looking for tips on how to do disneyland during christmas break

[Winnowill]

Thanks. This makes me feel better. By "judicious touring", what do you mean?

Taking full advantage of rope drop. Always getting a new FP as soon as we were able. Utilizing a combination of "quick return" FPs and "long return" ones to maximize what you can get (though, by 11:00 am Christmas week, most of the return times are going to be more than 90 minutes out, anyway - there will be precious few quick returns).

Also, once FPs for everything run out, nobody cancels their FPs any more, because there isn't something else they can get instead. We kept looking, and never saw any cancellations at either park.