***1st Week of December Thread ADR Plans, Park Hours, and dealing with Pop Warner***

In other news, awhile back it was reported that Sunshine Seasons would no longer offer hot breakfast. Well, I found out on Facebook last night that either that never came to pass or breakfast is back. Either way, I know where we're eating breakfast on our all-day Epcot day now! :cloud9:
 
I am really frustrated about this one! :) hm is really a must for me. I had it booked on 12/4, our first day. I did some changing around and it now fits nicely as a fp for 12/9. But, I just don't like making unnecessary changes :(

I'm still skeptical about this. Disney still has fast passes bookable for 12/4 for haunted mansion and I can't imagine they'd let you hook a new one if they were going to be closed. I don't know why Kenny the pirate is the only one showing this refurb extension. We will see. I removed haunted mansion from my 12/4 touring plans just in case. We will just plan on doing it 12/5 and 12/9.
 
I wanted to see what you all thought. Everything is pretty much as set as it can be on my end, and I had to tweak fp for hm and the princesses.... But, I'm not even sure now if I should keep both princess fp.. ( Cindy and rapunzel)....
My girls don't know much about what they'll see, and I try not to ask what they'd like to see, but for fp, since there are so few , I'd like to choose something with their input.. I asked and they don't seem to care whether I fp rides or meeting princesses.... They're really excited to see anything we see I guess. So, would you keep both princess fp if this were you? Is pfh fp a waste? The other option would be book another pooh or something. But we'll be doing EMM already that morning.
I was going to book under the sea, but I'd hate to waste a fp on something that's not likely going to be a long wait.

Sorry this post is so boring and unoriginal :)

What other fast passes do you have? Do you have meeting Ariel at her grotto? That one I have and am keeping over the princesses because the SDFP availability seems to be less than the princess hall meetings. I don't think I can rearrange my stuff too much more for princesses because we don't want to give us some of our other rides- we're not doing emm so this is the way for us to ride 7dmt a few times. And my daughter loves fast rides so we have splash, space and big thunder plush buzz and tomorrowland speedway for my son.
 
What other fast passes do you have? Do you have meeting Ariel at her grotto? That one I have and am keeping over the princesses because the SDFP availability seems to be less than the princess hall meetings. I don't think I can rearrange my stuff too much more for princesses because we don't want to give us some of our other rides- we're not doing emm so this is the way for us to ride 7dmt a few times. And my daughter loves fast rides so we have splash, space and big thunder plush buzz and tomorrowland speedway for my son.
Good idea! I forgot to Check wait times for the rides over time! I just used the MDE app right now... Not sure how reliable it is? But that's really a good idea to pick our other one. We have a mix of everything now. ( not space because my little one will be just a bit shorter than 44)

I really have no idea what they'd like! So I'm just randomly picking. They change their favorite princess everyday! I think now I'll keep Elena. That show is really cute. I'm deciding right now between rapunzel, grotto and under the sea now :)
 

I wanted to see what you all thought. Everything is pretty much as set as it can be on my end, and I had to tweak fp for hm and the princesses.... But, I'm not even sure now if I should keep both princess fp.. ( Cindy and rapunzel)....
My girls don't know much about what they'll see, and I try not to ask what they'd like to see, but for fp, since there are so few , I'd like to choose something with their input.. I asked and they don't seem to care whether I fp rides or meeting princesses.... They're really excited to see anything we see I guess. So, would you keep both princess fp if this were you? Is pfh fp a waste? The other option would be book another pooh or something. But we'll be doing EMM already that morning.
I was going to book under the sea, but I'd hate to waste a fp on something that's not likely going to be a long wait.

Sorry this post is so boring and unoriginal :)
Honestly, I'm in the same shape as you. I'm guessing what DS will like but I really have no idea what will happen when we get there. He might not be interested in anything! Hahaha but I'm thinking, on your first park day, you can see what really interests them more and what they would want to repeat. Since most FPs don't really run out anyway (except 7dmt which u have for EMM anyway and FEA which u reserved ahead of time already) you can change accdg to what you think they would like more. I think kids would not really know what they would like until they experience it so it's nice to be flexible when you get there :) i have to say we can only expect the unexpected ;)
 
Good idea! I forgot to Check wait times for the rides over time! I just used the MDE app right now... Not sure how reliable it is? But that's really a good idea to pick our other one. We have a mix of everything now. ( not space because my little one will be just a bit shorter than 44)

I really have no idea what they'd like! So I'm just randomly picking. They change their favorite princess everyday! I think now I'll keep Elena. That show is really cute. I'm deciding right now between rapunzel, grotto and under the sea now :)

I would do the grotto over under the sea. I watched the YouTube of the grotto and the interaction wth Ariel in her mermaid form was super cute. I have the lines app and have been checking SDFP availability and it's alsmot always gone for Ariel's grotto and Enchanted tales with Belle. There seems to be a lot for Rapunzel and a some (but less than Rapunzel) for Cinderella. I'd keep Cinderella/Elena if it's important but SDFP Rapunzel. I'm keeping my Ariel's grotto because it was so cute.

Ive been checking the lines app and SDFP availability for under the sea looks good so I wouldn't waste one on that.
 
Ugh, having issues with Touring Plans. I can't "tweak" my plans because I have a Rapunzel meet & greet there that they claim has been closed permanently. The removed the Rapunzael and Visiting Princess, and Cinderella and Visiting Princess, but haven't added the Cinderella/Elena or Rapunzel/Tiana combination yet. I was trying to tweak my plan to remove Haunted Mansion on the 12/4 date and add it to 12/5 (when I think it will be open again!)

If anyone was as nerdy as me trying to update touring plans and couldn't add the new meet and greets for Cinderella/Elena and Rapunzel/Tiana, I emailed touring plans to ask about this. I got a response this morning that they had them ready to go but were still running wait time projections. This was their response:

"We have both of the new meets loaded and ready, but we are still running our wait time projections for them. Once that's done they will show up in the list--and that will happen sometime today.

Thank you,
Brian McNichols

--
Blog Manager, Writer, Analyst
TouringPlans.com"
 
I wanted to see what you all thought. Everything is pretty much as set as it can be on my end, and I had to tweak fp for hm and the princesses.... But, I'm not even sure now if I should keep both princess fp.. ( Cindy and rapunzel)....
My girls don't know much about what they'll see, and I try not to ask what they'd like to see, but for fp, since there are so few , I'd like to choose something with their input.. I asked and they don't seem to care whether I fp rides or meeting princesses.... They're really excited to see anything we see I guess. So, would you keep both princess fp if this were you? Is pfh fp a waste? The other option would be book another pooh or something. But we'll be doing EMM already that morning.
I was going to book under the sea, but I'd hate to waste a fp on something that's not likely going to be a long wait.

Sorry this post is so boring and unoriginal :)
How many MK days do you have?

We've tweaked some of our MK days so now 12/3 is a ride oriented day and 12/7 (also the day of the little girls BBB appt) a princess day. If you are doing EMM, I don't think a PFH is a bad FP choice. JMO.
 
How many MK days do you have?

We've tweaked some of our MK days so now 12/3 is a ride oriented day and 12/7 (also the day of the little girls BBB appt) a princess day. If you are doing EMM, I don't think a PFH is a bad FP choice. JMO.
Thanks! This is what I have at the moment:

12/4
EMM
Grotto 1030
Elena 1130
Splash 1230

12/5
Jungle 1030
Pirates 1130
Btmrr 1230

12/9
Hm 1130
7dmt 1230
Belle 130

I had a pp fp, but decided hopefully I'll do enough during EMM .. Hopefully :)
The only thing I'm nervous about are fantasyland rides, but hoping to do a few at Rd on EMM day
 
So thinking about pictures and the memory maker... has anyone researched on magic shots? Was thinking we would not have too much ride pictures since DS isn't tall enough for most of them. So now thinking of how I can maximize my memory maker and what sort of creative shots we could take. Anyone has ideas? ;)
 
Thanks! This is what I have at the moment:

12/4
EMM
Grotto 1030
Elena 1130
Splash 1230

12/5
Jungle 1030
Pirates 1130
Btmrr 1230

12/9
Hm 1130
7dmt 1230
Belle 130

I had a pp fp, but decided hopefully I'll do enough during EMM .. Hopefully :)
The only thing I'm nervous about are fantasyland rides, but hoping to do a few at Rd on EMM day

I love that we have the same MK days!!! We have a BTMRR at a similar time. We will wave to you!
 
I love that we have the same MK days!!! We have a BTMRR at a similar time. We will wave to you!
Or we'll be in the same car! Nice choice of MK days :thumbsup2 For 12/4 i just realized last night at like midnight that the railroad goes around the whole park! I have no idea why I thought it just went up and down Main Street. My new plan is to do fantasyland then take the train to splash and do frontier land. I'm really excited about this new plan :)
 
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So thinking about pictures and the memory maker... has anyone researched on magic shots? Was thinking we would not have too much ride pictures since DS isn't tall enough for most of them. So now thinking of how I can maximize my memory maker and what sort of creative shots we could take. Anyone has ideas? ;)
I'm still deciding about memory maker. I love to take photos, but I know i wouldn't be in any. I don't know what magic shots are, but Would Pinterest maybe have ideas for magic shots?
 
So thinking about pictures and the memory maker... has anyone researched on magic shots? Was thinking we would not have too much ride pictures since DS isn't tall enough for most of them. So now thinking of how I can maximize my memory maker and what sort of creative shots we could take. Anyone has ideas? ;)
I found a great site with a list of all the magic shots and locations. I'll try to find it again and post it.
There is a really cute one holding balloons and some animated one with Mickey and Minnie.
There are also special party only shots.
 
I'm still deciding about memory maker. I love to take photos, but I know i wouldn't be in any. I don't know what magic shots are, but Would Pinterest maybe have ideas for magic shots?

We're doing the memory maker. They'll take pictures at all the character meet and greets and any photographers that you find through the park will take pictures for you. I was spending so much on Disney already that i figured what's a bit more to capture the memories!
 
Just wondering if anyone has received their luggage tags yet? Seems like they usually come pretty early, but can't remember when to expect them. I'm a little concerned as I booked through *** for the first time, and am trusting the travel agent gave them my info.
 














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