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Cheat Sheet for Walt Disney World in 2014

My four-page Walt Disney World Cheat Sheet–an example page is to the right–includes a number of this site’s famous charts and graphs. It’s updated to reflect FastPass+.

In total, the cheat sheet provides the key stuff you need for planning your 2014 first family visit to Walt Disney World.

Click here to open it as a PDF–it’s 1.47 MB, so might take a bit.

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Nichole
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Hi Dave. Wow. For every one blog I read the more overwhelmed I think I become. We are taking our kids 10,10,15- all girls for all of our first time in Oct. dates are negotiable. Having no experience with Disney, we bought our 5 day Park Hopper passes as Christmas gifts. Planning in staying off site at a house rental. Where do we start the planning process?! Thank you so much in advance.

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11 years ago
Dave
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Hi Pang and thanks!! First, if the ADRs you aren’t getting are for DTD, try calling the restaurants directly. Some restaurant there release only some of their inventory to Disney for ADRs. For ADRs elsewhere, I;d keep trying. People cancel trips and dining all the time–including, as you note, the day before… Second, it might be easiest all around if you take your arrival night off, or use it to go to a fireworks show–e.g. at MK (open til 11 the 16th, with the evening parade at 9 and 11, and fireworks at 10) or Epcot (open til 11 for… Read more »
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11 years ago
Pang
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Hi Dave. You’re information is AMAZING!! I’ll be traveling to WDW to celebrate my son’s 5th birthday from 05/16/14-05/21/14. We don’t arrive until 7pm so I don’t want to use theme park ticket since we only have passes for 5 days. I was planning on a late dinner at Downtown Disney but not so sure with all the construction that is going on. Also, I tried ADR for some of the restaurants and they’re all booked for the times that I want. What are the chances of calling 24 hrs before to see if we can get a reservation in… Read more »
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11 years ago
Dave
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Frank, I don’t have any great answers for you. Being off-site, and not getting there before open, blows the two best ways to beat the crowds that week (morning extra magic hours and booking FastPass+ ahead of time.) However, some off-site guests are being picked for FastPass+ pre-booking. To be eligible, you need to create a My Disney Experience account, link up your tickets, and link up at least one dining reservation–ideally for the first day of your visit. Do all this and you may get an email inviting you to book FastPass+ ahead of time, beginning the date of… Read more »
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11 years ago
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Dave – I just found your site. Great information. Well we are flying in from Colorado the week of Easter. It is what it is at this point. I just found that it is one of the busiest times of the year. I can’t change it now, and that’s what we have going on for our vacation. We are staying off property close to Downtown Disney. I have found a lot of useful information about planning way ahead and going during different times of the year – but what kind of survival tips, crowd tips, fast pass tips do you… Read more »
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