DINING - Walt Disney World with Kids 2015 - page 206

GETTING ADVANCE RESERVATIONS AT POPULAR
RESTAURANTS
DINNER AT THE MAGIC KINGDOM'S Be Our Guest restaurant, in Fantasyland, and the
8 a.m. breakfast slots at Cinderella's Royal Table , in Cinderella Castle, are the two
hardest-to-get reservations in Walt Disney World. Why? Be Our Guest has the best
food in the park, awesome atmosphere, and good word of mouth; Cinderella's Royal
Table is Disney's tiniest character restaurant, accommodating only about 130 diners
at a time. You'll have to hustle to secure an Advance Reservation at these places.
The easiest and fastest way to get a reservation is go to disney-
world.disney.go.com/dining starting at 6 a.m. Eastern time, a full hour before phone
reservations open. To familiarize yourself with how the site works, try it out a couple
of days before you actually need to make reservations. You'll also save time by set-
ting up an account online before your 180-day booking window, making sure to enter
any credit-card information needed to guarantee your reservations. If you live in Cali-
fornia and have to get up at 3 a.m. Pacific time to make a reservation, Disney couldn't
care less.
Disney's website is usually within a few seconds of the official time as determ-
ined by the US Naval Observatory or the National Institute of Standards and Techno-
logy, accessible online at time.gov . Using this site, synchronize your computer to the
second the night before your 180-day window opens.
Early on the morning you want to make reservations, take a few minutes to type
the date of your visit into a word processor in MM/DD/YYYY format (for example,
11/16/2015 for November 16, 2015). Select the date and copy it to your computer's
clipboard by pressing the Ctrl and C keys simultaneously ( Command-C on Mac) or