Category — i. Itineraries for Walt Disney World

Hey, there’s an updated version of this itinerary that world much better, here!

Below is a seven night variant of the eight night FastPass+ High Crowd Itinerary.

Look–I’m not particularly keen on this itinerary.

The eight night itinerary is action-packed enough, and creating a seven night variant from it requires cutting out a sleep-in morning, building a really long day at the Animal Kingdom, and cutting the Magic Kingdom back to the bone. So a rough visit becomes even rougher.

But people keep asking for such, so here it is…

Park days, dining and FastPass+ targets are set, so you will be able to make your dining reservations at the 180 day mark and FastPass+ when the 60 day window for FastPass+ sign-ups opens–all covered in the To-Do List for this itinerary.

Your steps for each day are in the following:

Saturday  Sunday  Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday

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Update December 2015: There’s an updated high crowd itinerary.  If you have not yet set your park days and dining, you should use the updated one–it’s better!

Below is a Disney World FastPass+ based itinerary for the higher crowd weeks of the year.

FastPass+ recommendations are all in To-Do List for this itinerary. Daily instructions are here:

Thanks are especially due to Josh of easyWDW. With his permission, I picked the targeted park days based on both my own practices and his daily park recommendations.

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DISNEY WORLD NEXT WEEK: NOVEMBER 30 TO DECEMBER 8, 2013

The material below details operating hours, Extra Magic Hours, parades, and fireworks.

The same stuff is in the image, but organized by park, not by topic.

And for more on December 2013 at Disney World, see this.

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DISNEY WORLD NEXT WEEK: NOVEMBER 23 TO DECEMBER 1, 2013

The material below details operating hours, Extra Magic Hours, parades, and fireworks.

The same stuff is in the image, but organized by park, not by topic.

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REVISED SUMMER ITINERARY FOR WALT DISNEY WORLD COMING

Walt Disney World did its first release of it June 2014 operating calendar yesterday, and it revealed a different pattern of summer operations than has been the case the last few years.

As a result of these changes, my current integrated Summer Itinerary which I’ve offered for more than 5 years (with tweaks) won’t work as well as I’d like it too, and the issues are too big for tweaks. (For the current, won’t work, version, see this–but remember not to use it!)

So between now and the end of the month, I’ll be re-writing my summer itinerary.

My plan is to generate two summer itineraries:

• one that uses FastPass+, and
• a second one that relies solely on traditional Fastpass,

but with the same parks and restaurants on the same days and at the same time on each. By doing this, people will be able to do their dining reservations without having to know whether they will be using FastPass+ or traditional Fastpasses.

To build these, I’ll be using both my own experience and thinking, and also the thoughts of Josh of easyWDW.com (with his permission and collaboration–thanks, Josh!).

IRRELEVANT ASIDE

Josh’s site has become one of the most-copied Disney World sites on the web. (Mine is copied a bit, too…)  For what they are worth, here’s my thoughts for those extensively relying on the hard work of others:

• Do your own work–don’t pass off other people’s work as your own, or create the impression you’ve had an experience–like stayed in a certain resort–that you haven’t
• If what you publish relies on other peoples’ work, if it’s just a bit you’ve taken, give them credit and a link; if you are taking a lot, ask them for permission and how they’d like credit to be noted
• Above all, don’t take other people’s work, derive new-looking material from it, pass it off as your own, and then turn it into an e-book that you charge for!

OK, sermon over…and yes, I am both sinned against and a sinner on this topic, especially on the middle point! But I promise to do better…

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DISNEY WORLD NEXT WEEK: NOVEMBER 16 TO NOVEMBER 24, 2013

The material below details operating hours, Extra Magic Hours, parades, and fireworks.

The same stuff is in the image, but organized by park, not by topic.

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