Im glad you have been able to secure your reservations! Truly, I am. But you are staying for three weeks, whereas I am staying for 5 nights. You don't have nearly as much competition to make your reservations. Now, is this my fault for not having more time to spend at WDW? Yup. But again, I have never had this problem even staying off property and not getting the jump on making reservations past 180 days. Now we are paying thousands more for the real Disney experience and getting poohed on?
I agree with PP that it is almost making me dread my trip. Because we cant get that money back for the dining plan, and we dont need to be eating at three one credits a day. The plan (because Disney requires you plan every aspect of your trip to get your monies worth) was to do a one credit for breakfast and a two credit for dinner. Because that is what we paid for. I don't know. I guess if you feel no sympathy for the many people who have paid and are now being screwed, then I don't think there is anything that will change your mind. The only thing I will admit I shouldn't have done was purchase our dining plan before making our reservations. Other than that, there is nothing more that I could have done to secure the dining that we wanted. Going forward, I will obviously be vigilantly scouring for good dining, but unfortunately, so will everyone else.