planning

[howardfamily]

Hi,

How does everyone plan?

I LOVE TO PLAN!

It is the best part of the lead up to a WDW holiday!

I usually create a spreadsheet and laminate it and take it with us.

However I wondered if anyone has another way of planning, never know it might work better than my ideas! Always looking for new inventive ways to plan.

Yes I am training to be a Primary School Teacher. Planning is my thing

So does anyone have a specific way they plan there trips?

Megan x

[amandajane10]

Im a planner as well and i have to do it all myself. Have done a spreadsheet for May. We are not doing Disney this year apart from 1 day in AK so i have hardly any fastpasses to do. I feel a bit lost now im all done lol.

[howardfamily]

Originally Posted by amandajane10

Im a planner as well and i have to do it all myself. Have done a spreadsheet for May. We are not doing Disney this year apart from 1 day in AK so i have hardly any fastpasses to do. I feel a bit lost now im all done lol.

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We aren't going to Disney till July 2018

We haven't been since 2014 as I was in college (Too expensive in peak period) and I have just started Uni this year. As soon as park hours and the guide comes out on here I will start planning, I will probably write a list of restaurants to go to and counter services we want to try out. Then a list of other things we would like to do, I would love to do the behind the seeds tour at Epcot. I just like making lists and then working out when we can do it.

OOH I could go on, I just love the excitement of it all and some people do think I'm crazy lol but I'm not someone who has to stick to the plan we do change things around sometimes.

Megan x

[dorsetmutley]

I use the Dibb's Vacation Planner

[Danielle24]

I use the notes in my iPhone to write what parks on which days and ADR. That's pretty much the extent of my planning lol

[THE WIZARD]

WHAT - You haven't already started !

[amandajane10]

Originally Posted by howardfamily

We aren't going to Disney till July 2018

We haven't been since 2014 as I was in college (Too expensive in peak period) and I have just started Uni this year. As soon as park hours and the guide comes out on here I will start planning, I will probably write a list of restaurants to go to and counter services we want to try out. Then a list of other things we would like to do, I would love to do the behind the seeds tour at Epcot. I just like making lists and then working out when we can do it.

OOH I could go on, I just love the excitement of it all and some people do think I'm crazy lol but I'm not someone who has to stick to the plan we do change things around sometimes.

Megan x

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As soon as i get home i will be planning next years lol.

[Excited6910]

The extent of my planning last time was booking fastpasses

We have the DDP this time so looking at restaurants and ADRs. I'll write them in a notebook once we've decided and booked and I'll take it with me. I doubt we will plan much further than that.

[zmitch62]

I'm a teacher and have planned the holiday 'to within an inch of it's life!' according to my husband. I just wanted to plot in all the rides and shows so we didn't miss anything and weren't zig-zagging accross the parks. I won't be bothered if it all goes to pot as I had so much fun playing about with it all.
I googled Disney hints and tips and wrote everything down in a notepad under each park, the hotel, the Universal parks. Looked at other people's itineraries by they didn't help as much, then just plotted out all the days even down to the hour on a spreadsheet. I made some adjustments when reading people's blogs and when we decided to book a night at Hard Rock for the 2 days of Express passes.
I have fast passes still to book so hopefully they will fit as planned but easy to shuffle if not. Got the ADRs as I'd planned them and we're onsite so fingers crossed fastpasses will all work out too.(Bit sad now there's nothing else to do until 60 days to be honest! )
Good luck with your planning and hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

[Goldia]

I think there is something about teachers and planning! I'm a maths teacher and planning is my favorite thing! I'm not even joking. I like actually writing stuff the old fashioned way so I have several notebooks, I have special pens, and I have several post it notes... I struggle with writing something 'wrong' in a 'good' notebook so I also have to draft things out first. I do know this is mental really. My DH doesn't really want to talk about what we're doing on holiday until we're actually there and usually over the meal the day before he will ask which park we're going to the next day...he's happy to go with my plan though and he does appreciate it, he just doesn't get the fun of the planning in advance!