Can you share your past itineraries with me? Past or Present...

[TMM]

Hi,

Now that our hotel ressies are made I am attempting to do and itinerary for our upcoming trip in January. It is just me and my husband going and it is my first time (my husband went once almost 15 years ago). We do have a couple of commitments already as we are doing the WDW Marathon on Sunday, January 8th.

We are staying our first 4 nights at WL and our last 4 nights at AKL. Our last two nights at AKL will be Concierge Level in order to do the Sunrise and Sunset Safaris. Otherwise, we seem like we have a good amount of time to see and do most activities and have a few good meals. I think the waterparks are closed in January so we have even more time to see WDW.

We arrive late on Wednesday, January 4th and will not see or do anything our first night as we will be tired from the long flight from England. We need to head to the airport at about 3:30 pm on our last day in Orlando.

Do any of you have plan of attack that can give me some sort of outline to start planning our visit to the parks? I am not being lazy, just have no idea where to start . Thanks so much!
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Tonya

 

[daisy_77]

Hi, Tonya! Here is my itinerary that I copied and posted from a different thread. Have a great weekend!!

November 29 Tue/Day One
Arrival Day
4:00pm Plane lands
8:00pm AR's at Boma
Downtown Disney?

November 30 Wed/Day Two :thewave:
Animal Kingdom Day
6:00pm AR's at Kona Cafe

December 1 Thur/Day Three
MGM Studios Day/MVMCP at MK
11:00am AR's at Sci-Fi Dine-In Theatre
5:20pm AR's at Liberty Tree Tavern (already made)

December 2 Fri/Day Four
Epcot Day
5:00pm Candlelight Processional
6:45pm AR's at The Coral Reef (CP Dinner Package)

December 3 Sat/Day Five -Brent has no idea that I have been planning stuff for him!!
Magic Kingdom Day Part 1
8:00am AR's at Crystal Palace
4:00pm AR's 1900 Park Faire Cinderella's Gala Feast (surprise Birthday gift and cake!!)


December 4 Sun/Day Six
Epcot/MGM EMH
3:30pm AR's at Mama Melrose (Fantasmic Dinner package)
Late dinner around 9:00pm at Beaches and Cream

December 5 Mon/Day Seven Last Full Day
Magic Kingdom Day Part 2
8:00pm AR's at Cinderella's Royal Table (I really want to see Wishes while in the Castle...last year on that same Monday, Dec 6, Wishes played at 9:00pm...so I keeping my fingers crossed that it is the same this year!)

December 6 Tue/Day Eight Departure Day
7:00am Check out early/have luggage held at POFQ
8:30am AR's at Whispering Canyon Cafe
9:30am-12:00pm DH wants to spend last moments at MGM or Epcot
1:00pm Get on ME bus to airport...we will be back again VERY soon ...I just have to work a little magic with DH

 

[gigi1313]

tonya, you may want to consider signing up for www.tourguidemike.com as his site gives some great itinerary planning/touring advice... while they don't do a personalized itinerary (i.e. monday go to AK; tuesday MGM, etc) they do offer suggested best and worst days for different parks and WHY! (which is big to me! LOL! i wanna know WHY!)

good luck! and ENJOY!

 

[unixadm]

Here is a sample of my basic ITINERARY.

I then incorporated that into an Excel Spreadsheet/Workbook that others here had put together, tweaked it, added to it, etc. It is still a work in progress and I welcome any input, additional etc.


You can download it HERE

Others have used TourGuide Mike's website, or the Unofficial Guide to plan their days out. I had already planned things out for my September trip before hearing about TGM, but may try that for our trip in April.

I planned out our trip based off of the meal plan this time, so I figured out which restaurants we wanted to eat at, and planned our days around that. I planned certain restaurants around EMH's and other things such as Wishes or Spectromagic. I tried to keep things simple as far as parks....not to much park hopping.....it just slows things down and makes it more difficult to enjoy the trip, IMO. I would rather spend the day at a park and eat lunch and dinner there.

Some people like to park hop, seeing 3 parks in a day.....just depends on what you like to do.

Unfortunately, Disney doesn't release hours and schedules until about 2 months before so it is more difficult to plan around those, but there are some educated guesses you can make based off of previous months, and you can always change once the hours are officially released.

The one good thing for you is that January is one of their slower months, so crowds will be lower, Dining reservations will be easier to get, and you can be a bit more flexible in your itinerary planning as time gets closer.