Do the menu planning! We do breakfast, snacks and one meal a day in the villa. I love checking out pinterest for suitable meals, devising my shopping lists, figuring out what meals will be in and planning what I will bake. Check, you've got three months. Might as well.It would be for me, except I usually go on short notice and there's always something. To plan for. This time, we booked about 8 months out. I got great airfare prices so I don't have to worry about that. We're renting an rv so I don't have many adr's to make. I've already made the one we really want to do this time. I mean, I guess I could plan menus for our grocery delivery...
I'm 3 months away from being able to book fast passes. Someone please tell me how to do more planning!
EXACTLY I love when the pieces fall in place. I chart it out and stare at it, I start to see options and new ideas!>YES! It is so much fun! Almost like a giant puzzle.
"The best-laid plans of mice and man are apt to go astray".
35 for us!Abso-tively, posi-lutely!!! We have a family time making plans and reservations. Then we have a family fun time making plans and doing ADRs at the 180 day mark. We get to discuss what we want to do, share info, watch a YouTube video or two, listen to a podcast or two, and them make a spreadsheet and reservations. My son now does the spreadsheet and ADRs. Then, again, we have a big fun party time when we hit 60 days and make our fast passes; we talk, watch, listen, have a party atmosphere, and then my son makes all the FP+ reservations. THEN as the weeks go by we also make additional reservations and plans. As a family we get at least 20 additional days out of a 10 day stay! It is all fun. 33 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I plan like crazy before the trip, but then I pretty much toss it all out the window on the plane. While we're there, we do pretty much whatever, including changing dining and FP+ around day of. The "planning" is really just a way for me to stay excited for the trip way before we get there."The best-laid plans of mice and man are apt to go astray".
I used to feel.that way, but all the preplannig became too much and it was.not fun when we were planning our trip last November.My dad's wife asked me a few days ago why I do so much planning for our WDW trip and if it gets annoying have to plan things out so far ahead of our trip. I told her that for me, part of the fun of our WDW is the planning. In fact, I would say for me, 30-40% of the fun is in the planning. There is so much anticipation as we countdown to the trip and thinking about the rides, the restaurants, the hotels, the rooms, everything. It last far longer than the actual trip, which is then done in a matter of days and you're left with disappointment. At least with the planning, it lasts for months! Does anyone else feel this way?