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[disneynutz]

We have a room request we'd really like to have honored,does the fax thing really increase our chances? It's for a Board Walk DVC unit if that matter.

Bill From PA

Some resorts have told me that they don't have time to read faxes and they ignore them. Most prefer to have the request attached to the reservation so they see it as they process the reservations. DVC MS can add the request to the reservation.

FYI-If you have a request on the reservation, online check in requests will overwrite them.

Bill

 

[starstruck93]

We have a room request we'd really like to have honored,does the fax thing really increase our chances? It's for a Board Walk DVC unit if that matter.
Bill From PA

I used the fax request from touringplans on my trip last Sept. and got my exact room at BCV. It was so easy and worth every dime! I'm been using touringplans since 2009 and love them!

 

[soniam]

I haven't seen it mentioned, but the Lines app also has the menus. It even has a menu search feature for each park. This is nice if you are looking for a particular snack, like churros, and can't find them.

 

[Momtwofour]

I love touring plans! However, on our last trip I did the room request through tp and got the exact opposite of what we requested We requested a room close to the lobby because my mom was with us and she doesnt walk very well. We were given the furthest room and I mean literally, it was the last room at the end of the hall! Tried to get it changed at check in but they were couldnt accommodate us. So I am not sure if I am going to try it again or not.

 

[WDWRook]

Just got the subscription yesterday. Set up plans for each day. Did the evaluate but not the optimize. I wanted to optimize but was afraid I'd have to restart the process. If I optimize can I reset it to my original plan? Or is there some trick? When in the park, if I optimize same question. Will it drop my fastpasses? A coup,e times just evaluate would say "we are not using your fastpass because xyz".

Are these line wait times usually accurate? More so than the posted wait times?

We sent in our room fax request. Should we also do the touring plans fax request thing? Just learned about it.

We leave Monday morning. I got that "I know I'm forgetting something" thing going on.

 

[ArielSRL]

Just got the subscription yesterday. Set up plans for each day. Did the evaluate but not the optimize. I wanted to optimize but was afraid I'd have to restart the process. If I optimize can I reset it to my original plan? Or is there some trick? When in the park, if I optimize same question. Will it drop my fastpasses? A coup,e times just evaluate would say "we are not using your fastpass because xyz".

Are these line wait times usually accurate? More so than the posted wait times?

We sent in our room fax request. Should we also do the touring plans fax request thing? Just learned about it.

We leave Monday morning. I got that "I know I'm forgetting something" thing going on.

You can make a copy of your plan (example I might have MK day and MK day alt) and you could optimize one and leave the other as is.

The lines app relies on user info. So I've heard it's more accurate than MDE but I haven't yet used it in WDW as I'm a newer (October) subscriber and our trip is in 4 weeks!!

 

[DIS_MERI]

I found the lines app incredibly helpful on both of the trips I've used it for. The reported wait times were far more accurate than MDE and we rode several rides I wouldn't have bothered to get in line for if the reported wait times hadn't been so much lower than MDE. Lines helped make both completed trips enjoyable, and my subscription is good through the last day of our October trip, too (plus the one we leave for in 32 hours) so I really feel like we got good value from it

 

[jillyh]

I've used the crowd calendar for the past few trips to plan when to go and which parks/which days. Got the exact room I requested for our trip last year. Used the Lines app which was really helpful. Get almost as much helpful info on the Lines chat as I do on this site!

 

[Stephanie Isaacson]

How accurate are the wait times for lines? We are going end of November and going on a Tues (xmas party day). We were planning to stay until about 1ish, way lunch, sDwim, and then go to Epcot or HS.

It showed wait times of no longer than 30 minutes for all rides (not worth a FP imo). Should I trust the wait times and do no FP for MK and use them all for Epcot or HS later instead?

We plan on doing two MK mornings and in the afternoon doing Epcot one day and HS the other.

 

[switch15foot]

Usually save fastpasses for park that hopping to; as always hit rope drop and find can get on a large portion of rides in the first couple of hrs; when it starts to get busy at the park started in than hop to the next one with fastpasses starting around 1-2ish

 

[cel_disney]

How accurate are the wait times for lines? We are going end of November and going on a Tues (xmas party day). We were planning to stay until about 1ish, way lunch, sDwim, and then go to Epcot or HS.

It showed wait times of no longer than 30 minutes for all rides (not worth a FP imo). Should I trust the wait times and do no FP for MK and use them all for Epcot or HS later instead?

We plan on doing two MK mornings and in the afternoon doing Epcot one day and HS the other.

I find that the TP predictions are pretty good BUT you have to be very diligent in following the plan (in a timely manner). Be near the front of the rope drop crowd to benefit from their early morning timing predictions. We have often done morning parks first thing without FP - but it really depends on what you want to ride (at MK or at Epcot later). If you were trying to do soaring or froway - I have to assume that the Epcot FP are much more valuable than almost all MK FP with possible exception being 7DMT.

 

[agavegirl1]

I usually make several options for each park day naming them by date and and option number or optimized, evaluated or something. Example: "Monday Oct 12 optimized". You can save and name any number of plans. The Lines App is really good since it offers both posted and observed wait times.

 

[Stephanie Isaacson]

I find that the TP predictions are pretty good BUT you have to be very diligent in following the plan (in a timely manner). Be near the front of the rope drop crowd to benefit from their early morning timing predictions. We have often done morning parks first thing without FP - but it really depends on what you want to ride (at MK or at Epcot later). If you were trying to do soaring or froway - I have to assume that the Epcot FP are much more valuable than almost all MK FP with possible exception being 7DMT.

We may do a ppo BOG to get that out of the way first!

 

[jillyh]

I found the lines times to be much more accurate than the posted wait times

 

[ArielSRL]

We may do a ppo BOG to get that out of the way first!

We have this June all planned out but I'm thinking ppo BOG and ppo Garden Grill next June.

 

[Chevy]

I had no idea about the dining reservation finder. Thank you so much for posting this! Just got a ppo adr at Akershus!

 

[SnipsNSnails]

Just got the subscription yesterday. Set up plans for each day. Did the evaluate but not the optimize. I wanted to optimize but was afraid I'd have to restart the process. If I optimize can I reset it to my original plan? Or is there some trick? When in the park, if I optimize same question. Will it drop my fastpasses? A coup,e times just evaluate would say "we are not using your fastpass because xyz".

Are these line wait times usually accurate? More so than the posted wait times?

We sent in our room fax request. Should we also do the touring plans fax request thing? Just learned about it.

We leave Monday morning. I got that "I know I'm forgetting something" thing going on.

There is a checkbox in the FP area that tells the plan to use the FP+ you have made in the plan. Check that and it will always use you FP. Save a copy before you optimize it. The wait times are very accurate barring ride closures, delays, etc.

 

[KT0191]

Nothing beat their Lines app. Love it so much! I'm pretty much with everyone else here- ADR finder (found me a perfect Ohana dinner time), room request (I used this last year and didn't get what I wanted but I did get a free upgrade to a preferred so it was better) and I like to look at their past crowd history.

 

[STLstone]

Almost entirely because of this thread, I purchased the touring plans subscription and used the Room Request fax service. We got a room that was in the range for what we requested.

Before you submit your request, read the text of what is being sent to Disney. For the Bay Lake Tower, they listed Bay View rooms on the north and south side in the same range. But if you were requesting the North side so you could see the fireworks, the two would not be equal. One side sees he fireworks, the other side sees the pool.

So, I modified the text to eliminate those pool rooms and it worked fine.

 

[STLstone]

Almost entirely because of this thread, I purchased the touring plans subscription and used the Room Request fax service. We got a room that was in the range for what we requested.

Before you submit your request, read the text of what is being sent to Disney. For the Bay Lake Tower, they listed Bay View rooms on the north and south side in the same range. But if you were requesting the North side so you could see the fireworks, the two would not be equal. One side sees he fireworks, the other side sees the pool.

So, I modified the text to eliminate those pool rooms and it worked fine.

I should also be clear that the fax service was extremely useful because, even though I modified the text, Touring Plans "spoke the shorthand language" Disney expected to see. If I had planned to write the fax myself, I would not have known the syntax. I could be wrong, but I get the sense, this improves your chances.