Stupid Guest Tricks

seeing_eye_child wrote:BUT THEY RECOMMEND DOUBLE BOOKING ADR'S!!!!!!!!!!!

Double-booking is nothing. I had a guest one day who had *three* bookings for dinner, but wanted one for the fourth park in case that's where they ended up.

No, she didn't get one from me.

Zazu wrote:Double-booking is nothing. I had a guest one day who had *three* bookings for dinner, but wanted one for the fourth park in case that's where they ended up.

No, she didn't get one from me.

A 25$ per seat deposit, like at Cali Grill, would solve this nonsense quickly! Make it refundable, up to 45 days out, then its a forfeit if they no show.
On the other hand, those no shows are why I usually succeed in getting walk ups at some great places, yes including Le Cellier.

delsdad wrote:A 25$ per seat deposit, like at Cali Grill, would solve this nonsense quickly! Make it refundable, up to 45 days out, then its a forfeit if they no show.
On the other hand, those no shows are why I usually succeed in getting walk ups at some great places, yes including Le Cellier.

Out of the 3 times I have eaten at Ohana, all were due to showing up at 1630 and getting on the standby to replace the no shows. As a local, disallowing double bookings doesn't help the fact that I can rarely walk up to a good restaurant. It would help the Guests in the middle.

delsdad wrote:A 25$ per seat deposit, like at Cali Grill, would solve this nonsense quickly! Make it refundable, up to 45 days out, then its a forfeit if they no show.
On the other hand, those no shows are why I usually succeed in getting walk ups at some great places, yes including Le Cellier.

Our local yacht club had a bad problem with reservations made for lobster night and then no show. The lobs have to be ordered in advance and a few no shows wiped out the thin profit.

The solution was taking credit card numbers at reservation time. No show and a walk in didn't buy the dinners, and the card got charged.

I have only double booked once and felt guilty about it. But it was disney's fault because I was pretty sure they would add a later Fantasmic but not list it on the website. Since I hate eating in HS I made an extra adr outside of the park incase they had added the additional show and didn't find pout until I got the times guide. I cancelled it a few days ahead of time but still felt guilty.

stitch'sgirl wrote:I have only double booked once and felt guilty about it. But it was disney's fault because I was pretty sure they would add a later Fantasmic but not list it on the website. Since I hate eating in HS I made an extra adr outside of the park incase they had added the additional show and didn't find pout until I got the times guide. I cancelled it a few days ahead of time but still felt guilty.

At least you cancelled a few days out. Chances are the reservation got filled within hours, and someone got in at the last minute. Its the jerks who double book, then cancel day of, or not at all, who bug me so much.

We are coming down in 4 weeks and our friends that were going to meet us just cancelled because their kids had so many snow days this year and they will still be in school.

I had made reservations for all 7 of us at a few places. I cancelled some today, but tried to get a new one for 3 people at an earlier time. Nothing available! So I kept the 7:40 res and called to change the number to 3 people. My wife thought it was crazy that we couldn't get an earlier reservation for 3 people. I told her about the triple andf quadripple booking folks. Her comment was, "yes, but they cancel the ones they don't want. Right?" I shook my head. She still has a perplexed look on her face.

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TeamUBR wrote: "yes, but they cancel the ones they don't want. Right?"

It's not that kind of Fantasyland. :p:

Hi everyone,

I have been lurking for months now loving all the posts. We just booked our second trip this morning to WDW. We have been onsite once before, I thought for sure I was a stupid guest by not educating myself that you need ADRs as per board X. So this time around I thought no last minute and book 4 months out. We started searching for times and unless we want to eat at 9:30 for a lot of places for dinner I'm AOL. I thought I would check on board X and it's the land of the holy ADR. I can't even make my mind up what size timmy's coffee I want in the morning.

welcome, huckleberry!! :waves:

i made our ADRs for october on the saturday before easter. got up early...popped on the website and viola...got everything we wanted.

We're not big planners, but based onnthe SGs that triple-book, we wanted to make sure we eat where we want to. We had started planning about a month prior...looking up when the parks open, where we want to be most days (Epcot, of course).

i'm so excited...5 more months and i'm there.