What do you print your touring plan, tips, etc on?

[vfd265]

I was just wondering what people use to put their plans on? Laminated papers, index cards, handwritten notebook paper, etc etc.

I had a brain storm a few days ago and decided to try and fit mine onto a plastic ID card, since I have access to an ID maker. Looks pretty good, and its small and durable. Even copied the Cheat Sheets off of touringplans and put them on the cards. I will try and post a pic of them tomorrow.

The actual card text is clear and legible, I blurred it for this post, since it contains proprietary information from touringplans.com

 

[deanie]

I photocopy the touring plans from the UG and then tape them onto index cards - a different color for each park. I am not sure why I still do this as I am sure I have it all down to a fine science by now, my fifth trip.

 

[g-dad66]

I print my touring plan, show times, etc., for each park on the back of a map of the park. Then I fold the sheet up and stick it in my front pocket.

Works for me.

But by the time of our trip, I have gone over the plan so many times in my head that I hardly need to look at the paper when we're there.

 

[squirrel]

I have a mini notebook (a bit larger than a credit card) that has our ADR's and any other important info in it.

 

[kathyell]

I bought some hard card sleeves (called toploaders by many)

and then I made a table in my word processing program that was the same size as a trading card (the cards normally used with those toploaders). I pasted the info I wanted in the parks into the table, made the text fit by changing the font size and selectively deleting my wordiness, and then I printed the pages. A little bit of cutting and then stuffing the papers into the sleeves, and I'm all ready to go.

I made a card with our mobile numbers on it that my daughter will have in her pocket in case she gets lost (knock on wood PLEASE NO) so we can be easily reunited, too.

The toploaders can be purchased at pretty much any comic book shop and they're relatively inexpensive. I punched a hole in the corner of mine and I have them on a key ring. I'll just carry the ones I need for each day and leave the rest in the hotel room.

It was a little bit of work but it will be hard to beat having those in my pockets once we're in the parks, so I think it was worth the time investment.

 

[MaumeeMom]

I was just wondering what people use to put their plans on? Laminated papers, index cards, handwritten notebook paper, etc etc.

I had a brain storm a few days ago and decided to try and fit mine onto a plastic ID card, since I have access to an ID maker. Looks pretty good, and its small and durable. Even copied the Cheat Sheets off of touringplans and put them on the cards. I will try and post a pic of them tomorrow.

That's something like what I did. I printed things out really small and trimmed them down to the size of a business card and laminated them using the cheap photo laminating sheets from the store.

I had one "card" with a list of ADRs on one side and a place for our photopass number on the other. Once we got our first pic taken, I wrote the number on the card with a sharpie that we used for autographs. I was terrified of losing that number so I had it on the cards, wrote it in the PassPorter, plugged it into my phone...

The cards you made sound great. Enjoy your trip!

 

[MaumeeMom]

I bought some hard card sleeves (called toploaders by many).
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I punched a hole in the corner of mine and I have them on a key ring. I'll just carry the ones I need for each day and leave the rest in the hotel room.

I love this idea!

BTW I did the same thing with the cell phone numbers... good thinking.

 

[Tisha_PA]

I have a laminating machine so I print them out on 4x6 paper and laminate them.

 

[ancestry]

I carry everything in my iphone which can display word documents or excel spreadsheets.

 

[srwarden1928]

I print the touringplans on regular paper. As I am getting ready to go into a park, I fold that day's plan in fourths (or as close as you can get with 8.5x11 paper) and put it in a pocket.

 

[3boymthr]

I went overboard. I transfered the instructions to an excel spreadsheet, leaving only the most essential details. I color coded them by day and activity putting our ADR information and suggested quick service locations in yellow, park activities in another color (different for each day) and pool time in blue, with the date and park hours typed at the top. I then sized them to fit three days on an 8x11 sheet of paper. I also dowloaded some theme park oriented clip art (mickey with the DHS hat, a picture of the castle, etc.) I put one clip art piece on each touring plan and matched another in size to the touringplans. (Thank you DISigners! I dowloaded most of the clip art from the boards here.) I cut out the touring plans and the pictures and used 4 sheets of 9x12 peel and stick laminate to put the touringplans facing out on one side and the appropriate park clip art on the other.

Some of the clip art had the current year on them so now I have a great souvenir for my scrapbook of what we did each day!

 

[DaveStroem]

I put everything in a daytimer. I couldn't find blank paper to fit it so I just had a ream of heavy stock cut to size at staples. I like the daytimer because I can zip it up. I also had a place to keep FP and other flat things like our KTTW cards & Disney Visa that we only needed for the Epcot photo shoot. It became known as our Disney Bible.

 

[danceintherain]

Right now I'm working on this...
I formatted both touring plans and cheat sheets for each park so they'd fit on 1/4 of an 8x11 sheet of paper, then I printed them out.
Now I'm going to buy some contact paper, or a laminater (probably contact paper, because it's cheaper) and make little booklets for my family.
I don't want to be all annoying and controlling on this trip, (I'll save that for my husband and my own kids) but I want them to be able to make informed decisions about touring in the parks.
I already showed the cheat sheets to my Mom and could tell she thought they were helpful.
My DH is a little worried about me, because he thinks they're not going to use anything I give them. I told him I'm having fun, so it doesn't matter.
I'm also going to put our ADRs and other information in the booklets for them.
I know that they'll need!

 

[wdwislife]

Right now I'm making my own kind of passporter scrapbook where I'm writing all my planning stuff down.
When I get closer to my trip I'll probably transfer my day by day plans onto index cards and attatch them with a binder ring.
Love those toploader ideas!