Is it hard to get adrs?

[Laura Loves Tigger]

Keep checking. I have almost always been able to get adrs at the places I want even with a short planning time. It takes checking the dining site everyday - maybe 2 or 3 times. When you get to 45 days out, when final payments are due, you can find open times from people who have cancelled their trips. Also check once your trip has started. I have changed things around mid trip many times. Good luck!

 

[LuvtheGoof]

A random tip to add: if you want some TS meals at WDW (at Disney Springs and/or Animal Kingdom) and don't have the time/inclination/ability to make ADRs ahead of time, the Landry's-owned restaurants on property (T-REX and Rainforest Cafe at DS, and Rainforest Cafe #2 and Yak & Yeti at AK) offer "priority seating" for members of Landry's Select rewards club. A few weeks or months before your visit, you can join the Landry's Select program online and they'll send you a membership card (cost is $25, but you get a $25 welcome credit on your account which you can use the first time you dine at a Landry's restaurant, so it costs nothing in the aggregate). Bring your Landry's Select card with you, waltz into any Landry's restaurant whenever you like, and you'll be seated within minutes, just as if you had a reservation.

We particularly love being able to do this at AK. Yak & Yeti is one of our new favorite TS places -- while Rainforest Cafe and T-REX are giving you Applebee's-type food with a cool theme, Yak & Yeti's food is a cut above. Because there's so much to see at AK, and the park layout sort of invites one to meander, it's tough to keep to a schedule and get to ADRs on time. With Landry's Select, we don't have to.

Shhh, you're going to ruin it for all of this if it gets out too widely. We've been members for years, and love that we can walk up to Yak & Yeti anytime.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

Be Our Guest does Quick Service options for Breakfast and Lunch. Although the restaurant is nice and very immersive (and is now my fav at Disney), the breakfast food itself is not great. However, the lunch Quick Service options are much better.

Also, once you reserve the time for BOG online, you can pre-order online for the Quick Service meals. This helped me last week skip long waiting lines when it was time for my reservation. When you get to the restaurant to check in, they hand you a plastic rose ornament and tell to take the left line to go straight to the check-out line where you pay before you eat.

All you have to do after that is just place your receipt on the table of your choosing (one that is available of course). <- This is only for the QS Breakfast and Lunch option. I am not familiar with what they do for the TS Dinner option.

But want to note, you don't get to physically see Belle for the Breakfast or Lunch options. I know that the M&G for Beast is during the TS Dinner option (or at least it was years ago), but I am not 100% sure about Belle.

 

[DarthVader]

The advantages of being on property help with ADRs and I try to book my must have places near the end of our stay to increase the odds of securing one. I also check in periodically on those that I failed to get in the hopes of getting a cancellation. Believe it or not, it seems that's more likely then not. It may not be the exact time I had wanted, but the day is correct.