Week After Turkey Day Shenanigans

[heath92681]

I think we will probably do a brunch or light lunch or a bigger breakfast and a snack the days we have an early dinner.

 

[kellyjeanie]

do the QS places even serve lunch at 10? Or have breakfasts? I guess I need to look at times and menus more closely and have a QS plan now too if we are going to eat "supper" at 3pm like the elderly lol

No clue, but it sounded good! lol I suppose you could also try to do an early actual breakfast and then late morning and late evening snacking? I know we ended up with a bunch of extra snack credits last time, not sure how it worked out for your family.

 

[kellyjeanie]

Let's see if I can get this to attach.

Orange/peach = Animal Kingdom
Yellow = Hollywood Studios
Purple = Magic Kingdom
Green = Epcot
Light blue = no park

I haven't filled in things like Fastpass plans or anything yet, just where we'll be and what our dining plans look like.

Very nice, thank you for sharing this!

 

[BDFmom]

Let's see if I can get this to attach.

Orange/peach = Animal Kingdom
Yellow = Hollywood Studios
Purple = Magic Kingdom
Green = Epcot
Light blue = no park

I haven't filled in things like Fastpass plans or anything yet, just where we'll be and what our dining plans look like.

This is perfect!!!! Exactly what I need to visualize blocks of time!!!

Tomorrow I'll be color coding!
Right now I have a very boring spreadsheet and have played around with some personalized TP for FP selection.

 

[kellyjeanie]

Here's what I have so far. No FP on mine yet either, but I'm starting to get the basics in.

 

[Meeko5]

No clue, but it sounded good! lol I suppose you could also try to do an early actual breakfast and then late morning and late evening snacking? I know we ended up with a bunch of extra snack credits last time, not sure how it worked out for your family.

We ended up with a bunch too! I was at the Pop gift shop at 10pm night before our flight buying snacks and candy like a crazy person. We will most definitely not be wasting snack credits on bagged candy this year if I can help it.

Maybe we can share 2 meals for an early lunch, then after dinner convert a QS to 3 snacks somewhere for a good filling snack like pretzels or something.

My kids are very scheduled as far as eating times - so I definitely don't want to add more changes to them with food. We'll already be up earlier, and to bed later.

 

[Meeko5]

Here's what I have so far. No FP on mine yet either, but I'm starting to get the basics in.
View attachment 194458

Oh I like that too!
This looks much better than taking pics of my handwritten calendar. totally doing this, or attempting it!

 

[Iowamomof4]

here's my current dilemma - now that nighttime stuff has changed (SW fireworks mainly) we are planning on hopping late afternoons on a few days. So we need to eat earlier to be able to do that. But if we eat dinner earlier, we will have to eat lunch earlier or risk not being hungry by dinner time.

The days we have a 2:45 meal at Garden grill, or a 3:10 at H&V what the hell are we going to do? Last year we ate a quick breakfast in the room then had an early QS lunch around 11, and a TS meal around 5. That worked great. But mealtimes this year are so wonky to accomodate hopping and early nighttime shows since it gets dark earlier...I'm afraid we will have a bunch of QS credits go to waste, or have to eat a QS to tide us over then not be hungry and "waste" a TS credit.

#firstworldproblems

Last year we frequently ate at the food court late at night after we got back from the parks because we were just so hungry and none of us wanted to stop to eat while we were still at the park! Anyway, we were able to either split a couple meals or get the kids 3 snacks for 1 credit or whatever and that was usually good because it's hard to go to sleep when you're hungry. So I would plan to split a meal or two in the late morning and then figure you can just stop by your resort food court when you return "home" at night to grab whatever you might need before bed. Pick out a pastry as your dessert and then eat that the next morning before you head out for the day.

 

[MonaMN]

I have a spreadsheet for planning, but I am on to phase two... where I create a page for each day. I put a map on the front (used EasyWDW's cheat sheet map last year, but may use KtP's this year), then on the back I have ADRs and FPs listed at the top, then a sketch of where I think we will go, then notes about QS restaurants I think we might get to at the bottom. Then while we tour, I make notes on that page for our future trip report/photo book.

It works better for me - I stick that day's page in my pocket and don't have to pull my phone out all the time.

And since we switched to AKL and dropped FD, we don't need to keep our park hoppers. So I am hoping to drop our hoppers, but holding until we know about evening plans.

 

[Iowamomof4]

I have a spreadsheet for planning, but I am on to phase two... where I create a page for each day. I put a map on the front (used EasyWDW's cheat sheet map last year, but may use KtP's this year), then on the back I have ADRs and FPs listed at the top, then a sketch of where I think we will go, then notes about QS restaurants I think we might get to at the bottom. Then while we tour, I make notes on that page for our future trip report/photo book.

It works better for me - I stick that day's page in my pocket and don't have to pull my phone out all the time.

And since we switched to AKL and dropped FD, we don't need to keep our park hoppers. So I am hoping to drop our hoppers, but holding until we know about evening plans.

I need to know more because this is what my DH wants me to do for him but I'm having a tough time figuring out how I want to do it. Do you have a spreadsheet on the back of the map or just a list (made in a Word document or something)? If you were willing to post a pic that would be awesome, but if you can't or don't want to that's fine. I'm just very visual so it's hard to imagine what it looks like!

 

[Meeko5]

Last year we frequently ate at the food court late at night after we got back from the parks because we were just so hungry and none of us wanted to stop to eat while we were still at the park! Anyway, we were able to either split a couple meals or get the kids 3 snacks for 1 credit or whatever and that was usually good because it's hard to go to sleep when you're hungry. So I would plan to split a meal or two in the late morning and then figure you can just stop by your resort food court when you return "home" at night to grab whatever you might need before bed. Pick out a pastry as your dessert and then eat that the next morning before you head out for the day.

Glad to hear that worked well - I'm thinking that's going to be our plan on the few hopping days. MK and AK days are pretty set with dinners at normal time, so we will have to throw caution to the wind and wing it for DHS/HS days I guess!

 

[kellyjeanie]

Last year we frequently ate at the food court late at night after we got back from the parks because we were just so hungry and none of us wanted to stop to eat while we were still at the park! Anyway, we were able to either split a couple meals or get the kids 3 snacks for 1 credit or whatever and that was usually good because it's hard to go to sleep when you're hungry. So I would plan to split a meal or two in the late morning and then figure you can just stop by your resort food court when you return "home" at night to grab whatever you might need before bed. Pick out a pastry as your dessert and then eat that the next morning before you head out for the day.

We ended up doing the late night dinner a couple of times at the food court as well. The pastry for dessert thing is genius, wish I would have thought of that last time - will definitely do that this time!

 

[Meeko5]

I have a spreadsheet for planning, but I am on to phase two... where I create a page for each day. I put a map on the front (used EasyWDW's cheat sheet map last year, but may use KtP's this year), then on the back I have ADRs and FPs listed at the top, then a sketch of where I think we will go, then notes about QS restaurants I think we might get to at the bottom. Then while we tour, I make notes on that page for our future trip report/photo book.

It works better for me - I stick that day's page in my pocket and don't have to pull my phone out all the time.

that's actually a great idea - I have lots of pics of our trip, and remember a lot of details but already so much stuff I cant recall. Writing notes as you go is so smart!

 

[Meeko5]

We ended up doing the late night dinner a couple of times at the food court as well. The pastry for dessert thing is genius, wish I would have thought of that last time - will definitely do that this time!

Cinnamon Rolls at Gaston's Tavern are also great for breakfast...those were snack credits WELL spent!

 

[MonaMN]

I need to know more because this is what my DH wants me to do for him but I'm having a tough time figuring out how I want to do it. Do you have a spreadsheet on the back of the map or just a list (made in a Word document or something)? If you were willing to post a pic that would be awesome, but if you can't or don't want to that's fine. I'm just very visual so it's hard to imagine what it looks like!

Hopefully this works. FP times right now are just my target times, and there will be other info to update, but this worked pretty well last time!

The menu info is grabbed from the AllEars menus.

 

[Meeko5]

You guys are putting me to shame! I need to get on the ball and start organizing better...last year I just had a printed sheet with our FP's and ADR's tucked into the backpack but mostly used my MDE and lines apps. I'd like to say I wont want to use my phone as much this year but Pokemon Go is still going strong with my son and I. I'll be packing several back up batteries

 

[kellyjeanie]

I really love the idea of a map with plans on the back for each day. I usually end up just using my phone but I may do that as well, great idea. Wouldn't hurt to have something like that in the bag.

 

[MonaMN]

I am trying to decide whether to align plans in TP with what is on my sheet so it could be optimized while there... but wondering if that is overkill.

OK, it is, but so is most of my Disney planning!

 

[Meeko5]

ah ha! I found a few later-but-not-too-late meal options by flip flopping some restaurants on some days.

Monday 11/28 4:20 Teppan Edo dinner - that *should* get us to DHS to see the SW fireworks.
Wed 11/30 4:45 dinner at Garden Grill - we will be at HS that morning, hopping to Epcot to see the WS and have dinner, then head to MK for Wishes if boys can hack it.

Phew I feel better about those days now!

Now all I need to decide is which H&V to do on Sunday the 27th - 3:10, or 5:10.

 

[Iowamomof4]

Hopefully this works. FP times right now are just my target times, and there will be other info to update, but this worked pretty well last time!

The menu info is grabbed from the AllEars menus.

That looks fantastic! What program did you use to make that? It's exactly the type of thing we need.