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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the discussions in this thread literally prove beyond a doubt now terrible it is to go to Disney. Look at how much work you all describe it being just to go there.  [/quote]

This. Why the hell would I look forward to spending an insane amount of money after spending 50 hours pre-planning the visit. International travel is far easier and cheaper. [/quote]

I find it hard to believe there isn’t a lot of preplanning involved with an international trip. [/quote]

Exactly. You don't just show up in Paris or Rome without planning and getting advance museum tickets, tour tickets, etc.[/quote]

I mean I usually do.  I’ve never pre booked anything for a trip except hotels.  There’s always plenty to see and do and explore without scheduling ourselves ahead of time.  Much nicer to take each day as we feel like.[/quote]

With Paris and Rome, I do all the pre planning before hand. My problem with Disney is the stress of lightning lanes and genie plus which means you can’t know your ride times until the day of. And that may or may not work with special meals or Disney events scheduled.  I don’t like throwing a wrench into my plans last minute nor do I like being on my phone organizing my day while on the vacation.[/quote]

This is a valid critique. I felt like it was basically impossible to plan restaurant reservations and get all the value out of the park ticket. But at the end of the day, we didn’t really go there to eat at restaurants. I can see if you were doing a character meal, that might be hard to plan around. It would be nice if you could reserve at least 1 LL in advance every day. [/quote]

You will get a LL ride first thing at 7 if you book one. You just can't be such an anal planner that you want to do them in an exact order. You have to be somewhat flexible and just take them as they come. If you your first choice isn't the best time then take your 2nd choice and rope drop the one you didn't get. It's not impossible. Trying to plan each minute of the day on a strict schedule will be your undoing. And planning multiple sit down meals is a waste of time and money for mediocre food if you want to ride the rides.

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I don't think it's that simple.  It's really easy to end up with ride or meal reservations that are on opposite ends of the park or that overlap so you end up stressing to get to where you need to be, especially with small kids with short legs.  Throw in a rider swap, bus delay, minor illness, misplaced item, delayed restaurant reservation, thunderstorm, kid meltdown, bathroom emergency, ride shutdown, parade blockade, app error, etc, and the whole endeavor can become really stressful.

Just as one example we had a paid LL at HS in Star Wars land that had a ride closures during our window.  To get a new LL or our money back they required us to walk to the front of the park to stand in line at Guest Services, so we did that.  But while we were in line our LL for Slinky came up, so we tried to split up so one parent could do that and get a rider swap for the parent stuck in an hour+ long line, only to find out that they would have to be there to get a rider swap, but they'd have to get out of line to do that or we'd miss our LL window.  So then only 1 parent rides Slinky so kid who was disappointed by the Star Wars line gets to ride something, but meanwhile other preschool aged kid is stuck in a guest services line and now starving.  So parent and kid rush back across the park again to get food for smaller kid and meet parent in line.  Meanwhile, over 2.5 hours at the parks, only 2 of 4 people in the party have gotten on a ride, we've traversed the park 4 times, and parent in line has listened to 1.5 hours of whining with no rides.  Now everyone is at the front of the park, but there's no food nearby, so the option is to walk back into the park to try to wait in yet another line to get food.  Totally fun.[/quote]

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