Dining Reservations Part 2

Hi Disney friends,

My last post focused on some questions that you would need to think through prior to making your Advanced Dining Reservations (ADR.) This post will try to focus on putting your decisions together with the actual Walt Disney World hours. For this to work, I will make some generalities/decisions for you.

Let's say you want to eat a character meal at Crystal Palace because your child (assumption 1--you have children) really loves Winnie the Pooh. Crystal Palace is located in Magic Kingdom and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets. In order to save time for travel, you would want to spend that day in the park (or at least some time.) Here is when planning really comes into play. Disney releases the park hours months in advance and there are on the My Disney Experience website. Sometimes the hours are not ready yet, but if you look at numerous weeks, then you will be able to predict the extra magic hours (assumption 2--you are staying on site.) 

So here is an example of how my family would hit the park. We would plan to eat at Crystal Palace on a day when there are Extra Magic Hours at Magic Kingdom--one of the reasons that we like to stay on site. We would plan to be at the park at rope drop (when you can get to the rides) and hit some of the rides before the official park opening (the time when everyone else can get in.)  We would also try to book our fastpasses (that cannot happen until 60 days out) for between 9 a.m. and noon. We would then plan to eat a lunch in order to take a break since we had been on the go since about 7 a.m. (waiting on the bus.) Then you can replan the remainder of your day.

Now that is just one example of how to handle a meal/plan for the day. In the next post, I will provide some more examples of how to handle a day.

I hope this helps in planning a trip to Walt Disney World.

Brian