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I need some help. I have multiple reservations. I received an email and booked a BOG FP for our shorttrip the 2nd weekend of August. Today I received an invite for my 8/20 trip with a different reservation number but it will not let me enter a new reservation number and is only giving me dates for my first trip. My husband is going to be VERY upset if we can't get this because I was not not able to get a dinner ressie and my daughter and I already ate there on a solo trip and he is very upset lol.
So...any idea how to get this to work? I've tried different computers. Nothing seems to work.
Hmm.....but Disney sent me an invitation for my 8/20 trip. I got the invite for my 8/11 arrival on July 16th and it worked just fine. Why would this one be different?
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wait until you're within 26 days of your 8/20 trip and try again. It's a beta system and it doesn't work exactly like the other ones do. I got an invite about 29 days before my trip, but I could not book beyond the 26 day mark.
It's 25 days out now according to my countdown. I understand the no confirmation thing. I don't understand why it won't allow me to enter a different number. ..the one listed in the invite I received. I am never gonna hear the end of it if my husband doesn't get to eat there and I eat there twice!
If it doesn't work, you could always just wait in line to get in.
We've done lunch twice this way. It's a huge restaurant so even when the line was up over the bridge to Gaston's, we got seated within 30 minutes or so.
I was there July 12 - 19 and went to MK 3 different days and we ate lunch at BOG each day with no FP. We ate around 11AM on Monday, Friday & Saturday and had no more than a 5 minute on each day. I didn't get my hopes up ahead of time to eat there but got in with no problems. People were also making same day dinner reservations while we were there!!!! It is beautiful inside and the food is good. I would skip desert as the cupcakes are extremely small and nothing special. The "grey stuff" ech, I would say skip it. We certainly won't eat it again!!!! Have fun and good luck getting in!!!!
A half hour may be an issue with my 5 year old who has Autism...waiting is not really her strong suit. I guess we will have to see what happens when we get there. It's just frustrating that Disney's email is not working. It seems like you can't have a FP for more than one reservation at a time. I will keep trying. And yes all my reservations are linked to My Disney Experience. The issue is that when I log in to the BOG FP link it doesn't even allow me to enter a reservation number. It just goes right to the page where it asks me to select of modify an existing Fast Pass and then the same week (that coincides with my first reservation) pops up. Grr frustrating. I'm never going to hear the end of this from DH!
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I was able to get BOG FP about 12 days out with several time choices. I planned a last minute trip. If you have to wait for the first trip to be over before you set up the second set of FPs you may be fine.
Also try clearing out your cookies and see if that does anything.
My daughter is Autistic too and she was able to wait the 30 minutes fine (we waited last summer to get in). Her only problem with it was the heat outside but once we found a little shady spot for her, she was fine with waiting
I am having the same issue. I got the email but the link brings me straight to the chose a date page and it has my past trip on it not my new trip. It does not allow me to put in my new reservation # either.
I tried calling IT but they seemed clueless as how to fix the situation.
I can't help with the wrong trips other than to say for me, it's messed up as well. My trip is from 8/8 to 8/18 but even today, I am not given any dates past 8/14 to choose from
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