Stacymarie1216
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Apr 2, 2015
We are headed to Disney at the end of the month - Sept 29 - Oct 5. This will be our 4th trip in the last 7 years and I have historically prided myself on my in-depth level of planning and preparing for our trips. I would stalk the app in advance until I got the perfect fast passes and dining reservations. And I always got exactly what we wanted. I may have had to refresh the app a million times and change reservations at 2 in the morning because I got up to pee and checked the app and happened to find the right reservation at the right time. But I always got there.
Planning for this trip though has just been depressing. We specifically chose this time back when we booked so we could hopefully take advantage of lower crowds. They announced the opening of the Star Wars crazyness right after we booked, but we just didn't want to post pone because I feel like it will be crazy for quite a while, so what's the point. I hopped on for fast passes and dining reservations the second I could - I was literally not a second late - and nothing. Late night fast passes for the big rides were all that was available if they were available at all. And dining reservations are non existent. I don't even bother looking for them anymore because all my refreshing over and over again has been met with the same "nothing is available" message.
So we are looking at our trip in 3 weeks and haven't been able to get dining reservations or any decent fast passes. By decent I mean we have fast passes for things like the Frozen Sing Along and meeting Mickey and Minnie at MK :/.
I guess I just wanted to vent. I know it's Disney World - and even without reservations we'll still have a blast...but the determined, type A planner in me who is used to getting what I want (with a lot of hard work, mind you) is just so bummed. I can't even get excited about packing or planning it all out because it's so frustrating.
Planning for this trip though has just been depressing. We specifically chose this time back when we booked so we could hopefully take advantage of lower crowds. They announced the opening of the Star Wars crazyness right after we booked, but we just didn't want to post pone because I feel like it will be crazy for quite a while, so what's the point. I hopped on for fast passes and dining reservations the second I could - I was literally not a second late - and nothing. Late night fast passes for the big rides were all that was available if they were available at all. And dining reservations are non existent. I don't even bother looking for them anymore because all my refreshing over and over again has been met with the same "nothing is available" message.
So we are looking at our trip in 3 weeks and haven't been able to get dining reservations or any decent fast passes. By decent I mean we have fast passes for things like the Frozen Sing Along and meeting Mickey and Minnie at MK :/.
I guess I just wanted to vent. I know it's Disney World - and even without reservations we'll still have a blast...but the determined, type A planner in me who is used to getting what I want (with a lot of hard work, mind you) is just so bummed. I can't even get excited about packing or planning it all out because it's so frustrating.