Disney World Itineraries
By Dave Shute
WALT DISNEY WORLD ITINERARIES BY ARRIVAL WEEK
This page provides below links to Walt Disney World itineraries by arrival week. Each itinerary includes links to daily guidance and a to-do list.
Itineraries are released or updated as Disney releases its calendar—which it currently usually does weekly, providing it for about the next ~2 months.
Note that I have released and included below an updated itinerary that replaces the old Multi Pass with Tiana Itinerary. It includes changes in dining, but for those who have already booked their dining based on the Tiana itinerary, your current Tiana based dining reservations should work just fine.
The new itinerary reflects recent and expected ride closures and openings, including a projected July 20 at 9p for the first showing of the new evening Parade at Magic Kingdom, Disney Starlight. (July 20 is confirmed; 9p is not.) One exception is that it does not yet include Test Track, which will re-open July 22, but I’ll insert Test Track on Epcot Day 2 as soon as Lightning Lane, etc. matters are established.
Otherwise, the itinerary is simpler and uses much less Lighting Lane, so it is less expensive as well.
DISNEY WORLD ITINERARIES BY ARRIVAL DATE
- For a June 28, 2025 arrival date, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary but consider some points around the 4th of July noted bel0w
- For a July 5, 2025 arrival date, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary
- For a July 12, 2025 arrival date, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary
- For a July 19, 2025 arrival date, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary
- For a July 26, 2025 arrival date, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary
- For an August 2, 2025 arrival date, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary
- For an August 9, 2025 arrival date, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary
- For an August 16, 2025 arrival date, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary
- For an August 23, 2025 arrival date, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary
- For an August 30, 2025 arrival date, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary
For later arrival dates, use the Updated Multi Pass Itinerary for planning, but come back here ~60 days before to double check.
PLANNING THE WEEK OF JULY 4TH
Disney World will have special Fourth of July fireworks at Magic Kingdom Thursday July 3 and Friday July 4, and at Epcot Friday July 4.
Typically, these shows make these parks distinctly crowded on these days.
To avoid these crowds, change both your itinerary and to-do list the following ways:
- Make Monday June 30 your first Magic Kingdom day, replacing Wednesday
- Make Tuesday July 1 your second Magic Kingdom day, replacing Thursday
- Make Wednesday July 2 your third Magic Kingdom day, replacing Friday
- Make Thursday July 3 your second Epcot day, replacing Monday
- Make Friday July 4 your first Animal Kingdom day, replacing Tuesday
On the other hand, you may wish to see these two shows. If so, change both your itinerary and to-do list the following ways:
- Make Monday June 30 your second Hollywood Studios day, replacing the second Saturday
- Keep your first and second Magic Kingdom days (Wednesday July 2 and Thursday July 3), but stay late July 3 to see the fireworks
- Make Friday July 4 your second Epcot day, replacing Monday and seeing the fireworks
- Make Saturday July 5 your third Magic Kingdom day, replacing Friday
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284 comments
Hello Dave,
we, 2 adults and two teenage girls, 16 and 14, will be disembarking the Disney Fantasy cruise ship and going directly to Disney World arriving Saturday 13 Dec. 2014 and leaving Friday 19 Dec. 2014 in the morning.
Could you recommend a 7 day / 6 night December itinerary – leaving early on the 7th morning to fly to New York. We will be buying a Park Hopper Pass with the Water Parks included.
Ideally staying at the Polynesian or Contemporary Resorts otherwise the Wilderness Lodge.
Kind regards
Joe
He Giuseppe! My itineraries are based on Disney’s calendar, which comes out about 6 and a half months in advance. So check back in late May, and I’ll be able to help then…
Hi Dave!
I’m trying to plan a Disney trip in November 6 nights for 4 adults and 2 children 7 & 9. We are looking at arriving on a Saturday and leaving on a Friday evening (checking out Friday morning) Our date choices are 11/1 – 11/7 or 11/8 – 11/14. We are trying to keep expenses very low. Any help is appreciated on tickets, itineraries, accommodations, etc.
Amanda, I won’t have much on November itineraries until Disney releases its calendar for then, which will happen in late April… but the second option will be better than the first–see this https://yourfirstvisit.net/2012/10/15/2014-weeks-visit-walt-disney-world-ranked-order/
For your other questions, start here and work your way down! https://yourfirstvisit.net/
First ……your site is great! We (husband, 6 and 10 year olds, and I) are planning our first Disney World trip for Oct. 13 to Oct. 17, 2014 (these will be full/non travel days). We want to do a 1-day trip to Universal on one of these dates (mostly for Harry Potter). Do you have a recommendation on what park to visit on Columbus Day (Oct. 13)? I am assuming that will probably be the worst day for crowds that week. We are planning on getting the Hopper pass.
Hi Tia, and thanks!! Check back with me in a month, when Disney’s October calendar will be out, and I’ll be able to help!
I just saw on easywdw that Disney moved the EMH for Hollywood Studios from Monday to Sunday for a lot of September and October. Just wondering what this will do to your FastPass+ for Lower Crowds itinerary.
We are going to be there Sept 13-21 and we already made ADRs with plans to be at HS on Sunday Sept 14, on which HS will likely now be the worst park. We got some good times on our ADRs (a 6:35 for Be Our Guest on Wednesday, for example) and I’m disinclined to mess with them at this point, but just wondered your thoughts.
We have ‘Ohana at 6:30 on Tuesday 9/16. Since we can get to Poly from anywhere we could move HS to that day (switching with AK). I’d lose my Sci-Fi ADR on Sunday and would have to figure out something for dinner that day, but I can live with that. That’s probably my only option without giving up an ADR I really want. Would you make that change or just deal with EMH crowds on Sunday at HS?
Jeff, yeah that’s a mess. EMH have not changed like that since Disney dropped evening EMH at AK. . I’ll be posting on this shortly, but for most weeks I’ll be recommending just what you are thinking–swapping Tuesday and Sunday.
Hi Dave, In one word your site is “amazing”. My wife and I along with our 1,4, and 7 year old will be staying in the Animal Kingdom Villas from 10/17/14-10/24/14. We have the 7 day park hopper and the dining plan with the snack, counter service, and table service. We arrive in the middle of the afternoon on the 17th so we figured we would stay at the resort for the rest of day and I reserved dinner at Boma. We want to do the Donald Duck Tusker House breakfast at Animal Kingdom and then Fast+ the most popular rides. We also want to do Fantasmic one night. We were planning on doing AK 1 day (or less),HS 1 day(or less), Epcot 1 day(or less), and MK 2 days and a visit to DTD. What days do you recommend we visit the parks. Thank You for any advice you can give me.
Hi Matthew and thanks! Here’s the scoop your week:
10/17 Avoid Epcot and AK, great at MK.
10/18 Avoid Epcot and HS, great at AK
10/19 Avoid Epcot and HS, fine everywhere else
10/20 Avoid AK and MK, great Epcot day
10/21 Avoid Epcot
10/22 Avoid MK and Epcot
10/23 avoid MK
10/23 avoid Epcot and AK
We just booked for April 11-18, 2015- Which itinerary should we use. I love your site! Thank you!
Hi Mandy and thanks! I publish itineraries about six and a half months ahead–when Disney publishes it’s operating calendar for the relevant month. When April 2015 is out…which won’t be for a while!–recommended itineraries will be here: https://yourfirstvisit.net/planning-your-first-family-trip/basic-itinerary/alternative-itineraries/
Thank you!
Love your site!! I’ve been to Disney many times, this will be my husbands second visit, first time on Disney property. We arrive 10/27/2014 and leave 11/5, staying at the swan. We have a 1 year old and a 7 year old (will turn 8 while we are there). We want to do not so scary Halloween (thinking on Halloween), and food and wine As we aren’t doing a typical su-sa trip any pointers would be great. Also, is there anything special for it being my sons birthday?
Hi Marisa and thanks!
First on the birthday, see this: https://yourfirstvisit.net/2012/02/01/is-walt-disney-world-free-on-your-birthday/
Your dates crowds ebb and flow based on MK closures. If it closes at 7, crowds are low there and high elsewhere–especially parks with EMH. When MK is open late and has the full slate of evening shows, it’s just mobbed.
Food and Wine clots up World SHowcase in the evenings and weekends
The 27th avoid MK and AK
The 28th avoid Epcot
The 29th avoid MK and Epcot
The 30th should be fine everywhere.
The 31st avoid Epcot and AK–MK will be crowded 4p and on
The 1st avoid MK and HS and Epcot
The 2nd avoid Epcot and HS
The 3rd avoid AK
The 4th avoid Epcot
The 5th avoid Epcot
Hi Dave,
Our trip is booked for May 2015 for 2 weeks in Orlando. After a few days on I-Drive we arrive at Disney WL on Thurs 21 May for 9 nights with Dining Plan. During our stay it will be Memorial Day and I’m wondering if the Spring/Autumn/Winter itinerary is the one to use/adapt? Will it be a High Crowd itinerary we need (you currently have that week as crowd level 9)? We will need to adapt it as we want to do 2 days in HS so our boys can enjoy one of the Star Wars days and we will also need to research some alternative meals, don’t think they’ll want to do Cindy! Feel I need to make a start on itinerary soon as it’s obviously rather complex!!
Thanks, Linda
Linda, you can use my high crowd itinerary for that week as a starting point! Most people think I have overstated likely crowds that week… https://yourfirstvisit.net/2013/11/30/fastpass-itinerary-for-high-crowd-periods-at-walt-disney-world/
Thanks!
Hi Dave!
This site is incredible and I have literally spent hours reading each and every page while writing down tips along the way. Thank you for the countless hours you’ve put into yourfirsttrip.:)
My hubby, myself, and our 8 year old daughter are staying at The Polynesian 11/14-11/19 for our first (hopefully not last) Disney World trip from California! Still working on flights and are considering:
1. taking an overnight flight leaving LA on Thursday night 11/13, landing Friday 5:20 am Orlando time so we can maximize our time on Friday. Other option is flying Friday morning 11/14 landing at 4:00 pm. Would you recommend the overnight flight?
2. The flight home leaves at 5:00pm on the 19th so that would free up the first half of the day until about 2pm. We’d really love to go to all four parks as well as see the Main Street Electrical Parade and the Hoop De Doo Review while there.
3. With that in mind, what parks should we do and on what days??? Help!!!!
Thanks again for all you do,
Shannon
Shannon, on 1, I’ve done red-eyes a million times, including weekly for 6 months straight when I had a client in LA, so my answer is no, it’s not worth it. While your trip is already very short, the park time you save will be more than slapped down by the misery.
On 2–have you already seen Disneyland? If so, I like your “see a park every day” approach. If not, I’d suggest two days at MK, which may mean skipping a park–probably Epcot.
Consider on 11/14 seeing Mickey’s Xmas Party. It’s very expensive–details are here: https://yourfirstvisit.net/2014/04/13/mickeys-very-merry-christmas-party-mvmcp-in-2014/ but it puts you in MK for rides and fireworks and the Xmas parade on a night when waits are low. If you can’t then do Hollywood Studios including Fantasmic this evening.
Do Hoop on your Animal Kingdom day, as it has no evening events.
On 11/15, avoid MK and HS–so this is a good AK/Hoop day, although since it’s a Saturday Hoop may be already booked up. If you do HS evening stuff on the 14th, then you can leave HS early on a later HS day and do hoop then
On 11/16, avoid HS–this is a good MK day.
On 11/17, avoid HS.
On 11/18, avoid Epcot and MK
On 11/19 avoid AK.
Hope this helps!!
For specific itineraries in the parks, see my book! The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit
Wow Dave! You’ve convinced me that the overnight flight with a recently turned 8 year old is a bad idea. Thank you, as I will not have to learn the hard way!!;) So we will fly Friday 11/14 landing at 4pm. Disney estimated that I’d arrive at Poly around 5pm. With that in mind, here are new questions I’m left with…
1. If we were to buy Mickey’s Xmas Party tickets for that same night (Friday), can we get in the park with our MYW ticket around 6 and then stay for the Xmas party that starts at 7?? Or would we have to wait until 7 to gain entrance to MK?
2. Hoop is booked online for 3 people. Is it likely that I can get a reservation by cancelations? Will calling make a difference? I’ve noticed that there is room for a party of 2. Can I book a party of 2 and a different party of 1 and ask to be seated together when we check in for dinner?
3. We have been to Disneyland many times as we live within an hour of it. I’m sure we’ll love MK and soooo looking forward to it!!:) Not familiar with the other parks though. Is HS an all day park? Same for AK?
Thank you sooooo much Dave!!!
Shannon so glad you aren’t taking the red eye.
1 While Disney won’t say this publicly, it has always in the past let people holding party tickets in beginning at 4p, so you can just go straight to MK with your party tix.
2. A cancellation is possible but I wouldn’t count on it. And sadly no you can’t reserve 2 and 1 and combine into three. Hoop is one of the few settings at WDW that actually assigns you a specific table.
3 HS and AK are all day parks if you do everything including shows–which I recommend!! But there’s a fair amount of overlap between HS and DCA/DL…so if you skip the HS stuff that’s similar to California it will be less than a day.
Hi,
We are booked and ready to go! I have one month to put together an itinerary before I can begin making dining reservations. I was wondering if you will post a February 28, 2015 itinerary? By the way I bought the Kindle version of your book, it’s a wealth of information! Thank you.
Hi Donna and thanks!!! I’ll be posting an itin for the week beginning 2/28 as soon as Disney publishes March, which it will do sometime around the 18th of August I’d guess…
Hi Dave;
I am planning a trip to DW for 2 adults, 6 children (16, 14, 14, 14, 11, and 7) for June 6-19, 2015. Can you suggest an itinerary for us that would include all of the parks including each of the water parks? I am thinking about staying at Port Orleans-Riverside, what is your opinion of this resort? Also what is your ideas about the VIP tours? This is the first trip (probably only trip) for some of the children so I want it to be very memorable. Oh I forgot; two of the children will celebrate their 15th birthdays while we are there.
Thank you for all your help.
Kati
Hi Kati, I won’t release itineraries for June until Disney publishes its June calendar, which it will do in about 2 months.
My resort recommendations are here (in order by type): https://yourfirstvisit.net/2010/04/26/walt-disney-world-resort-hotel-reviews/
VIP tours are not needed…there’s many better ways to spend your money…
Dave,
We are planning our first visit to Disney on Feb 25, 2015. It will be a late arrival on a Wed. We will stay until Wed, March 4th. 6:00 PM flight. 7 nights/ 6 days. Any ideas for itinerary? I have reviewed your Feb. itineraries but not sure if we need to switch days around because Thursday will be our first full day. Also wondering if we should purchase tickets for the final Wednesday of our trip with it only being a partial day. Thanks for your help!
Angie
Angie, my itins are tied to actual days–that is “Monday” means “Monday,” not “Day 3”–because of different operating and crowd patters by day of the week. You best bet is to pick how many days among each park (tell me the ages of your kids and I’ll help with that), then pick park days, then set up your dining and later your FP+
Your dates, avoid AK 2/25, MK 2/26, Epcot 2/27, HS and MK 2/28, AK 3/1, HS 3/2, Epcot 3/3, AK 3/4, and MK 3/5.
My itineraries are integrated and aimed at kids 8 or older. There’s a different set more usable for different arrival dates and for both older and younger kids at the end of Chapter 6 of my book The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit. Note the link is to the 2104 edition–the 2015 edition will be more accurate for you, and will be out soon.
Dave,
The ages of our children are 7, 9, and 10. We were thinking about spending 2 days at both MK and Epcot. 1 day each at AK and HS. We arrive late, so our first day of activities at Disney will be Thursday, 2/26. We could spend 2/26 at any park other than MK? Let me know what your thoughts are on determining which one.
Thanks!
Angie
Hi Angie, on 2/26 either Epcot or AK would be a great choice, and HS will be OK.
Hi. Thanks for the great site and valuable information.
Planning our first visit. We will arrive late morning Tues, April 14, 2015 and departing on Tues, April 21. Two adults and a 13 yo boy. Staying off site with rental car.
Due to tight budget, we plan spend one day each at AK and Typhoon Lagoon. Also plan one day at a nearby non Disney park.
What are the best days of the week for AK and TL? Do you recommend we include another Disney park as a must see for a 13yo boy?
Thanks!
Michelle, most consider MK as the quintessential Disney World park, so I’d pick that over AK in a heartbeat. Those dates, avoid AK the 15th and 19th. The best days at MK will be the 15th and 17th. Sorry, but I don’t track TL…
Do you still do the itinerary with Sunday arrival? We are going on April 26th for 6 nights/7days. If I used the one with Sunday arrival would I just move everything forward a day or keep it the day it is?
Here’s the Sunday arrival itinerary for your dates, Crystal. And it is tied to Disney’s exact operating and crowd patterns, so in it “Monday” means Monday, not day 2. https://yourfirstvisit.net/2014/01/16/seven-night-fastpass-lower-crowd-itinerary-sunday-arrival/
For separate plans for each park that you can assemble into an overall custom itinerary, see the Cheat Sheets in Chapter Six of my book The easy Guide to Your First Walt Disney World Visit 2015
Hi, We are traveling to Disney World Oct 22-20, 2015. Which itinerary should we use? Thank you.
Tiffany, I’ll post an itinerary for then after Disney releases its operating calendar for Oct, which it will in about a month.
One additional question. I looking at the estimated crowd calendars, I’m thinking of changing the trip to Tuesday, Oct 20 – 26, 2015 instead of Oct 22 – 28th. That way we can take an off day on Sat instead of Sunday to avoid the bigger crowds. I would love your thoughts?
Tiffany, the parks are busiest Sat-Mon, so the more of these days you can avoid, the better!
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