Touring Question Please for Week After Easter at Magic Kingdom

[js]

Hi.

We are three adults that will be offsite and one day in MK the Wednesday after Easter.
I'm DVC and AP so familiar with the park but I'm a RD'er so this is all new to me.

MK opens at 9 am for offsite guests and I'm guessing this will be insanely busy.
I plan on getting us to RD for the Adventure Land area, is this correct? I hope to be waiting at RD by 8 am.
So I want to be on the left side hub of the castle. We are not riding Space Mountain.

We will purchase LL (well, they are both on my MDE so I will be purchasing). At 7 am, I will purchase
JC, so where do I want to go next? Splash, Pirates or Haunted (or I guess wherever I don't get my 9 am LL).
I had hoped there would be a ILL MK 7DMT drop after/at 9 am but not so hopeful.

We plan on leaving MK about 1/2 pm since we will be back in the late afternoon after the guys golf (besides DVC,
we also own a 3 bedroom TS at Orange Lake Country Club where we will be staying).

Thank you all so much!

 

[kathy884]

Interestingly enough (even though as offsite visitors we no longer have the rope drop advantage and that first ride is a long wait -- sad), for what we were doing the touring plan people had us still start with Space Mountain and then jump over to Adventure land right after that for our busy spring break Magic Kingdom day. The Space Mountain line wait was posted to be 50 minutes, but took 35 minutes at our rope drop (we miss the run with the rope drop walk on). We were at the front of the offsite group. I'm not saying that's the thing to do, just saying what their time studies with the info that we didn't have the early entry recommended when we optimized. (Space and Splash were the longest estimated waits and they had us doing those first.)

For our week, we could get a good LL at 7, but weren't able to get any of the paid LLs once the parks opened up. We at the MK decided to skip 7DMT -- sure it's cute, but it wasn't worth the wait for us. The sad thing too, is that even rides like It's a Small World had waits of over a half hour. And Carousel of Progress, almost always a walk on, had 20 minute waits. The People Mover (not one we do) had 20 minute waits too. Bring lots of patience and don't expect to get too much done with just a half day. LL was helpful for sure, and we got quite a few useful ones.

 

[js]

Interestingly enough (even though as offsite visitors we no longer have the rope drop advantage and that first ride is a long wait -- sad), for what we were doing the touring plan people had us still start with Space Mountain and then jump over to Adventure land right after that for our busy spring break Magic Kingdom day. The Space Mountain line wait was posted to be 50 minutes, but took 35 minutes at our rope drop (we miss the run with the rope drop walk on). We were at the front of the offsite group. I'm not saying that's the thing to do, just saying what their time studies with the info that we didn't have the early entry recommended when we optimized. (Space and Splash were the longest estimated waits and they had us doing those first.)

For our week, we could get a good LL at 7, but weren't able to get any of the paid LLs once the parks opened up. We at the MK decided to skip 7DMT -- sure it's cute, but it wasn't worth the wait for us. The sad thing too, is that even rides like It's a Small World had waits of over a half hour. And Carousel of Progress, almost always a walk on, had 20 minute waits. The People Mover (not one we do) had 20 minute waits too. Bring lots of patience and don't expect to get too much done with just a half day. LL was helpful for sure, and we got quite a few useful ones.

Thank you.

We are not doing Space and if it were up to me, I would skip 7DMT. It's my bff that loves it (we are 55 LOL) I don't ride when I go with my mom or family. Heck, if it were up to me, I wouldn't really be setting foot in the parks this upcoming offsite trip or would be doing Epcot and just drinking around the world but I'm with two other ladies that don't go as often and it's really nothing extra for me except G+ since I have my AP.

Based on what you said, I need to go over to Splash and do that as standby. I'll book JC, earliest possible and just keep booking something else as soon as I tap into second tapstyle. I'm familiar with G+ and ILL since I've been about 3-4 times since parks reopened but never as off-site guest.

Thank you.