Best order of making reservations

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As you can make dining reservations 180 days out, you do that first. Then, before your window opens for FPP reservations you make personalized TPs and optimize them to help decide what FPP reservations to try to get. Reoptimize once you get your FPP reservations, and then reoptimize right before your trip.

Here is a link to a forum post the gets into a little more detail on when to do various planning tasks:

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