UPDATE 2:
RESERVATION BOOKED 8 days, 23 hours, 13 minutes after setting up the search. It took 7 days for our second chance to materialize, but we were able to get our res with 19 days left.
UPDATE 1:
RESERVATION FOUND 23 hours 45 minutes after setting up my search. Booking failed due to my failure to click button in timely fashion.
WDWTools’ notifier sent me a message at 7:54 PM this evening, showing an available reservation for Jan 14 at 7:40. That sounded good to me! Unfortunately, I didn’t see this mail right away despite the text alert, and when I tried to book it six minutes later it was gone. 🙁
I will keep my watch active and update again when another opening comes in. We are working on an iteration of the product that would respond to available reservations automatically, removing necessity for individual action.
For more frequent options, one should consider making a more flexible search.
Will be at WDW 1/14 — 1/17 with my wife for our anniversary. I just booked this trip earlier this week, when it was 28 days out. I want some ADRs, but at the moment I’m a little unsure of what exactly. I know I want Be Our Guest, though. I haven’t set anything up yet. Now I want to make sure I secure my spot.
I start out by logging in at wdwtools.com.
Then, I want to use the ADR Sniper tool to make sure I can get dinner at BOG, so I go to the ADR Sniper section and click “Add New Watch”.
You can see the form for establishing a new watch here. I want to eat at Be Our Guest, so I select that restaurant from the dropdown. And I want Dinner, so I select that too.
As stated above, I want to eat this meal on January 14. It’s a short trip and I want to fit some other ADRs in, so I start and end the search on the same date — Jan 14. It may take a little longer to get this reservation because we are being specific about our date, but I’m confident we’ll find something. If we’re feeling a bit more flexible, we should try searching for a range. Openings are found much faster that way.
I could set up some more specific time ranges if there were other pressures that night, but I still haven’t planned much of the trip out, so I’m ok with being flexible right now. Some other ADRs we try won’t be this way.
Hit save …
… and voila, my watch has been stored.
Believe it or not, that’s it for this part of the work. I don’t have to go to Disney’s site at all. I just have to wait for something to hit my mailbox now. Typically something is found pretty fast, and I’ll update this post with info once that happens. 😉