We’re going to MK on a Monday AND to HS on a Sunday...which seems to be the busiest park these days. But I’m not too worried about it either! Ha!
We're doing HS Sunday too on the theory that it is going to be busy every day so might as well do it on a weekend. For MK on a Monday I never really thought about it, but it checks out. I was originally planning MK on a Monday but when I went to make dining reservations, absolutely everything was booked at MK on Monday, but I could get CRT on Tuesday. So I switched days and am doing it Tuesday.
Missouri here. My kids school just has a 4 day weekend March 12-18. The school in the next town has a full week March 22-26
We are in Missouri too and have the 22-26 week off, so that's when we're going. Two of my kids' classmates are also going that week with their families. Going to be a busy week I think--eek!
That's what I was thinking. When we added one person I figured they would put us at a 4-top anyway, but now... Ugh, I just really don't want to sit on the phone all that time. But, I'm iced in. What else do I have to do?? LOL
Calling on the phone won't help, unfortunately, since the phone people can't increase your party size unless a table is open for that party size, and it sounds like you've looked and there is isn't. At this point, you are best off cancelling all of your reservations and starting from scratch to eitehr find new places or try to find tables that open up as people cancel--hate to say it but it's true. Disney does not pull up extra chairs to squeeze people in--that was always the case pre-covid but it's even harder now because they have so few tables and can't push tables together or seat someone at the edge of a booth without ruining the 6 foot spacing between tables. It's also all mobile check in now, so you don't really get an opportunity to ask them if they can accommodate a larger party.
We're a party of 5 and have booked MANY last minute trips to WDW. Our trip last year (during covid times) was booked just 3 weeks ahead--and even though there was almost nothing available when we booked, with a combination of checking the app/website multiple times daily and using online reservation finder tools we were able to get almost everything we wanted. People cancel all the time, especially a day or two before to avoid the same-day cancellation penalty.
You guys have inspired me to order my last couple items off
Amazon and start a bag!
there are water refill stations in the parks right? I know many places roped them off during COVID—wasn’t sure about WDW.
Yes, but the water stations are kind of few and far between. We found the most efficient option was to pop into a quick service restaurant and pick up cups of ice water from them. They are free and they sometimes just have them set out for a tray for everyone to grab, and if not, if you ask the attendant at the "pick up food" counter they'll bring you ice waters.
I don’t think they are increasing capacity (although I think they eventually will and won’t make an announcement about it when they do). I think that the yellow dates in March and April were given some park reservation availability from the AP bucket. I think that because the AP availability was all green for those months before the resort guest and theme park ticket buckets went back to green. I also think they weren’t given many reservation spots because the second week in April is yellow again so the HS days they added are gone for the same time period as they were before they added to that week. They didn’t stick around long for that week.
I agree, I think they are just moving inventory around between park pass buckets. Several AP types are blacked out the weeks around easter, so I expect they were finding there weren't a ton of APs visiting versus a lot of off site and onsite guests with non-AP tickets.
They'll be so surprised. So excited to see the castle every night before going to sleep, and every morning when we wake up. 
