Trying to get a dinner reservation for Whispering Canyon Cafe at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge Resort during the first week of January and finding nothing?
Whispering Canyon Cafe in Disney’s Wilderness Lodge
We’ve heard quite a few of you may have be experiencing some issues in particular making dining reservations in January at restaurants located in the Walt Disney World Resort hotels, so we did a little digging, and here’s what we found out.
First, we checked the Walt Disney World dining reservations website to see what reservations were available at the Disney World Resort hotels for the first week of January. Specifically, we checked from January 1st through January 9th for breakfast, lunch, and dinner at all of the hotels for a party of 2. The only spots we could find with availability on some of those days and times were basically Rix Sports Bar & Grill at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort and Il Mulino at the Walt Disney World Swan Hotel. The remaining restaurants at the hotels appeared to be showing “no availability.”
Screenshot from the Disney Dining Website
So, we chatted with Disney to see if they could give us any insight on the situation. The Cast Member who we chatted with advised us that dining reservations tend to fill up quickly, and to check back later to see if additional availability is released.
Screenshot from Chat
We also called Disney to see if we could get any more information. The Cast Member who we spoke to on the phone said that they have received a number of calls from guests experiencing a similar issue this morning. The Cast Member told us that Disney has not released a lot of the Disney World Resort hotel restaurant reservation times yet, but that they’re hopeful they’ll be releasing those reservation times soon. The Cast Member advised us to check daily to see when the reservations get released.
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So, it seems if you’re trying to book a dining reservation at many of the restaurants located in the Disney World Resort hotels for January of 2021, you should continue to check on the dining website daily (particularly if you’re trying to snag a hard-to-get reservation) to see when these reservations get released. We’ll definitely be following up on this situation and checking Disney’s dining website to see if we spot any changes, and we’ll let you know if we do.
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