Disney Dining Reservations

A good friend is coming down in early June to celebrate a birthday and admission to a local PhD program. We’re park hopping Disneyland / Disney California Adventure. Ever since the pandemic, reservations to a lot of places inside the parks have been nigh impossible to get, so I made sure I was up early in the morning exactly 60 days before our trip is planned, when dining reservations open. This is the screen I was expecting to see:

Until fairly recently, reservations opened up at 3:00 a.m. Pacific time, I’m told, but I’d also heard it had recently changed to later in the morning. I got up at 0245 just in case. I could select the date of our trip in the Disneyland app (before it had not been accessible), but whenever I tried to see dining options I would get the message: Please Try Again We’re having trouble loading this screen.

 

I kept tapping the refresh button and exactly at 0600, I got the screen above. (Managed to get reservations at Oga’s Cantina – those go fast! – and Lamplight Lounge (lunch; I’ve never been before) and Carthay Circle Restaurant (dinner; I’ve never been here before either). I haven’t been able to get back to Carnation Cafe since the pandemic (it was always a favorite; mmm, fried pickles ...), and I’ve only gotten into the Magic Key Terrace twice, once as a walk-up, once with a reservation. I have MouseDining.com watching those to see if we can squeak in.