Which land or rides first ?

[CAL2]

Hi, i'm doing a bit of pre planing and would appreciate your input.

We have decided that we will do rode drop including EMH and book our FP+ for after 2pm.

What is your strategy ? do you stay in one land and get as many rides done there or do you go from land to land doing the most popular rides first ? if you do the most popular rides first what rides do you use your FP+ for and do you keep your fast passes for rides in one land or spread them out in different lands.

what do you think is the best plan of action ? there are 5 adults, and we are going first half of Nov.

cal

 

[Robo]

Sounds like a simple request, but there are
entire books and full websites devoted to your (actually quite complex) questions.

Start HERE at easyWDW's Cheatsheets.

 

[Muskegon78]

I agree with PP suggestion to check out the cheat sheets. I would also suggest using the FP+ earlier so you can get additional ones once you are done with the first 3

 

[mshanson3121]

Hi, i'm doing a bit of pre planing and would appreciate your input.

We have decided that we will do rode drop including EMH and book our FP+ for after 2pm.

What is your strategy ? do you stay in one land and get as many rides done there or do you go from land to land doing the most popular rides first ? if you do the most popular rides first what rides do you use your FP+ for and do you keep your fast passes for rides in one land or spread them out in different lands.

what do you think is the best plan of action ? there are 5 adults, and we are going first half of Nov.

cal

For us, with children, we really wanted to limit the amount of running we were doing from place to place, so we started at the front and worked our way back (at MK), sticking to one side each day, saving our FP+ for the big rides.

I would still, for MK at least, stick to one side of the park per day. You will waste a lot of time running all over the park trying to "chase" the big rides during EMH. However, I would definitely be more willing to go from BTMR to Pirates to Splash to Haunted to etc... and then back track a bit and see the smaller rides later.

I think the same approach for Epcot's Future World would work well, sticking to one side per day - so do the "big" rides on the left side of FW at rope drop, circle back later for the smaller stuff, then move into left side of world showcase. Next day, do the opposite.

At Hollywood Studios, it's a very different plan because you have to work around certain show times, so we did more criss-crossing there, but it's also a much smaller park.

At AK, we stuck more to lands. AK felt a little like the most inconvenient to criss-cross and backtrack, because it's fairly large, but also has narrower walking ways, tends to feel more crowded, and it is not a small place! I think most there will rope drop Everest, then Safari, Kali etc...

 

[buccikulju]

Honestly if you do Rope Drop, it's a different kind of thing from touring the park at any other time, because you really do criss-cross the park to get in all the big rides before the crowds. The good news is that you can move quickly from one land to another because there is almost no one in the walkways! You can ride Mine Train, cross the park to Big Thunder, and Splash Mountain, then cross back for Space Mountain, and so forth with relative ease with no one in your way. When you're ready for your first break, since so many folks stop off at Starbucks, skip those lines and instead go over to Sleepy Hollow for a waffle and easily find a table to sit at and enjoy.

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

keep in mind for morning EMH at MK Adventureland and Frontierland aren't open (at least in our experience)

 

[minnie mum]

Another vote here fr basing your park touring on easywdw's cheat sheets. They also give recommendations on FP priorities. And I agree that you will want to make your first FPs earlier than you currently have planned, so you would still have a chance of picking up a 4th or 5 th FP once the first 3 are used.

 

[caroline1851]

Definitely start with easywdw to get your started with fp+ priority list and ideas for which parks which days. We went in June when the crowds were an 8 and it started to get busier than I like after 11am. but I never will wait more than 15 minutes so everything is planned around that. Our fp+started around 11....

 

[soniam]

touringplans.com personalized, optimized plans

 

[MataHari22]

To add to what previous posters have already said, I would say that for me, it also depends on how many days you have to visit that park. I like to use easyWDW's cheat sheets in combination with touring plans to make my daily game plans.

I take things a little slower these days and for Magic Kingdom I plan at least 2 days and the last two trips I also did either MNSSHP or MVMCP as a 3rd day. I also have 2 days for Epcot. I try and break the park into two halves so that I'm not walking the entire park each visit. For MK, I try and make my plans focusing on Fantasyland and Tomorrowland one day and then Adventureland, Liberty Square and Frontierland for the second day. For Epcot, I divide the park not into Future World and World Showcase, but rather, I divide it down the middle, East side and West side.

 

[Robo]

keep in mind for morning EMH at MK Adventureland and Frontierland aren't open (at least in our experience)

It's not just your experience.
MK's AM EMH is always just Fantasyland and Tomorrowland attractions.

 

[Nancyg56]

We stick to one "land" or side of the park and work our way around. I know that others manage to optimize their touring, but this is the stategy that works for us. I book FP earlier than your planning, but that is because we tend to leave after the afternoon parade. We spend at least two days in MK, so on the second day we plan to complete the other side, and book FP later in the day so that we can enter later.

 

[CAL2]

thanks for all your replies,

I would also suggest using the FP+ earlier so you can get additional ones once you are done with the first 3

my reasoning for later FP+ was i thought SB lines may be busier in the late afternoon, but i do like the idea of extra FP's

Sounds like a simple request, but there are
entire books and full websites devoted to your (actually quite complex) questions.

thanks will check out josh's cheat sheet, and try and follow park recommendations.

keep in mind for morning EMH at MK Adventureland and Frontierland aren't open (at least in our experience)

thanks for the info on EMH land openings that will help when planning

go over to Sleepy Hollow for a waffle and easily find a table to sit at and enjoy.

funnel cake

cal