Aliceacc
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Our trip this summer will include our family of 5 (with kids ages 11, 14 and 16), my brother in law's family (his kids are 26 and 30) and my sister in law and her husband. We're from Long Island, BIL is from upstate, and SIL is from CA.
My niece and I are the designated planners, and our FP date is in two weeks. We're trying, via email (she's in Baltimore) to start working out things we can do together.
Here's what I've just come up with, in the event that it can help someone else:
I made a table in Word, with 5 columns:
Day/date, FP+ for everyone, FP+ for most, FP+ for a few, and who those few are.
So, for example, in the MK, "Everyone" includes Peter Pan, Buzz, Haunted Mansion, Jungle Cruise, Pirates, Philharmagic, and Laugh Floor. As per Mesa Boy's thread, "A" attractions are in red, "B" in blue, and "C" in black. (For the tiered parks, tier 1 is in Bold.)-- got all that?
Then I took our already rough draft of which parks we'll be in each morning and afternoon, and pulled selections from the chart. I paired an attraction like Space "for a few" with one like "Small World" or "Jungle Cruise" that the less adventurous would like.
I emailed it to my niece; once we refine it we'll run it by everyone else and start working on times.
I think it's a system that will make things easy for us. Everyone is free to make any changes, of course. But I've found that it's easy to change an existing structure than to come up with one. So now that people can see something in front of them, they can tell me what they want me to change.
My niece and I are the designated planners, and our FP date is in two weeks. We're trying, via email (she's in Baltimore) to start working out things we can do together.
Here's what I've just come up with, in the event that it can help someone else:
I made a table in Word, with 5 columns:
Day/date, FP+ for everyone, FP+ for most, FP+ for a few, and who those few are.
So, for example, in the MK, "Everyone" includes Peter Pan, Buzz, Haunted Mansion, Jungle Cruise, Pirates, Philharmagic, and Laugh Floor. As per Mesa Boy's thread, "A" attractions are in red, "B" in blue, and "C" in black. (For the tiered parks, tier 1 is in Bold.)-- got all that?
Then I took our already rough draft of which parks we'll be in each morning and afternoon, and pulled selections from the chart. I paired an attraction like Space "for a few" with one like "Small World" or "Jungle Cruise" that the less adventurous would like.
I emailed it to my niece; once we refine it we'll run it by everyone else and start working on times.
I think it's a system that will make things easy for us. Everyone is free to make any changes, of course. But I've found that it's easy to change an existing structure than to come up with one. So now that people can see something in front of them, they can tell me what they want me to change.
Enjoy the planning.
