For those going in Dec.-what's your day to day planning strategy?

[dbal]

Hi- We will be there from 12/6-12/12. We are on the DDP so our 180 day out mark will be coming pretty soon. I would like to be able to make our ADRs as soon as we are able to according to what the best days in the parks are.
I would like to take advantage of a.m. EMHs and we will have phs- so we will split most days into 2 parks.
I have been on the best days site - but I'm really confused.
How does everybody plan their days and adrs this far out. I would LOVE to hear experiences. We are pretty extensive planners w/ a party of 6 and one w/ special needs. Please help! Thanks.

 

[*NikkiBell*]

I refuse to plan ADR's or the days for each park without the EMH schedule. I am in the same boat as you and will wait until it comes out. I heard that could be this month or early next month.

 

[scraptoons]

Hey! We are going DEC 9th arrival, DEC 16th departure. BWV for 10th-15th (Sun-Thur). We are waiting for good room rates for two surrounding nights.

We will do DTD on arrival day, meeting DH's half sister and family for dinner and shopping. HaHa, she doesn't know yet! She lives in Ocala, an hour or so away, so we would have to give her some sort of notice to clear their schedule. It would be our "Christmas" gathering. They are more than welcome to join us for the parks, it's up to them to spend their money or not.

I am also waiting for the schedule to come out. Would love to know when it does.

Are the early entrance days changing all the time? It seems like the different "guides" I read have different schedules.

The unofficial guide says the park with early entrance gets extremely crowded, and suggests getting there to do a few things then hopping to another park, which is much less crowded.

Based on that suggestion, I'm really anxious to see that schedule. My ADR's are going to shape up with this too.

We will do CRT for lunch, and Ohana's for dinner. I'm trying to figure out what to do with the two remaining TS credits. Would prefer the 1 TS places since we have to use 2 for CRT.

We have 3 kids ranging from 2 to 8. The oldest is turning 9 after we get back home (Dec 23rd BD). We would like to celebrate her BD early at WDW. I'm all giddy about that. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[hezreck]

We are going Nov. 29 - Dec. 6. So far I planned the 2 day in Nov. be cause the hours are out. We are also on the dining plan and we will be there for my DD8 birthday. I'm not planning my days according to EMH, not trying to avoid them or go to them. I'm planning around MVMCP. I want to get to see Spectro at MK and of the 6 nights we are there, 4 are MVMCP nights, so there won't be Spectro on those nights. Right now our plans are to go to MK on Nov. 29 because Spectro is running that night.

If we go on an EMH day and it's too crowded we will hop to another park. Most of my TS are at resorts, except 2 at Epcot so it doesn't matter what park we are at on which day.

Here's my tentative plan, unless it changes when Dec. hours come out.

Wed 11/29
Whispering Canyon lunch and then to MK (arrival day planes lands at 11:00 am)

Thurs 11/30
AK
Dinner Consourse Steakhouse then Epcot

Fri 12/1 DD brithday
MK
1900 Park Fare Dinner

Sat 12/2
Epcot
Coral Reef lunch

Sun 12/3
Cape May Breakfast
Free day (go to whatever park we want

Mon 12/4
MGM
50's Prime Time lunch

Tues 12/5
Epcot
Garden Grill Dinner

Wed 12/6
plane leaves 12:00 noon

 

[buckylarue]

We'll be there the 5th thru the 11th. The only plans I have made so far are MVMCP on the 7th (already have tix, just need to decide where/when to eat) and dinner at Flying Fish on the 8th for my birthday, followed by the DIS meet at Jellyrolls...

Everything else is up in the air until the December hours come out. I have tentative plans about what other places we want to eat, etc., but will not be able to line them up until I know where we will be when!

 

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