Our park days are the 14th (sunday) through 19th (friday), with a break on tuesday. We are alternating DL (Sunday, Wednesday and Friday) and DCA Monday and Thursday, with park hoppers and plan on Genie plus. Am I correct that once it hits 1pm, we can just bop back and forth all day and use Genie + LL's at either place? Seems like even with crowds, we could hit the non-LL rides in the first 2 hours and maybe try to get rope drop RSR one of the DCA mornings (we are staying at the Grand Cal, so we can enter earlier).. This is my first DLR trip, and
Genie+ experience, so I'll take any feedback on my strategy thoughts for our first 2 days at DL and DCA... after that, we'll still get Genie+ and want to crush a ton of rides, but i won't worry as much with planning on focus on what rides everyone enjoys the most. (Family is wife, twin 15yr old girls, and a 21yr old (Star Wars obsessed).
14th - DL - need to prioritize Haunted Mansion (closes on 15th), so go to Indiana Jones, Haunted Mansion, Pirates and if we can do BTMRR, Splash, Millennium early, we'll take what we can get. Use LL for some of these rides later when things are busier, in particular, make sure to get HM in again at least once. Late morning/lunch time, hit Fantasy Land and Tomorrowland using Genie+ LLs, followed by OGA's reservation at 2p. Enjoy Galaxy's edge for a while and at some point, we can get our Hungry Bear Fantasmic boxed dinner. We need to get on Monsters Inc at some point too, as it closes on the 15th and we've never been... is it skippable, or should we prioritize? After that and prior to Fantasmic, we can just Genie+ whatever rides we missed or want to do.. Fantasmic package, we don't care if we are in the front row, so is there a more reasonable time we can go there for our preferred seating? 830 safe? Post-fantasmic, just enjoy the park late night.
Some questions:
- How could we fit in ROTR -- wouldn't mind buying ILL for this day, but could we fit it in late night and wait? we wouldn't mind staying in the park late and waiting an hour or so.
- How does early morning work? Rides in Fantasyland and Tomorrowland are open, so should we do a few Fantasyland rides and then head to Indiana Jones, or BTMRR and mix in with the rope drop? Should we alter our rope drop strategy and not go to Adventure/New Orleans/Frontierland areas?
15th DCA - early entry, do a mix of Soarin, Guardians, W Slingers, Incredicoaster, whatever we can get in. Or maybe do 1 ride and head to RSR's for rope drop, which everyone wants to ride? For the remainder of the day, work through every ride in the park using Genie+. We have a lamplight break in the afternoon and may go back to Grand Cali for pool or rest. Spend the remainder of the day on rides and eating/drinking. Would anyone recommend trying the virtual queue for WOC at noon, is it worth it? DCA seems more manageable to get through the rides if you have Genie+, but please let me know if anyone has any strategies using early entry and given we want to try to get on RSR without doing the ILL.
Sorry for the length, but would love any seasoned pro tips for our first two days!! Once we get through the first few days, we'll probably just jump between parks and do the rides everyone likes most.
