Thank you for the reply! I did call this morning and figured a cast member could help but she said she couldn’t.
She advised another person in my party to make a reservation so I will be headed to my MIL’s today to help her with all that 
Seriously? We just had a large group in December, and the cast member was great - she set up reservations, in my name, to correspond to the restaurant and time I had made my own 'partial' reservation. It took her 10 minutes to handle my 'additional' reservations. I know it's not ideal, but you might've gotten a cast member who didn't have experience with this situation - might be worth another call. Or get someone else to help you out in your group.Thank you for the reply! I did call this morning and figured a cast member could help but she said she couldn’t.
You can’t do this anymore. If you go into MDE and try to make a reservation, you should see that it automatically makes the MDE holder the primary guest with no way to change it. Someone corrected me a few days ago when I suggested the same as you; naturally, I thought the person was incorrect, but I went to check and was surprised they were right. I had just done the split res thing in January. Not a fan of this change.
Thanks for the correction. I was not aware this had changed.
It sounded like a good idea
thanks for your suggestion regardless
I would call again. My 60 days date was March 14, party of 7 and had to call for help. the cast member was able to set up the second half of my reservation with no issue.Thank you for the reply! I did call this morning and figured a cast member could help but she said she couldn’t.
Hear, hear, Disney!
My guess is this is another example of why we can’t have nice things. I’d guess that for every person on here doing the for something legit like a large party there are a lot more doing it to grab as many ADRs as they can and then decide which they want later, thus making it harder for people who want them to get them until last-minute. (It would actually affect staffing budget as well because they might staff for what they think will be full/sold-out but then people drop the reservations and they may not be picked up because people not able to get them either find other things or make other plans (and not everyone knows to look within 2 hours or about the walk-up waitlist) so tables go empty.
Yes, sadly - this. Seems like too many people doing their 'planning' by not actually planning - just grabbing ADRs and then deciding much later what want to do and where they want to eat. I've been reading other posts where folks are saying they're finding ADRs easier to get than they expected. Well, in my mind, part of that reason is that a person can no longer hold 3/4/5 ADRs at the same time (maybe even multiple ADRs over multiple days)..... And it also impacts those, like the OP, who just want to make ADRs for their larger group - makes that way more complicated now.
Surely they have a smart enough IT department o be able to figure out that as long as you have no more reserved spots than people in your party at one time (at one or more locations) then you should be able to make those ADRs. That would eliminate the problem of multiple reservations for the whole party at once and would cost Disney less in 'in person' support of folks having to call in for assistance.
No reservation app allows for this - OpenTable, Tock, Resy. It's good practice to keep people from hoarding reservations. Has nothing to do with "IT." As someone who works in IT, this is expected behavior aka works as intended.
Have you met Disney's IT department? It crashes the moment any new discount comes out. Or on any given day that ends in "y".
It is a recent change - I did it in January. If you needed to make two overlapping reservations for a large party, you make the first reservation using another member of the MDE owner’s family and friends as primary. Then you could make a second reservation using the MDE owner as the primary. I did this quite often when traveling with extended family when no large party reservations were available. Now I’m going to have to make the dreaded phone call or teach the others how to make a dining reservation, although I won’t be able to trust them to rise and shine for 6am est…
Actually I am an IT director at my company and can think of very simple solutions for this. It may work as they intend, but I am suggesting they can think bigger/better/more efficient.
Yes, the simple solution is to have 1 reservation per lead in a 2 hour slot - which is what this is intended to do. I'm also a director in IT so we can do this all day
