I have found the ultimate tool to utilize for my Disney vacations to make sure I get the reservations for the must do things for my family and I am here to share that secret with you, the best part about this secret tool is it is 100% free. You ever wonder how folks get those amazing dining reservations or are able to do some of the experiences that are always unavailable, this tool is how they do that! This is something you can utilize even when you’re staying off Disney World Resorts. 

This well kept secret tool is Mouse Dining. This website is your ultimate tool to get reservations on anything at Walt Disney World or Disneyland from dining, special experiences and behind the scenes tours. This guide below will walk you through how to best use this tool and pro-tips on getting your reservations.

Mouse Dining is free for anyone to use and you can set up to 6 alerts at a time for different reservations you want to be notified when they become available. You will be notified via email with the free plan. Travel agents who use this site are members and get notifications via text message. My best advice for you to be able to beat the agents to getting your reservations is to turn on notifications for email alerts on your phone so as soon as something is available you are notified. You can also set multiple notifications for the same dining experiences. Example would be you really want to get a rsvp for character dining at Chef Mickeys and you don’t care rather it’s breakfast or dinner so you would go into your alerts tab and type in Chef Mickeys, select date, pick number of guests, and then  select breakfast. This will set an alert to notify you whenever a time is available for breakfast at Chef Mickeys. You would then go back in and set another alert but change instead of breakfast for dinner so either way if a time slot becomes available you will know! 

Pictured above is a screen grab of what setting your alert will look like.  

Not Just Dining

You can also set alerts for other things besides just dining! You could set an alert for Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique! If you are browsing through the activities and click onto Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique it will take you to a calendar which shows you dates that there are already openings! This can save you from evening setting an alert!

Pictured above is the different activities you can set alerts for.

Pictured above is an example of the calendar you will see when browsing for openings.

When you set alerts and are made aware of a possible reservation you will open the email you got from Mouse Dining and click the link to “book RSVP” this will take you to Disney’s Official site and you proceed with booking.  Pro-Tip checks your emails at random times, say you wake up in the middle of the night, check it! I was able to score a lot of my reservations this way because people were canceling things late in the evening or early morning hours.

If you have multiple alerts set for the same activities or dinning and are able to get a reservation for breakfast instead of dinner you can go in and cancel that dinner alert to free up your allowed alerts so you can set more! Pro-tip if you got a breakfast reservation but truly wanted a dinner reservation for Chef Mickeys leave the alert set for dinner and you can easily switch to a dinner instead of breakfast if one becomes available! 

I can not express enough how amazing this tool is. On our family vacation in November of 2022, we stayed offsite and I was worried I wouldn’t be able to get my dad the build a lightsaber experience or my mother in law the 50’s Prime Time Café booking but with this website I was able to do those things and more! We even got a reservation for Hollywood studios capture your moment and a 6 person rsvp for Oga’s Cantina! 

Pictured above is from our Capture Your Moment at Hollywood Studios.

When you are going to Disney World it should be a magical time and as stress free as possible, by utilizing this tool and referring to our pro tips you will be prepared and ready to tackle anything Disney World has to throw at you! Be sure to also read our Park Bag Essentials post to prepare you for your park days!