Planning Phase II

Now that you've booked your reservations, you can begin planning other aspects of your trip. If you are staying at a Disney resort, 180 days away from your vacation you can begin making dining reservations. If you are wanting to dine at Be Our Guest for dinner it is a must to be online and ready to click submit the minute they open. These reservations go fast and often even at 180 days away are already booked. I completely forgot to do this when our 180 day mark hit and I was SO upset! After a bunch of googling I found a way to get a fastpass for lunch. It is not advertised very well at all and I'm sure that's done for a reason. I believe since it is a fastpass it will only work 30 days away from your vacation, but don't hold me to that. The site is: https://beourguestlunch.disney.go.com/ I was able to book mine the same month I left for vacation.

If you are not staying on Disney property I am not sure how the dining reservations work, What I do know is you can google it and find out those answers. I will probably post all our reservations in a different post once we are back. 

Making dining reservations may sound easy, but it was no easy task for me. There are so many restaurants to choose from and trying to narrow it down to our vacation days was extremely hard. We worked on our dining reservations one full Saturday and only got lunch and dinners planned for two days. We wanted to have reservations to cut down on wait times. I recommend reservations if you have kids because they are already going to be exhausted from all the excitement of being in Disney, I am sure come dinner time they will be quite grumpy and not willing to wait very long for food. 

The next exciting thing to plan for is your fastpass+. If you are staying on Disney property you get 3 fastpasses per person per day I think it is. You can start choosing your fastpasses 30 days in advance. These go quick, so make sure you plan out what rides you want fastpasses for each day prior to the 30 day mark, If you get a fastpass for Be Our Guest, it does not count as one of your fastpasses. We were able to get fastpasses for everything we selected. 

I think this is all for dining and fastpass+ reservations. I think this phase is fun. It can be time consuming, but it helps keep the excitement level at bay :)