1 Day visit/ Our game plan, input/ advice welcomed

[WDWviaBuffalo]

This is my strategy/ game plan...any thoughts and/or advice appreciated:



7:00am Leave Hotel
8:30am Arrive for Rope Drop California Adv. Park first
9:00am Gates open California Adv. Park
9:05am Head to and Ride RSR
9:45am Get FP for California Scream
9:45am Kelly and Girls get in line to ride Toy Story Mania (NO FP)
10:15am Head to Goofy’s Sky School
10:45am Jumpin Jellyfish
10:45am Jim go get FP Soarin
11:00am Use FP for California Scream
11:30am Tower of Terror
12:15pm Monsters Inc Ride
12:15pm Grab FP WOC
12:45pm Use FP for Soarin
Lunch here or Disneyland

1:00pm Disneyland
1:15pm Jim go get FP for SPM (Critter Country)
2:00pm Girls to BTMR (Frontierland)
2:15pm Ride BTMR
2:45pm Ride SPM
3:00pm Haunted Mansion (Critter Country)
3:30pm Jim go get FP Star Tours (Tomorrowland)
4:00pm Head to ???
5:00pm Dinner
6:00pm USE FP Star Tours (Tomorrowland)
6:45pm Buzz Lightyear
7:00pm Space Mountain
7:45pm Matterhorn Bobsleds (Fantasyland)
8:00pm Head back to DCA WOC
9:00pm PARK CLOSES

 

[whoever]

Your time expectations are going to have you in for a world of disappointment. You won't be riding rides like BTMRR in 15 minutes mid-day. Also, you can't guarantee your FP return times. I'd dial back your expectations for rides by atleast 20%.

 

[WDWviaBuffalo]

Your time expectations are going to have you in for a world of disappointment. You won't be riding rides like BTMRR in 15 minutes mid-day. Also, you can't guarantee your FP return times. I'd dial back your expectations for rides by atleast 20%.

I am more concerned with the timing of stuff for the am in DAP......for the afternoon, I have 2 use whenever FP's for each of the 4 of us. Figured I use those at DLP for BMTRR and either ST or SM.......Prob should have clarified that..

 

[MouseEXP]

I would do this... based on what you wrote

845am: get to the park by then
9am-1030am: Skip RSR FP and ride Toy Story Mania, then Screamin, Jellyfish, and Goofy. get FP for RSR for 4pm-5pm-6pm, then get FP for Soarin and WOC.
1030am-1130am: Ride Tower of Terror with no FP, use FP and ride Soarin.
1130am-1230pm: head to Disneyland get a FP for Splash and have lunch.
1230pm-130pm: Ride Thunder without FP, Get FP for Space, use FP for Splash
130pm-330pm: Ride Mansion, ride Star Tours no FP, ride Buzz use FP for Space Mountain, ride Matterhorn with Single Rider
330pm-4pm: head back to California Adventure.
Then have dinner ride RSR , Monsters, etc.... get to the WOC viewing area line 15-30 minutes before it says on the WOC FP ticket.

 

[babyatlas]

i have no idea if your plan will work or not but i will say that everything you are doing usually takes us 2 days to do without a plan.

 

[Girimama33]

If you don't have any kids under 7 in your group, I would consider the single rider line for RSR and Matterhorn...Matterhorn at the very least.

I like Mouse Expeditions suggestions...especially skipping RSR first thing and heading to TSMM.
Are you doing this on a Day with EMH at DCA?

 

[DahliaRW]

And honestly, skip goofy's sky school. It's not worth your time when you have more than one day, let alone just one.

 

[WDWviaBuffalo]

If you don't have any kids under 7 in your group, I would consider the single rider line for RSR and Matterhorn...Matterhorn at the very least.

I like Mouse Expeditions suggestions...especially skipping RSR first thing and heading to TSMM.
Are you doing this on a Day with EMH at DCA?

EMH at DLP not DAP that day...

 

[MouseEXP]

EMH at DLP not DAP that day...

That's good. Always try to start your day at the park that does not have EMH. Unless you have access to EMH.

 

[WDWviaBuffalo]

That's good. Always try to start your day at the park that does not have EMH. Unless you have access to EMH.

Ok I'm confused if RSR is the big to do ride like (TSM is at WDW) when we get to DAP for opening (8:30) for 9:00am with no EMH, why should we not go ride RSR first to get that out of the way first, than head over towards the Pier and do TSM and CS etc....thoughts to why no one is suggesting this ??

 

[SnowBelleAlice]

Here's how someone I know extremely well spent one day in the parks *pre Cars Land* http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2232766

 

[Girimama33]

Ok I'm confused if RSR is the big to do ride like (TSM is at WDW) when we get to DAP for opening (8:30) for 9:00am with no EMH, why should we not go ride RSR first to get that out of the way first, than head over towards the Pier and do TSM and CS etc....thoughts to why no one is suggesting this ??

There are a few reasons...it may not be running first thing in the morning, and it has FP available. TSMM does not have a FP, so if you do not get on that ride first thing, you can expect to wait 30+ minutes.
Personally...I prefer not to fight the masses heading to Cars Land and opt to either get in the RSR FP line very early so that I have my FP within 10 minutes of the park opening (usually return time is around 11am) and then walk on TSMM...or I head straight to TSMM and then get an RSR FP for a later return time. I have done wide right before, and it is just too stressful to me...especially with a smaller child.

You never answered if you would be able to utilize the SR line...

Also wanted to add that MouseEXP does tours in the park on a regular basis and provides touring plans to guests. I imagine his suggestions are good ones.

 

[MichaelaF]

That looks....super stressful and really unlikely. I don't know what day of the week you are planning to go, but I have a hard time envisioning a lot of your timing even with NO lines at all....which is mostly impossible. You have planned to do Monsters Inc, get FP for WOC, ride Soarin, have lunch, get over to DLP Critter Country/Frontierland all within an hour. I don't think that's possible even if I had a teleporter. Also, it's just not really possible to plan when to ride your FP rides until you get your actual FP in hand.

Personally? I would have everyone in your party pick their top three attractions they REALLY want to do. Then prioritize those. We did two days at DLR, one at each park, and there was a LOT we didn't get to do. But we also aren't commando-style folks. I've said this elsewhere, but I think a lot of the magic of Disney is in the details and "smelling the roses", not necessarily the rides and attractions. We get much more out of it when we left time to wander and discover than we do running from place to place.

I would echo what someone else said about single rider lines. I definitely recommend single rider for California Screamin. The single rider line is kinda hard to find so it almost always has a short wait.

(Also, MouseEXP does have a pretty good schedule going up there. I still would say it depends on the day of the week and crowds, but I may have just missed if you said that somewhere?)

 

[MouseEXP]

Ok I'm confused if RSR is the big to do ride like (TSM is at WDW) when we get to DAP for opening (8:30) for 9:00am with no EMH, why should we not go ride RSR first to get that out of the way first, than head over towards the Pier and do TSM and CS etc....thoughts to why no one is suggesting this ??

GiriMama is right about RSR and the constant down time that attraction tends to have. I won't even talk about the recent experience (Last Sunday) where they now close down the Fastpass machines when the attraction is down. That is an entirely new headache and we should just look at the positive as if everything is up and running like normal.

The MAIN reason you want to do RSR FP later on is that your original itinerary allows for it to happen. Sure you can do the wide right technique and probably get on RSR within 30-40 minutes, heck even get a FP for RSR later on.

The issue is that you are trying to do two parks in one day and by the time you get to TSM you are going to look at a 30-45 minute wait. Plus an additional wait for the other attractions that you want to do in DCA and DL.

Your goal needs to be be.... Get as many of the main attractions at both parks. Done in the least amount of time. This is how I would do it for my tours based on the attractions you want to ride.

You basically want to be one step ahead of everyone else.

 

[ILUVALASKA]

wow. I would never want to go on a trip this scripted!

 

[MouseEXP]

wow. I would never want to go on a trip this scripted!

It is not about being scripted. Its about having a plan and since this user wants to do two parks in one day, they better have a plan.

Otherwise, they will do the typical guest thing and walk around the park aimlessly as they start to get frustrated with all of the lines, or the people getting in front of them with Fastpass.

You really notice this when you use FP for Space Mountain or RSR. Probably two of the worst lines to wait in Standby for.

 

[WDWviaBuffalo]

It is not about being scripted. Its about having a plan and since this user wants to do two parks in one day, they better have a plan.

Otherwise, they will do the typical guest thing and walk around the park aimlessly as they start to get frustrated with all of the lines, or the people getting in front of them with Fastpass.

You really notice this when you use FP for Space Mountain or RSR. Probably two of the worst lines to wait in Standby for.

Exactly!!!! The reason for the script, I pride myself on "my tour" plan and being able to do this similar strategy in WDW but may just not work in DLP or DAP, which is why I am looking for all sorts of advice....We only have 1 day allotted for Disney, on this trip and although we get to WDW yearly we may not get to CA for along time again, so I'm trying to get our biggest bang for the 1 day we do have....and I really appreciate everyone's input so far..