenal line up so far!I

yay for ADR day!! I was able to book the Candlelight Processional Dinner package today and will see Neil Patrick Harris. So excited. I booked my trip for early December hoping he would be there.

That's ok! Being too full from delicious food is a good problem to have in my book!

So jealous! I LOVE Neil Patrick Harris and I am yet to have been able to coordinate being down there when he is scheduled!

So I just posted about this elsewhere...

I am typically really rigorous in our WDW planning, and we have traditionally had little problem getting Dining Reservations or most fastpasses -- since we always show up 180 days/60 days in advance of our reservation. But 2 things were super-weird this week:

1. Our upcoming trip starts New Year's Eve. July 4 is 180 days shy of that, and our account reflected that. (For reference: http://www.easysurf.cc/ndate6.htm)

So imagine my surprise when I showed up on the morning of July 4 to make a dining reservation, and many New Year's Eve restaurants were already sold out. In fact, dates were already open, and I was able to book, through January 3. So I made some reservations, and we did get something for New Year's Eve, but not what my family originally wanted since a lot of stuff is already sold out.

Now I show up (early morning July 6), and I can only make reservations through January 2 -- which is more what I would have expected, but completely inconsistent with what I just saw. Especially since I have, in my account, a reservation for January 3 which in theory shouldn't have even been available yet.

Have people seen weird behavior of this sort before ?

And is it like Fastpass+ in that I should keep checking back for other reservations to open up -- even on a high-demand date like December 31 ?

2. About a week earlier, my daughter and I looked at "Choose Your Magic Bands", and all that was there was 8 solid-color bands. It SAID that there were supposed to be special other choices, but none were there.

On the morning of July 4th, there were 28 or 32 choices including lots of custom bands. But my entire family wasn't around so we didn't make any selections.

Now -- early morning July 6th -- everyone is around, but there are only 23 choices. A number of the others are gone, and a few have been replaced with other new choices. Including, of course, at least one that my kids wanted to choose. Again not the end of the world exactly, but just so weird!!

Have others seen inconsistent behavior like this ?

Or other weird stuff with the website/WDW system that I should be aware of or concerned with ?

All info appreciated and thanks!

So we spoke with Disney Customer Service today and it was kinda explained, but still odd.

On the dining front: Our stay is split at 2 different resorts, so we weren't 180-days out from our 2nd stay yet. Further, since people arriving sooner can book their entire stay...which explains why New Year's had a lot of restaurants sold out already. On the other hand, when we checked yesterday we were only able to book through the 2nd, even though we had already booked on the 3rd, which still feels like a system bug.

Meanwhile on the Magic Band front: Every time we check the site, there are different numbers and types of Magic Bands available. Some are the same, some are different, and some are missing. Whenever we try to choose any, we get a "can't process this request now, try again later". The agent explained this as a "out of stock" problem, which may be true, but it definitely feels like a system bug as well.

I definitely would have expected much more clarity and smoothness on the site -- we have never had any problems with it before.

Hi Mike - we had the same issues with ordering the Magic bands. We found that they refresh the inventory on an unannounced, random cycle - they will add and remove bands as they well out of replenish you really just have to keep checking.

I also and the glitchy "Can't process try later" and called customer service - while on hold thought I got it to work and take my order. I can't remember what we did - it was either we switched browsers, or changed credit cards, and it went through.

I got my Sorcerer Mickey band few days later

Hi Sally-Ann, so sorry about your experience at the Cali. I have had a few meals that were not fabulous, but never really had a bad experience there. Hope you like brunch. We did do that once but to us, that was a once and done.

Have you been to the Brown Derby? That place is awesome. We love going to the Derby. Hope you love it!

OoooOOOooo we LOVED Tiffins when we did our adult trip in July 2018!