Why does this seem so hard?

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Agreed! I thought I wanted more, but I am just too happy with our perfect little family. And it doesn’t hurt that baby #4 has been Best Baby! She has been the sweetest, most playful, easygoing kid. I am not going to tempt fate with another baby.

Non-mobile was probably super helpful. DD21mo is quite the monkey. She’ll probably be a handful during the apartment part. I was actually just able to book it. I went with noon on Monday 12/5, but I’m not sold on that time. I feel like it’s an afternoon type of event though. So as not to waste morning touring time. It would be great if DD would nap through it!

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Also, I was able to get Blue Bayou for 8 people! I didn’t think it was going to be possible, but set a mousewatcher just in case and it came through :grin:

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I managed to get all of my ADRs! Most of them for 8. Though the princess breakfast I had to get 4 reservations for 2 :woman_facepalming: Hopefully they’ll let us sit together.

Thank you for all the help everyone!

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I’ve messed up. I made my Blue Bayou dessert only ADR for 11:20am and my Walt Main Street Tour for 12:00pm on the same day. There is no other availability for either. I don’t think that’s enough time.

I did book some contingencies for the day before, but it will take some finagling. I have the Hungry Bear F! for both 5:30pm (1st Show) and 7:00pm (2nd Show). I actually made the first one in error not realizing it was for the for 1st show, we want the 2nd show. I also have an ADR at Blue Bayou at 7:00pm the same night. Do you think we could:

A) Pick up our F! meal at Hungry Bear at 5:30 and ask to be moved to the 2nd showing? Or
B) Pick up our 7:00 meal at Hungry Bear a little early and hustle over to Blue Bayou? Or
C) Try to turn our 7:00 Blue Bayou into an F! package? Or
D) Give up on Blue Bayou as we were only interested in going for the ambience anyway?

I’d prefer A, but don’t know how flexible they are.

Thanks!

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For option A to work you’re at the mercy of the capacity that day & the a little bit the whim CM. I think they can if the capacity allows, but there are some days they just can’t no matter how much they want to. And more and more DL is operating more rigidly than not. If you do end up trying for this option, my advice is to try to make sure that you are not near any other groups of people who could overhear the CM making that change for you. I have found that if I can catch a CM 1:1 they are a lot more willing/forthcoming than if there are any number of people who can hear & want to know if they can do the same.

I would personally go with option B because they won’t in the grand scheme of things care too much about you being a bit late for your 7pm Blue Bayou. And also because option C feels impossible, just from my own anecdotal recent experience of trying for it for our mid-Dec trip. But you could absolutely set up notifications to try for it & do that if you really don’t want the hassle of switching around everything else.

And honestly, you still have plenty of time, so I would still just keep on eye on what comes available.

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I do have mousewatchers set for more BB ADRs and the BB F! package. Hopefully something will come through. Knowing that B is our best option though is quite helpful. Thank you!

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Personally I would choose this option. You can get most/all of the ambiance of Blue Bayou by riding POTC.

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This is definitely a valid point and one that I generally agree with as well. BUT if it’s something you want to do once or very rarely for a special trip, it is nice. We’ve only done it once and felt it was slightly overrated. But our kids are all wanting to go again & I LOVE the view of F! from the dining section.

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Last month we did the HB package for the second show. They mixed all the packages together, so we sat with the BB peeps. Same view, much less cost.
I would go to BB for the F! package over HB in their case, but not just to get dessert. Have they stopped yelling at people about not ordering entrees, for awhile you had to order an entree at BB, but I cannot remember if that was pre-covid closure.

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It was a pre-covid closure thing and it seems like they have generally backed off. But upthread I did mention it & said it’s been a thing before so be prepared for that. And I also would for the cost prefer to do the HB dining package & get the same view. But if I’m gonna do a once in a decade Blue Bayou stop, I want to combo it with the F! to kill 2 birds with one stone.

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Right, I would too. But I don’t think that is an option for Kerri, unless she keeps her lunch time ADR and adds on the F! package…but she would have to cancel her tour.

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