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How to Use Disney's Dining Reservation Search Feature | Walt Disney World

New dining reservation features for Walt Disney World Resort

There’s a new feature that will help you when making dining reservations for Walt Disney World restaurants. You can now view availability for breakfast, lunch, and dinner all at once.

Making dining reservations at Chef Mickeys

Prior to this change, you would have to start a new search if you wanted to check a different meal time.

How is this helpful? Let’s say you want to have dinner at Chef Mickey’s Character Restaurant at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, but you’re not seeing availability.

At this point, you’re open to going to breakfast.

On the old system, you would have to start your search over if you wanted to check breakfast availability.

Now, you can see all available meal times on one screen, without having to restart your search.

Here’s how to use the dining reservation feature:

First, it’s important to know that this feature only unlocks when you search for the restaurant by name. If you use the general “Check Dining Availability” link in the app, this will not work.

  1. In the Disney World mobile app or website, you will need to search for the restaurant using the magnifying glass.

  2. Click on the restaurant in the search results.

  3. Enter the number of diners in your party

  4. Select your date

  5. You’ll now see all available reservations for that restaurant.

Dining reservations become available 60 days in advance, at 6 a.m. ET online.

Disney World has also announced that guests will soon be able to see restaurant availability for up to 10 days, all on a single search.

This will help guests who booked a Disney World vacation package because they have the added benefit of booking dining reservations for the length of their stay, up to 10 days.

Want to see more about dining at Disney World? Check out my Guide to Disney Dining Plans here.


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Since 2010, Darren has been making Orlando vacations easy! As an Orlando resident, he is able to provide insider, expert advice on Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, and Florida-based cruises.


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