are online touring guides worth it?

[coachsomer]

there are several web-services that plan your trip for which days and times
you should be at what parks. has anyone use them and are they worth the fee. thanks

 

[WaltD4Me]

there are several web-services that plan your trip for which days and times
you should be at what parks. has anyone use them and are they worth the fee. thanks

Depends. I've tried them, but now I prefer to do all that myself. I think they can be helpful to non-experienced visitors, but after you have gone several times and with the help of the DIS you can plan just as well yourself. Before I was as familiar as I am now I tried 2 of the services, I used some of their information and tips, but not all. I did find them helpful though and at the time thought they were worth the fee.

 

[dalt01]

i personally do not think so. crowds are a dice roll at best. predicting where people are going to be at a certain time on a certain day? good luck with that. the generalization is easy enough but you can do that yourself. there will be more florida residents on the weekend. there will be more people on holidays and the surrounding days. there will be more people when school is out. etc, etc. most of the crystal ballers out there base a lot of their crowd patterns on previous years, i dont buy that, things change. you can find many, many comments both here and on other sites like.....they told be wednesday at the Magic Kingdom was going to be a 6 on the crowd scale, well let me tell you it was a 10 if it was anything. also crowds are subjective. one mans 10 is another mans 6. you can have any two people coming out of a park and ask them if it was busy, one will say man it was terrible and the other will say it was not bad. the weather will affect it. a really nice day after a really bad day with steady rain will be busier than normal. a morning after an evening EMH will be very quiet, all those people are still in bed. the Magic Kingdom is almost always busy. the Studios will aways look busy. Amimal Kingdom is almost always hot. Epcot is usually very managable. so pay the extra if you want or do what i do, show up with your own plan and and know it will most likey fall apart somewhere along the line and you will have to adjust on the fly. the most important thing is having your dining in order.