monday, /o\ || disney world, \o/

[topaz119]

I’m not sure how or why it’s already Monday, but here we are…

On the plus side, I did manage to finish up that post-Star Trek Beyond Kirk/Pike sequel I’d been playing with (see my previous post), but the rest (ie, the mundane part) of my weekend to-do list is sadly un-lined-through. Priorities, yeah

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[topaz119]

I go through love/hate cycles with it. On the one hand, yeah, it’s aggravating trying to sort things out so far in advance, especially when I know they’re going to be changing their open/close time right up to the day of (I don’t play the pre-opening breakfast ADR game for that reason-if the only reason I’m going for the 8 a.m. at the castle or BoG is to get in before the 9 a.m. opening, what use is it if they change to an 8 a.m. opening anyway.) On the other hand, having been the one who dragged teenagers out of bed so we could make the mad dash for the paper Fastpasses, and then ran all over the park to pick up the next ones, I am super-happy to get them all from my phone/computer (and know when the time is when I get them, as opposed to standing around waiting for the times to roll past lunch or whatever might be in the way.)

But I think the only rides I’d really want to hit at the 30 day mark are Frozen and 7DMT - last year we were down in late October for F&W & ended up spending an unplanned day at Hollywood Studios and I was booking Fastpasses on the boatride from the Yacht/Beach Club (for 5 or 6 ppl.) I never got Toy Story, but I picked up ToT & Star Tours, & then we did single-rider for RnR & the lines weren’t bad for everything else. (And D is categorically opposed to ‘wasting’ a FP on TSMM b/c he can’t believe people wait in line for that.) Even if you don’t go at rope drop, Toy Story and Soarin’ have the extra track/theater now, so they’re not as bad as they used to be.

I almost never do the dining plan-the numbers don’t crunch for us. I sometimes do it if I’m putting all 5 of us into a Deluxe room during the free dining promotions (and I already know I can get the ADRs for the high-end restaurants/character dining), but even then, everybody has to be on board with staying in the one room and no bitching about fancy restaurants. (The payoff is, of course, watching three teenage boys lay waste to the California Grill menu w/o flinching.) Otherwise, it’s usually cheaper to do the 30% room-only discount they run at the same time. This year I have an annual pass, so I’m grabbing a Tables in Wonderland card which usually works out better for our crew.