What is the hardest thing about planning?

[vampiress88]

Originally Posted by Andybear

Having done it for 2 consecutive years I don't think anything about it is hard.

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It’s slightly easier for you as you can do single rider line.

[vampiress88]

Originally Posted by DisneySean

Just under a year to go now til my next trip so the planning hasn’t really started but I was wondering...

What do you guys think is the hardest/most difficult thing about planning?

FastPasses? Dining? Budgeting? Itinerary?

Would be interested to hear what you think causes the biggest headaches!

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I think it all depends.
How many people are going
Onsite or offsite etc

For me it was the fastpasses and itinerary but then again I absolutely love lists and itinerary’s.
We can only book fastpasses for 30days ahead so was difficult to get the ones we wanted sometimes as there are 4 of us.
The budgeting I way for over budgeted which worked out great for me as I could then convince hubby to book next year and upgrade to annual pass. We used $111 per day. I will be budgeting $150 per day for next year just in case I always have spare savings too.
Dining was easy as we are offsite so just went somewhere. There was only once where we were turned away and we went somewhere else down the road instead

[wifey]

For us it’s a two fold problem
1:- Managing to get vacation time together
2:- Finding flights and decent prices for them
We can often find a room without a fuss and travel to and from the airport isn’t usually a problem.
However DBIL is moving to Rugby he has been a huge help taking the cats to their holiday home a few miles away. Now we have the dilemma of where and how to book them in somewhere else closer to home that has a good reputation and great staff. We got caught out once before with a cattery that was allegedly good but in fact was a nightmare for our older cat.. I’m sure I’ll figure something out though.

[Gamblor]

Waiting, as the Count Down Very slowly click down.

At least when there's 300+ days to go.

[WDWfangirl]

I personally really enjoy planning a Disney holiday.

But the main annoyance this time round was planning the itinerary, getting the ADRs to fit in with that intinerary and then finding out that Disney was having paid for early morning opening events at parks on the same days that I was planning on visiting. This time round it was at DHS. I had planned on RD-ing SDD and not wasting a fastpass on it but with the early morning opening that wasn't going to work. And as it was day 3 of the holiday even at 60 days out I couldn't get a fast pass for it. As it happens we did end up queuing for 70mins at the end of the day to ride it.

I really wish Disney would release details such as paid for events well before the ADR window opens, or alternatively push back the ADR window.

[sunjue100]

Having to repeat the plans to DH several times despite discussing and agreeing them in advance. Now send him everything on email and refuse to tell him for the 90th time which hotel we are staying in...😡

[Guest]

I honestly don't find anything difficult about the Disney planning.

[Guest]

Originally Posted by vampiress88

It’s slightly easier for you as you can do single rider line.

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I am sure it gets harder to plan as the group gets larger. However I doubt single rider makes much difference to anyone's planning as it is only on three rides and is often not operating anyway.

[DisneySean]

Agree about the ADR/FastPass trade off. Is difficult to manage!

[penguin19]

Another who has always found planning easy. Maybe I'm just not as concerned about getting meals / FPs exactly to a plan I made a year ago. There are always other rides and always other restaurants.

The reality is we do everything we want (multiple times) and eat everywhere we Want (well not everywhere we don't have that many days!)

I've also found I chop and change plans all the time anyway. Except like 2 rides I find everything else hugely flexible and always room.

Helps not to stress about things. You will never do everything at Disney. And what you do do will be amazing anyway.