Look, we get it — planning a Disney World vacation can be tricky. That’s why we’re here to help in any way we can.

Booking a Disney World vacation often requires picking out the ideal hotel reservations for you and your family in addition to selecting dining reservations that will elevate your trip from good to great. Reservations, whether they’re for hotels or dining, are pretty much standard for most folks visiting Disney World. However, it turns out you could be making a crucial mistake when going through the reservation process.

You might be aware that Disney World offers reservation windows. For example, when you book a Disney World trip at a Disney resort, you will be able to begin selecting your dining reservations 60 days out from your check-in. However, that rule gets a little dicey when considering split stays.

Before we get into the specifics, it’s important that we define a split stay. Split stays are simply trips where you stay at two or more hotels during one Disney World Resort visit. Often, people will do this to make itineraries work, budget, or experience multiple hotels during one trip. It’s a pretty simple process, but it does change the finer details when it comes to dining reservations.

We recently saw a future Disney World guest named Stephen ask planDisney the following question:

“I have a Disney World stay planned but I am switching resorts in the middle. Will I be able to book dining 60 days from the first resort check in through the entire trip? Or just through the first resort stay?”

A Disney panelist wrote back and clarified Disney World’s rules.

According to the panelist, guests utilizing split stays will have multiple booking windows.

“However, since your Resort hotel reservations are separate bookings at two locations with different confirmation numbers, you’ll have two separate booking windows,” wrote the panelist.  They also suggested that reservation availability is “generally greater the further into one’s booking window,” so working backward from the end of your stay might yield some better results. Either way, this is something you need to be aware of when making dining reservations in conjunction with split stays.

As a reminder, dining reservations can be made in the My Disney Experience app. When in doubt or if confusion sets in, there’s never any harm in reaching out to an official Disney representative via phone or online chat to clarify questions you might have about the dining reservation process.

You can also learn more about advanced dining reservations by clicking the link HERE!

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