The Disneyland Resort has rolled out new dining search updates to its website, giving guests even more control over finding the right restaurant option. The update was first spotted by ThemeParkIQ. The update greatly improves dining availability information, offers a more granular time of day search, and more! In this article, we’ll take a look at the changes.
Dining Availability Calendar
Disney has wisely leveraged its theme park reservation calendar to now display dining availability for individual restaurants. In our screenshot below, you can see availability for the Blue Bayou Restaurant by date. A green dot indicates that there is availability, whereas the greyed-out circle indicates that no reservations are available.
Time Slider for Granular Searching
Another update made to the dining search page for the Disneyland website is a slider that allows you to pick a more specific time range for your dining reservation search. Previously, you would either by able to pick “all day” availability, or “morning”, “afternoon”, or “evening”. Now, you can pick specific hours that you’d like to search.
Date Range Searching
This is a feature that has been available for individual restaurants, but I’m not sure that it has previously been available for multiple restaurants at a time. Now, if you choose a date range and you don’t choose a specific restaurant, you will be presented with all relevant restaurants that match the date range and any other search criteria you may have entered.
More Obvious Location Filtering
I’m not sure if this was previously present before the updates, but you’ll be able to filter by location quite easily. While more granular filtering options are available under the “Filter” button, Disneyland has moved some of the top-level locations to the top of the page to allow guests to narrow their search even more.
The end result of these updates is more control and more relevant info at the fingertips of guests. This is a wonderful update that has built upon the already wonderful March 2024 update to the dining search system.
As of publish time, the dining search upgrades made to the Disneyland website are not available on the Walt Disney World website. It is unclear if the upgrades made to the Disneyland site will be integrated into the Walt Disney World website.
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