The Disney Dining Booking Window
Walt Disney World and Disneyland release dining reservations 60 days ahead — but not every Disney resort does. Every window we watch, and how to count it.
Published · by MouseWatcher
A booking window is the head start Disney gives you: the number of days before a date that its reservations for that date go on sale. Nothing is bookable before the window opens, and almost everything worth booking is taken shortly after it does. Knowing your window — the right one for your resort — is what puts you in the room when the tables are released.
The number most people mean by “the Disney dining booking window” is 60 days, the window at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. It is not universal: the other resorts MouseWatcher watches run on their own schedules, and the table below is the full picture.
How far ahead each Disney resort opens dining reservations
| Disney resort | Reservations open | Book on |
|---|---|---|
| Walt Disney World | 60 days ahead | Walt Disney World booking site |
| Disneyland | 60 days ahead | Disneyland booking site |
| Aulani Resort | 30 days ahead | Aulani Resort booking site |
| Disneyland Paris | 62 days ahead | Disneyland Paris booking site |
| Tokyo Disney | 30 days ahead | Tokyo Disney booking site |
| Hong Kong Disneyland | 42 days ahead | Hong Kong Disneyland booking site |
Booking is always done on Disney’s own site with your own Disney account. MouseWatcher never books, holds or resells a reservation.
How to count the days
Count back from the date you want to eat
The window belongs to the dining date, not to your trip. Dinner on the fourteenth becomes bookable when your resort’s window reaches the fourteenth, whatever day you arrive, so each date in a trip opens on its own morning, one day at a time.
Walt Disney World resort hotel guests get a longer reach
Guests staying at a Walt Disney World resort hotel are the exception: they can book the whole length of their stay starting from the window that opens for their check-in date. In practice that means the later days of a trip become bookable well before their own window would have opened — which is why the most in-demand Walt Disney World restaurants can be gone before day guests ever get a turn. Disney publishes the current rule, and the number of nights it covers, on its own booking pages.
The release happens at a set time, not at midnight
Reservations are released at a fixed hour each morning in the resort’s own time zone rather than at the stroke of midnight, and that hour is Disney’s to change. Check it on the official site linked in the table above before you plan an early alarm around it.
What the window does not tell you
The window says when a table goes on sale. It says nothing about how long it stays on sale, and for the hardest reservations the answer is: not long. That is why the booking window is the beginning of the process rather than the end of it.
Reservations keep appearing after the window closes, because Disney releases more inventory for dates it has already opened and because other guests cancel. Those openings are the ones MouseWatcher exists to catch — see how to book hard-to-get reservations for what to do about the ones that never seem to.
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