Sorry if this is a repost... I noticed a couple of days ago that you can make dinner ADR at The Plaza again. I am going late May/June and changed lunch to dinner.
Thanks for posting this, the prime lunch spots are back as well and I was able to book lunch on our departure day.
An interesting observation I made... before the took away the ADR option whenever I went to The Plaza with an ADR, the restaurant was always full. When I went last year during a time that ADR was not an option, I walked up and was seated immediately and the restaurant was more than half empty and this was at a prime lunch time around 12:30. There were even CMs outside the restaurant letting people know they had tables available. Based on my experience, I think perhaps the experiment to go no ADR to give a walk up option in MK didn't work very well. I think they have everybody so programmed for ADRs that it's hard to do otherwise.
I'm personally really happy about this because I much prefer having my reservation ahead of time and not having to worry about how busy it may or may not be when I want to eat there.
The issue I think is this: At 180 days out, you have the dining plan, you want a meal, are you willing to gamble NOT reserving with an ADR and hoping that you can get a spot at The Plaza as a walk up guest? If they are full, and the wait is insane, then are you stuck with a set of TS credits you can't use? My guess is that most people are not willing to take that chance, and so they make an ADR elsewhere.Thanks for posting this, the prime lunch spots are back as well and I was able to book lunch on our departure day.
An interesting observation I made... before the took away the ADR option whenever I went to The Plaza with an ADR, the restaurant was always full. When I went last year during a time that ADR was not an option, I walked up and was seated immediately and the restaurant was more than half empty and this was at a prime lunch time around 12:30. There were even CMs outside the restaurant letting people know they had tables available. Based on my experience, I think perhaps the experiment to go no ADR to give a walk up option in MK didn't work very well. I think they have everybody so programmed for ADRs that it's hard to do otherwise.
I'm personally really happy about this because I much prefer having my reservation ahead of time and not having to worry about how busy it may or may not be when I want to eat there.
The issue I think is this: At 180 days out, you have the dining plan, you want a meal, are you willing to gamble NOT reserving with an ADR and hoping that you can get a spot at The Plaza as a walk up guest? If they are full, and the wait is insane, then are you stuck with a set of TS credits you can't use? My guess is that most people are not willing to take that chance, and so they make an ADR elsewhere.
We did have lunch at The Plaza last summer, but we were not on a dining plan. Since we were paying out of pocket, it really wasn't a big deal, if there was a long wait there, we would have simply gone to a QS location for our lunch.