Tell me about your Touring Plan...Success?? Mess??

Momtwofour

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I signed up for the website Touring Plans and have been messing around making some plans and adjusting theirs. I will be traveling with my elderly mother, my sons (29,24) my daughter(11) and my granddaughter(3) This is my 5th time to disney and I have never done this extensive of a plan.
I am just curious....did it work for you? Did you find it accurate on times etc??
 
We love it and find the WDW plans pretty accurate. We usually end up finishing ahead of the schedule. We always do a personalized plan that is optimized. We have used them for 3 WDW, 1 DLR, and 1 Uni visit. Two of the WDW were with FP+. The only problem at WDW that we have had was our first visit. The first Festival of the Lion King show at Animal Kingdom started later than TP said. I think the problem was that I hadn't re-optimized in a while, weeks or months, so my plan didn't have the latest schedule info. I now usually re-optimize or at least evaulate my plans a day or two before the trip, to get the latest data and schedules. Play around with the evaluate and optimize and try different plans for the same day to see what works best for you. I especially do this to try out different FP+ times, but I usually end up going with their suggested time for my FP+.

The Lines app is great too. If you paid the subscription, then you can get it. It has posted, expected, and reported wait times, as well as available FP+ times. It also has dining menus, which is really convenient for QS.

My best advice is to use some common sense about things. Nothing is perfect. If TP has you getting to a show or FP+ later than you want, then skip a step or two and do the show/FP+. You can just come back to what was skipped. The time difference is usually so minimal that it's not going make the plan worthless. If you want to shop or go to the bathroom, do it. There's no Touring Plans police that's going to call you out for not following it exactly:) Also, use the listed arrival times as a guide to how things are progressing. Don't freak out and get uptight if you are a bit behind. It usually works itself out in the wash.

Have fun and good luck.
 
Thank you! You have some very good advice. The plan I am working on looks good on paper, I just wondered if they really work on foot. lol
 
I had made customized touring plans for our first WDW trip but ended up going to the standard plans. I used the standard plans and we cut out things that we were not interested in and added those that we were. I would attribute the failure of the customized plan to it being our first trip and not having previous experience. I did like the site as well as their books. I would probably sign up again for our next trip.
 

I started the customized and then switched to using theirs and taking out what we don't want to do. I book my fast passes sunday so I feel like that might help me feel more confident in my plan??
 
I started with stock plans our first visit too and customized them. I think TP is perfect for determining what makes sense in a certain time frame.
 













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