Category — i. Itineraries for Walt Disney World

SCHEDULE OF WHICH DAYS TO VISIT WHICH PARKS

While working on a recent post about TouringPlans.com‘s updated daily calendar, I realized that while I had advice on which park to go to when here and here, and of course built in to the design of this site’s core itineraries, I hadn’t brought it together into one place.

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HITTING THE WALL AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

Say you are following this site’s summer itinerary, and tomorrow is Wednesday.

You’ve had a wonderful time so far…but are starting to hit the wall.  Tomorrow is another early morning…and you don’t want to get up. 

It’s another scheduled sit-down dinner…and even though you are on the dining plan, and probably won’t be able to use the left-over sit-down credit, you just don’t want to be scheduled. 

You are thinking a sandwich and margarita by the pool, at exactly the time you choose, will do just fine.

Your family is showing signs of strain, too. 

Everything’s going great so far, but the whining is starting to grow, and the itinerary is beginning to be viewed as the enemy.

But you’ve spent all this money, and you can’t get any of it back.  What do you do?

HOW TO RECOVER FROM YOUR VACATION SO FAR

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SEVEN NIGHT WALT DISNEY WORLD SUMMER ITINERARY

This itinerary is based on the Summer Itinerary, but is one night shorter. [Read more →]

OVERVIEW: GETTING MORE FASTPASSES FASTER AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

(This page is one of a series explicating Walt Disney World lingo, abbreviations, and FAQ for first time family visitors to Walt Disney World.)

Walt Disney World’s FASTPASS program permits your family to skip a lot of waiting in line for some of Walt Disney World’s most loved—and hence crowded—attractions, for free.

I have posted details on this program elsewhere. This page is meant to help you—at some real cost—overcome some of the key limitations of the FASTPASS program:

• You can only get a FASTPASS every two hours
• Some FASTPASSES are completely distributed early in the day
• Other FASTPASSES quickly build to a return time very late in the day

Walt Disney World currently has no program similar the “Universal Express Program” for Universal resort guests.

This remarkable Universal program allows Universal hotel guests to move to the front of almost every ride’s waiting line as many times as they wish, whenever they wish, beginning as soon as the parks open. (See this for details.)

However, you can buy your way into a roughly similar situation at Walt Disney World—simply by buying and using more than one theme park admission ticket per person!

Two theme park tickets used for admission allow twice as many FASTPASSES, on average granting you a FASTPASS every hour rather than every two.

DETAILS ON GETTING MORE FASTPASSES FASTER AT WALT DISNEY WORLD

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OVERVIEW

This page outlines August 2010 Walt Disney World crowds, prices, deals and discounts, operating hours, and weather, and then ends with week by week summaries and recommended itineraries.

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