How do your vacations to Disney World and other surroundings usually plan out?

tbraysfaanxo!: How do your vacations to Disney World and other surroundings usually plan out?
Im going for my 12th time in June, but i want to know how your vacations usually go. Sorta like an itinerary. What do you do when you go to Disney and other places around there for vacation?
Express anything! Thanks:)

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Answer by MattyK
if you’re going for a 12th time then why do u need advise?

Answer by Tanner T
Ha, nice question. usually we look at the weather for the whole time we are going to be there. Of course it is not always perfect but i mean you can at least get an estimation of what the weather is going to be like. Then we kinda plan out all of our days. HA, its a lot of planning and packing mostly. But yeah, we plan ahead and then we get up early so we can just stay out all day and have fun. So i hope that helped:)

OH, and we bring a credit card to pay for resturants and souveniors.
🙂

Answer by Gray’s Mom
We are going in March/April with a group of 8 adults & 3 children. It will be my first time with a group so large, so I don’t know what to expect. We decided to go for the dining plan this time because, well, the in-laws are paying. I am excited that we get to try so many new restaraunts that I never would have been able to go to on my own. Our son will also be 10 months by then, so that’s an adventure. I think the groups will split off and do their own thing and plan to get together for dinner. Some parks I don’t like going to, so not sure what we will do on those days, since we aren’t renting a car. I just like to make sure I hit the parks that stay open late, to get the most out of my ticket. I also plan on getting a Hidden Mickey book since I have also been there several times and I want to stop and check everything out.

Answer by 🙂
go in mid-end of September
get Disney’s magical express
buy Disney’s basic dining plan which is a +++
stay at a Value resort (Pop Century)
~we don’t get park hopper tickets – we spend a whole day at each park and see their special night show!!
we go to Downtown Disney for icecream
basically we just have FUN!

Answer by hilfyy
Me and my family rent a house in Kissimmee every February break, we stay for 7 days and we go to disney 3 days and sometime universal one day. We always eat at a restaurant or quick food service in disney world. We swim in our own pool and have a fabulous time.

Answer by cameroncrazy1524
The best advice I can give anyone going to WDW:
1. Find out which rides are the most popular and go and do them or get fastpasses for them (or both!) right away
2. Make reservations for dinner if you want to eat in popular places
3. Don’t have a step-by-step plan. It just causes stress and it’s just not worth it.

Enjoy your trip. We just booked yesterday for a trip at the new Bay Lake Towers for December!

Answer by arrowheadadventure
The previous reponder’s advice about not having a step-by-step plan is wrong! The worst thing you can do is stand around in the middle a park holding a map and argue with your family about where to go and what to do next. That causes stress!

Me, my wife, and 2 sons aged 10 and 9, had our first Disney World vaction in July, ’08.

With having to spend that kind of money for something we probably won’t get to do again for several more years, I researched and planned almost to a fault. We bought the airline tickets 9 months in advance and the park tickets 6 months in advance. In the months leading up to the trip, I spent countless hours researching the internet on Disney’s website, allears.net, yahooanswers.com, and anywhere else I could find Disney information. I bought “The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2008” and studied the attractions available, places to eat, and anything else that looked like fun.

Finally, to create the final itenerary, I went to the Disney website to see what days each park had extra magic hours. Since we were not staying on property, I scheduled to AVOID those days. We used the touring plans in the guide book at each park. The boys were instructed that after we finished the plans, they were free to go back and ride their favorite rides, but we were finishing the plan first! I estimated where we might be around lunch time in each park and looked for the highest rated restaurants in each park.

By the way, the guidebook we bought is the absolute best money I spent in preparation for our trip. Using the touring plans we never waited more than 15 minutes for any ride! Yes, even during July! If you’ve never used it, go buy it now. You won’t be disappointed.

Not all plans are absolutely perfect. We had a few hiccups. Our flight out to Orlando was moved up to a 7:00 a.m. departure, and our return flight was cancelled all together! We stayed in a hotel the night before near the airport so we could park-and-fly out and had to find another hotel in Orlando the night before coming back since we had to schedule a return flight the day after we originally planned on coming back. I did not take my own advice and went to Hollywood Studios on an extra magic hours evening so my wife could watch Fantasmic on her birthday. While we loved the show, we won’t ever go to a park on extra magic hours again because it was so crowded in the evening you literally had trouble moving around the park!

Anyway, I may have overplanned a bit, but I wanted everything to be as perfect as possible. I think I did a good job, because as we were leaving, by boys asked when we could come back. Anyway, with realistic expectations and planning, any trip to Disney will be memorable.

Answer by I know all… kinda
well ialso have gone there many times and every time we go i learn two things
1. its a amazing fun happy place
2. the magic of disney is in your wallet =)