How do you split up 2 days at MK?

[lily2521]

We'll be traveling with 6YO DD. We of course have a list of things we want/must do. Some of them I know we'll do both days, some we'll hit up once. I'm trying to figure out how to split up the 2 days.

I do have a subscription to Touring Plans, but I don't know what events/attractions to plug into the 2 different days to split them up?

Day 1 MK is open until midnight, as much as I'd like to think we'll be there late, I know DD won't make it that late. We will hit RD this day
2 day MK has EMH, so we'll take advantage of that.

I want to FP 7D, FoF parade, BTMR, A&E, and Peter Pan's Flight, and either Enchanted Tales, or a 2nd one for 7D. We might RD Enchanted Tales to avoid having to FP that one?

Do we go to Fantasyland right away both days, or one day go straight to Fantasyland and another day head somewhere else?


Our must do's:
Barnstometer
BTMR
Buzz Light-year
Haunted Mansion
Festival of Fantasy Parade
Enchanted Tales with Belle
Small World
Jungle Cruise
PhilarMagic
Monsters Laugh Floor
Peter Pan's Flight
Journey of little mermaid, and meeting Ariel
Splash Mountain
POTC
7D
Meet A&E
Meet Tinkerbell
Meet Cinderella & Rapunzel (Maybe! I'm worried DD will notice a difference in Cinderella, since we have meal reservation at Akershus, and also at 1900)

I'm confident we can do most of this over 2 days, but, I'm just having a really hard time trying to figure out what to do on day 1, and what to do on day 2? I am trying to set up a general plan through Touring Plans, but like I said, I don't know the best way to split up the 2 days?

We're going to (try!) to do lunch at BOG day 1, and we're doing dinner at 1900 park fare day 2, if that helps.

Thanks for any advice, these boards have been such a huge help in our planning!

 

[JimmyV]

Our must do's:
Barnstometer
BTMR-FP+
Buzz Light-year-FP+
Haunted Mansion
Festival of Fantasy Parade-FP+ (per your preference. I'm not big on using FP for parades, but if makes sense for you to do that, it works)
Enchanted Tales with Belle
Small World
Jungle Cruise
PhilarMagic
Monsters Laugh Floor
Peter Pan's Flight
Journey of little mermaid, and meeting Ariel
Splash Mountain-FP+
POTC
7D-FP+
Meet A&E-FP+
Meet Tinkerbell
Meet Cinderella & Rapunzel (Maybe! I'm worried DD will notice a difference in Cinderella, since we have meal reservation at Akershus, and also at 1900)

I've indicated in red which attractions I would get a FP for. If you are going over the span of two days, I would do Peter Pan at Rope Drop so as to enjoy the new queue. From there, you can go over to Enchanted Tales With Belle and get right in. Then, Little Mermaid. If you do those three things in succession on one of your days, and do them as soon as the park opens, you get the benefit of some nicely designed queues and limited wait times. Once you knock off those rides, and then add in the ones that are indicated as FP rides, the rest of your planning should be easy. You can very leisurely accomplish everything else over the course of the remainder of that day, plus a second day. And to that end, I would start my second day over at the other side of the park and do Jungle Cruise and PoTC on the early side. Once you plot out your two days in terms of early rides, you can schedule your FPs around that. For example, use your FPs for BTMRR and Splash on the day that you go to Jungle Cruise and Pirates early in the day. Use your FPs for Buzz, A&E and 7D on the day that you do Peter Pan, Belle and Mermaid early in the morning. Good luck.

 

[lily2521]

I've indicated in red which attractions I would get a FP for. If you are going over the span of two days, I would do Peter Pan at Rope Drop so as to enjoy the new queue. From there, you can go over to Enchanted Tales With Belle and get right in. Then, Little Mermaid. If you do those three things in succession on one of your days, and do them as soon as the park opens, you get the benefit of some nicely designed queues and limited wait times. Once you knock off those rides, and then add in the ones that are indicated as FP rides, the rest of your planning should be easy. You can very leisurely accomplish everything else over the course of the remainder of that day, plus a second day. And to that end, I would start my second day over at the other side of the park and do Jungle Cruise and PoTC on the early side. Once you plot out your two days in terms of early rides, you can schedule your FPs around that. For example, use your FPs for BTMRR and Splash on the day that you go to Jungle Cruise and Pirates early in the day. Use your FPs for Buzz, A&E and 7D on the day that you do Peter Pan, Belle and Mermaid early in the morning. Good luck.

This is EXTREMELY helpful - thank you so much!!!

 

[texasgingerbread]

here's a good link too which includes the characters. http://www.kennythepirate.com/2014/...ay-touring-strategy-for-characters-and-rides/

 

[Cedarmom]

Another thought: Will your daughter want to ride the coasters several times? You could get 2 FP for 7D so you have them in case she loves it, and one of the 2 mornings head to btmrr first thing (love the pp's suggestion of Fantasyland strategy!). If you go straight to big Thunder, you can ride it a couple of times, do splash once or twice and then do pirates as a walk on. I would then FP jungle. We did the above strategy one morning, adding in a snack before jungle and still only waited 17 min for jungle w/o a FP. One group did btmrr 3x and splash 1x, the other set did 2x/2x. Looking at my pics for a 9 am park open, we were on jungle sometime before 10:28 (that was my first on the boat pic. Not sure what time we actually loaded).

 

[lily2521]

here's a good link too which includes the characters. http://www.kennythepirate.com/2014/...ay-touring-strategy-for-characters-and-rides/

Thanks for this - very helpful!

 

[lily2521]

Another thought: Will your daughter want to ride the coasters several times? You could get 2 FP for 7D so you have them in case she loves it, and one of the 2 mornings head to btmrr first thing (love the pp's suggestion of Fantasyland strategy!). If you go straight to big Thunder, you can ride it a couple of times, do splash once or twice and then do pirates as a walk on. I would then FP jungle. We did the above strategy one morning, adding in a snack before jungle and still only waited 17 min for jungle w/o a FP. One group did btmrr 3x and splash 1x, the other set did 2x/2x. Looking at my pics for a 9 am park open, we were on jungle sometime before 10:28 (that was my first on the boat pic. Not sure what time we actually loaded).

She'd probably want to do 7D more than once, I did think of doing a FP for that on both days we're there, just to make sure she can ride both days.

How wet do you get on Splash Mountain? I like the idea of doing it, but don't want to be walking around wet all day either

 

[matheke]

Day 1-Go through the castle to Fantasyland. Start doing attractions and move toward the left (Liberty Square, FL and AL)
Day 2-Go through the castle to Fantasyland. Start doing attractions and work your way toward Tommorrowland.

Alternate plan.

Day 1- Go to Tommoroland and work your way to the left toward Fantasyland, LS, FL and AL.
Day 2- Go to Adventureland and work your way around the park to the right.

Once you have decided which way you are going pick your Fastpasses for where you expect to be in the afternoon and for the most important attractions you want to do.