acebatonfan
VMKer at heart
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2011
It's been over five years since I went to Disney, and this is the first time doing all the planning by myself (though I did FP+ for the family last time we went and scored the elusive Anna and Elsa ). I'm doing a trip with a long-time friend I met on Virtual Magic Kingdom back when that was open. We found out not too long ago that we live close to each other, dated for a while, but now going as friends (I don't think we'll be back together in September with the way things are going). This is his first time going to Disney in 12-13 years, and he is helpless with any sort of planning or figuring out what he wants. I'm also planning for a worst-case scenario for if he bails out on me at the last minute and I do a solo trip or invite a family member.
So for some details. We have 8 day PH tickets with the regular DDP. We will be going Sept 22-29. We both don't care for HS (avoiding it like the plague with SWGE opening), and he just wants one day at AK to explore. Most of our days will be between MK and EP. Much to his dismay, we are going during food and wine (my two favorite things!!!).
I am scheduled to make ADRs on Tuesday, but I have a little road block. I work as an RN and am scheduled to work 0645-1915 that day at a minimum. I am keeping all my ideas for ADRs and general scheduling stuff on an excel spreadsheet. For each restaurant, I listed out my priority for when I need to make it in case I don't have time heading into work to make all the ADRs (don't we start making reservations starting at 6AM?). Right now the big ones are BOG, California Grill (ideally around fireworks time), and possibly Crystal Palace or another early morning MK ADR before park drop.it is
So what I'm asking is to see if I got a good idea of how difficult is to make ADRs for the restaurants I want and if my priorities match roughly what ADRs I need to make as soon as that window opens.
So for some details. We have 8 day PH tickets with the regular DDP. We will be going Sept 22-29. We both don't care for HS (avoiding it like the plague with SWGE opening), and he just wants one day at AK to explore. Most of our days will be between MK and EP. Much to his dismay, we are going during food and wine (my two favorite things!!!).
I am scheduled to make ADRs on Tuesday, but I have a little road block. I work as an RN and am scheduled to work 0645-1915 that day at a minimum. I am keeping all my ideas for ADRs and general scheduling stuff on an excel spreadsheet. For each restaurant, I listed out my priority for when I need to make it in case I don't have time heading into work to make all the ADRs (don't we start making reservations starting at 6AM?). Right now the big ones are BOG, California Grill (ideally around fireworks time), and possibly Crystal Palace or another early morning MK ADR before park drop.it is
So what I'm asking is to see if I got a good idea of how difficult is to make ADRs for the restaurants I want and if my priorities match roughly what ADRs I need to make as soon as that window opens.