coastgirl
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I think it's fair to say many of us here are planners. 
I have a couple of versions of spreadsheets and tables to build plans, but they are always cumbersome. I just stumbled on one I really like online. There's a community/site called "The Dibb", which is primarily for UK lovers of Florida. They have their own crowd calendar, which is nice (I like lots of data points!), and other info resources and forums.
But the real gem is the vacation planner. It generates a trip plan easily, and has lots of menu drop-downs to fill in different vacation activities, as well as a notes field for things that don't fit in the other categories. You can even just move stuff from one day to another without having to delete and start over if, say, you don't get the res'n you want on the day you planned. I only have two complaints: took me a while to figure out the "Add Now" button was to save the current entry (e.g., if you'd entered an ADR or something). Also the pdf it generates for printing has a smaller font than I'd choose, but it's still pretty readable. It prints with a banner ad at the bottom, but that's a small price to pay.
I also love that it will pull park hours into your plan if you select a certain theme park for the day, and it uses the park logo in the margin so you can see at a glance what's planned. Now the Universal hours aren't yet up for our trip, grr, but when I selected Seaworld, I didn't have to cross reference, it just pulled the opening and closing hours into the plan for me.
You can also make it public, but I haven't tested that out--not sure if public means anybody, or just other community members.
You do have to sign up to access it, but it's free and doesn't seem obnoxious. Start here http://www.thedibb.co.uk/index.php and look for the vacation planner tab across the top once you've registered. I remember years ago I paid for Tour Guide Mike, and tried that planner, but this free one is way better.
Happy happy me.
This is a fun and useful little resource.
I have a couple of versions of spreadsheets and tables to build plans, but they are always cumbersome. I just stumbled on one I really like online. There's a community/site called "The Dibb", which is primarily for UK lovers of Florida. They have their own crowd calendar, which is nice (I like lots of data points!), and other info resources and forums. But the real gem is the vacation planner. It generates a trip plan easily, and has lots of menu drop-downs to fill in different vacation activities, as well as a notes field for things that don't fit in the other categories. You can even just move stuff from one day to another without having to delete and start over if, say, you don't get the res'n you want on the day you planned. I only have two complaints: took me a while to figure out the "Add Now" button was to save the current entry (e.g., if you'd entered an ADR or something). Also the pdf it generates for printing has a smaller font than I'd choose, but it's still pretty readable. It prints with a banner ad at the bottom, but that's a small price to pay.
I also love that it will pull park hours into your plan if you select a certain theme park for the day, and it uses the park logo in the margin so you can see at a glance what's planned. Now the Universal hours aren't yet up for our trip, grr, but when I selected Seaworld, I didn't have to cross reference, it just pulled the opening and closing hours into the plan for me.
You can also make it public, but I haven't tested that out--not sure if public means anybody, or just other community members.
You do have to sign up to access it, but it's free and doesn't seem obnoxious. Start here http://www.thedibb.co.uk/index.php and look for the vacation planner tab across the top once you've registered. I remember years ago I paid for Tour Guide Mike, and tried that planner, but this free one is way better.
Happy happy me.
This is a fun and useful little resource.
