Planner or Winger?

[Wilt Dasney]

Well, since nobody else is going to say it:

Wing, wing, wiiiiiing baby. Float on the breeze. Go where the mood takes you. To hell with planning! Anywhere you happen to be, you're still at Disney! It's all good!

Now to be fair, I think SOME degree of planning is pretty much required. If you want to eat at a certain restaurant, it's a good idea to call and make a reservation. So I guess if that qualifies, then any of us could say we're "somewhere in the middle."

But that's as far as I'm willing to take it. If I'm on a trip alone, I wake up and decide where to go. If I'm with friends/family, I go along with what they want to do. The idea of deciding when to ride what ahead of time is not only unappealing, but it offends me on some deep psychological level you're all welcome to analyze.

Part of it has to do with the fact that I've been to WDW so many times, I just don't feel any need to squeeze it all in. And on my inaugural trip to DL last year, I spent enough days there to allow me to wing to my heart's content and still soak it all in. (Size helps in that case, too.)

 

[bhg469]

I wish I could be a 100% winger but sadly I had to book dinner reservations 6 months in advance for times when I didn't know if we would be hungry or not Other than that I love waking up and doing whatever we feel like.

 

[JustInTime]

We plan the layout of our tip... Ex: where we are eating, what parks etc. I always do an itinerary. However, rides are always random. As long as we fit everything in, we are good.

 

[fosse76]

Do you plan your WDW vacation to the day? To the exact minute? Or do you go and do whatever you'd like when ever you're feeling it?

I wing it. One time I went to MK on a Saturday, and decided it was too crowded so I headed to T&TC to hop the monrail to Epcot. There were huge lines for the monrails, so I couldn't even head back to MK. So I hopped a bus to DHS instead. While I'm not crazy about waiting around for busses, I never feel the need to visit every single attraction during my trips, and just go based on my mood.

 

[fosse76]

Part of it has to do with the fact that I've been to WDW so many times, I just don't feel any need to squeeze it all in. And on my inaugural trip to DL last year, I spent enough days there to allow me to wing to my heart's content and still soak it all in. (Size helps in that case, too.)

That's exactly me (even the DL part!). When I was at WDW in September, I didn't see a single show. I don't believe I even rode E:E. I think I may have skipped it.

 

[BiggerTigger]

We try to plan a loose itinery. Mostly meals and where we are going for the day. I don't want to spend my vacation traveling, like touring Animal Kingdom and then making dinner reservations at Magic Kingdom and then heading over to Epcot for Illuminations. That is just crazy talk, but I see people ask that question everyday on these websites.
But, yes, it is very open, if I don't feel like going to Epcot that day, I cancel my reservations and see if I can get booked some where else. And if I can't, I just enjoy myself. But, I guess I am luck to do that.

 

[SeaCastle]

I voted "winger". We'll plan our hotels and restaurants months in advance, but when it comes to which park on which days, we make it up as we go along. Same with touring rides. We would go a bit crazy if we had to follow an itinerary while we were visiting a theme park, and especially since we like to wake up late and stay out until 12am or 1, most touring plans don't work for us.

 

[materbuddy]

Planner for a few table service meals and emh only. Once we are in the parks we are totally wingers about attractions, & times.

 

[Duke of Disney]

One planned trip and one winged trip, If I have the time and can work it in.

 

[rodserling27]

Somewhere in between. :wave:

Typically we'll plan along during the trip which park we'll go in which day, and how we'll spend the off-days. Often we'll look at weather forecasts and figure that into our plans as we go along. Typically we'll have one big dining reservation we'll base the rest of the trip around (we'll know we're going into DHS on a certain day if we have reservations for Sci-Fi Drive-In, for instance), but the rest is pretty much plan-as-we-go.

Once we're in the parks, we'll usually figure out what exactly everyone wants to do once we enter, and then play it by ear from there.

Yes!!! This is me.

I always, ALWAYS plan how I do the parks during the day (and it RARELY changes: MK, Epcot, DHS, DAK. I must go in that order or I will be very grumpy) and sometimes a dinner reservation. Other than that, it's whatever I feel like doing.

 

[SAV]

I picked planner, but only to a certain extent. We'll plan the best days to go to a park and we know what to do and when to do it from experience, so that isn't necessarily planned.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

I'm definitely a planner; HOWEVER, the planning is more preparation vs. attack. While I certainly want to minimize wait times, there's something to be said for not running every minute of your vacation like boot camp. Having young children with us also forces some extra flexibility.

 

[Susan Savia]

Mostly winging it. It's vacation, go with the flow, enjoy.

 

[bgraham34]

I am a bit of both. I always plan our dinners around the park schedules. But once I have the schedule of the parks our plans always change once we are down there

 

[Scooter]

My wife is a Planner
I am a Winger.

It makes for some interesting discussions.
It's amazing we're still married.

Actually, being married to a planner isn't all that bad. I just wake up and ask her whats up for today and I just go with the flow.:lol:

 

[Tooning]

I plan each day out but have a flex day for our day off incase it rains one day(WHich it always does on our 2 week trip) But it is usually the same.

Day 1- 4 Disney Parks(Always starting with MK
Day5-6 Universal/IOA/Citywalk
Day 7 SeaWorld
Day 8 or 9 Day Off or Busch Gardens
Day 10 Downtown disney
Day 11-14 Disney Parks again

 

[disney magic 06]

I plan. I love planning, it makes the holiday seem closer. We only do a rough plan, and hardly stick to any of it! We probably only make a couple of dining reservations and we rarely stick to them either but it keeps me amused. Although with free dining in May, I think I'd better get planning :king:

 

[splashmtnfan]

I love to plan, it just adds to the excitment. We had to make dining reservations 180 days out in order to get some restaurants we wanted. We normally spend the day in the park where we have reservations that evening. That said, we know what we would like to do and see in each park....the order it is seen and done does not matter and we go with the flow. If we don't get to something we don't get upset. We do have 2 young children so we try and make sure to get to the attractions they really want to see. But again, if we don't make it then we put it on our must see/do list for another day.

 

[Mikester71]

TOTAL "winger" here! :lol:

Although we usually book the trip a year out and I countdown the days for what seems like forever, once we get to the parks, we pretty much just wake up and go where we feel like that day. Being there 10 days allows us not to be too worried if we miss something at one of the parks the first time at each park that trip, because we always hit each park up more than once and will just get it the next time around.

 

[Mikester71]

My wife is a Planner
I am a Winger.

It makes for some interesting discussions.
It's amazing we're still married.

Actually, being married to a planner isn't all that bad. I just wake up and ask her whats up for today and I just go with the flow.:lol:

:ROFLOL:I have the opposite problem. I am the type that likes to just go with the flow also, but while on vacation, so does everybody else in my party apparently. So they always look to me and try to get me to decide which park we are hitting up that day and where we should stop to eat and so on. I would MUCH rather just follow someone else and not have to make all the decisions.

I guess I am saying it would be nice to have one person who is a planner in our group instead of a bunch of "wingers"! Too many "wingers" means A LOT of standing around deciding what to do! :ROFLOL: