Free booking-date calculator
Disney World dining reservations open 60 days before you arrive, at 6:00 a.m. Eastern. Staying at a Disney Resort hotel? You can book meals for your stay, up to its first 10 days, that same morning. Put in your dates and you'll get the exact days to set an alarm for, plus when Lightning Lane passes go on sale.
Enter your arrival date, nights, and hotel to see your dining and Lightning Lane booking dates.
Count back 60 days from the day you want to eat. That's the morning the table becomes bookable, and online booking starts at 6:00 a.m. Eastern. If you arrive on March 10, 2027, for example, your window opens on January 9, 2027.
Off-site, each day of your trip opens on its own date, one day at a time. A Tuesday dinner opens 60 days before that Tuesday, and so on through your trip.
With a Disney Resort hotel reservation, you can book dining for your stay starting 60 days before you check in. Disney describes it as covering up to a 10-night stay, and planners call it 60+10. Counting your arrival day, that's your first 10 days, which is how this calculator treats it so it never shows a day too early. It matters most for the hardest tables late in your trip, like a princess meal on your last night.
Disney's page describes this for Disney Resort hotel reservations. If you're at the Swan, Dolphin, Swan Reserve, or Shades of Green, the calculator uses the standard day-by-day window for dining, so you won't be caught out.
Guests at Disney Resort hotels and the select hotels (Swan, Dolphin, Swan Reserve, and Shades of Green) can buy Lightning Lane passes 7 days before check-in, for the length of their stay up to 14 days. Everyone else can buy 3 days ahead. With a date-based ticket, that covers every day on the ticket starting 3 days before the first one. Sales open at 7:00 a.m. Eastern.
Link your hotel and tickets to your Disney account a few days before, so nothing is missing when it counts. Rank the meals you care about, and pick a second time for each. Start with the table that's hardest to get, because the popular character meals can go within minutes.
Next step: compare character meals and prices.
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At 6:00 a.m. Eastern, 60 days before the date you want to dine. Disney Resort hotel guests book their stay, up to its first 10 days, on the morning that's 60 days before check-in.
Yes. The window is 60 days before your arrival date, and your arrival day is the first day you can book for.
Then the dining window for your dates is already open. Check availability now, and keep checking, because people change plans and tables open back up.
Disney Resort hotel and select hotel guests: 7 days before check-in, from 7:00 a.m. Eastern, for up to 14 days of their stay. Everyone else: 3 days before their park day, or 3 days before the first day of a date-based ticket.
Checked against Disney's pages on September 26, 2026. Disney can change these rules, so confirm in the My Disney Experience app before booking day. Sources: Disney: dining reservation windows (Make Dining Reservations); Disney: when to purchase Lightning Lane passes.