Geez, I'm am having trouble picking fast passes this time around. Please help?

[Farro]

So this trip is harder as we have people joining us on different dates. We are all staying at Polynesian.
Plan is to do first 3 fast passes relatively early, then see what we can get later on. I'm not giving the entire plans for the day, just the fast passes...

10/25 - arrival day (just us two)
Magic Kingdom
5:00 - Peter Pan
Dinner at Skipper Canteen at 6
7:00 - Jungle Cruise
8:00 - Mine Train

10/26 (us two)
Epcot - early entry
If we do early entry, will probably try for Soarin first, then Test Track
9:00 am Spaceship Earth
10:00 am Living With The Land
11:00 am Frozen Ever After
Lunch at WCC at 1:45 then back to Poly for a nap.
Halloween party at night, will get a bunch of rides done (hopefully anyways!)

10/27 (us two)
Animal Kingdom
9:00 am River Journey
10:00 am EE
6:45 pm Safari ride
We are saving FOP until everyone arrives, and this day we are going back to hotel for mid-day relaxing, then heading back to AK at night.

10/28 (us two morning, brother arrival day)
DHS - this one is hard!
10:00 ToT
11:00 Toy Story
12:00 Muppets
Then don't know what do with my brother...we are going to Disney Springs late afternoon/early evening and then MK will probably be open until 11...I may make him some fast passes for MK that night and see if we have any luck grabbing some after we use up our DHS ones - maybe for Pirate, Thunder Mountain and Haunted Mansion? What would be our best bet?

10/29 (three of us, two sisters arrival day)
AK
9:00 am River Journey
11:00 am EE
12:00 pm Dinosaur
My sisters are on their own this day making fast passes! We have dinner at California Grill at 7:30, so I think they will head straight to MK

10/30 (all 5 of us from here on out)
Epcot
10:00 am Soarin
11:00 am LWL
12:00 pm SE
Test track we will try single rider, no one else wants to go on FEA!
maybe some pool time
Dinner at Chefs De France at 6:00

MK is night EMH - so we will try to snag fast passes for later at night after we use up our 3 at Epcot. We can do that, right?

10/31
Animal Kingdom (early entry - telling group they should go to River Journey so they can ride it and explore Pandora)
10:00 - Flights of Passage - will try for this time, but will take what we can get!
11:00 - Everest - figure we have until almost noon to walk over there
12:00 - Dinosaur
back to resort to relax if people want, dinner at Sanaa 5:30 and then back to AK to walk around at night (If open)

11/1
MK
11:00 - Thunder Mountain
12:00 - Pirates
2:00 - Mine Train
Dinner at Boathouse

11/2 (brother and one sister leave, so just 3 of us)
Plan is to destroy Food/Wine this day!
But first DHS
11:00 - ToT
Then ???

11/3 - go home and get our cats!!!

Sooo....any suggestions?

 

[Disneylover99]

I don't think you'll need a fp for Muppets on 10/28. Why not swap it out for Star Tours?

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

Cool! My only comment: I woundn't personally burn 2 FPs on NRJ. I'd use them for something else in AK -- I understand you're saving your first FoP for when everyone arrives.

ETA: Agree you don't need FP for Muppets. And on your last DHS day, I'd add RnR and ST, personally.

 

[Farro]

I don't think you'll need a fp for Muppets on 10/28. Why not swap it out for Star Tours?

We don't like it...maybe I will rethink that.

 

[Farro]

Cool! My only comment: I woundn't personally burn 2 FPs on NRJ. I'd use them for something else in AK -- I understand you're saving your first FoP for when everyone arrives.

ETA: Agree you don't need FP for Muppets. And on your last DHS day, I'd add RnR and ST, personally.

If it was just us I wouldn't - but my brother will be with us by that day and I want him to see it. My sisters I trust to make early entry at AK so they will ride it. I don't know that he will make early entry!

 

[Farro]

Any other suggestions?

If we finish 3 fast passes early on, we can try and book another for a different park later that night?

 

[JerseyJanice]

Yes. That's one reason why it's best to book your FPs for as early in the day as possible.

 

[mamamelody2]

If we finish 3 fast passes early on, we can try and book another for a different park later that night?

You sure can!

 

[Farro]

Great! Sounds like I am on the right track for that. Thanks guys!