If you've been wishing you had a fairy godmother so you could ask her for a better way to book dining reservations at Disney World and Disneyland, consider your wish granted. Disney just updated its dining reservation system to simplify planning your next trip (no pixie dust required!).
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This update is the latest in a string of improvements Disney has made to its dining system. Before these updates, it could be pretty difficult to snag the most coveted Disney dining reservations, like Cinderella's Royal Table, Story Book Dining at Artist Point or Space 220. That's because you could only search for one day and one meal period at a time. With so many people clamoring for the same restaurants when the booking window opened, availability would often disappear before you found an open spot.
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With the changes Disney has made to its apps and websites for Disney World and Disneyland, those frustrations may soon be a thing of the past. Here's what you need to know before your next visit.
You can begin making dining reservations 60 days before your visit. If you are staying in a Disney World hotel, you can make dining reservations 60 days before your check-in day for your entire stay (up to 10 days), so it's possible to get a 10-day jump on everyone else waiting for the 60-day window to open if you've booked an extended Disney hotel stay.
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Reservations open on Disney's website or the My Disney Experience app between 5:45 a.m. and 6 a.m. Eastern time, or you can call 407-939-DINE beginning at 7 a.m. Eastern time, but coveted reservations may already be snatched up by that time.
You can cancel most Disney World dining reservations up to two hours before your reservation. Note, though, that if you cancel less than two hours ahead of time, you'll be charged a cancellation fee of $10 per person. Exceptions will be noted in the confirmation email you receive at the time of booking, but it's important to know that for hard-to-get reservations like Cinderella's Royal Table, you'll be charged the entire cost of the meal if you don't cancel in time, and for super-gourmet options like Monsieur Paul at Epcot, cancellation fees can reach a lofty $100 per person if you cancel less than three days out, so be sure to read all the details.
Guests of the Disneyland Resort can also begin making dining reservations 60 days in advance. Disneyland does not give the same preferential treatment to on-site hotel guests as Disney World does, but hotel guests do get preferred access to a limited number of reservations at select
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