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if no Advanced Dining Reservation (ADR) is available is walk in possible?
This might be a dumb question but if a location such as BOG has no ADR available will it be possible to stand in line at the park for a table? Do they hold space for that?
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They don't hold space for it, but there's a possibility that someone cancels or doesn't show up so it doesn't hurt to ask. But have a backup plan because the answer will likely be "no availability"
Disney has recently introduced a fee for no shows of $10 per person on the reservation. This has led to very few available tables at popular restaurants--ADRs must be canceled 24 hours in advance for every restaurant. Your best bet is to call the day before to check. BOG has zero availability for the next six months.
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As Heather said, I think your best bet is to try at 24 hours out to see if anyone's cancelled to avoid the $10 fee. You may luck out at the parks, but equally there may be no availability, so as has been said, if you plan on doing this, you definitely need a back-up plan.
I tried to call every day of our vaca to see if BOG had cancellations to no avail but you never know...the ladies at the BOG sign in booth said around 2-3 pm they get cancellations, but not sure if that is reliable based on the 10$ per person fee if not cancelled in 24hrs.
Good luck!
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But you CAN stand in line for lunch, so if your primary purpose is to see BOG (which is truly wonderfully themed) then that is an option. QS credit will get you lunch, if you're on the DP. We waited about 30 minutes to get in when they opened for lunch and had plenty of tables to choose from.
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But you CAN stand in line for lunch, so if your primary purpose is to see BOG (which is truly wonderfully themed) then that is an option. QS credit will get you lunch, if you're on the DP. We waited about 30 minutes to get in when they opened for lunch and had plenty of tables to choose from.
Yup, you can. People we chatted with at the table next to ours at lunch said they waited for about 30 mins to get in. We were just there last week at a non-busy WDW time, so I'm not sure at all I'd consider that the standard wait during busier times of the year.
As we were headed to Fastpass + checkin, having been selected to test that for BOG, a man asked the CM at regular checkin if there were any ADR's for dinner. She said she had only one for 4:00, so you might luck out if you don't mind eating at bizarre times or just happen upon a cancellation as that man did. Needless to say, he grabbed it, having said he'd prefer dinner there to lunch.
We were quite pleased with lunch ourselves and suggest that instead.
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This might be a dumb question but if a location such as BOG has no ADR available will it be possible to stand in line at the park for a table? Do they hold space for that?
I can speak from experience regarding BOG that walk ups are NOT possible, even at the start of dinner. We tried this on our last trip and the CMs were adamant that there were no walk ups available. They even went through the line that was forming outside the restaurant to see if people waiting had ADRs and to tell those who didn't that nothing was available.
It's much easier to do walk ups at Epcot or the resorts.
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