Still unable to plan around park hours?

[DLBDS]

My 180-day mark is quickly approaching on the 6th. Several weeks ago I learned that Disney wasn't posting park hours well in advance like they used to do making Crowd Calendars (popular with us uber planners) unavailable. Is this still the case? If so, should I just plan our trip based on past experience and hope for the best? I've already started an itinerary with Rope Drop arrivals every day with breaks mid afternoon. FastPasses in the evenings. Any additional advice/suggestions appreciated.

 

[Robo]

Whatever hours post at 6 months out WILL change.
Not ALL of them, but quite a few.

 

[ArielSRL]

The June hours were released (they can be viewed on the wdwprepschool site or on the TA calendar) but as Robo said, they will most definitely change. If going by history, they won't be (mostly) finalized until mid-May and even then, they can extend up to and on the day of.

We were there 6/4-6/11 this year and in 2017 will be there 6/3-6/11. So I'm going to use last year's hours as a guide, but it really won't affect our ADRs too much as we will do either late breakfast, early lunch, or early dinner on our park days.

Oh and for planning park days, I did loosely use touring plans crowd calendar, but I mostly just used information gathered here or from FB groups.

 

[adisneyaunt]

I don't like Fastpasses in evenings. You have to USE them all to even get others ( one at a time)
So ur basically waiting stand by all day..till u use ur first one.
Learned the hard way a while back. Not a strategy I'd care to repeat.

Good luck and enjoy ur visit!

 

[ArielSRL]

I don't like Fastpasses in evenings. You have to USE them all to even get others ( one at a time)
So ur basically waiting stand by all day..till u use ur first one.
Learned the hard way a while back. Not a strategy I'd care to repeat.

Good luck and enjoy ur visit!

She's doing the rope drop, midday break, back for evening touring plan, like we do. There is not a lot of need for morning FP as the lines don't tend to build for a few hours, though I can see an argument for maybe starting them at 10:30/11. And she won't need them midday bc she won't be at the parks.

 

[adisneyaunt]

Interesting strategy... To each his/her own. I just hate to have what disappointingly happened to us, happen to others. (We Never got on several rides. 1.5-2 hour waits are Absolutely Inexcusable in my opinion, Disney )

With the cost of admission ( to Any park) guests should be Able to enjoy Every ride of their choice, without hours on line as part of that "experience".
Just my 2 cents lol. Best of luck!