How Regimental Are You..?....

Mrferret wrote:

For me overplanning would kill my holiday ..
I enjoy the whole relaxed feel of a vacation without to much specific.We always spend an age pre-trip working out what we want to see do etc and just wing it around that.
Certain things do dictate where we go on certain days (EMH or specific events (SWW)) but other than that its all pretty flexible.
I can't imagine planning things down to the N'th degree (laminated and duplicated ) because all it takes is a late bus or an unexpected complication and its all out the window.
Whilst i would never go that far i do understand some people have to have this degree of routine and thats cool also.
My biggest worry for out trip next year is how the FP+ is going to affect our more laid back touring style.We have hardly ever used (or needed to use) the previous fastpass incarnation and hope the new set up doesn't skew the standby lines horribly.

Totally understand...I map out my days and spread my ADRS so that I'am not eating at three signature restaurants in three consecutive nights..The FP + is also new to us this year and to be honest in our previous trips, all in the busy July month, the only passes we went for were Soarin..Toy Story..and Buzz...The rest we just got in line..Mostly under 30minute wait..I've got friends who never planned a thing on their first visit, and when they got back they never done POTC...Fantasmic..Never even seen Illunminations at Epcot. ...

For me overplanning would kill my holiday ..
I enjoy the whole relaxed feel of a vacation without to much specific.We always spend an age pre-trip working out what we want to see do etc and just wing it around that.
Certain things do dictate where we go on certain days (EMH or specific events (SWW)) but other than that its all pretty flexible.
I can't imagine planning things down to the N'th degree (laminated and duplicated ) because all it takes is a late bus or an unexpected complication and its all out the window.
Whilst i would never go that far i do understand some people have to have this degree of routine and thats cool also.
My biggest worry for out trip next year is how the FP+ is going to affect our more laid back touring style.We have hardly ever used (or needed to use) the previous fastpass incarnation and hope the new set up doesn't skew the standby lines horribly.

Mrferret wrote:

For me overplanning would kill my holiday ..
I enjoy the whole relaxed feel of a vacation without to much specific.We always spend an age pre-trip working out what we want to see do etc and just wing it around that.
Certain things do dictate where we go on certain days (EMH or specific events (SWW)) but other than that its all pretty flexible.
I can't imagine planning things down to the N'th degree (laminated and duplicated ) because all it takes is a late bus or an unexpected complication and its all out the window.
Whilst i would never go that far i do understand some people have to have this degree of routine and thats cool also.
My biggest worry for out trip next year is how the FP+ is going to affect our more laid back touring style.We have hardly ever used (or needed to use) the previous fastpass incarnation and hope the new set up doesn't skew the standby lines horribly.

I'm the same way. We have planned more for this trip due to FP+... We used to just get on the plane and wing it from there. Now I have planned what parks each day due to FP+ but thats just our mornings because I made all of our fastpasses early enough that we can get a fourth if need be. I'll let you know after my trip how the FP+ affected us since it seems like we have a similar touring style.

We felt the same way about planning. Hubby would book tee times and I would make ADRs (because for me vacations are all about fine dining), but everything else was left up in the air. With FP+ we had to decide 60 days out which parks we would be in on which days. It may have something to do with lesser crowds in Sept, but changing FP+ on the fly was no problem. We never used a kiosk for a 4th FP (never needed one, stand by lines were virtually non-existent), but we changed our original 3 FPs on the MDE app several times. We were even able to overlap our 2nd FP time with our 1st FP time once we actually used our FP. (For example, FP#1 was for 11:05-12:05. FP#2 was for 12:10-1:10. Once we used FP#1 at 11:08, we could change FP#2 to 11:20-12:20.) On one occasion, it did warn me that there was an overlap, but it let me book it anyway. Because of the forced pre-planning, this trip didn't feel as spontaneous as our previous trips.

I'm going to try something new with our April trip.....no planning! Excepting 1 ADR for Yak and Yeti. No spreadsheet, no binder, nothing!

You may pick up your jaws in 3....2.....1......

JeffC wrote:

I'm going to try something new with our April trip.....no planning! Excepting 1 ADR for Yak and Yeti. No spreadsheet, no binder, nothing!

You may pick up your jaws in 3....2.....1......

Apparently, I am incapable of NOT doing this.....

JeffC wrote:

I'm going to try something new with our April trip.....no planning! Excepting 1 ADR for Yak and Yeti. No spreadsheet, no binder, nothing!

You may pick up your jaws in 3....2.....1......

Apparently, I am incapable of NOT doing this.....