Does this REALLY work?

[Lydia91]

I have been pulling together touring plans on the touringplans.com website and I am having a hard time believing what the website is telling me we can accomplish. What has others' experience been with the accuracy of the wait times, etc. through touring plans?

We are going in November. For an estimated crowd level 2 day in the Magic Kingdom, where we arrive at rope drop and the park closes at 7 for a MVMCP, they are saying we can do the following (virtually everything with less than a 10 minute wait) in the following order:

Welcome Show
Buzz Lightyear (x2)
Transit Authority
Monsters' Laugh Floor
Speedway
Jungle Cruise
Tiki Room
Magic Carpets
Lunch (1/2 hour allocated)
Pirates' League Appt. at 11:50 (1 hr. allocated)
Pirates of Carrib. Ride
A Pirate's Adventure (they are giving this 20 minutes, I understand that there are 5 adventures each @20 minutes. We will likely do one and then decide whether additional ones seem like fun and whether we will drop something else in favor of continuing).
Cap'n Jack's Pirate Tutorial.
Festival of Fantasy Parade (at 3)
Tom Sawyer's Island (1/2 hour allocated)
Frontier Hoe Down
Country Bear Jamboree
Move It, Shake It Parade
Haunted Mansion

This gets us done a little before 6 in order to take the monorail over to the Contemporary for dinner at Chef Mickey's at 7.

Insane? Actually workable?

 

[FutureDis]

Looks pretty good to me! I've been several times in late September and can verify the low wait times. Truly, we walked on to almost everything (with only a few exceptions).

 

[Cando86]

It looks do-able to me! You'll be surprised how much you can get done especially those first couple hours if you arrive at rope drop. The low crowd level will help you out a lot too!

 

[JimmyV]

Piece of cake. You don't have the following attractions listed: (going with pre-school boy(s) I'm guessing?)

Frozen Meet and Greet
Enchanted Tales With Belle
Space Mountain
Thunder Mountain
Splash Mountain
Mine Train

At any given time of the day, those attractions can draw in 1/2 to 1/3 of the entire park. Even more at Rope Drop. If you skip those attractions, you will have the rest of the park to yourself for the first 3 hours or so. Total walk-ons.

Also, don't be afraid to "drag and drop" the order of the rides that TP shows you. While they may have things down to a science, sometimes that science doesn't play well as far as overall enjoyment is concerned. For example, I would never ride Buzz twice in succession followed by the People Mover and then the Laugh floor right at park opening. The People Mover does not have to be done at Rope Drop, and the Laugh Floor is much more fun when you have a packed house. For the reasons I mentioned above, early in the day, most people will be doing other things and the Laugh Floor might only be 1/3 full. TP really tries to cut down on walking, but I would rather do some extra walking and zig-zagging around the park and hitting rides in the morning that really benefit from the Rope Drop effect. If you are not going to go to Space Mountain or the Mine Train, I would start over toward Adventureland and the Haunted Mansion. That area will get you a better Rope Drop effect than the People Mover and Laugh Factory.

 

[Lydia91]

Thanks for the advice! Traveling with 2 pre-school girls actually. We have another "princess" day (for fantasyland, dinner at CRT, etc.) and this is our "pirate" day.

I'll give some thought to switching it around so adventureland is earlier -- our reservation at the pirate league was driving that a bit, as I thought the girls would prefer to do the piratey things while in their pirate attire.

Definitely will figure out a way to switch around the laugh floor so its towards the end of the day rather than the beginning -- maybe switch it with the Haunted Mansion.

Glad to know that this might actually be feasible!

And no way we will be getting them on the mountains. I'm just hoping we can get them on the Barnstormer! One doesn't like it when Dad bicycles "too fast" while pulling her in the bike trailer.

 

[JimmyV]

However you do it, it sounds like a really fun day. Great idea to do a Pirate theme! And I would definitely go to the Laugh Factory after the girls are in full pirate costume. They stand a much better chance of being picked out of the crowd and shown on the big screen that way!

 

[tjevans]

In my experience with touringplans.com, their custom touring plans are pretty close, but, for my family, they still underestimate walking time between attractions, even adjusting for a more casual pace.

 

[Baptist]

I think your plan is definitely possible. It seams like a waste of a rope drop to spend it on Buzz Lightyear, but you go for it. Nobody else would be doing it, maybe you can ride it 3 times.

 

[Indio]

We went Nov 16-23 last year (week before Thanksgiving week). Just about everything was walk-on. Pretty much all of the things you have listed were walk-on. The bigger rides - Space, Splash, Big Thunder - we might have waited 20 minutes, but that's about it. I think you list will be very doable.

 

[Sharpdisney]

Great question and thanks for the answers too. I was just starting to learn to use touringplans and was wondering the same thing! My plan, although it appeared to fit into the day, seemed packed to me! About 20 items in a single day (RD to close/Wishes, with a hotel break in the middle, using FP).
I'm glad to hear it "could" fit.
But, I think my primary goal to use TP was to help map my choices, get an idea when to book some FP, and just in general how to arrange my day. If we do not make each stop on the list, oh well! We'll press on when it's time for a dinner ressie or a FP and just fill in between what we can!

 

[AndreaA]

Aside from the placement of the Speedway, I think the plan looks good. The lines at Speedway can build fairly early and they are SLOW.

I would do Buzz and then the Speedway and then head over to Adventureland, then hit Transit Authority (never a wait) and Laugh Floor just before you leave.

The Speedway is actually pretty close to Fantasyland, so you could also possibly do it on your Fantasyland day to avoid criss-crossing the park in the morning. You could go straight to Adventureland and do the three Tomorrowland attractions (other than Speedway) just before you leave.

 

[BlueFairy]

Aside from the placement of the Speedway, I think the plan looks good. The lines at Speedway can build fairly early and they are SLOW.

I would do Buzz and then the Speedway and then head over to Adventureland, then hit Transit Authority (never a wait) and Laugh Floor just before you leave.

I agree with this plan. your girls sound like mine, and I'm afraid to detour to Tomorrowland and take time away from meeting all those princesses. Speedway is easy in the morning, and less hot and smelly.

Otherwise, I think the TP looks totally workable. You are on a crowd 2 day, so that is really helping you out. I'm always surprised how much we get done when we stick to the plan.

 

[KCarr2000]

My son and I went to Disneyland this past spring and used it for the first time. We were there for three days. For the most part, the times were pretty close, but if you take a detour, or if a ride or tour is off which we had happen occassionaly, it can mess your whole plan up. By the third day, we had quit using it and just used the apps that show current wait times. The biggest problem for me is that I found we were running from one side of the park to the other, then back. Lots more walking and we were so tired by the third day that we left the park early.