Timing with a touring plan

[TechRavingMad]

I'm trying to put together a touring plan for our June trip so that I'm ready to book fast passes, but I'm running into some issues with using any of the current touring plans in that they aren't reflective of the hours in Animal Kingdom.

Does anyone know of a resource that shows average time per attraction, average walk time between attractions and takes into account arriving early for shows? Specifically I'm looking for Animal Kingdom, but it would be great if I could see something like that for all the parks.

Thanks,

 

[Keyser]

I'm trying to put together a touring plan for our June trip so that I'm ready to book fast passes, but I'm running into some issues with using any of the current touring plans in that they aren't reflective of the hours in Animal Kingdom.

Does anyone know of a resource that shows average time per attraction, average walk time between attractions and takes into account arriving early for shows? Specifically I'm looking for Animal Kingdom, but it would be great if I could see something like that for all the parks.

Thanks,

Well, what you're asking for seems to be exactly what the touringplans.com website provides (at a cost - less if you own a copy of the unofficial guide; the cost is very small in comparison to the overall trip cost, though). It does indeed include time per attraction and walking time between attractions (depending on your walking speed) and such. I'm not sure that the wait times at any attraction will be accurate, since the hours are likely to change significantly, so I don't know how much I'd rely on the actual plans it gives you. I have some issues with touringplans, but for the time in an attraction and between attractions, I think it'll provide exactly what you are wanting.

 

[soniam]

Sounds like you want a plan from Touring Plans. I like the personalized plans, and I usually optimize them. I highly recommend it and have used them for all of our WDW, Universal, and Disneyland trip. We have had a lot of success and find their plans pretty accurate. As crowd info, wait times, and park hours change, Touring Plans will update that, so be sure to re-optimize/re-evaluate your plans again about a week or two out. Things shouldn't change too much though.

 

[TechRavingMad]

Thanks all, I have touring plans, I got it free when I booked with our travel agent (part of a promotion) and I'm trying to mess with it's plan, I see there are columns for showing time, etc, but for the life of me I can't get it to display any times at all.

I've tried in three different browsers and none of them ever display times. Is there a trick to making that work?

 

[soniam]

Thanks all, I have touring plans, I got it free when I booked with our travel agent (part of a promotion) and I'm trying to mess with it's plan, I see there are columns for showing time, etc, but for the life of me I can't get it to display any times at all.

I've tried in three different browsers and none of them ever display times. Is there a trick to making that work?

Did you evaluate or optimize the plan? It can't give you the wait times until it knows the day and times and you evaluate/optimize it.

 

[ArielSRL]

What @soniam said. It won't show the times until you evaluate or optimize.

 

[Jenis]

Thanks all, I have touring plans, I got it free when I booked with our travel agent (part of a promotion) and I'm trying to mess with it's plan, I see there are columns for showing time, etc, but for the life of me I can't get it to display any times at all.

I've tried in three different browsers and none of them ever display times. Is there a trick to making that work?

I find it best to put everything in the order I want and then hit evaluate. I move things around from there. I would recommend never using optimize a head of time for planning purposes. If I am interested in seeing what optimizing would do then I make a copy of my plan and optimize the copy. When you evaluate it will keep your order and give you all the times. When you optimize it will move EVERTHING around and give you times.

 

[ArielSRL]

Agree with PP. I always put the plan in the order I want and evaluate. I don't really like the optimize feature because it doesn't take into account your individual touring needs/style.

 

[soniam]

I do a bit of both optimize and evaluate. I like to first see what optimize says, then if necessary, I move things around and evaluate. I would just play around with it to see what it does to determine how you want to create your plan.

 

[ArielSRL]

I do a bit of both optimize and evaluate. I like to first see what optimize says, then if necessary, I move things around and evaluate. I would just play around with it to see what it does to determine how you want to create your plan.

I've done it before but bc I have young kids it's really useless to me. I have to keep the kiddie rides during their awake hours and plan adult rides later in the evening/night. Optimize would also put Meet Mickey at like 9pm. Yeh that would be a great photo....lol.

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

Agree with PP. I always put the plan in the order I want and evaluate. I don't really like the optimize feature because it doesn't take into account your individual touring needs/style.

I think that's absolutely true for experienced Disney folk, but if you're a park novice or haven't been in a while, I would suggest doing an Optimize and then tweak that (and use Evaluate after you have a good order).

 

[ArielSRL]

I think that's absolutely true for experienced Disney folk, but if you're a park novice or haven't been in a while, I would suggest doing an Optimize and then tweak that (and use Evaluate after you have a good order).

I do agree to a certain extent but like I mentioned in a previous post, when I optimized it would put the rides my kids would ride late night and so I would basically have to gut the plan anyway. So even inexperienced Disney folks wouldn't find that useful at all, I don't think.

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

I do agree to a certain extent but like I mentioned in a previous post, when I optimized it would put the rides my kids would ride late night and so I would basically have to gut the plan anyway. So even inexperienced Disney folks wouldn't find that useful at all, I don't think.

Last year I made separate ones. RD to nap and post nap for everyone and another one for nap time when half of us were in the park on each day. That worked for me but it is admittedly more work. But I also had no clear picture of the parks in my head to visualize a different way to plan.

 

[soniam]

I have had problems sometimes with it putting rides late. If you set the ending time to when you want to leave, it usually helps. However, I had chosen to put certain attractions at a particular time, like the non-wait stuff at MK, Tiki Room, Tom Sawyer Island, COP, TTA. It really just takes a little bit of practice to make it work for each individual.