October 27th 2009 looks to be the day of the Walt Disney World Diningpocalypse.
For those of you that do not know dining reservations at Walt Disney World will revert back to 180 days tomorrow. Instead of doing some type of staggered approach to this change Disney has decided to do this all at once. What this means is that instead of the usual 10 days worth of reservations coming online per day we will have 100 days opening up all at once. We all know how difficult it can be to get through on the phones and how frequently the online dining system crashes on the first day of ADR availability on a regular day. We can only guess what will happen to the dining system when it receives up to 10 times the traffic of a normal day.
This thread will serve two purposes....
First it is for those of us that will have to endure this day to have a place to vent their frustrations.
Secondly it will be for those of us who do not have to deal with this day to either offer support for the ADR downtrodden or just sit back and watch part of the Disney empire get sucked into a virtual black hole.
Enjoy!
For those of you that do not know dining reservations at Walt Disney World will revert back to 180 days tomorrow. Instead of doing some type of staggered approach to this change Disney has decided to do this all at once. What this means is that instead of the usual 10 days worth of reservations coming online per day we will have 100 days opening up all at once. We all know how difficult it can be to get through on the phones and how frequently the online dining system crashes on the first day of ADR availability on a regular day. We can only guess what will happen to the dining system when it receives up to 10 times the traffic of a normal day.
This thread will serve two purposes....
First it is for those of us that will have to endure this day to have a place to vent their frustrations.
Secondly it will be for those of us who do not have to deal with this day to either offer support for the ADR downtrodden or just sit back and watch part of the Disney empire get sucked into a virtual black hole.
Enjoy!
. I have a seminar I have to go to and I need to leave the house around 7am and I don't get very good cell phone reception in my area - so I can't do it on a cell phone. I emailed instructions and a spreadsheet to DH (very detailed - what time to start calling, phone number, ressie number, what to say through the prompts so he doesn't have to wait for the question, and the order of ADRs to make, etc.). His response to me was "What?". Lord help me!!! :hammer: At least now he'll be able to appreciate what I go through to plan our trips...
