When my husband was grumbling (not very quietly) about how much he hates people last night during Celebrate the Magic, I knew he needed a break.
How many days of park tickets did you get? I am compelled to get enough days up front for each day we could potentially go to a park, so that I can make FP+ in advance. Which then defeats the purpose of being spontaneous, since I choose parks to make those FP+ in.We are going for 10 days (first time for 10 days), next week! Yea! I have only scheduled 4 park days at WDW. We are going to Universal for one day.. The rest are where we want and when we want. We do want to do a resort hopping day to check out some other resorts. We will do Disney springs one night or day. Everything is open on those other 5 days, and I LOVE IT! Our scheduled park days are the first 5, then the last part of the vacation will be at a more relaxed, spontaneous pace. We only have a few adr's scheduled too. good luck!
How many days of park tickets did you get? I am compelled to get enough days up front for each day we could potentially go to a park, so that I can make FP+ in advance. Which then defeats the purpose of being spontaneous, since I choose parks to make those FP+ in.
As much as it goes against my little commando heart, I am enjoying my coffee on the balcony as I write this. Out of curiosity, how many 'breaks' do you build in to your vacation?
That's a good way to look at the FPs. We've also been on the "free" DDP promotion the last two trips, so we had ADRs every day that kind of dictated our schedule. I've had fun doing all the expensive sit-down & character meals that I'd probably never pay for OOP, but I don't plan on doing the DDP next time. That will help with being more spontaneous too, I'm sure.We got a package with 10 day park hoppers, so we can go to other parks each day. That works out well for us. I made tentative fp's for our non-scheduled days just in case we wanted to do our favorites again, such as hs with toy story mania, TOT. If we use them, fine, if not it doesn't matter cause we have already done each park day with fp's for all of our favorites. I found that last year, we didn't use most of our fast passes, other than the must do's. We just found other things to do, and if we missed them, we were okay with it. We used them as a helpful tool if we wanted to us them, not as something that we had to do. Maybe that helped. We also were good with standing in line at times, afterall, that's what we all had to do before fast passes. Hope this helps
This is what we did and it worked well. I planned our late nights for the night before each of our "off" days, so we could sleep in after being out late the night before. That's harder to do when you have a shorter trip, but FP+ makes it easier to do a late arrival at a park and still be able to ride the headliners.I usually try to make sure a full day/late night is followed by a "sleep in morning". If we must have an early morning, the night before tends to be an early bedtime.
That's a good way to look at the FPs. We've also been on the "free" DDP promotion the last two trips, so we had ADRs every day that kind of dictated our schedule. I've had fun doing all the expensive sit-down & character meals that I'd probably never pay for OOP, but I don't plan on doing the DDP next time. That will help with being more spontaneous too, I'm sure.
This is what we did and it worked well. I planned our late nights for the night before each of our "off" days, so we could sleep in after being out late the night before. That's harder to do when you have a shorter trip, but FP+ makes it easier to do a late arrival at a park and still be able to ride the headliners.