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I like to map out the parks and research the rides before heading to the parks. I try to go on the most desireable rides early in the morning. The problem is I'm having trouble going on the fast ones and the spinning ones. Buff/Scott
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Scott,
I'm sure eyou know this, but I wonder how many other people do...if an attraction has two lines, always head towards the left one...most people are right handed, and their inclination is to go to the right, so the left line is generally much shorter.
So you're enjoying the perks of living in Florida, huh? Good for you. I even go to Las Vegas once in a while
Fern Modena
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Fern, The key word is Perks. Surrounded by gated communities. Across the street from one of the nicest malls in South Florida and 2hours plus from Orlando. Everything is close by.
I'm trying to do as many Fla timeshares as I can and now being a teacher I can. Hope Jerry is well. Buff/ScottComment
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I found out a number of years ago that if we headed to Space Mountain during the 3:00 parade, we could ride it two or three times in a half an hour. Now I would guess that since Disney is even more popular that it would be cut back some. It might work good during the lesser seasons. We also did this on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.Originally posted by buff
Just an Idea to work from
Joel
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Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World
We bought this book before we went to Disney, and the authors have done time studies with riding certain rides at certain times of day. There are actual step by step instructions you can follow for which rides to ride at which times of day for the least amount of wait. It's a paperback book, but thick.
They tell you how long each ride is, how many people can ride it in an hour, and rates each ride for scariness/nausea, etc.
We bought the book because I believe waiting in line for an hour to ride a 3 minute attraction is NOT a vacation.
I highly, highly recommend this book. Enjoy!Comment
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Hidden Mickeys
has any one bought the book about hidden Mickeys and tried to find them?
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Epcot
This year I concentrated on the rear of the park
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We follow the philosophy of doing the opposite of what the crowds do...
Staying offsite, we can't use early entry but we look it up and make sure we avoid that park that day.
Example... one day it was the Magic Kingdom's early entry day.... we went to Epcot... early (ropedrop is about 30 minutes earlier than the posted opening time..)
We were in the first dozen people to enter the park..
We heard later that the Magic Kingdom had closed due to overcrowding by 11am... I wouldn't want to be there even if we had gotten in...
If there is two parade times... most people will watch the first so they can leave afterwards if they have little ones or are just tired. Result is that the rides are less crowded while everyone is crowded around the parade route to watch the earlier parade and the later parades are less crowded.
Even if a park has the extra hour at the end of the day... the park might be ok in the morning but it will become the busiest park by the end of the day...
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We sometimes follow Pete S's strategy also. We have also discovered the benefits of annual passes if you can overlap trips. We did it first with Disney, but are learning that it can work anywhere. This advice was thanks to our online timeshare buddies (here and at TUG). We use this in a combination of some full days spent at the parks and then also, on those days we have other plans, we can always just do a relaxing evening visit to the park.
We have also really started taking advantage of the child swap benefit at Disney. This is where one parent rides the ride while the other waits with the children who can't go on. Then as soon as they get off, they stay with the children while the other parent immediately gets on the ride. In our case our son goes on the ride with my husband while I wait with my 2 daughters who can't(5 year old peanut) or won't go on (12 year old nervous one). Then my husband stays with the girls while I go on with my son. My son is very happy because he gets to ride twice in a row. We love this because in the past one of us would always give up the chance to go on some of these rides. In order to do this everyone needs to wait in line together and just let the cast member know what you need to do.
Fast pass at Disney is great also. I was surprized to run into people who actually thought you need to pay extra for this great FREE feature. One thing we discovered we could do with the fast pass tickets is get them for members of the party who may not be riding the ride and have members who will be use them. Last year what we did so my husband and I could get on test track and mission space was we used our tickets to get the Fast pass for test track for the two of us and then since we knew our kids were not going on Mission Space, we used 2 of their tickets to get fast passed for that for us. We were then able to literally go on test track and the right on mission space.
The later parade is also another one we take advantage of.
Lisa
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We like to get at a park as soon as it opens.
Make a beeline for the rides you "need" to ride. The first few hours of a park being open is usually pretty quite.
Noonish until 6pm are the busoest hours, so we will cruise around, eat, shop, see a parade or show.
A fair amount a people leave around dinner. So at that time we start hitting rides again.
Now that we purchased Disney Annual pass, we just go in the morning, ride some rides, eat lunch, and head home.Are you my friend Danny? How about a Fresca?
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Does anyone just go into a park and hit the shops and exhibits and that sort of stuff instead of standing in line to ride?
Joel
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Absolutely! Even in the WDW or Universal, somedays we ride few if any rides, but just enjoy the atmosphere, the shops, etc..Originally posted by beachsands
We have been going to WDW for years and our approach has changed from:
"Rope-drop to Lock down, ride every ride at least once, march of death"
To a more casual approach that allowed us to see things we only ran by before.. best part is now when we are people watching, we see some people enjoying the environment like us and we still see the groups mad dashing around.
And it's not just age either as I know we used to go for shorter periods of time and felt under pressure to see things... but timeshare has helped us lengthen the trips so we can really enjoy them..
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