Try this FP+ touring strategy when staying onsite with park hoppers

[maddiebee]

My question is how to schedule your ADRs? With this system would you be aiming to make your ADRs according to which day is least recommended for whatever park is associated with that restaurant?

Should the park you're making your FP+ for be the least recommended so you can hope to ride with out FP+ at the better park for the day?

 

[magicbob]

That was me on some days when I was only in the park for headliners. No parades, no character meets, no Dumbo or Figment. Headliners over and over.

Going forward I think it is going to depend more and more on how long we are willing to stand in SB line. I certainly don't think it will be possible on crowd level days of 6 or more, because WDW is encouraging everyone to use FP+ on a scale we've never seen before with the paper based system. By the time you've ridden any headliner twice you might see extended SB waits and no more FP availability.

It would certainly be possible to ride ONE headliner two or three times, but anything beyond that is going to require substantial waits in standby. Look at yesterday and today, for example, where EasyWDW has both days at 8's and MK wasn't recommended on either day. The reports coming back so far about MK sound and look disastrous.

Crowd levels of 5 or less? There will still be opportunities throughout the day (RD, EMH, during parades) when you could ride multiple headliners multiple times. Although before we could pull multiple FP's, now it's going to be multiple SB's.

Days when crowd levels are 3 or less are going to be the only days left where people like us will be able to ride EE 5 or 6 times while the Standby line was still 10 minutes, then head to another park and still be able to do ToT or RnRC several times, then maybe even head to MK and do two mountains in the evening.

Disney is pushing everyone out in equal force to all attractions; what that means is we will have increased opportunity to experience more attractions but less opportunity to experience the same ones multiple times.

I think it may be possible to ride the same headliner back to back several times, but the consequence would be when you get to one of the other headliners, the lines will have gotten long. That's one of the other challenges that I'm trying to work out in terms of taking our chances in the morning with no FP. Geography... Splash and Thunder are next to each other, so that's good. But Space is clear on the other side of the park. Another factor is that we typically pulled a FP for Splash in order to ride around 10-11am after it had gotten warmer so we would dry off more easily. I fear waiting until 10am to try and ride Splash will mean a long standby line, even during less crowded times of year. Similarly, TT and Soarin' are on opposite ends of FW. ToT and RnRC are next to each other, but TSMM is not too close to those. So we'll definitely have to give more thought to touring back and forth more to hit the most popular rides first.

Thanks for the info. We've come to the same conclusion not to use FP+ in morning and save it for afternoon/evening in same park or other park on a hop. We also decided to ignore the crowd calendars and use early emh park for standby only riding prior to a hop to another park.

An additional thing we have come up with is that we aren't going to ever use FP+ at EPCOT or AK. We think we can get through headliners in both parks using early emh and rope drop. That will save more FP+ for MK where there are large quantities of rides and DHS where the tier 2 rides have greater potential to have longer standby line than EPCOT tier 2 rides IMO.

There are tier 2 rides in EPCOT????

 

[Laketravis]

My question is how to schedule your ADRs? With this system would you be aiming to make your ADRs according to which day is least recommended for whatever park is associated with that restaurant?

Should the park you're making your FP+ for be the least recommended so you can hope to ride with out FP+ at the better park for the day?

Because we currently have more than twice as long to make ADR's as we do FP's (120+10 days versus 60), I recommend getting the ADR's you want based on your dining preferences and not based on park locations.

Then, at the 60 day mark, make your park selections based on your ADR's as I outlined in the strategy.

Or not.