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We were at WDW in September the first week at VWL and the second at a resort off property. I was able to make a lunch FP during the first week using the link mentioned above. We were lucky to get one since it was full most of the time. It was ONLY available to us during the first week. To get a FP you must give your onsite resort info. The second week we did not have it so NO FP. This is disappointing to us since we really like to have lunch at BOG. We will be back in December for two weeks OFF property. There are no ADRs for dinner available and now we are excluded from lunch. Oh well, perhaps something will change before we get there.
Rhinohunter - I noticed when I received the email link I was only able to make a FP for the first 7 days of my trip so I'm thinking that's what happened to you as well. I'm sure if more people start emailing Disney telling them about longer vacations and the inability to book past day 7, they might eventually change it. I didn't bother to say anything as the day I was looking at was within those 7 days anyway but you're not the only PPer that I've read was unable to make it for later in longer vacations.
ETA - I just thought of something else too. I think Disney should allow people to obtain (not have) multiple of these as well for those longer vacations. What I mean is like the revolving 4th FP. If you get one FP for BoG at lunch, all you can have is the one but once you use it, I think we should be allowed to try for a second one during our trips
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WDW: be our guest now only accepting Fastpass for Lunch
We were there Sept. 21 to 26 and they were only accepting FastPass. There was no announcement about this policy. We were pretty upset. We were at Disney 2 years ago just before BOG opened and have been looking forward to it for two years. But we did not receive the invitation. Had we realized there would be no stand by I would have called guest services before the trip and or when we checked in pushed for an invitation.
Even worse, there was no standby line for Elsa and Anna. We had tried for fast passes for that the minute our window opened and every day up till we left with no luck. We were resigned to a long wait but we had a child with us who adores Frozen. They released more fastpasses the morning we went to MK. But the last one was gone while we were at the kiosk trying to make our change. Thankfully the cast member directed us to a manager who got the three littlest kids in. My granddaughter's hearts would have been broken if they had missed Elsa.
People pay a good deal of money and wait and plan for a Disney vacation. This is becoming a little 'unmagical'.
Since my DD is a CM, this makes anything Disney does as far as FP+ only out of our reach. CMs are not eligible to register for FP's until they actually show up to the park. I am really disappointed and hope this is not a permanent change, because we still haven't gotten to try BOG!
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We could not get a walk-up reservation at Liberty Tree AND half the restaurant was empty at 11:30am. We were not impressed.
IF the Disney application worked it would be nice...but the parks are getting micromanaged to the enth degree. When we made 'on the day' changes we got repeated ERROR MESSAGES...
IF they wanted every moment planned ahead...why don't they let you make a meal reservation within the context of scheduling the fast passes???
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You needn't do online check-in to get your specific resort confirmation number needed for the BOG lunch fastpass. You can get the number by calling Disney.
That's what we did last fall when the FP for BOG was very new.
As people have speculated elsewhere here, I'm thinking this might be a leadup to making ADR's necessary at lunch and dinner. Guess we'll find out.
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I've had the link bookmarked (with our code) for months, waiting either for the email, or for our window of opportunity to open. I think if I were getting an email it would have arrived yesterday (it didn't). I logged in anyway. No times available *except* for our arrival day - before our plane lands). I'd love to go on our departure day, since we're leaving in the evening, but that date isn't part of the plan, evidently. Guess we're just out of luck this trip. Not a heartbreaker but I thought we had a chance, and it seems we don't.
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