Calling all Disney touring veterans.....????

[edk35]

Okay I consider myself a Disney Vet for sure however I am a little perplexed about how to go about our spring break trip. We arrive on Thursday March 26th. We are at Disney for 9 nights. We will be staying at BCV for our first 3 nights and then heading to SSR for our last 6. We will arrive by 1 or 2 on the 26th. I am planning on using our FP+ at EC for evening rides that arrival day.

OKAY.... so our old way to tour was usually ROPE DROP every park, pull fast passes and ride our little bums off. We are NOT the take a break in the middle of the day unless it is A SUMMER day or the crowds are OFF THE CHART. We always avoided EMH too unless it was a nighttime one at MK on occasion.

Do we get FP+ for morning in hopes of pulling additional FP's at MK for later?? Do we arrive at RD and save FP+ for afternoon and try and pull additional ones knowing that we will probably not have many choices? Do we arrive at RD and ride until crowds are so bad, leave and save FP for the evening??

I think EC will be easy and AK too. HS we plan on getting there at RD then riding RR and using FP's for Toy and two other rides.
I am really not sure what to do for MK. It will be my hubby, and 16 year old son. OH and our first time using the new system was in Aug. of this past year. We have done two other spring breaks in 2012 and 2013 but that was with legacy. We enjoyed both of those spring break trips. I am a bit scared for this one with the new system.

 

[JennyDrake]

I would still do rope drop and ride your bums off! You are going at a very busy time of year; I think you will be unpleasantly surprised at the crowd levels. MY preference is to get FP starting about 11 am when crowds begin to thicken, utilize your FP+, then take a break, rest, swim, etc and return sometime after 4pm.

the biggest different _I_ see with FP+ is that standby lines are outrageous for second tier rides. Small World 20 min, JiYI 30 minutes, etc. and unless you hit at rope drop and ride the headliners multiple times, you will only get to ride headliners ONCE in a day.

 

[Laketravis]

A few things:

For MK, HS, and EP:

1. I would definitely stick with and count on Rope Drop.

2. I would not make my FP's for early in the day with hopes of getting any good ones later. With those crowd levels, what little FP's are left at the beginning of the day will vaporize quickly. Not to mention how long the kiosk lines will be just to find that out.

3. I would count on leaving during mid day to avoid the crowds. Get some resort time in.

4. Return later to use your FP's.

For AK:

This park performs well in even the most crowded of times. I personally wouldn't make any FP's here but would plan on rope drop, be out by noon, and head to another park later in the afternoon or evening where I made FP's.

For all:

Morning EMH has an advantage over Evening EMH - there are no accumulated queues that have to dissipate with AM EMH. Evening EMH still has people entering both SB and FP+ queues right up to the start of EMH so the attraction has to absorb them first and depending on the attraction that can take a while.

 

[SplashMo]

Rope drop all parks. For MK make FP+ 2 hours after rope drop and then go for additional FP+ after the three.

Epcot FP+ SOARIN and rope drop TT

DHS FP+ TSMM and TT rope drop TSMM as well. Or arrive ate with FP+ for TSMM and TT.

AK FP+ Kali and dino late in the day. ROpe drop everything else. or skip FP+ and hop to another park with FP+

 

[LSUfan4444]

Do we arrive at RD and save FP+ for afternoon and try and pull additional ones knowing that we will probably not have many choices?

Yes...then in the evenings you can do things that you don't need a FP+ for or that have a small standby wait and shows/fireworks/parades, etc.

 

[edk35]

In Aug. we didn't use our FP+ at all in AK. That is our plan this trip too.

 

[edk35]

A few things:

For MK, HS, and EP:

1. I would definitely stick with and count on Rope Drop.

2. I would not make my FP's for early in the day with hopes of getting any good ones later. With those crowd levels, what little FP's are left at the beginning of the day will vaporize quickly. Not to mention how long the kiosk lines will be just to find that out.

3. I would count on leaving during mid day to avoid the crowds. Get some resort time in.

4. Return later to use your FP's.

For AK:

This park performs well in even the most crowded of times. I personally wouldn't make any FP's here but would plan on rope drop, be out by noon, and head to another park later in the afternoon or evening where I made FP's.

For all:

Morning EMH has an advantage over Evening EMH - there are no accumulated queues that have to dissipate with AM EMH. Evening EMH still has people entering both SB and FP+ queues right up to the start of EMH so the attraction has to absorb them first and depending on the attraction that can take a while.

Thanks. I have never been a fan of the EMH evenings. We went to a couple of the MK ones and we had to stay soooooooooo later to get on a lot of things. Not worth it unless we have a sleep in day planned the next day.