Booking ADRs on "My Disney Experience"

[sbkline]

Back in March, I made a room only reservation for All Star Movies for May 24-June 3 2015. However, I have since found an off property condo for a much cheaper rate and have decided to stay there instead. I chose to retain my booking for ASM until I get to my 180 day mark so I can still make my dining reservations using the 180+10 perk available for resort guests. Once I clear the 180 day marks for every day of my stay, I will cancel my resort reservation.

My question is this: I have always understood that if you cancel your room booking, it would have no effect on your ADRs, since they are totally seperate bookings. However, if I book my ADRs using the "My Disney Experience" website, then I am concerned that it may have my ADRs linked up with my Resort Reservation account number, such that when I cancel my resort, it will automatically cancel the ADRs along with it. Is this a valid concern, or can I still book 180+10 on the website, and then cancel my resort and still retain my ADRs? Of course, I will wait a couple weeks before cancelling so as to make sure that every one of my ADRs is within 180 days. But I just want to make sure that I can book at the "My Disney Experience" website and not lose my ADRs when I cancel my resort.

 

[CAPTAIN HOOK]

Telephone booking ?

 

[sbkline]

Telephone booking ?

That's what I have been planning on doing, but I was told that if I book on "my disney experience", I can do it right at midnight, rather than having to wait until the phone lines open at 6 AM EST. But again, I am afraid that if I do it under "My Disney Experience", that if I have it linked up with my room only ressie, then it might automatically cancel my ADRs whenever I cancel the room only. I have always understood that I don't have to worry about that when booking over the phone, but since the "My Disney Experience" is new, I just wanted to make sure that it would work about the same way as booking over the phone.

 

[Jae99]

Your 180 day ressie booking window doesn't open up at midnight. You can start booking ADR's at 6 am on the MDE and the phone lines open at 7 am. It is your FP+ booking window that opens up at midnight. I hope you realize that if you cancel your on-site room that you sacrifice being able to book FP's 60 days out and will have to wait until 30 days.

I can't help you with whether your ressies will be cancelled with your room cancellation, but I would have to agree that a phone call to book would be the best way to confirm everything.

 

[stevehousse]

Your dining reservations will not be cancelled if you cancel your room reservation, only if you ask them on the phone to do so. They are based on a totally different system. I cancelled my trip about 75 days out and just cancelled all my ADRs I had made at the 180 day mark a week before my vacation was scheduled to commence.

 

[JohnD]

ADRs aren't linked to resort booking, just your credit card.

 

[sbkline]

I hope you realize that if you cancel your on-site room that you sacrifice being able to book FP's 60 days out and will have to wait until 30 days.

I had thought about that, too, and had thought about possibly holding only my room only ressie until my 60 day mark so I can book fastpasses 60 days out. Presumably, I would need to wait another 30 days after that to cancel (when I am 30 days out) so as not to lose my fastpasses. But the same question still applies: if I book fastpass reservations 60 days out, under my resort reservation, then will they be linked to my resort reservation such that they will disappear when my resort reservation disappears? Again, I realize that you have to be a resort guest in order to book fastpass 60 days out, so I expect that if I were to book fastpasses and then cancel my room the next day, then my fastpasses would disappear as well, as I would no longer be booked at a resort and would therefore be ineligeable to have fastpasses more than 30 days out. But even if I cancelled my room only at 15 days out, would I still lose my fastpasses since they would be linked to my hotel stay which no longer exists?

 

[Jae99]

I had thought about that, too, and had thought about possibly holding only my room only ressie until my 60 day mark so I can book fastpasses 60 days out. Presumably, I would need to wait another 30 days after that to cancel (when I am 30 days out) so as not to lose my fastpasses. But the same question still applies: if I book fastpass reservations 60 days out, under my resort reservation, then will they be linked to my resort reservation such that they will disappear when my resort reservation disappears? Again, I realize that you have to be a resort guest in order to book fastpass 60 days out, so I expect that if I were to book fastpasses and then cancel my room the next day, then my fastpasses would disappear as well, as I would no longer be booked at a resort and would therefore be ineligeable to have fastpasses more than 30 days out. But even if I cancelled my room only at 15 days out, would I still lose my fastpasses since they would be linked to my hotel stay which no longer exists?

I am not really sure,but that is something that you would have to chance. Somebody who is more familiar with everything Disney would be able to help more.

 

[stevehousse]

The FP I don't know about however, I would assume a long as u had your own tickets linked on there and not a package, so your tickets would stay regardless of canceling, your FP might stay?

 

[Tuvalu]

But the same question still applies: if I book fastpass reservations 60 days out, under my resort reservation, then will they be linked to my resort reservation such that they will disappear when my resort reservation disappears? Again, I realize that you have to be a resort guest in order to book fastpass 60 days out, so I expect that if I were to book fastpasses and then cancel my room the next day, then my fastpasses would disappear as well, as I would no longer be booked at a resort and would therefore be ineligeable to have fastpasses more than 30 days out. But even if I cancelled my room only at 15 days out, would I still lose my fastpasses since they would be linked to my hotel stay which no longer exists?

I just read on another site that a family lost their fastpasses (unfortunately the coveted 7DMT) when they made a change to their resort reservation. Therefore it seems likely that a room cancellation would also result in disappearing fastpasses. If you are not planning to stay on-site, you should play it safe and book your fastpasses at 30 days.