Disney Dining Availability Data

The hardest Disney reservations to get right now

Nobody sets an alert for a table they were able to book. Each alert in this table is a guest telling us they want a reservation they do not have — so alert volume tracks how sold out a restaurant is, more directly than any public source can. This is a demand ranking, not a quality ranking, and the 20 rows here are the top of that list, not the whole of it.

Where MouseWatcher found the most openings

The same window, counted the other way: how many times a reservation actually opened up for one of our users. A restaurant near the top of both tables is hard to book but does come free — usually when another party cancels. One high on the demand table and low on this one is the genuinely difficult booking.

Openings found by Disney resort

Where those openings turned up. The totals track how many MouseWatcher users are watching each resort as much as they track each resort’s own cancellation traffic, so read the rows against each other with that in mind.

What the data shows

Demand is concentrated in a handful of restaurants

Disney runs hundreds of table-service restaurants and bookable experiences, but the pressure sits on a short list of them: character meals, the signature restaurants inside the parks, and the enchanting-extras experiences that seat only a few guests an hour. That concentration is why “book the moment your window opens” is advice that only works for the first few names on your list — for the rest, watching beats refreshing.

The booking window decides when you have a chance

Each Disney resort releases reservations a fixed number of days ahead of the date, and the window differs by resort: Walt Disney World, 60 days; Disneyland, 60 days; Disneyland Paris, 62 days; Aulani Resort, 30 days; Tokyo Disney, 30 days; Hong Kong Disneyland, 42 days. For the restaurants at the top of this page, that release is measured in seconds rather than minutes, so almost every opening found afterwards is a table somebody else gave back.

Openings are cancellations, and cancellations do not keep office hours

Because the initial release is gone so quickly, the openings counted on this page come overwhelmingly from other guests cancelling or changing plans. Those cancellations arrive at no particular hour — overnight, mid-morning, or minutes before a party’s penalty deadline — and they are usually taken again within minutes. That gap between “a table exists” and “a table is gone” is the entire reason a continuous watch beats refreshing the app yourself.

How to use this page

If the restaurant you want is near the top of the demand table, plan on watching for it rather than booking it outright, and give yourself more than one target date — every extra date is another chance for a cancellation to land on one of them. These tables show only the busiest few of the 284 restaurants and activities we watch, so a restaurant missing from them is simply outside the top of our own users’ lists — not evidence that it is easy to book.