We just did a VIP tour with friends who just got inducted to club 33 (yes, I am still in shock), but let me tell you… we had our lovely and wonderful plaid for 8 hours… dear friend and fiancé booked us for lunch in Le Salon Nouveau and then later for drinks in club 1901 which cut into the tour and we really only had about 5 hours with our plaid riding rides. It was a Friday and the beginning of Halloween season, and probably an 8 on the busy scale and 94 degrees which was dang hot.
DD and I rope dropped on our own and between 7:30 and 10:15 when we had to meet our friends we rode: Peter Pan, Alice, Tea cups, Toady, Snow and Pinocchio (in that order), and then went to Toon Town (at 8:12 am) and rode Mickey RR (2x walk on), the little coaster, got a snack, rode Roger Rabbit, walked up to Matterhorn and rode it walk on, went back to toon town cause DD wanted mini corn dogs and another one of their boba tea drinks (it was hot!), and then we walked up to the front to meet our friends. That is 11 rides between 7:30 and like 10 am, plus 2 snacks.
With the plaid and 6 of us—one newbie, 3 experienced and 2 that say they are experienced but didn’t know who the Queen of Hearts was when we passed her… we rode (starting around 11)—Indy, Pirates, HM, BTMRR, Rise, Peter Pan, Alice, Matterhorn, Mickey RR, then we had a back door access to meet Mickey and right after met Minnie too (in their houses). At that point we were dropped off at Club 33 for lunch (it was around 1:15 pm). After lunch we walked to DCA and rode Soarin, Cars and Incredicoaster, and we tried to get on GoTG but the lightning lane was crazy and so was webslingers, so we called it and went to club 1901 where we stayed until our plaid was off the clock—sigh.
Let’s now contrast that with DD and I at rope drop Saturday morning—GoTG 2x no wait, webslingers no wait, Luigi and mater rides, snack time, monster’s Inc, Ariel, Symphony Swings, Death Wheel (we love it), at this point one of our bougie friend finally made it to the park--it is 10 am—we rode Incredicoaster—walk on, snagged LL for GoTG to use immediately, followed by webslingers to also use immediately. At this point it was nearing 11 and I promised DD nap and pool time at 11 am if she rope dropped two days in a row. We came back to the parks at 6 pm and rode Space and did Buzz in DL (I had snagged LLs to use later) and then went back to DCA and bummed around and rode incredicoaster and monsters after dark and ate food and watched the late WOC, crossed back to DL and got Indy, Pooh and Pirates done before close. I think we had a better day with no plaid—including a long nap and swim time! But we enjoyed the club 33 fancy stuff, that was bucket list stuff. I just think we know how to do the parks at least as well as a plaid.