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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disney has always rewarded planning and touring strategy. Many of the tips I learned for my first trip in 2004 are still applicable today - wake up early, hit your “E ticket” must do attractions early, save the hot afternoons for shows and dining and relaxing, and use LL during peak seasons.  If you don’t care for fireworks or parades, use those times to knock out more must do attractions.

Now that I’m a parent, it helps to be familiar with the park IP and to have kids (or memories of being a kid) where seeing your favorite character or ride come to life feels truly magical. People are right when they say the rides are better elsewhere. What Disney does best is theming and family entertainment, and they truly are the best in the business at what they do.

I think people get disappointed when they stay offsite, show up at 11 am during peak times, plan to “wing it”, and still expect to ride everything. Or they spend thousands of dollars on extras like Bibbity Bobbity Boutique and Cinderella’s Castle for their single park day and then wonder where the time went.  Or they over schedule their kids well past their limits. Or, they discover for the first time at Disney, that their families simply do not enjoy theme parks and get sick on every ride. Go visit Busch Gardens or Kings Dominion for a day first to see if this sort of thing is even fun for you! It’s not for everyone.

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Or you wake your kids up at the absolute crack of dawn to get in line for rope drop. And you're at the front of the line for the Disney Skyliner just like they advise on every Disney blog. Only for Disney to announce 20 minutes after it was supposed to start running that the Skyliner was going to be closed that morning. So then thousands of people run to the buses to try to take buses to the parks. But Disney hasn't adjusted their bus schedule so there aren't nearly enough buses. So you spend the next 3 hours in line trying to get on a bus to the park.  Your kids have now been up for hours and have waited in hours and hours of lines with massive crowds that are not being controlled or organized at all with people shoving to the front and yelling. Your kids have been run over or hit by at least three motorized scooters who were shoving to the front to try to cut the line to get on a bus. Your kids are also hungry and have to use the bathroom. But if you get out of line you will never ever get on a bus.  Then you get to the park and there's still another giant line to get in. And then every single ride at the park has a line because now you're no longer rope dropping, but are at the peak of crowds.  Good thing you stayed on site and got up early.[/quote]

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