The Mouse Plan..

[real mad hatter]

Good Morning Mouse Fans...Heres this Hatter asking more questions......Ok we all know about planning your pre trip vacation...What resort..what ADRS ( if any )...How much to take..etc..But do any of you have a Mouse plan when you get there..??...Example...Our first day or night ( depending on arrival time ) is always MK ( got to see that castle and smell the pixie dust ) ..My mouse plan starts on day 2..Checking my laminated matrix to see what parks deserve a early morning rope drop..( never ever done a AK rope drop ) ..Setting our alarm for that Stitch wake up call ( drives Mrs Hatter daft,DS loves it ) So each day we make a decision on what we call our Mouse plan..Theres one thing that doesn't affect our plan ( but would if we were on another vacation ) The weather..If it rains,so be it.....Mouse plan day two..( example ).. Alarm set for 6.30am..Food court breakfast 6.45am..Bus depot 7.15am..MK rope drop for 7.45am..Early lunch at either CHH or PB...etc..etc..You get the picture..So is there anyone out there that has a day to day attack ( oops,I mean plan ) of your vacation on the Mouse..

 

[75disney]

Of course there is a mouse plan (great name, by the way). My fam calls me the Disney commando for a reason and I am proud of it. I have even had nightmares about my touring plans in the MK being thrown off. FLE really has me in a tail spin.

 

[Susan Savia]

We are at rope drop every day. It's always Epcot on the first day and the last day and in between, it's whatever strikes our fancy.

 

[DJMoore2011]

So far our only plan for each day is to go to the park that has our dinner reservations and spend the day there. We have a list of things we want to try. Weather it be food or attractions. We're still newbies when it comes to the parks so we are trying to find our groove. To find out if we need to plan our days more, or if the losey gosey way will work for us.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

I do feel that MM+ and FP+ will radically alter people's touring plans

 

[taz0162]

had a four tabbed Excel spreadsheet broken down by Dates and Time of day locations, Restaurants, Ride Heights for kids, and budgetary needs planning high. Started a year in advance and adjusted as ADR and Extra magic hours were finalized for our stay there.

 

[93boomer]

Ah...The old 10/4.....Over and out...Just heard on the radio there's a fender bender just off the Eye 24 North of Nashville on the 41 going into Clarksville..The road is packed with rubber duckies and there's bears in the air...So if anyone is out there on the 24. I'd make for the train station,and grab the last train to Clarksville ..Too much monkey in that quote....

I love this!!!! Monkees are my favorite!!

 

[harryk]

Mouse Plan - always based upon the ADR's we make so that we avoid park hopping to make meal reservations on time. Since we tend to visit WDW during December we have found that ADR's are necessary (counter service is something we try to avoid - we are on vacation and want to enjoy being 'served'). I expect that it will prove interesting this time what with the introduction of MM+ as to how we visit the various attractions.
We take the parks at a relaxed pace and just go with the flow.

 

[PolynesianPrincess]

Day1 We arrive at AKL Wednsday...will take the kids to the pool for an hour..then quick change...head to DTD shop eat dinner at T-Tex back to AKL for our last good nights sleep.


Day 2 We dont to MK first..I prefer knocking out AK..we are doing the Safari Breakfast at 8...puts me very close to kilimanjo safaris at 9...and off we go...ultimately leaving AK NLT 230 to head over to DHS..have Dinner package for Fantasmic at Mama Melrose...a little toy story..TOT, RNRC and back to AKl...

Day 3 MK...ALL DAY plus MNSSHP (@derelicte19 wonder how many times we'll pass each other and never know...lol)

Day4 Yachtman Steakhouse (WOHOOOO) also means our Epcot day

Day 5 DHS and them MK from 8-1am...

DAy 6 DTD then fly home

haha we probably passed each other many times as we were there all day too!! What amazing wait times all day! Can't remember the last time I was able to walk onto Splash Moutain at noon!!

 

[danpam1024]

No set plans for us anymore. We have a list of what we would like to do/see and get MOST of it done. Whenever we roll out of bed in the morning, as a family, we decide on where we're going that day. We normally hop around each day and if we happen to be at DHS late-great! We stay for Fantasmic! Epcot? Cool-Illuminations! MK? Wishes! You get my point. Anyway, it makes it feel more like a vacation to us- we're not heart broken if we can't eat at (insert restaurant here)- we're not big eaters anyway . I did the immaculate planning thing with the binder and page sleeves- highlighted in color codes- ADRs for everything, park map and itinerary, when I think about in, it makes my eye twitch

 

[sgtmgd]

haha we probably passed each other many times as we were there all day too!! What amazing wait times all day! Can't remember the last time I was able to walk onto Splash Moutain at noon!!

Absolutely I used exactly 2 fast passes in 4 days 1 for toy story and 1 for soarin which I really didn't need it was fantastic ...Magic Kimgdom had EMH last night until 1 am no waits just a great time to go

 

[DisneyDebNJ]

Good Morning Mouse Fans...Heres this Hatter asking more questions......Ok we all know about planning your pre trip vacation...What resort..what ADRS ( if any )...How much to take..etc..But do any of you have a Mouse plan when you get there..??...Example...Our first day or night ( depending on arrival time ) is always MK ( got to see that castle and smell the pixie dust ) ..My mouse plan starts on day 2..Checking my laminated matrix to see what parks deserve a early morning rope drop..( never ever done a AK rope drop ) ..Setting our alarm for that Stitch wake up call ( drives Mrs Hatter daft,DS loves it ) So each day we make a decision on what we call our Mouse plan..Theres one thing that doesn't affect our plan ( but would if we were on another vacation ) The weather..If it rains,so be it.....Mouse plan day two..( example ).. Alarm set for 6.30am..Food court breakfast 6.45am..Bus depot 7.15am..MK rope drop for 7.45am..Early lunch at either CHH or PB...etc..etc..You get the picture..So is there anyone out there that has a day to day attack ( oops,I mean plan ) of your vacation on the Mouse..

Other than our ADRs, and a few traditional things (first breakfast, Kona Cafe, first and last nights, Epcot, must do restaurants) we pretty much wing it, actually, but do try to fit something new in, every day. We always fit in a pool afternoon, and end up in Epcot at night, but never plan which day. We pretty much let the weather decide that.

 

[Cindee75]

Our Mouse plan starts looking at which parks should be light on crowds and making ARD's for in or near the park we want to be in. We are hoping to FP+ in November as I would like to not to have to rush around getting FP's - we would like to relax a little and enjoy stuff. We have a general list of what we want to do each day but it is very relaxed and not so much running around - I hope.

 

[Tiggertoo56]

Our Mouse plan starts the day before we leave UK. Get to the overnight hotel, eat drink & begin vacation! Up early for flight, take off, land, get through customs, take ME to resort and chill out for the evening. Then it all begins in earnest. Do all 4 parks (at least once some twice or more), with maybe a day or 2 at IOU/US/SW, but definitely TL and BB. Go off site to shop, but mainly stay within the world. Need a break when we get home to recover, but love every minute of it.