You just walk right in with them.
Good point, I’d forgotten about that.
FWIW, the past two years when brought our two year old to the parks, we did not include him in the dining reservations and never had a problem getting our table. In fact, when I tried, I could never figure out a way to add him to the dining reservation because he did not have a park reservation. The one time I called Disney for help, they told me not to worry about adding him to the reservation and we would still be seated (and we always were). Maybe we just got lucky, repeatedly. But that was our experience
If your child made your party size go from 2 to 3, that’s easy for a restaurant to accommodate at a table for 4. But there are many reports of guests with different size parties who had to wait a long time to be seated or were even turned away because they showed up with one more person than the ADR was booked for.
you were lucky. we were a large party and we did include our infant granddaughter. another family checked in ahead of us not quite as largen who did not include the infant in their group. we ended up being seated ahead of them and they ended up waiting 45 minutes past their time. they were still complaining about our being seated first
You got lucky! Also, you don’t have to actually add their specific name if they don’t have a profile yet. You can leave someone as say “guest 6” but they should be in the count.
that could be it you were at a 4 top to begin with which means no table change where going from a 4 to a 5 could be a big problem
