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(@mrpeetrie)
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My 180-mark is this Saturday. My family picked some "challenging" requests (i.e. popular and hard to secure.)

First, which gives me a better shot at landing those hard ADRs, the web or WDW-DINE?

Second, do they both start at 6:00 a.m.? Or does the web become active sooner?

Thanks.


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Posted : March 18, 2015 11:15 pm
(@fangorn)
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The Web opens up at 6am Eastern time. The phone lines open at 7am.

Steve


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Posted : March 19, 2015 1:09 am
(@mrpeetrie)
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Thanks, Steve!


WDW - 99 Off Site
WDW - 00 C.Springs, Wilderness
WDW - 01 POFQ, Boardwalk
WDW - 02 C.Beach, POFQ, AK Lodge
WDW - 04 Riverside
WDW - 05 C.Springs
WDW - 07 Riverside
WDW - 11 C.Beach
WDW - 12 POFQ
WDW - 14 Riverside
WDW - 15 POFQ
WDW - 19 Wilderness
WDW - 20 C.Beach

 
Posted : March 19, 2015 8:48 am
(@Tekneek)
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If you want to split up your party for some meals, like two groups having breakfast at different places on the same day, you will have to call in for 1 of them. We did this on a previous trip and the system would not allow me to book it online, even when specifying different party members for each one.


 
Posted : March 19, 2015 9:00 am
(@snowflakegirl)
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While the website does open at 6am Eastern, I found that the website was....less than cooperative. I kept getting error messages and despite being up and ready at 6:00, head off to work at 7:30 frustrated and with only one reservation made. I had to call a few hours later to make them. I've since had to make a few changes and was able to do several through the website, but others I had to keep going back to do because of random error messages. I know my father also has similar difficulties trying to book ADRs via the web recently.

Not that I wouldn't try the web first! Especially for those hard to get ones. I would just say have the phone ready as back up.


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Posted : March 19, 2015 10:16 pm
(@mrpeetrie)
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My window opens in three hours. I was wondering: Mozilla? Google Chrome? or IE? Which browser seems to be most stable?


WDW - 99 Off Site
WDW - 00 C.Springs, Wilderness
WDW - 01 POFQ, Boardwalk
WDW - 02 C.Beach, POFQ, AK Lodge
WDW - 04 Riverside
WDW - 05 C.Springs
WDW - 07 Riverside
WDW - 11 C.Beach
WDW - 12 POFQ
WDW - 14 Riverside
WDW - 15 POFQ
WDW - 19 Wilderness
WDW - 20 C.Beach

 
Posted : March 21, 2015 2:58 am
(@snowflakegirl)
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Didn't see your question early enough to be of any help, but was wondering how it went for you. Hope you were able to get into the things you wanted.


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Posted : March 21, 2015 8:55 am
(@Tekneek)
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MrPeetrie;2450780 wrote: My window opens in three hours. I was wondering: Mozilla? Google Chrome? or IE? Which browser seems to be most stable?

In my experience, they were all equally as reliable (made no difference). The problems with this are on the back end servers at Disney.


 
Posted : March 21, 2015 1:24 pm
(@etibbetts)
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I would try booking online first, that hour could make a difference. My 180 day window opened up last week, at 6 am I had no issues booking however it only let me do 180+7 days, I had to call to get the next 3 days (as you should be able to book 180+10).


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Posted : March 22, 2015 8:37 am
(@mrpeetrie)
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etibbetts;2450843 wrote: I would try booking online first, that hour could make a difference. My 180 day window opened up last week, at 6 am I had no issues booking however it only let me do 180+7 days, I had to call to get the next 3 days (as you should be able to book 180+10).

I experienced the same problem. I found an easy "work-around" for this online and I'll post in detail about it on my next post!


WDW - 99 Off Site
WDW - 00 C.Springs, Wilderness
WDW - 01 POFQ, Boardwalk
WDW - 02 C.Beach, POFQ, AK Lodge
WDW - 04 Riverside
WDW - 05 C.Springs
WDW - 07 Riverside
WDW - 11 C.Beach
WDW - 12 POFQ
WDW - 14 Riverside
WDW - 15 POFQ
WDW - 19 Wilderness
WDW - 20 C.Beach

 
Posted : March 22, 2015 2:18 pm