Park touring strategy advice

[Minniemania877]

Hello!

I have lurked for a while and now am looking for some trip planning feedback. For a bit of background, the trip is my mom and I, and while we do tend to take a break in the afternoons, we are go-go-go at the parks and more inclined to do early mornings than super late evenings.

Our first full day is Thursday, May 17. I had thought we could do Epcot EMH (primarily Soarin, single rider Test Track, and possibly FEA although I know that's ambitious), then walk over to HS and use fastpasses for there. That evening we'll do MK HEA and depending on FP availability, a few rides.

Our second day, we are doing Keys to the Kingdom tour which is a surprise for my mom. Since we'll be in MK, I'd like to get FP for that afternoon there. TWe'll go back to the resort and relax then do HS that evening to watch Fantasmic (and maybe a couple rides if we can get FP).

Saturday, the plan was to RD Animal Kingdom. But now with all the research I've done I'm not sure it's feasible to get there by 7am to get over to Pandora. I was ok with our go-go-go touring style until I realized there isn't one early, rushed morning our first three days.

We will be there through Tuesday 5/22 with Tuesday being a resort day. Do you think this plan sounds feasible? I'm trying to leave Sunday and Monday as flexible as possible depending on how much we get to the first couple of days and what crowds are like. Last time we overscheduled (spreadsheet and all ) and we scrapped half of it once we realized how much easier it was with only two people.

Our last day we'll likely try to do all 4 parks (crazy but we've done it before, hitting our favorites) and we won't be back to WDW for at least another 3-4 years.
Any advice is appreciated!

 

[disneylover102]

I personally wouldn’t do TT single rider during EMH. We used Epcot EMH before and we did Soarin’ 4 times (3 during the hour, and got in line right before the regular crowd arrived). The whole day, we were able to do TT single rider for about a 15-20 minute wait max.

If you can get there early enough for Pandora, that’s great. If you get there later, the line will not be short. You can try getting a FP+ or maybe even doing it last thing of the day (I’ve heard of 45 min waits then)

Leaving Sunday and Monday flexible is fine, but I’d still book FP+ just in case- especially if you can get one for FOP (keep checking and refreshing for that) or even get one for 7DMT (not too hard to get at 60 days out, but if you wait until the day of to decide the park, it’s not going to be available. It doesn’t hurt to reserve FP+ and then cancel it. It does hurt if you don’t get FP+ when you could have and then can’t ride something or ride again if you really wanted to.)