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39. One Day Park Strategies - Magic Kingdom & Epcot · Mom Street USA

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  Welcome everybody to Mom St. USA.
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  My name is Jackie AKA Wishes Mama and joining me is my cohost
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  Kate AKA the Disney Cicero and this evening on Mom St.
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  USA. We are in part two of our series
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  of one day park itineraries. So we are headed back over to
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  the Disney World side of things after discussing Disneyland and
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  DCA last week, and we're excited to give you guys some really
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  good information tonight. Yeah, I am very excited for this
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  because I feel like I get this question all the time as a
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  creator. If I'm live streaming or
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  whatever and people ask me like what should I do first, how
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  what's the best way to use Genie Plus how do we, you know what
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  what do you do in Magic Kingdom? How do I like plan out my day.
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  And so this is such a, I think, important series because we get
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  to really dig into that and give some recommendations.
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  These are always recommendations for maybe efficient ways to move
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  through the day. But I think we always kind of
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  give the caveat is. It's your vacation.
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  You do what you love to do, and if it's like rope dropping, a
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  ride that nobody else would ever rope drop, because that's what
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  you want to go on first. Do that right?
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  It's your vacation. Exactly.
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  And we still very much promote. Make your priority lists and if
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  there's stuff on this list that you have no interest in doing,
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  don't do it. You know this is just an
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  outline, It is not an end all be all.
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  You must follow the IT A-Z. This is just an outline to give
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  you guys an idea of kind of where to go next if you're lost
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  and not sure what to do. When it comes to being in the
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  parks and especially doing them all in one day, especially in
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  Magic Kingdom which we're going to dive into first because I
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  feel like it is the most asked about when it comes to the
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  Florida parks. So for sure, yeah.
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  And it's where everybody tends to start, even though we don't
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  ever recommend doing Magic Kingdom on Monday if you can
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  avoid it because it tends to be pretty busy that day.
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  But knowing that people tend to start there, we decided to start
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  this this Florida part of the series with Magic Kingdom.
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  Yes, Just figured we'd give you what you're looking for first
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  and then we'll touch on Epcot 2, which is significantly easier,
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  but you still got to have a good game plan going into it.
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  So let's just hop in a couple of general notes about Magic
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  Kingdom. First of all, Main Street USA
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  opens typically an Hourish before early entry.
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  So early entry is that extra half hour of time that you get
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  if you are staying on property at a Walt Disney World Resort or
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  at the Swan and Dolphin or you know, one of those partner
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  resorts. So that extra half hour is the
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  early entry. Typically, Main Street USA opens
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  about an hour before that. So if you're wanting Castle
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  Pictures, if you're wanting to enjoy Main Street for a little
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  while, you have plenty of time to do that before any of the
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  rides open, which is very helpful in my opinion.
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  Yeah, for sure. No, I think it's that's such a
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  critical time to get there early and I don't think we can
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  emphasize that enough. I did say it last week with
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  Disneyland, it's just as critical.
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  Disney, I think it's more. More so critical.
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  Well, they're equally critical. Just get there early.
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  Just do it. Wake up there early.
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  Yep. It's worth it.
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  We promise. Yeah, and like we said, this
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  plan is not for someone that's got five, 6-7 days in the park.
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  This is for you have one day in Magic Kingdom.
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  How do we get it all done? The other thing that I will
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  stress is if you're staying on property, I know people don't.
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  Because if you drive or you take an Uber or a Lyft, that all puts
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  you at the TTC, the Transportation and Ticket
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  Center, which is an additional time that you have to leave to
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  take the monorail or the ferry from the TTC to Magic Kingdom.
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  Yeah, I have to say the buses. I don't like the buses, but the
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  buses are elite in terms of where they drop you off for
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  Magic Kingdom. It's like right there if you
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  can't be on a monorail loop resort.
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  Or walk from the contemporary. Those are That's pretty much
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  your best option. Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
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  Because it, I mean, it will add at least at least 1/2 hour to
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  the time that you're planning to get yourself into the parks.
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  So we talked about getting there.
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  I would say getting there about 45 minutes before rope drop.
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  Yeah, You know, so if you're going to the TTC, add an extra
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  20 to 30 minutes on top of that just because you're going to
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  need that time. The ferry boat does tend to be
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  faster. If you are planning to or you
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  have to end up at the TTC for whatever reason, the ferry boat
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  tends to be faster than the monorail.
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  But it just kind of all depends on timing and what you when you
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  walk up what what is available and what is just left or you
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  know those types of things. I do feel like the ferry is also
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  a little more magical of an experience.
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  I mean, I do like the monorailish, You know, like the
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  kids like monorail. The model is not as magical as
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  it is in Disneyland because it has issues.
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  But it's I think the fairy is really magical because you're
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  like it's like you have to go across the water to get to the
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  Magic Kingdom and it's like you went on a journey and you get to
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  see the castle get closer and it's just a very I prefer that
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  if I was going to do that. The view is much more
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  picturesque as you cross the water and you know the monorail
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  is great for what it is, but you're also in much closer
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  proximity to people and you never know what you might get.
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  You never know. You never know.
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  So the monorail is like a box of chocolates.
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  I don't know what which monorail you're going to get.
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  That's so true. So if you have to go to the TTC
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  again, plan an extra 20 to 30 minutes and take the ferry would
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  be my suggestion. Because even if you've just
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  missed a ferry, they run them very consecutively as much as
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  they can. So chances are that your wait
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  will not be very long. OK, let's talk about Genie Plus.
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  Just general notes again. We did a whole episode on Genie
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  Plus, so if you want more details about booking, and I'm
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  going to reference some things in this episode that we talked
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  about in that Genie Plus episode.
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  So bookmark that for listening to later on if you need to catch
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  up on that, but your Genie Plus is going to be booked at 7:00 AM
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  for Magic Kingdom. It is almost imperative and
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  essential that you have multiple devices booking your 7:00 AM
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  times for Genie Plus because of the Tron virtual queue, so
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  that's not technically Genie Plus.
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  So whether you're using Genie Plus or not, at Magic Kingdom,
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  you are still able to join that virtual queue at 7:00 AM.
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  If you miss the 7:00 AM, they also have that 1:00 PM that
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  you've got to be in the park for.
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  But it's so important to have someone just devoted to that
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  virtual queue. And then if you're only planning
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  one day in Magic Kingdom, you've got to have a second device,
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  second person on your Genie Plus, so that way you don't miss
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  out on those morning times for your first booking.
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  So that's super. Slight ask like crazy, which
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  I've done before. Well, we don't recommend that
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  for like first timers if you're not used to it.
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  Like, only if you're like a park pro, yeah, Do you multitask.
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  And I've done that before. Like iPad, phone, laptop with
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  time.gov pulled up like I've been in there, done that if you
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  have to. Right now, if you're on a solo
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  trip, like Kate said, you may just have to get your virtual
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  queue first. Always, always, always get your
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  virtual queue first because that will sell out within seconds and
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  you will still have some wiggle room with your genie plus
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  lightning lanes if you don't get an early time for what you want.
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  Just a couple of notes. You say ally, Beth said.
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  Morning multitasking date happened for me and I feel that
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  Ally Beth like I am not about that.
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  I'm like I morning is so hard. Me.
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  I legit OK little behind the scenes for Kate.
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  OK real time if I have to get. If I have to get that virtual
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  queue and it's all on me. I have this like the most
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  obnoxious alarm clock you can ever think of that sounds like
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  like. The world is on fire and it's
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  like, it gives me like this adrenaline rush that gets me up
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  enough that I can like book all the things and then I'm like,
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  I'm in panic mode. It's awful.
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  It's probably horrible for my likes body, but but it works.
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  That's fine. And I book the things.
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  And then I sometimes I go back to sleep depending on what
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  return time I get. So right, right, exactly.
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  So a couple of notes just about the virtual queue.
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  And again, we've gone into depth of this in our Genie Plus
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  episode, but check your Wi-Fi signal versus 5G to make sure
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  you have the fastest speed for booking.
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  And then you also have to decide about Withtron, especially
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  because it's such a new attraction.
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  You may decide that you want to do it more than once.
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  The only way you can do it more than once is by purchasing the
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  individual Lightning lane and doing the virtual queue.
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  You can only do one virtual queue per day and only one Tron
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  individual Lightning lane per day.
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  So that's kind of your options there.
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  Tron will typically cost you 20 to 25 per person, so it is quite
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  a budget breaker. If you've got a family of four
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  or five, you're looking at a good chunk of change, so keep
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  that in mind. The other individual Lightning
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  lane to consider at Magic Kingdom is 7 Dwarfs Mine Train.
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  That one is significantly less expensive.
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  It will run you typically 10 to $12.00 per person, so about half
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  the cost of Tron. But you know, Tron is brand new.
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  IT hasn't even been open a year yet.
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  So it kind of makes sense that that's what we're looking at
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  comparatively. Yeah, but you can't.
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  You cannot. For those who are not familiar
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  with Tron or virtual queues or whatever, Just as a reminder,
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  right now whenever Disney comes out with a new ride, there's no
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  way to just stand in line to wait for that ride.
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  You have to do a virtual queue or you have to do the individual
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  lightning lane, but you can't just walk up to the ride and be
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  like, I want to get in line. You won't be able to go on it at
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  all. So just be aware that when
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  Disney comes out with new rides, this seems to be kind of their
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  mo for how they do new rides right now.
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  Just be very aware that there's probably a virtual queue on it
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  and check your app to see if that's available.
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  Yes, and I will say I'm very interested to see what happens
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  when Tiana's Bayou Adventure opens because it.
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  Will get kicked out. I don't know.
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  Or will they have two in the same park and then are they
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  adding another individual lightning lane?
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  Cuz like that, just that's just a lot.
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  OK. Anyway, that's a discussion for
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  another time. When we get closer and we have
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  more details and we probably will discuss that.
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  When we get closer, we have more detail for sure.
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  A couple other notes just about Tron.
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  I promise I'm not going to talk about Tron the whole time, but
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  keep in mind that a lot of people want to be able to ride
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  Tron at night because of the way that the lights work with the
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  canopy when you go outside. The only way to guarantee that
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  you can do that is to purchase the individual lightning lane,
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  your boarding group time from your virtual queue.
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  Remember, you cannot pick that time, so keep that in mind.
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  If you're wanting to ride it at night, you really are going to
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  have to budget to do that individual lightning lane,
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  because that's the only way to guarantee it.
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  I was just going to say sometimes that line that's
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  really long too, if it's past the morning time into the
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  afternoon, that line can can take like 45 minutes plus.
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  If you're doing the virtual queue in particular, so just
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  keep in mind that it does take a chunk of time to do the virtual
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  queue. If you're trying to get through
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  everything in Magic Kingdom quickly, individual lightning
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  might be your best bet. If you're short on time, yes,
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  exactly. And Lem made a good point over
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  here. He said.
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  Or you could only go for the 1:00 PM virtual queue, but then
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  that risks that you can't ride it at all.
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  And there have been times where I have done the 1:00 PM queue
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  and gotten it and the ride time has been like 5:00 PM.
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  So it's even with the 1:00 PM Q, there's still no guarantee.
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  The only way to guarantee you being able to ride it when it's
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  dark outside is to do that individual lightning lane.
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  So options there, you definitely want to decide that the night
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  before. As far as Tron, make a game plan
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  for Tron. Are you doing the virtual queue?
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  Are you doing individual lightning lane and make a game
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  plan for seven dwarfs? Are you going to do the
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  individual lightning lane or are you going to use an early entry
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  rope drop to avoid trying to pay for that and try to rope drop
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  it? So we'll get to that here in a
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  little bit and kind of what that looks like when it comes to
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  that. So you definitely want to plan
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  all of that ahead of time to make sure you, you know what
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  you're gonna do, even if it's literally just the night before,
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  right before you go to sleep, make sure in your head you know
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  what you're doing. Communicate with your other
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  person who's booking with you. Make sure they know what they're
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  doing. My husband and I are really good
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  about. OK, It's time to go to bed, say
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  good night, and then I'll remind him, hey, in the morning.
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  Remember, he loves me for it. It's great.
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  He's like, Yep, I got it. Uh huh, I got it.
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  And that's fun. But then in the morning, we're
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  still just like, you're doing this and I'm doing this right?
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  Right. Right.
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  Yes. OK, good.
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  We're good. We got it.
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  It's so funny. Every couple has their own like
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  system cuz Elliot and I like I go to bed late and he wakes up
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  early. So our system is always like I
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  text him in the middle of the night for stuff that he'll read
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  first thing in the morning, and that's his reminder.
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  Whatever works. Build a command center to get
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  Tron virtual queue. Pretty much slim.
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  You gotta build a command center.
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  You gotta have your plan. You gotta know what you're
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  doing. Don't wake up.
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  Minutes before and panic like we don't want that for you.
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  So at least 5 minutes before. That's at least I get fucking
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  myself. 4 minutes 4 minutes to get up and be awake enough to do
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  it. But I've read it a lot, so you
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  might need more time, right? Yeah.
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  And depending on how comfortable you are with that, you know that
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  all that all depends. So again, this plan that we're
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  going to jump into here shortly is a one day trying to get as
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  much done in Magic Kingdom as possible.
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  So taking time to do things like parades did, the stage show,
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  cavalcades can be inserted anywhere in the plan.
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  However, it will limit the rides.
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  So it really just depends on what your preferences when it
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  comes to what you want to do. Again, we will always stress
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  making that priority list with you, with yourself.
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  If you're a solo traveler or with with the people that you're
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  traveling with, you want to make sure you have that plan so you
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  know what you're going to do. The praise and cavalcades do
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  start by what is becoming Tiana's Bayou Adventure and and
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  going down Main Street to the train station.
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  And I will mention that the stage show, if you're someone
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  who's interested in characters but you don't want to take the
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  time to stand in line for meet and greets.
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  The stage show is actually a really good way to see those
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  characters because it includes Mickey and all of his friends.
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  It includes Tangled characters, Princess and the Frog characters
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  and Frozen characters. So a lot of characters in a I
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  think 25 minute show. So that may be one thing to
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  consider and that does have set times in the app that you can
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  view that one at the castle stage.
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  So that is an option because I didn't really put a ton of
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  character meet and greets on this plan because to me a lot of
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  people that are doing one day in Magic Kingdom are going to want
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  to be ride centered. So that's kind of what I went
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  with for that for sure. And space that they have that
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  stage show, like Disneyland doesn't have a stage.
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  They do have like shows that happen right in front of the
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  castle, especially with like the Disneyland band and Mary Poppins
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  and stuff. So they do have some, but it's
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  not the same as these like organized big extravaganza shows
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  that happen multiple times. So.
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  Right. And I think it's like 5 or 6
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  times throughout the day that that happens.
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  So definitely, if you want to try to fit that in, be aware of
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  that when you're going through and booking, OK.
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  So we talked about Genie Plus things.
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  So before entering the park, 7:00 AM is super important,
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  deciding what you're going to do with your virtual cue and your
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  individual lightning lanes. But let's talk about regular
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  lightning lanes, because remember, they're a whole
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  separate category. So you're what you're going to
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  book first for your regular lightning lane really depends on
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  your rope drop strategy. So two different strategies that
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  you can kind of use for rope drop depending on where you are
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  and who you are and what your ride preferences are.
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  But these are my two suggestions.
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  If you have early entry, meaning you're staying at a Disney
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  resort, you get that extra half hour.
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  I would highly suggest rope dropping things in Fantasyland
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  because and this sounds very similar to what Kate talked
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  about at Disneyland trying to get some of that Fantasyland
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  stuff out of the way. So I would go and again it
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  depends on what you what your preferences are but the top two
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  rides to do to rope drop would be 7 doors mine train if you're
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  not paying for an individual lightning lane or Peter Pan.
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  Now the thing about Peter Pan is a lot of people rope drop Peter
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  Pan. So you really want to set
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  yourself up for success and be as close to the front as you can
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  be without pushing and shoving. But just get there early and get
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  to the get to the front so that you're in a good position to be
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  able to do that if if you don't, it's going to push back
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  everything and that's just the way that it is regardless of
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  whatever ride you're going to. And I'll say with 7 dwarfs mind
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  train, if you are rope dropping that and you are a resort guest,
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  that's what you're talking about right now, right early entry.
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  So this has happened to me like two or three times when.
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  We were still some went near the front and everybody started
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  going and then that line gets really long and you're looking
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  at it and like this is wrap it around the corner.
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  This is crazy. Don't panic because they just
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  haven't opened the queue yet for it.
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  Usually, as long as you're not like way over by Little Mermaid,
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  you know, like if you're not around the corner by Ariel, it's
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  probably going to go. Within 20 minutes usually, which
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  is the shortest it's going to be all day.
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  So it's worth it to just don't panic, just get in line.
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  It's going to be chaos. Embrace the chaos and get in
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  line. Yeah, exactly.
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  And I will say with rope drop, make sure you have plans for if
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  you've got a stroller or if you're, you know, dealing with
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  some of those extra things. Have a plan.
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  Like what my family usually does is like, I grab my kids by the
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  hand, My husband runs the stroller to stroller parking,
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  and then he comes and you know, we wait for him right at the
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  entrance and we all jump in line together once he's with us.
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  So definitely have a plan for all of that.
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  And I know that sounds crazy, that you're like planning it
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  down to the like to the minute, but you literally have to to be
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  able to get the most out of your morning at Magic Kingdom.
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  Yeah, we're talking about a day when you're trying to get as
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  much done as possible. So there's absolutely you can do
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  just me at a more relaxed pace and not be stressed out and not
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  plan as much, but you're not going to get as much done.
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  That's just a fact. This is the way it is,
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  unfortunately. So, yeah, so if you've got that
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  early entry, head to Fantasyland, Aside from there,
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  what you want to do with that? And then if you do not have
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  early entry, if you're staying off property, you know Airbnb's
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  other hotels, things like that, then my suggestion would be to
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  rope drop Frontierland and Adventureland, so the complete
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  opposite side of the park because that section actually
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  doesn't open until park open. So you're not going to have
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  those wait times already existing when you go to get in
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  line for something. So that can be super helpful.
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  So you're and then you can focus on your Genie plus using it on
• 19:28
  those other rides and trying to get through as many stand by,
• 19:31
  stand by rides as you can in that section of the park.
• 19:35
  So that being said, the first couple Genie Plus attractions
• 19:39
  that I would book would be depending on your strategy,
• 19:43
  again depending on which direction you're going, Peter
• 19:47
  Pan or Jungle Cruise. Those are going to be your first
• 19:50
  two that I would suggest. So if your rope dropping 7
• 19:54
  dwarves make sure you book a Peter Pan.
• 19:57
  If you are not headed that direction and you're headed the
• 20:00
  other direction, book Jungle Cruise, because that time will
• 20:03
  skyrocket really fast and the return times for Genie Plus for
• 20:08
  Jungle Cruise will be 1:00 PM before you know it.
• 20:13
  So you want to make sure that you get that in and done so that
• 20:16
  way you're not having to circle back and backtrack.
• 20:19
  We talked about this last week. I try my best when I do these
• 20:22
  these plans to not not have people crisscrossing all the way
• 20:27
  across the park because that can be very tiring.
• 20:30
  So you just really got a plan based on proximity and where
• 20:33
  where you're going with that. So Peter Pan or Jungle Cruise
• 20:36
  would be first followed by depending again on preference
• 20:41
  and what you'd like to do, Big Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain
• 20:44
  and then I even put Haunted Mansion in there because those
• 20:46
  times can be pushed later as well and it could be harder to
• 20:49
  kind of work that in depending on what area you're going to
• 20:53
  1st. So that's kind of your first
• 20:56
  little section of of your Genie plus that you're going to.
• 21:01
  And now if I will say if you only have one or two devices
• 21:07
  like 3 devices would be perfect because then you can have one
• 21:09
  person booking Tron, one person doing an individual lightning
• 21:13
  lane and one person or device in a.
• 21:15
  Private world, I know you have 3 phones.
• 21:18
  They break our iPad just for that purpose.
• 21:22
  For magic. Kingdom when we go.
• 21:24
  But if you're if you're not able to do that, book your Tron
• 21:29
  virtual queue first. Do that first.
• 21:31
  Get that done and then I would suggest booking your first
• 21:34
  lightning lane, regular lightning lane because you want
• 21:38
  that time to be as early as physically possible to be able
• 21:41
  to best utilize that Genie Plus throughout the day.
• 21:44
  And then after that, if you're doing individual lightning
• 21:46
  lanes, 7 dwarves and Tron individual lightning lanes will
• 21:49
  not sell out like most of the morning.
• 21:53
  So do the. Left.
• 21:55
  I'm getting a comment from May says this is a sport and I 100%
• 21:59
  agree, it's like, all right, we're going to train and we're
• 22:03
  going to get ready. We're good.
• 22:04
  It really is practice round. I've always said that going to
• 22:08
  Disney World is like a marathon and you have to train for it.
• 22:12
  You have to train like physically.
• 22:13
  You have to train mentally. You have trained emotionally.
• 22:16
  You have to just be ready for what you're stepping into and if
• 22:19
  you haven't trained. It's gonna be rough, right?
• 22:23
  Just like if you ran a marathon without training, right?
• 22:26
  Exactly, exactly. So yes, it's a lot.
• 22:28
  But again, Tron first regular. Lightning lane still fun and
• 22:36
  then individual lightning lane last.
• 22:38
  And remember that individual lightning lane, you can pick
• 22:40
  your time so you can kind of gauge okay.
• 22:43
  I'm starting on this side of the park.
• 22:45
  I don't want to do it first thing in the morning anyway, so
• 22:47
  that'll that'll kind of help with that.
• 22:51
  So that's kind of the gist of your Morning Genie Plus process.
• 22:56
  Again, that's going to highly depend on your rope drop
• 22:58
  strategy in which direction that you go.
• 23:01
  So if you go to Fantasyland, as many of these in standby, you're
• 23:06
  going to want to try to do before the park officially
• 23:08
  opens. And a lot of the time you're
• 23:12
  going to be able to get the majority of Fantasyland done
• 23:16
  within that first half hour there, right, compared to.
• 23:21
  Yes. Like, yes.
• 23:22
  So you're gonna start with standby for either Peter Pan or
• 23:26
  7 Dwarfs if you're going to Fantasyland.
• 23:28
  If you're able to then flip flop those and get the other one in,
• 23:31
  that's great. It just really depends on on
• 23:33
  crowds. If you're there and the crowds
• 23:35
  are are really low, you may be able to do both.
• 23:38
  First thing, if you're there during the midst of the holidays
• 23:43
  or, you know, peak season, you're you.
• 23:47
  Probably not. If I'm being completely honest,
• 23:49
  you're not going to be able to get both of those done standby,
• 23:51
  so you're going to have to make a separate plan for that.
• 23:54
  But then you can also, while you're in that section of the
• 23:56
  park, Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Under the Sea, Small
• 23:59
  World, those types of things you can branch over into, like
• 24:04
  teacups in that area. Or you could head over the other
• 24:07
  direction to Cortana Mansion. It just really depends on what
• 24:10
  your preferences are, but I would just go for rides that are
• 24:14
  top, you know, on your priority list, top priority, and get
• 24:17
  those done first. If you go to the adventure land
• 24:22
  route of everything, then you're gonna want to.
• 24:26
  I know it's like opposite for you, but you're going, you're
• 24:29
  going to the left when you enter.
• 24:34
  Was that for me? I know, and that's left for me.
• 24:37
  But we're opposite, so it's fine.
• 24:38
  We're not confusing people at all.
• 24:40
  Go to the left, if you're going to adventure land area then
• 24:47
  you're going to want to do Jungle Cruise, stand by first
• 24:49
  you're going to want to rope Jungle Cruise and then hit Big
• 24:52
  Thunder Mountain Pirates and Haunted Mansion and kind of
• 24:55
  finish up the the bigger ticket rides on that section of the
• 24:59
  park. Now that wasn't everything in
• 25:01
  those sections of the park, but we'll we we're going to have to
• 25:03
  circle back and do some of the lower wait time rides later in
• 25:08
  the afternoon. So those are kind of the ones
• 25:11
  that I would suggest hitting in the morning are your priority
• 25:14
  rides and then the rides that I've listed.
• 25:16
  Depending on if you do Fantasyland, you may be able to
• 25:19
  just swing over and continue down and work your way into
• 25:22
  Adventureland if you did Adventureland.
• 25:24
  Depending on the the ride times for some of these attractions in
• 25:28
  Fantasyland, you may be able to after you hit Hauna Mansion,
• 25:30
  just swing up and around and go into Fantasyland.
• 25:34
  Again, it's all completely dependent on your on the crowd
• 25:37
  levels and the time of year and all of the above.
• 25:41
  It can be a little unpredictable.
• 25:43
  So just kind of having a general game plan can be helpful and
• 25:46
  then you just kind of have to go with the flow.
• 25:48
  You just roll with it and when the when everybody starts
• 25:51
  pouring in around you know 10/30/11, you just be like let's
• 25:54
  go get some a snack. Doesn't that acknowledge what?
• 25:59
  Yeah, that perfectly segues into the next section that I was
• 26:01
  going to talk about. So however that pans out for
• 26:04
  you, that's going to take up your morning, that's pretty much
• 26:07
  going to take up, you know, because you're there early.
• 26:12
  You also may want an earlier lunch.
• 26:13
  So I would say that's going to take up until 11 or noon
• 26:15
  depending on your schedule. So mobile ordering lunch is
• 26:21
  super important and mobile ordering dinner is super
• 26:23
  important. Magic Kingdom doesn't have like
• 26:30
  amazing quick service. It has decent food that will do,
• 26:35
  but it does not have amazing quick service.
• 26:38
  There's a couple hidden gems maybe here and there, but again,
• 26:41
  overall it's theme park food when it comes to that when it
• 26:45
  comes to the quick service. You'll be fed, you'll get food,
• 26:49
  you'll eat. Yes, there is edible things that
• 26:53
  will suffice. So a couple options of places
• 26:57
  that you can mobile order. Casey's Corner is a really
• 27:00
  popular one, cosmic rays, Columbia Harbor House, Friars
• 27:04
  Nook and Pinocchio Village House.
• 27:05
  So those are just kind of a general like one of those five.
• 27:08
  You're probably going to get something pretty good or you
• 27:10
  want to make sure that you mobile order and I would even
• 27:14
  put in that mobile order like if you know you have a lightning
• 27:18
  lane at 11:00 to 12:00 and you're going to get in line for
• 27:21
  it at 11, right before you get in line at 11, go ahead and
• 27:24
  place your order And then when you're off the ride you can you
• 27:28
  know finalize and all of that. So that way you're kind of doing
• 27:32
  that while you're in the midst of everything.
• 27:34
  And the other thing is those, those quick service rotation or
• 27:38
  those quick service restaurants are all kind of spread out.
• 27:43
  So depending on where you are in the park may just determine
• 27:46
  where you decide to go. If you're over in Tomorrowland,
• 27:49
  you may decide to go to cosmic rays if you know those types of
• 27:52
  things. So keep that in mind as well.
• 27:54
  Don't cross park if you can avoid it, just cuz you're gonna
• 27:57
  exhaust yourself. Yeah.
• 27:59
  And I I would also say, especially if it's particularly
• 28:03
  hot outside, I definitely recommend Columbia Harbor House
• 28:08
  is always kind of my go to cuz my family loves it and there's a
• 28:10
  ton of seating upstairs. So don't stay downstairs, go
• 28:13
  upstairs. There's lots of wonderful
• 28:15
  seating up there. But I also I don't love the food
• 28:18
  at Pinocchio Village house, but it is indoor and AC and has a
• 28:23
  place to refill as good water. And sometimes you can get a nice
• 28:26
  view of small world and so it's like it's a good kid friendly
• 28:29
  A/C. My kids love it because it's got
• 28:30
  pizza and that's like what they, you know, that's a good option
• 28:33
  for them. But yeah, that's a really good
• 28:35
  point. I just don't recommend Cosmic
• 28:38
  rays, but it is a C There's a C in there and seating, but I
• 28:41
  don't recommend the food. So that's all I got.
• 28:44
  Again, it's mediocre park food that will do.
• 28:47
  Some of their specialty stuff they have at Cosmic Rays has
• 28:50
  been better recently. That's true of their like
• 28:52
  specialty burgers and stuff like that.
• 28:54
  So again, it really just depends on what type of food you're
• 28:56
  looking for. You're looking for something
• 28:58
  light. Are you looking for something
• 28:59
  more filling? You know all of the above.
• 29:01
  I'm if you're someone who just likes to snack along the way.
• 29:05
  We did a whole episode on Magic Kingdom Snacks.
• 29:07
  It is episode 20 of our podcast, so it have covered that already.
• 29:12
  So we're not going to really touch on that tonight.
• 29:14
  So you can go back and find that in episode 20 of our podcasts,
• 29:18
  as far as that goes. OK, so that takes you through
• 29:23
  lunch. And I know I'm rattling this off
• 29:25
  very, very quickly and believe me, graphics are to come with
• 29:29
  all of this kind of organized for you guys.
• 29:31
  So we'll get those to you. I started them and did not have
• 29:34
  time to finish them this week. So coming to a Mom Street social
• 29:38
  platform near you. It's been it.
• 29:41
  I will just give you a little insight.
• 29:42
  Our world has just been very busy recently.
• 29:44
  So we are working on getting all the things to you and we will
• 29:47
  get them soon. Yes, exactly.
• 29:50
  So that kind of takes you through lunch.
• 29:52
  Let's talk about the afternoon. And this is where you will see
• 29:56
  some of those wait times really fluctuate.
• 29:58
  Some will jump up really high, some will not.
• 30:01
  It just really depends. So this list that I'm going to
• 30:05
  give you, they tend to be lower weights or they tend to have
• 30:09
  almost immediate Genie Plus return times available because
• 30:13
  that's also something you want to consider.
• 30:15
  If you're trying to burn through rides really, really quick.
• 30:18
  Looking at the closest return time so you're not having to
• 30:22
  stand around and wait in between lines is really, really
• 30:25
  important. Several of these options may not
• 30:29
  need Genie Plus in order to ride with little to no wait.
• 30:32
  So again, check the app, pivot accordingly and you and you can
• 30:36
  also use these rides to fill in between your other Lightning
• 30:39
  lane bookings as well. You just have to really look at
• 30:41
  those wait times and decide if you've got 10 or 15 or 20 or
• 30:44
  whatever minutes to give in your overall plan for the day.
• 30:49
  Can I do just a quick little plug?
• 30:52
  I'm not sponsored at all by touring plans, but I do use
• 30:55
  touring plans a lot, especially at Walt Disney World, because
• 30:59
  you can even plug in what return times you have and they'll
• 31:02
  optimize your day based on your return times, which is so
• 31:05
  helpful for someone who's just not used to doing any of this.
• 31:08
  So if you are a Disney, maybe? Just one time subscription fee.
• 31:13
  I feel like it was around $18.00 ish.
• 31:16
  It's not that much for your if you're like investing in this
• 31:19
  really expensive occasion, honestly it's worth it.
• 31:22
  And you can also then check wait times.
• 31:25
  Current wait times if they can optimize it for you and tell you
• 31:28
  where to go or you can just check at the current wait times
• 31:31
  are often a little bit more accurate there than they are on
• 31:34
  the Disney World app because Disney does manipulate their
• 31:37
  wait times to get people to where they want to go.
• 31:40
  So. Yes.
• 31:41
  So just a little plug for that. If you're feeling a little bit
• 31:44
  overwhelmed with the details and you need like a tool to help you
• 31:47
  just a little bit, you're like just tell me where to go next
• 31:50
  because I can't think about where to go next.
• 31:52
  That might be a good resource for you.
• 31:54
  So Yep, yeah, exactly, exactly. So this list would be what I
• 31:59
  would look at for the afternoon. These are all Genie plus
• 32:03
  attractions and then I'll get into ones that are non genie
• 32:07
  plus here in a minute. So things like the Barnstormer,
• 32:11
  Dumbo, Mad Tea Party, Magic Carpets of Aladdin fill her
• 32:16
  magic and laugh floor, which those two especially are good in
• 32:19
  the afternoon because they are inside attractions fill her
• 32:22
  magic. You very rarely need it for
• 32:24
  laugh floor. You can get stuck in longer
• 32:26
  lines, so definitely keep an eye on that.
• 32:29
  If it's showing like a 20 minute wait that is going to be a hard
• 32:32
  20 minute wait. If it's showing 3040, whatever
• 32:34
  it may be. So using one, if you've got
• 32:37
  wiggle room and you've got time to be able to use it and it's
• 32:40
  showing you an immediate time, book it and do it that way.
• 32:43
  It's a much better plan when it comes to that one.
• 32:47
  And then some other options that you have on Genie Plus would be
• 32:52
  things that do involve characters.
• 32:54
  So they do have character meet and greets on our Genie Plus.
• 32:57
  That includes the it's an attraction and a character meet
• 33:00
  and greet and one The Enchanted tells with Bell.
• 33:02
  That's a really, really popular one.
• 33:05
  So that's when you're going to want to definitely keep an eye
• 33:07
  on throughout the day. But these other characters are
• 33:09
  also available on Genie Plus visiting Princess Just House
• 33:17
  Tiana and a visiting Princess, which is typically Rapunzel.
• 33:20
  So those ones are all available on Genie Plus to use.
• 33:23
  There are lots of other characters that you can also
• 33:25
  find in the parks, but they are not available to use your Genie
• 33:28
  Plus on. So again depending on your
• 33:31
  priority list, depending on what you and your travel party are
• 33:33
  wanting to do, using Genie Plus for that may be helpful because
• 33:37
  especially Mickey's time can fluctuate a lot up and down
• 33:42
  based on the time of day because it is right inside the park.
• 33:45
  So you will get people to just go there first.
• 33:48
  Same thing with the princesses, their times can fluctuate a lot
• 33:50
  throughout the day and they're typically fairly high weight
• 33:52
  times when it comes to those Princess meet and greets.
• 33:55
  So do keep that in mind if you're looking for that and then
• 33:59
  non Genie Plus you've got the Walt Disney World Railroad which
• 34:03
  is a nice relaxing ride but also a ride that can get you across
• 34:09
  the park without you having to walk.
• 34:11
  So in the afternoon if you are getting tired and you are over,
• 34:16
  you know close to the Big Thunder Mountain area and you
• 34:18
  need to get over to do Buzz Lightyear or anything around
• 34:23
  that side, you could always hop on the train if you don't want
• 34:25
  to have to walk across the park. So that is something that is
• 34:28
  helpful to be able to utilize. A couple other things that are
• 34:33
  show based that you can do Country Bear, Jamboree, Hall of
• 34:37
  Presidents, Carousel of Progress and Channing Tiki rooms.
• 34:41
  So those are all indoor shows that would be helpful.
• 34:44
  A/C breaks or if you know that like hey nothing is working on
• 34:48
  our time schedule, we've got 30 minutes to kill.
• 34:51
  Those are really great options for that.
• 34:53
  And then the other ones would be doing the Liberty Square
• 34:57
  Riverboat, so Family Tree House and Tom Sawyer Island.
• 35:00
  So those are all kind of filler, depending again on what your
• 35:04
  preferences are and what your priorities are.
• 35:07
  And then the last ones that I'll mention, the Prince Charming,
• 35:10
  Regal Carousel and People Mover are not available on Genie Plus.
• 35:14
  The other one that is very difficult to navigate is
• 35:18
  Astroorbiter. It is not a Genie Plus.
• 35:22
  Ride it. Should be.
• 35:24
  It feels like it should be and the the weights for that are
• 35:30
  crazy for whatever reason. Because what it is, it's it's a
• 35:34
  very slow loading attraction because of the elevator system
• 35:38
  that they utilize. So if that's like top priority,
• 35:43
  you're going to have to sacrifice some other things and
• 35:45
  you're going to either have to do it like first at rope drop or
• 35:49
  do it last during fireworks or last at the end of the day.
• 35:54
  Yeah, only rope drop Astro Orbiter if it's like the thing
• 35:57
  your kid wants to do. Yes, that's it's not a great use
• 36:00
  of your time but if it's if it's we'll make your kids day or your
• 36:04
  day, right? Do it right.
• 36:07
  It's your certification. Yep.
• 36:09
  That was one of those that like we happened to catch at like a
• 36:12
  15 minute wait. And I was like, OK, we need to
• 36:15
  do it because I had never done it.
• 36:17
  I've only done it once in everything.
• 36:19
  I've only done it once in my life.
• 36:20
  I think we we were over in that area already.
• 36:22
  We're like, OK, we're just going to go do it so we can do it once
• 36:25
  and now we don't have to do it again.
• 36:28
  I learned by doing it that you cannot fit two adults in those
• 36:32
  without getting stuck. So maybe adult and a child will
• 36:38
  fit, but like a small child, but don't put two adults in it.
• 36:42
  And I we learned that the hard way.
• 36:44
  So yeah, don't do that. Keep that in mind.
• 36:47
  So that is a tricky 1 to navigate.
• 36:48
  So depending on where it falls on your list, you're just going
• 36:51
  to have to kind of fit it in where you can.
• 36:54
  Yeah, Colleen says that People Mover is one of her favorite
• 36:58
  breezes on a on a hot day in Disney World.
• 37:01
  I agree. I actually, Elliot and I
• 37:04
  realized we didn't go on people over this last trip at all.
• 37:07
  And I was like, how did we do that?
• 37:08
  It's like my favorite thing. But I agree, People Mover.
• 37:11
  It's a great way to just sit back and relax, get a little
• 37:14
  breeze. You know you can.
• 37:17
  If it's not busy sometimes you can ask the cast member if
• 37:21
  they'll let you go around again, but be kind.
• 37:24
  Say please. If they say I'm sorry you got to
• 37:27
  get off, just don't make a fuss and get off.
• 37:28
  But once. Sometimes they'll let you go
• 37:30
  around a second time. You know, if you need a little
• 37:32
  extra time sitting on the people mover, Yeah.
• 37:34
  And I will say if you're in really good shape with your plan
• 37:37
  for the day and you don't have very many big rides or anything
• 37:41
  left, riding people mover during the fireworks is really, really
• 37:44
  fun because there are certain views from there that you can
• 37:48
  just, you get the this gorgeous like panoramic view of the whole
• 37:52
  hub and all the people standing down there and the castle lit up
• 37:55
  in the fireworks. And so that's a really fun time
• 37:58
  to ride it. I mean, anytime of day is good
• 38:00
  to ride it because like you said, it's just, it's just a fun
• 38:02
  attraction. You get a bird's eye view of
• 38:04
  Tomorrowland and get to go inside some of the attractions.
• 38:07
  So it's a fun one for sure, and a nice one that you typically
• 38:12
  don't have to wait too long for, which is helpful.
• 38:15
  It's true. And you know that is nice a nice
• 38:18
  idea of kind of like multitasking some of those rides
• 38:22
  during fireworks. If you're like, if you are, you
• 38:25
  kind of want to see the fireworks, but you really mostly
• 38:27
  want to get through all the rides, then you can kind of do
• 38:29
  both by both with the Astro orbiter and with the people
• 38:32
  mover. But the people who are probably
• 38:33
  have a shorter line. So yes, yeah, because.
• 38:36
  And there are people that that use that trick.
• 38:39
  You know, there's quite a few people that will want to try to
• 38:41
  do Astro Orbiter, more so Astro overt Orbiter, like you said
• 38:44
  during the fireworks. But people do try to do that on
• 38:49
  people mover as well. So again, it just really depends
• 38:51
  on where you're at in your bliss for the day, how you're feeling.
• 38:55
  If you're just like, Nope, done, then go sit on that.
• 38:58
  People move here for a couple of rounds while the fireworks are
• 39:00
  going off and then yeah, you know, get off before the end of
• 39:03
  fireworks so that way you can hop in line for something.
• 39:06
  It's also good for introverted people or people who don't like
• 39:10
  a lot of crowds. You know, we have a couple
• 39:12
  places we recommended to watch fire fireworks from, but it can
• 39:16
  be a little intense in the Hub. There's a lot of people.
• 39:18
  So if you're like kind of crowd avoidant people, whoever, is a
• 39:22
  great move for that because you're for sure distance from
• 39:25
  everybody else. And I'll just say.
• 39:29
  Other places include over in Frontier Land, Bridge is a great
• 39:31
  one, or Over Behind the castle or by Gaston.
• 39:34
  So you're not going to get all the projections necessarily that
• 39:37
  you would see, but you will see the fireworks and you'll hear
• 39:40
  the music and stuff and so good places without crowds.
• 39:43
  Yeah. And I will mention, we talked a
• 39:45
  little bit about this on the Disneyland episode, but things
• 39:47
  like the people mover, the train, the places like that,
• 39:51
  that you're like sitting but still enjoying the attraction
• 39:53
  are also good ones to use. Like if you're in the midst of
• 39:56
  trying to click clack, which is a method that we learned from
• 39:59
  our friend Kirk at Walrus Carp, where you're just kind of
• 40:02
  refreshing and hopping back and forth between times on Genie.
• 40:04
  Plus trying to get something to be in a certain time frame.
• 40:07
  Doing something like that in the meantime can be really helpful,
• 40:11
  especially if you're traveling with kids, because then your
• 40:13
  kids aren't just, like, standing with you off to the side of the
• 40:16
  sidewalk in the middle of Magic Kingdom, and they're like.
• 40:19
  Mom, come on, we got to go. What are we doing?
• 40:22
  Let's go. So doing doing something like
• 40:24
  that can be really helpful for that people.
• 40:26
  Mover does have some dark parts that you go inside of buildings.
• 40:30
  So just like keep that in mind that you want to make sure your
• 40:32
  screen is not bothering anyone. But those types of rides are
• 40:36
  important. Or you know, for for for taking
• 40:39
  a break, but they are also helpful for that type of thing.
• 40:42
  Yeah, for sure. You know, that's definitely
• 40:44
  true. OK.
• 40:45
  So that for sure will take up your afternoon depending on how
• 40:49
  far you get down on that list, depending on which attractions
• 40:52
  you're pulling from that list. So mobile ordering for dinner,
• 40:55
  again, similar like what we talked about for lunch.
• 40:58
  Or if you're snacking, you know, that's all kind of the same.
• 41:00
  Again, do your best to mobile order ahead of time so that way
• 41:03
  you can save some time that way. And then really the only ride
• 41:07
  that is kind of a wild card, so to speak, on Genie Plus is Buzz
• 41:13
  Lightyear. And I don't know why it is, but
• 41:15
  it just really because here's the thing, you put Space
• 41:19
  Mountain on that list for Genie Plus early in the day.
• 41:23
  In my personal opinion, it doesn't make sense to do,
• 41:28
  they're in a similar vicinity. But it doesn't make sense for me
• 41:30
  to do Buzz then, because you're still so early in your park day
• 41:33
  that there's so many other things that you could do
• 41:35
  instead. Yeah, nothing against Buzz.
• 41:38
  It's a fun attraction, but it just doesn't make sense to put
• 41:41
  it first thing in the morning. So to me it makes sense to do it
• 41:44
  later in the day. So I would suggest doing that
• 41:47
  after dinner, after fireworks, kind of towards the end of your
• 41:50
  day, and you should have no problem being able to get a
• 41:53
  genie. Plus time that coming up very
• 41:55
  soon for that if you do it towards the end of the day.
• 41:58
  Yeah, Hope says do buzz later with carousel progress.
• 42:02
  Yeah, if the lines not. Horrifically long.
• 42:05
  That is a good strategy because you're in the same area and
• 42:08
  people who could bundle them all together in that same area and
• 42:12
  not have to do a lot of walking. So that is unfortunately one of
• 42:16
  the places in Magic Kingdom that you are going to end up
• 42:18
  backtracking because Space Mountain will be at a different
• 42:21
  time than kind of the rest of Tomorrowland.
• 42:23
  But that's just what makes the most sense with covering the
• 42:26
  most ground and getting the most attractions done as far as one
• 42:31
  day in Magic Kingdom, the other thing that you can do at the end
• 42:34
  of the day, you know, go through and make sure there's any other
• 42:37
  rides that you missed or second rides on anything you did stand
• 42:41
  by. So in the morning, if you get
• 42:43
  through four or five Fantasy Land attractions or four or five
• 42:47
  Frontier Land Adventure land attractions, if you do stand by
• 42:50
  for them, you can go back and book them on Genie Plus and get
• 42:54
  second rides on some of those. So that's something that we like
• 42:57
  to do as we try our best to do, stand by in the morning of
• 43:00
  those. That way, later in the day we
• 43:01
  can book a second ride on them, though utilizing that rope drop
• 43:04
  strategy to also maybe hit some of your favorite rides too.
• 43:08
  If you're torn about which direction to go, that may help
• 43:11
  sweat you one way or the other. If there's things that you're
• 43:13
  like, oh, if we have time, I'd really like to do that a second
• 43:15
  time using Genie Plus. Yeah, that's a good idea.
• 43:19
  Good strategy. OK.
• 43:21
  So that covers the majority. I was just with Genie Plus.
• 43:28
  Yep, Take a breath. So that is kind of a rundown of
• 43:34
  Genie Plus. And the other thing that I will
• 43:36
  mention is there, I mean, a lot of travel agents.
• 43:38
  And then you've got people like myself who we like building
• 43:41
  travel itineraries for people. So if you're using touring plans
• 43:44
  or not or if you need some extra help, you know, reaching out to
• 43:47
  people like that, I know, like I said, a lot of travel agents
• 43:50
  will do it. That is a service that I provide
• 43:52
  as well. So if you're like, I have no
• 43:54
  idea where to go when I work with people, I say, OK, send me
• 43:57
  your top six or seven in Magic Kingdom and I will.
• 44:01
  I'll fit them all in for you, and I'll make it all work for
• 44:03
  you, especially with Jeannie Plus.
• 44:05
  Jackie is brilliant at it, by the way.
• 44:07
  She's amazing. So yes, just saying, my little
• 44:12
  little plug for Jackie, that if you're feeling completely
• 44:15
  overwhelmed by all this and you're like, I can't, I just
• 44:18
  want to enjoy my vacation. I don't want to think about any
• 44:20
  of this, then contact Jackie. She knows what's up.
• 44:24
  And that's my favorite thing about what I do, is I get to
• 44:26
  give people the ability to not be glued to their phone because
• 44:30
  I do it for them. Not, yeah, doing this the whole
• 44:33
  time. That was a very good impression.
• 44:36
  That's exactly what I look like. We've all been there.
• 44:38
  Exactly, exactly, like ready to go.
• 44:41
  Gotta find it, all of that. And there are lots of other tips
• 44:44
  about how to set up your Genie Plus and how to set up your tip
• 44:47
  board and those types of things. And again, we did talk about
• 44:50
  that in our Genie Plus episode. So refer back to that if you've
• 44:54
  got questions about that, and if you don't find your answers in
• 44:56
  that episode, then please send us a message because we are
• 44:59
  happy to help and get you off on a better foot so you're not so
• 45:03
  lost going into your Magic Kingdom day.
• 45:06
  Yeah, Kathy says she could attest to your amazingness.
• 45:10
  She says she's a miracle worker. Gave us the best days at Disney,
• 45:13
  so thanks Kathy for that feedback.
• 45:15
  Thank you. Feel like you needed to hear
• 45:18
  that? All righty.
• 45:19
  So we went to that. So we have we had Magic Kingdom
• 45:23
  without with GD Plus. So now we're going to like if I
• 45:26
  we don't want to buy Genie Plus. It's not in the budget we don't
• 45:29
  like. What do we do?
• 45:30
  How do we approach this help, what do we do.
• 45:33
  Jackie, Okay, good news is you still have the ability to ride
• 45:39
  Tron, if that's something that's important to you because like we
• 45:41
  mentioned earlier, that virtual queue is something that is
• 45:45
  available to everyone regardless of Genie Plus.
• 45:48
  The other thing that I will mention is maybe you don't want
• 45:51
  to do Genie Plus, but you know you want to do Tron twice.
• 45:55
  You can buy an individual Lightning lane without
• 45:58
  purchasing Genie Plus. So if you're like okay, my
• 46:02
  budget is this Tron is my top, top, top, top priority, then I
• 46:09
  want to take my $20 instead of putting it towards Genie Plus, I
• 46:12
  just want to put it towards Tron.
• 46:13
  That is an option that you have. Same thing for Seven Dwarves.
• 46:16
  If that's a top priority for you and you want to spend your money
• 46:18
  on that, that's an option as well.
• 46:21
  But that virtual queue for Tron is free and available same
• 46:25
  process that we just talked about earlier.
• 46:27
  So that's station of 1 device. So that is an option that you do
• 46:31
  still have regardless of if you're using Genie Plus or
• 46:35
  lightning lanes or individual lightning lanes or all of that
• 46:38
  type of thing. The other thing I will mention
• 46:39
  that I don't think I mentioned earlier is the return window for
• 46:44
  Tron is very strict, so you really want to pay attention as
• 46:51
  soon as it kicks on and tells you so, right?
• 46:53
  When you book Tron, it's not going to give you an estimated
• 46:56
  return time because it's. It's it fluctuates too much and
• 46:59
  they took that off of the app because it was never right.
• 47:02
  So once the park gets closer to open, then it's going to give
• 47:06
  you a more realistic time frame and you're going to be able to
• 47:08
  tell if you are within the first twenty groups.
• 47:14
  You're barely going to be able to get one or two rides in
• 47:17
  before you're going to have to head to Tron.
• 47:20
  Yeah, if you are 30 to 50, you're looking around lunchtime
• 47:26
  generally speaking, but that could change if the ride goes
• 47:30
  down, you know, all sorts of things.
• 47:32
  Weather, Tron typically doesn't close in the weather, but you
• 47:35
  know, you never know what may happen.
• 47:37
  So just keep that in mind as well in your plans, because if
• 47:41
  you get a super early boarding group for Tron, maybe it makes
• 47:44
  sense to stay in fantasy land and not go over to adventure
• 47:48
  land because logistically where you're going to be.
• 47:51
  So keep that in mind as well. Your rope drop plan is going to
• 47:55
  really be the same as what we talked about earlier.
• 47:57
  If you've got early entry, you're going to rope drop
• 47:58
  fantasy land and hit those rides as many as you can, as quick as
• 48:01
  you can. If you've got regular park
• 48:03
  entry, you're going to do the frontier land and adventure land
• 48:05
  side. So that aspect pretty much stays
• 48:08
  the same because you're doing standby either way regardless of
• 48:13
  if you're using Genie Plus for the majority of that.
• 48:16
  I it's it's feel like just just do Fantasyland.
• 48:20
  Like if you if you take nothing else away from this series just
• 48:24
  go to Fantasyland first. We thank you we have glore you.
• 48:29
  Yes, Fantasyland, yes. So again Fantasyland would be
• 48:34
  something like Peter Pan or 7 Dwarfs to start who bear under
• 48:37
  the sea, small world, those types of things.
• 48:40
  If you're doing Adventure Land, Jungle Cruise, Big Thunder,
• 48:43
  Mountain pirates, Haunted Mansion, that kind of area.
• 48:45
  So those are kind of your two. And again, depending on crowds,
• 48:49
  if you're able to then flip flop and go to the opposite location
• 48:52
  from that, get as much done as you can, That is really your
• 48:55
  your best strategy, especially when you're not using Genie plus
• 48:59
  getting there early and rushing through rides as much as you
• 49:03
  can. In between rides, enjoy the ride
• 49:05
  while you're on them, but you got to walk with purpose and
• 49:07
  know exactly where you're going next.
• 49:09
  You cannot waste any time getting off a ride and going.
• 49:13
  I wonder where we should go next.
• 49:15
  No, you got to have. Don't.
• 49:16
  Do that. Don't do that.
• 49:19
  No. Like like as soon as I get in
• 49:21
  line, if we have any downtime in line at all, I'm figuring out
• 49:24
  where we're going next. I'm like if I have touring plans
• 49:27
  I'm I'm opt reoptimizing my like you know like.
• 49:30
  Touring. Plan to see where they're
• 49:32
  sending me next time. Like just know where you're
• 49:34
  going so you don't waste your whole day.
• 49:38
  That's what we want for you. It's to not waste your time,
• 49:41
  exactly. Try to figure out where to go
• 49:43
  because it's a bummer and I will also mention though.
• 49:46
  However, if you do rope drop adventure land and then try to
• 49:49
  swing around to do Fantasyland, most likely Peter Pan and Seven
• 49:53
  Dwarves are going to be off the table.
• 49:55
  You may get lucky, but most of the time they're going to be off
• 49:58
  the table. My advice for that would be to
• 50:01
  ride them during fireworks or at the very end of the night,
• 50:05
  because that's going to be your best chance at the lines being
• 50:08
  not quite so long and not having the lightning lane slow down the
• 50:13
  standby queue. They're always going to give
• 50:15
  those priorities. So if you're going in the middle
• 50:17
  of the afternoon, you're going to have hundreds of people using
• 50:21
  that lightning lane that is going to make that standby line
• 50:23
  slow down quite a bit. So using it during times where
• 50:27
  people are off doing other things, like during fireworks or
• 50:29
  when just the park is generally empty or you just you're out of
• 50:32
  time, there's no more lightning lanes available for to come
• 50:37
  after you, you know those are going to be your best bets for
• 50:39
  those if you if those are like top priority on your list.
• 50:44
  Now, Yep, I agree. And then lunch and snacks, same
• 50:48
  thing. So we kind of hit eventually in
• 50:50
  Fantasyland as much as you possibly can until lunchtime,
• 50:54
  same as what we talked about before, mobile ordering or doing
• 50:57
  snacks, if that's kind of more of what you're looking to do.
• 51:01
  And then really the afternoon list looks and sounds very
• 51:05
  similar to what we talked about before because again, these
• 51:08
  rides tend to have lower weights and you're going to be able to
• 51:13
  get on them fairly quickly. And there's some of them are
• 51:15
  within close proximity of each other, so things like
• 51:18
  Barnstormer and Dumbo and Mad Tea Party.
• 51:21
  So that kind of little area you should be able to get on most of
• 51:24
  those with 20 minutes or less. When it comes to that magic
• 51:29
  carpets of Aladdin, that one can be hit or miss depending on
• 51:33
  what's happening with like Jungle Cruise and Tiki Room kind
• 51:36
  of in that area. So you may want to if you can
• 51:41
  just walk on that after you do Jungle Cruise.
• 51:42
  That's not a bad one to just throw in in the morning if you
• 51:45
  know that you can walk right on it, get right on it, and get it
• 51:48
  done. But again, magic Carpets and
• 51:50
  Dumbo are essentially almost identical in the way that the
• 51:54
  rides operate, so maybe you don't need to do both whenever
• 51:57
  you go on your one day trip to Magic Kingdom.
• 51:59
  So plan accordingly. I guess it depends on if you
• 52:02
  want the camel to spit on you on the the carpets or if you want
• 52:06
  to. Just stand in the walkway.
• 52:08
  Yeah, exactly. Feel her magic is usually not an
• 52:11
  issue at all. Laugh floor.
• 52:13
  Be very, very cautious getting in that line because it it can
• 52:18
  be very, very long. If that line is outside, do not
• 52:23
  do it. Just don't do it.
• 52:26
  Just don't do it if you're even if you're just inside the the
• 52:29
  building, you're in a much better place than you would be.
• 52:31
  If you're outside in that the queue that's outside, just just
• 52:34
  don't do it. And then Tomorrowland Speedway,
• 52:37
  which that one again can fluctuate as well.
• 52:38
  So just kind of keep an eye on it throughout the app or use
• 52:41
  your touring plans optimization if that's something you're going
• 52:44
  to be utilizing. And then the railroad again, you
• 52:47
  just have to wait for the train to come around.
• 52:49
  So it's never usually too long of a wait for that.
• 52:52
  And then again, character meet and greets or shows, depending
• 52:54
  on what your priorities are with that dinner.
• 52:58
  Again, I sound like a broken record.
• 53:00
  Same thing as before, Mobile order, snacks, those types of
• 53:03
  things. And then after dinner will
• 53:05
  highly depend on what you're able to accomplish during the
• 53:08
  morning. During the fireworks is a
• 53:10
  really, really, really good time to prioritize the rides you
• 53:15
  missed in the morning and go there.
• 53:18
  Even getting in line 1/2 hour before fireworks start, you will
• 53:22
  start to see those lines decrease.
• 53:25
  People aren't using their lightning lanes during fireworks
• 53:27
  time because they're camped out in the hub waiting for those
• 53:29
  fireworks to start. People aren't getting in line
• 53:32
  because they're camped out in the hub.
• 53:33
  So depending on what time the fireworks are, about 1/2 hour
• 53:37
  before fireworks start, start to think about, OK, you know,
• 53:40
  Haunted Mansion is my one priority during fireworks.
• 53:42
  Cool, go do that. Or Big Thunder Mountain or what,
• 53:45
  whatever it may be if you missed it in the morning that's the
• 53:48
  best time to circle back to that And then after fireworks again
• 53:52
  kind of that tomorrow and things like buzz light year for
• 53:55
  whatever reason. It just that's just where it
• 53:56
  fits the best when it comes to that.
• 54:00
  And then also again like I mentioned, if you did not rope
• 54:03
  drop Peter Pan or 7 doors if you didn't get both of those done
• 54:06
  riding during fireworks. Or it's a lot to say and it's
• 54:08
  also a lot to do. And I found, you know,
• 54:12
  especially if you're traveling with children, which we're.
• 54:15
  You know we are mom St. we're we won't talk a lot about traveling
• 54:18
  with kiddos and you might not want to do it all.
• 54:22
  You know like maybe you do maybe you're like you're like we want
• 54:25
  to run around and get to everything and especially if you
• 54:27
  have older kids this might be something like they really want
• 54:29
  to do you know but it don't push yourself to get to everything
• 54:35
  because that's not going to make your day more enjoyable.
• 54:38
  You can. You can just prioritize the
• 54:40
  things that you you really want to do.
• 54:43
  And then enjoy it, you know, enjoy it.
• 54:45
  The take breaks. See a cavalcade that walks by
• 54:50
  and not, you know, feel like, Oh no, we got to get to the next
• 54:52
  thing, you know like, because it's the reality is you probably
• 54:55
  aren't going to get to everything on there, especially
• 54:57
  without Genie. Plus it's just like it's so
• 55:01
  hard, especially if it's busy. So you know, don't push yourself
• 55:05
  to I have to see it all in order to have experienced magic came
• 55:08
  down because that's just not true.
• 55:10
  You just right. You can do like you could have a
• 55:13
  really wonderful day and only go on like 3 rides and I'm a ride
• 55:16
  person. OK.
• 55:17
  But and then you can there's lots of other things you can do
• 55:20
  to enjoy your day there so right you know so take we we want to
• 55:24
  give you a strategy to get on as much as possible but also
• 55:27
  recognize that you don't have to to have a great yes absolutely.
• 55:31
  And this is again, like we said at the beginning, it is not the
• 55:34
  end all be all list. Pick off of this list and go,
• 55:37
  Yep, I want that one and that one and that one and build your
• 55:40
  own itinerary based off of that. This is just like, hey, if you
• 55:44
  want to bust out everything that you possibly can, this is the
• 55:47
  best way to get through literally every ride and
• 55:51
  attraction in the park that we possibly can squeeze into one
• 55:54
  day. Some of that is also going to
• 55:56
  depend on the park hours. We talked a little bit about
• 55:58
  this with the Disneyland episode.
• 56:00
  There has been significantly less hours that Magic Kingdom
• 56:05
  has been open, so you definitely want to take that into
• 56:08
  consideration as well. If you're someone that's
• 56:09
  fortunate enough to get the park open until 11 or midnight,
• 56:13
  you're going to be great. You're going to be able to get
• 56:15
  through everything on your list. I'm almost positive if you take
• 56:20
  our advice, but if you know if you're someone who is going in
• 56:27
  the park is closing at 10:00 PM, it's a lot harder to get through
• 56:31
  everything because that of when the fireworks fall with park
• 56:35
  close and all of that type of thing.
• 56:36
  So there's a lot of variables when it comes to your Magic
• 56:40
  Kingdom days. Yeah, and be cognizant too of
• 56:43
  those. Extended hours are really great,
• 56:46
  but there's going to have to be a tradeoff on the other side.
• 56:49
  Usually on the, especially if you're traveling with children
• 56:52
  like you cannot be out, just just.
• 56:54
  If the parks open till 11, you're not even getting out of
• 56:57
  there until you know 11:30 once you get, if that, on a
• 57:00
  conservative 1130. And then you still have to do
• 57:03
  transportation to get back to wherever you're staying.
• 57:07
  And it's you're not going to get back there till like, you know,
• 57:10
  one AM 1:30 at sometimes. So you're not going to be able
• 57:14
  to wake up at like 5:30 in the morning the next day to start
• 57:17
  getting ready for rope dropping the next thing.
• 57:19
  So there will have to be a trade off there.
• 57:22
  If you have those late night hours, you're probably going to
• 57:25
  need to sleep in a little bit more the next day.
• 57:28
  So just keep that in mind or do it right before a rest day when
• 57:32
  you know you're going to get to have a day off anyway.
• 57:35
  That would be a really great strategy for that.
• 57:36
  If you're going to do a late night, then accordingly because
• 57:39
  the rest is super super important if you want to be able
• 57:43
  to enjoy the rest of your vacation.
• 57:47
  Yeah, and you will burnout if you're not careful.
• 57:49
  It's so easy at Disney World, especially Disneyland too, but
• 57:53
  Disney World especially because it's that marathon pace.
• 57:56
  And if you don't pace yourself, if you don't take breaks, if you
• 57:59
  don't get enough sleep, it will catch up to you at this is, this
• 58:02
  is voice of experience here. I'm almost always completely
• 58:06
  burnout by the end of my trip where I can like, barely, I'm
• 58:09
  like not coherent. But when I travel with my kids,
• 58:12
  I'm more cognizant of it because they need sleep.
• 58:15
  And as a mom, I'm like I. I don't take care of myself, but
• 58:17
  I'm going to take care of my kids, right?
• 58:19
  Like, horrible, horrible mom truth in there.
• 58:22
  So but yeah, making sure that you build, you build your
• 58:25
  schedule. Like sometimes if I'm doing
• 58:28
  solo, I'll build it. So like maybe I'm going to Epcot
• 58:30
  the next day where it opens a little later and I get an extra
• 58:33
  hour of sleep. And sometimes that helps a lot
• 58:35
  to offset it. But yeah, take care of yourself
• 58:38
  and don't feel like you need to do rope drop to fireworks every
• 58:42
  single night of your trip. Yeah, and planning to have a
• 58:45
  rest day or 1/2 of a rest day or whatever it may be is is really,
• 58:50
  really important with with your littles.
• 58:52
  I mean, my oldest really doesn't nap typically anymore.
• 58:56
  He's out of that phase. But when we go to Disney, he
• 59:00
  naps, I know, but he naps because we're just it's so much.
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  But then like giving him that time to rest and lay down in the
• 59:11
  cool dark room even if he doesn't sleep, is so important.
• 59:15
  And it made it so like my kids lasted until almost 11:00 PM and
• 59:19
  we're happy as a clam at Mickey's.
• 59:21
  Not so scary when we went in October, you know, because we
• 59:24
  had prioritized that rest in the day of we had slept in and you
• 59:27
  know, done all of those things. And it gave us such a good
• 59:30
  experience at that party, which is like something that they
• 59:34
  still talk about being tired and trying to navigate Jeannie.
• 59:38
  Plus and these park days is it's a lot for anybody who's wide
• 59:44
  awake and ready to go. So doing it on a sleepy brain is
• 59:47
  not helpful either. Right, Hope says.
• 59:51
  I just saw a study that laying down and resting, even without
• 59:54
  napping, still gives you almost the same energy.
• 59:56
  That's really interesting and valuable.
• 59:59
  Yeah, so even if you're just, you know, you just just putting
• 1:00:03
  your feet up, yeah, get out of this.
• 1:00:05
  Get out of the heat in the crowds and put your feet up and
• 1:00:06
  rest. That's always, a always a good
• 1:00:08
  strategy. So with that being said.
• 1:00:11
  Shall we move on to Epcot, which I think is simpler than Magic
• 1:00:14
  Kingdom in some ways. So this shouldn't be quite as
• 1:00:17
  extensive in this, which is intentional on our behalf.
• 1:00:21
  We wanted to pair one that was a little more complicated with one
• 1:00:23
  that's maybe not as much so. So Jackie, what you got for us
• 1:00:29
  for Epcot? All right.
• 1:00:30
  So with Epcot. It is still important to be
• 1:00:33
  there early, don't get me wrong, but it is not as imperative as
• 1:00:37
  Magic Kingdom to be like up in the front ready to go super
• 1:00:41
  duper early. You still want to get there half
• 1:00:43
  hour to 45 minutes ahead of time just to give yourself time to go
• 1:00:46
  through security and get through and be able to tap in and and
• 1:00:49
  get yourself all situated and know where you want to go at
• 1:00:53
  this park. It is important to note that
• 1:00:55
  rope drop happens at 2 locations.
• 1:00:58
  So depending on how you're entering the park will impact
• 1:01:02
  your rope drop strategy. If you're entering at the front
• 1:01:06
  of the park, or if you're entering at what is known as
• 1:01:09
  International Gateway, which is around in World Showcase between
• 1:01:14
  the UK and France pavilions, there is that location as well.
• 1:01:18
  So if you are someone that is on a Skyliner Resort or you are at
• 1:01:21
  an Epcot Boardwalk Area Resort Beach Club Yaka.
• 1:01:25
  Boardwalk, Swan and Dolphin, you can walk from your resort or if
• 1:01:28
  you're taking the Skyliner, you are going to end up at
• 1:01:31
  International Gateway. So keep that in mind.
• 1:01:34
  If you're taking a bus or you're driving or Uber or Lyft or any
• 1:01:39
  of that type of transportation, you're going to enter at the
• 1:01:42
  front of the park. So two different locations and
• 1:01:45
  that will determine kind of what I suggest as far as strategy
• 1:01:49
  goes with that. So I'll get to that in a minute.
• 1:01:52
  I just want to. Preface with that so that way
• 1:01:54
  when I get there, everyone's not like, wait, what's going on?
• 1:01:56
  So you have a quick question, hopes asking if you come from
• 1:02:02
  like Grand Flirty and Monorail to TTC Transportation Ticket
• 1:02:06
  Center and then Epcot, do you still already do you have to do
• 1:02:09
  security again? I'm pretty sure you don't.
• 1:02:11
  I think you're passing at that point.
• 1:02:13
  So you only do it once, yeah? Yes, if you're taking the the
• 1:02:17
  Monorail, that's the only way that you will.
• 1:02:20
  I don't even say bypass. You're not bypassing security.
• 1:02:22
  You've already gone through security.
• 1:02:24
  You don't have to. Yes, you don't have to do it
• 1:02:26
  again when you get to the parks. Your entrance off of the Epcot
• 1:02:31
  monorail is inside of security when you get to Epcot, yes,
• 1:02:35
  that's not the case for the Skyliner or buses or any of
• 1:02:38
  that. That's just for Monorail, yes.
• 1:02:42
  Thank you, Jackie. Yes, no problem, Okay.
• 1:02:45
  So let's talk about Genie Plus. And what that means for Epcot,
• 1:02:51
  the first thing that I want to want to mention is again about a
• 1:02:54
  virtual cue. Cosmic Rewind guards the Galaxy.
• 1:02:56
  Cosmic Rewind is the other virtual cue that exists at Walt
• 1:02:59
  Disney World right now. So it has a virtual cue and
• 1:03:02
  individual lightning lane option just like Tron did.
• 1:03:05
  However, I will say the times for Cosmic Rewind are much more
• 1:03:08
  flexible than Tron. From what we've seen that could
• 1:03:11
  change. We don't know that that is going
• 1:03:14
  to continue on going forward. So I will.
• 1:03:17
  Heed my warning about that. If that's one of your top picks,
• 1:03:19
  I wouldn't chance it just in case.
• 1:03:22
  I mean, I've had people when I went in May, I booked a 7:00 AM
• 1:03:25
  virtual queue for Cosmic, got like group 25 and didn't ride it
• 1:03:30
  until 7:00 PM and had no issue. But again, yeah, we don't know.
• 1:03:36
  You never know. So just I will, I will mention
• 1:03:39
  that. But I will also caution you that
• 1:03:41
  again if that is like your top priority ride.
• 1:03:45
  Go as soon as it's called because you don't want to miss
• 1:03:47
  that. Don't risk it for sure.
• 1:03:50
  And then it does have an individual lightning lane.
• 1:03:52
  However, with this one, the individual lightning lane
• 1:03:54
  timeframes are not not as important because it doesn't go
• 1:03:59
  outside or in the dark, Electron does.
• 1:04:01
  Cosmic rewind is not as difficult to get the virtual cue
• 1:04:06
  as Tron is. So you still want still do all
• 1:04:10
  the things, especially if you've never been on it before.
• 1:04:12
  You know, do the 7:00 AM do be, be on your on the ball, get it
• 1:04:16
  so that you don't have to stress about it.
• 1:04:18
  But it is much easier to get the second return time in the day as
• 1:04:22
  long as you're tapped into the park.
• 1:04:24
  Like I have never had a hard time getting that as long as I'm
• 1:04:27
  paying attention to the time. Sometimes it's even open a
• 1:04:31
  couple minutes after, but don't depend on that.
• 1:04:32
  Just it's just not as stressful. In really low crowds, it'll be
• 1:04:37
  open until 4:00 PM some days, which is just crazy.
• 1:04:40
  I mean, Tron was that way for a bit during some of the slower
• 1:04:43
  weeks earlier this year too. So it was like one of those
• 1:04:46
  moments where we're like, whoa, that's crazy.
• 1:04:48
  So, you know, it all just depends on, again, crowds and
• 1:04:51
  and those types of things. So for this one I would suggest
• 1:04:54
  when you're booking in the morning, having two devices, one
• 1:04:57
  to be devoted to the virtual queue and the other to be
• 1:05:00
  devoted to getting your first Lightning lane.
• 1:05:03
  And same thing now Cosmic Rewind is your only individual
• 1:05:07
  lightning lane option. If you get the virtual queue,
• 1:05:10
  you may decide to opt out of doing an individual lightning
• 1:05:13
  lane. Do keep in mind that same thing
• 1:05:16
  applies as what we talked about with Tron.
• 1:05:17
  Even if you got the virtual queue, that is still going to
• 1:05:21
  take you possibly upwards of an hour total, because sometimes
• 1:05:25
  that virtual queue line is 4045 minutes to an hour and then it's
• 1:05:29
  got. 2 preshows and another cue you have, you know, there.
• 1:05:33
  It's just it's an extensive process to go on that
• 1:05:35
  attraction. Yeah, great attraction, but it's
• 1:05:38
  just an extensive process to go. So if you're like Nope, I know
• 1:05:41
  I'm not going to have time to spend an hour to an hour and a
• 1:05:44
  half on Cosmic, then do the individual lightning lane.
• 1:05:46
  That's your best way to get in, get you know you're not going to
• 1:05:50
  miss anything by doing it. You're just going to have a
• 1:05:53
  quicker cue, a quicker, you know, shorter wait time to get
• 1:05:56
  to those preshow rooms that you have there.
• 1:05:59
  Yes, Yep, I agree. I have waited 45 minutes to an
• 1:06:04
  hour with the pre shows with everything for that.
• 1:06:07
  So it is you're not saving time with the virtual queue.
• 1:06:11
  I think I travel with somebody recently maybe it was my
• 1:06:14
  husband, he was just like we already waited for this.
• 1:06:17
  How can we have to wait again? I was like it's like the standby
• 1:06:21
  line because there is no standby line, so.
• 1:06:25
  We just had to wait for our turn to get in the standby line.
• 1:06:29
  I understand, I understand the logic, but yeah.
• 1:06:32
  So 7:00 AM, when you're booking, you're going to book your
• 1:06:35
  virtual queue. If that's something you want to
• 1:06:37
  do, you're going to book an individual lightning lane.
• 1:06:39
  If that's something you want to do, your first ride is going to
• 1:06:44
  depend on your rope drop location.
• 1:06:46
  So I mentioned that earlier. If you are rope dropping the
• 1:06:49
  front of the park, so you have come in on the monorail, the
• 1:06:52
  buses, a car of any type. You're going to be at the front
• 1:06:57
  of the park. Your best bet is to rope drop
• 1:06:59
  frozen ever after. So you're going to go into the
• 1:07:03
  park and then head to the left once you get to World Showcase.
• 1:07:07
  If you are someone who's coming in International Gateway again,
• 1:07:11
  those resorts we talked about earlier, you are going to want a
• 1:07:14
  rope drop, Remy. It's significantly closer to you
• 1:07:17
  and it just makes a whole lot more sense.
• 1:07:19
  So you're not crossing paths with people who are rope
• 1:07:22
  dropping the opposite and making your wait time go up because of
• 1:07:25
  that. So that's my suggestion as far
• 1:07:28
  as that goes. Your first lightning lane that
• 1:07:30
  you book is going to be the opposite.
• 1:07:32
  So if you're a rope dropping Remy, you're going to book
• 1:07:34
  frozen for your first return time, your rope dropping frozen,
• 1:07:38
  you're going to book Remy for your first return time.
• 1:07:40
  So that's kind of the first thing you're going to have to
• 1:07:43
  figure out is where are we entering the park and what rides
• 1:07:47
  do I need to book when because of that.
• 1:07:50
  So that's kind of your first thing and then after that.
• 1:07:54
  The next two rides that I would book would be Test Track and
• 1:07:57
  Soren. This park has less rides than
• 1:08:00
  Magic Kingdom, so using some of the methods we talked about in
• 1:08:04
  our Genie Plus episodes with click clacking and refreshing
• 1:08:07
  and all of that type of thing on the app can really be to your
• 1:08:10
  benefit. Because in my opinion the rides
• 1:08:12
  are easier to kind of manipulate that way.
• 1:08:15
  So if you booked Remy because your rope dropping frozen but
• 1:08:19
  your Remy time isn't until like 11:00 AM.
• 1:08:22
  As soon as you book it, hop back on and start trying to modify it
• 1:08:25
  and chances are really good that you're going to get an earlier
• 1:08:27
  time. So use that to your advantage
• 1:08:29
  because I feel like the times circulate a lot more often
• 1:08:32
  because of that. Just from my experience.
• 1:08:36
  OK, where we at? Yes.
• 1:08:37
  So that will get you through the morning.
• 1:08:39
  So pretty much OK, Frozen, Remy test track Soren.
• 1:08:44
  And then depending on your virtual queue time, I always
• 1:08:46
  suggest trying to piggyback. Cosmic, when you are in the test
• 1:08:50
  track area because they're right next to each other that way,
• 1:08:53
  that area you're kind of you're done with those two, two of the
• 1:08:57
  three on that side of the park. So that will take up the
• 1:09:00
  majority of your morning food options at Epcot.
• 1:09:05
  There are so many options. It's really hard to take your
• 1:09:09
  favorite. Yeah, literally.
• 1:09:11
  It's really hard to like when people ask me, well, what should
• 1:09:13
  I eat at Epcot? Oh gosh, where do I start?
• 1:09:17
  So look at the if there's a festival going on, look at the
• 1:09:20
  festival booths. Quick services are going to be
• 1:09:23
  your fastest options to save time for attractions if that's
• 1:09:26
  what you're focused on. Again, utilizing mobile order,
• 1:09:29
  those types of things are all really beneficial.
• 1:09:33
  We do have snack guides that I did just want to mention on our
• 1:09:36
  Instagram page. So if you go to our Instagram
• 1:09:38
  page, the little highlight. Little circle bubbles underneath
• 1:09:42
  kind of our bio there is one that says eats and if you go on
• 1:09:45
  there, we have full snack guides for all six United States Parks
• 1:09:50
  that all exist on there. If you're looking for
• 1:09:53
  recommendations in Epcot, that would be your place to find them
• 1:09:56
  because TikTok ate our episode on Epcot snacks and we never got
• 1:10:00
  back. So I went to go reference it in
• 1:10:04
  my notes because I was like, Oh yeah, I'll put in what episode
• 1:10:07
  number it was. Yeah, yeah, it's just.
• 1:10:12
  Sad day anyway. OK, it's fun, yes, but it does
• 1:10:16
  live in that highlight reel on our Instagram page, right, for
• 1:10:20
  that. So you can find it there if you
• 1:10:23
  are in need of some guidance. And those I will mention those
• 1:10:26
  snacks that we put on there are non festival snacks.
• 1:10:29
  So it's stuff that's there year round.
• 1:10:32
  I have cotton so. And if you're looking for, if
• 1:10:36
  you're looking for just like a again like an air conditioned
• 1:10:39
  place to sit down and eat which there's there's you know it can
• 1:10:42
  be hot walking around the world and there's not a lot of places
• 1:10:45
  to sit there. You know I I feel like for
• 1:10:48
  families Sunshine Seasons is like a surprisingly good option
• 1:10:53
  and it's inside the land pavilion.
• 1:10:54
  So if you're hitting up, I agree.
• 1:10:56
  So we're in or living with the land or anything like that.
• 1:10:58
  That's a great place for families.
• 1:11:01
  Also great place to fill up your water bottle too for free with
• 1:11:03
  free ice water so. Yeah.
• 1:11:05
  And I will say, I kind of kept that in mind because the way
• 1:11:09
  that I typically do, my morning Soren is usually one of the last
• 1:11:12
  ones I do before our lunch break and we do typically eat inside
• 1:11:15
  of there. It's wonderful for families.
• 1:11:17
  It's a place we always tend to seek out when we have kids and
• 1:11:20
  we need to sit down in the A/C somewhere besides the other one
• 1:11:25
  would be. Connections Cafe.
• 1:11:27
  I was like it's always A/C words and I always get them confused.
• 1:11:31
  Could against got the connections where you know like
• 1:11:34
  Starbucks is in there and whatnot too but there's there's
• 1:11:37
  the whole eatery cafeteria kind of style.
• 1:11:40
  It's a gets a little bit more airplane, airport vibes in
• 1:11:43
  there, but it is in the A/C and there is a fair amount of
• 1:11:47
  seating, so. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 1:11:50
  So those were be my two suggestions for that as well.
• 1:11:52
  So all of that information will hopefully yay.
• 1:11:56
  Are we surprised? No, no will hopefully guide you
• 1:11:59
  towards some good options for food.
• 1:12:02
  And again, we're going to be a broken record.
• 1:12:04
  Same thing when it comes to dinners, you're going to want to
• 1:12:06
  look at those same types of options.
• 1:12:08
  OK, So your other Genie plus attractions at Epcot, again,
• 1:12:12
  some of these will need Genie plus, others will not.
• 1:12:15
  I would. Highly, highly suggest booking
• 1:12:18
  these based on the proximity in the parks and available return
• 1:12:22
  times. Epcot is is one that even I get
• 1:12:27
  caught backtracking a lot and going cross park.
• 1:12:30
  It's really easy to do because of just the way that everything
• 1:12:34
  is situated, especially with all of the construction walls and
• 1:12:37
  things that are still up right now.
• 1:12:39
  So things like figment, living with the land.
• 1:12:45
  You know, even the if you if you feel the need to use a Genie
• 1:12:48
  Plus reservation on the Pixar Short Film Festival, you
• 1:12:51
  probably don't need it. But if you feel the need to, you
• 1:12:55
  know to each their own. The Seas with Nemo and Friends
• 1:13:00
  and Turtle Talk are both in that same building over at the Seas
• 1:13:03
  Mission space and Spaceship Earth.
• 1:13:05
  So that is kind of your comprehensive list of what is
• 1:13:08
  available when it comes to Genie Plus and again all of those.
• 1:13:13
  Of those, I would say mission Space, Spaceship Earth are
• 1:13:18
  probably your top two that are going to be later when you try
• 1:13:23
  to go to book return times. But things like living with the
• 1:13:28
  land, those are going to be fairly recent, early, soon when
• 1:13:31
  it comes to your return times for the majority of the day.
• 1:13:36
  And then the thing about Epcot, that will.
• 1:13:39
  Will take your time so to speak is there are a ton of non genie
• 1:13:44
  plus attractions, shows, entertainment, things that you
• 1:13:47
  can experience while you're there.
• 1:13:49
  So shows each country has performers specific to that
• 1:13:52
  country. So check your app if you're like
• 1:13:54
  wanting to take in some of those kind of performances.
• 1:13:58
  We have seen a lot of those start to come back over the last
• 1:14:01
  several months, which is really exciting to have.
• 1:14:03
  A lot of those performances really in World Showcase St.,
• 1:14:06
  really, really nice. Yeah, and then there are some
• 1:14:09
  indoor shows and videos. If you choose The American
• 1:14:15
  Adventure, The Beauty and the Beast, Sing Along, Canada, Far
• 1:14:17
  and Wide Reflections of China, those types of ones are more
• 1:14:20
  indoor theater type attractions. Again, if you're walking around
• 1:14:25
  the World Showcase and you're like, I got to get out of the
• 1:14:28
  heat, duck into one of those, give yourself an A/C break, plan
• 1:14:32
  your next steps, and then you know when it's over, you can
• 1:14:35
  head back out. A couple other things that I
• 1:14:38
  will mention. Oh, I didn't mention the there
• 1:14:40
  is one attraction that is non Genie Plus for Epcot and that is
• 1:14:44
  the three cabbie arrows. Does not have a Genie Plus
• 1:14:46
  option. Doesn't need typically.
• 1:14:48
  Right, typically not a long wait.
• 1:14:50
  Occasionally it'll get up to be like 30 minutes only.
• 1:14:54
  Like really busy days. Like, yeah, really.
• 1:14:56
  Yeah, like. You're looking you're looking
• 1:14:58
  for 10 or less when it comes to 3 cabbie arrows, and most of
• 1:15:01
  your times going back and forth in that queue is.
• 1:15:04
  When they open up the whole thing and you're like, like, I
• 1:15:07
  know just just keep the bot the middle.
• 1:15:09
  If they take the middle ropes off that, it doesn't take nearly
• 1:15:12
  as long. But if they keep them all, like
• 1:15:13
  together, then you're like back and forth.
• 1:15:15
  It was so much worse when they had the plexiglass up during the
• 1:15:19
  piny knee. Terrible.
• 1:15:21
  I got so glaustrophobic. I was like, I don't want to go
• 1:15:24
  on this ride. It's not white.
• 1:15:25
  I love that ride. There are tons of characters at
• 1:15:28
  Epcot to. Just to name a few.
• 1:15:31
  I mean you can do on an Elsa, Alice, Aurora Bell, Daisy and
• 1:15:34
  Donald, Goofy, Joy, Mary Poppins, Mickey and Minnie,
• 1:15:37
  Mulan, Jasmine, Snow White, Penelope, Pooh Bear.
• 1:15:40
  There's all sorts of characters. None of them utilize Jeanie Plus
• 1:15:43
  so. Again, keep that in mind time
• 1:15:46
  and accordingly if there's characters that you really,
• 1:15:48
  really want to see. The other thing I will mention
• 1:15:50
  that's not on the app is the walkway between the entrance at
• 1:15:54
  International Gateway and then you get like up the hill to the
• 1:15:57
  walkway where you decide if you want to go towards the UK or
• 1:15:59
  France. They have been doing character
• 1:16:03
  trainings there, so you will see a lot.
• 1:16:05
  Yep, you will see a lot of characters there that they're
• 1:16:08
  doing character training with. The other place is.
• 1:16:12
  Next to Regal Eagle, there's like this little alleyway that
• 1:16:18
  you can find characters that are in training there and sometimes
• 1:16:21
  you can see really rare characters in those two
• 1:16:23
  locations. So if you're a character person,
• 1:16:26
  I would definitely scope those out.
• 1:16:29
  I don't know timing wise if it's been morning, afternoon, you
• 1:16:33
  know, I I'm not sure on that, but I know that there have been
• 1:16:36
  characters and some very unusual rare characters that have been
• 1:16:40
  showing up there too. I'm trying to remember when I
• 1:16:43
  saw them. I feel like, you know, in
• 1:16:46
  typically they will just start bringing out more characters
• 1:16:49
  when the park gets busier. So yeah, you don't usually see
• 1:16:52
  them for the first, you know, two hours of the day because
• 1:16:54
  everybody's just rushing to get the first attraction.
• 1:16:56
  Nobody wants to stop and say hi to a character.
• 1:16:58
  So. But as soon as the park starts
• 1:16:59
  staying crowded, they need to disperse the crowds a little bit
• 1:17:02
  more. So you know, that's usually when
• 1:17:04
  you start maybe start seeing them show up a little bit more
• 1:17:08
  and pop out from different places, so.
• 1:17:10
  Yeah, exactly. So again, if you're a character
• 1:17:13
  person, keep that in mind. A couple other things just to
• 1:17:15
  mention of things to do in Epcot, because honestly, if
• 1:17:19
  you're using Genie Plus, you're going to be able to get through
• 1:17:21
  your rides throughout the day. If you're not shows or a ton of
• 1:17:28
  taking a break, you're going to be there all day.
• 1:17:29
  You know, there's lots of variables, but chances are
• 1:17:32
  really good you're going to be able to get through all the
• 1:17:34
  attractions that you want to get through.
• 1:17:36
  So other things that they have to offer there, they have the
• 1:17:39
  Duck Tales World Showcase adventure game, which is on the
• 1:17:41
  Play Disney app, which is a super fun way to experience
• 1:17:45
  World Showcase. There are the Aquariums in the
• 1:17:49
  Seas building. After you exit the Finding Nemo
• 1:17:51
  ride, take a little bit of time look around there.
• 1:17:53
  They've got manatees and dolphins and sharks and all
• 1:17:55
  sorts of fun things there. They've also got a play place in
• 1:17:59
  that area as well. Play place inside of the test
• 1:18:02
  track test track exit. There's a playground outside of
• 1:18:06
  creations. As you're headed towards cosmic
• 1:18:09
  rewinds, there's a playground right there that's typically
• 1:18:11
  themed for the festivals, yes? And I also mentioned, since
• 1:18:17
  we're back at Creations mentally, May said that
• 1:18:21
  Connections, this is next door has also has charging stations,
• 1:18:24
  so if you need to sit down and charge any of your devices,
• 1:18:27
  that's a good one. So sorry, since we just mentally
• 1:18:29
  stopped there I was like. Wait.
• 1:18:31
  But wait, there's more. So yeah, so there's that
• 1:18:33
  playground there there's the image works at the exit of exit
• 1:18:37
  of Figment. I'm struggling through this list
• 1:18:39
  right now. And then also all the kid cot
• 1:18:41
  stops across World Showcase. A lot of this we've talked about
• 1:18:44
  previously on previous episodes, but there's just a lot of other
• 1:18:48
  things to do that are not attraction focused that you can
• 1:18:52
  either fit in between your lightning lanes depending on
• 1:18:54
  where you are in the parks. Or you can just add on to the
• 1:18:57
  end of your day. Or if you've got a big gap and
• 1:19:00
  you're not worried about, you know if you've got a lightning
• 1:19:02
  lane that's two hours from now and you want something to do in
• 1:19:05
  the meantime and you're planning to go into World Showcase.
• 1:19:08
  It just really depends on how your day pans out as to whether
• 1:19:11
  or not these things are options for you, yeah.
• 1:19:14
  And then I will also say don't forget to check out any of the
• 1:19:16
  festival offerings we've talked about.
• 1:19:19
  You know, scavenger hunts and events and food booths.
• 1:19:23
  And you know, we've talked about all those festivals kind of
• 1:19:25
  extensively. Yes, So I'm going to give Jackie
• 1:19:29
  a quick break so she can breathe and get some water.
• 1:19:31
  Well, I'll say dinner or dinner recommendations are the same
• 1:19:35
  ones as above. So as we had already said.
• 1:19:37
  So they're going to be ones that are like Sunshine seasons and
• 1:19:42
  the Connections Cafe are really good indoor ones if you want
• 1:19:46
  A/C. Otherwise, the food festival
• 1:19:47
  booths. We always recommend those if
• 1:19:49
  you're not in a diet Epcot or if you've made, you know, dining
• 1:19:53
  reservations somewhere. There's some really wonderful
• 1:19:55
  restaurants that do need dining reservations but are usually
• 1:20:01
  fairly easy to get, especially if it's festival time.
• 1:20:03
  So sometimes you can even get them day of depending on don't
• 1:20:07
  depend on that but you know sometimes you can.
• 1:20:11
  So so then after dinner you're going to hit.
• 1:20:15
  Left overrides right, So anything you weren't able to get
• 1:20:18
  into earlier, do you want to elaborate on that part of it?
• 1:20:24
  Yeah, so sometimes with Epcot you will find those gaps in your
• 1:20:27
  time, so you may have left overrides that just didn't fit
• 1:20:31
  timing wise with your other plans.
• 1:20:34
  That you may need to hit or again using Genie Plus for
• 1:20:37
  anything that you did stand by to do a second ride.
• 1:20:40
  So let's say your your family loves Soren or you love Figment
• 1:20:44
  or any of those and you did stand by earlier in the day.
• 1:20:47
  Again, go back and book a second ride on those because you're
• 1:20:49
  going to be able to then utilize your Genie.
• 1:20:51
  Plus, they'll still have times available, the only ones that
• 1:20:54
  typically sell out. Frozen and Remy almost always
• 1:20:58
  sell out every day, but other than that test Track will on
• 1:21:01
  really busy days. But even then, that one doesn't
• 1:21:05
  always. So again, if you rope dropped
• 1:21:08
  did stand by on anything, you can go back and do that.
• 1:21:11
  The one weird not weird. The one unique thing about Epcot
• 1:21:16
  is that the park closes at the same time as the nighttime show.
• 1:21:21
  So make sure you're in line for whatever that last ride is by
• 1:21:25
  8:59, because I've caught 99.9% of the time.
• 1:21:29
  Closes at 9 and that's when their fireworks show is,
• 1:21:31
  Whatever that show may be. I'm always in the ice cream and
• 1:21:34
  that's what I do. I've seen that show a million
• 1:21:38
  times. I'm like, I'm heading for the
• 1:21:39
  ice cream line. That's my end of night strategy.
• 1:21:43
  So keep that in mind as you're planning your evening and Joel
• 1:21:47
  asked a really good question. Can you do the main rides at
• 1:21:49
  Epcot and enjoy drinking and eating around the world?
• 1:21:51
  Absolutely you can, yeah. If you've just got, you know,
• 1:21:54
  even half of the rides in Epcot, you could probably get those
• 1:21:57
  done before 1:00 or 2:00 PM and have the rest of your day to
• 1:22:01
  enjoy World Showcase. Especially with with Jamie Plus.
• 1:22:04
  Yeah, without Genie Plus. With Genie Plus, for sure.
• 1:22:07
  Yeah, you're going to have a harder time getting to all of
• 1:22:09
  the big rides because still, you'll have to wait longer for
• 1:22:13
  them. But yeah, with Genie Plus for
• 1:22:15
  sure you can knock it out by early afternoon, be done with
• 1:22:19
  pretty much all the major rides. Yeah.
• 1:22:21
  And again, just really have a plan going into your day that's
• 1:22:24
  we're just always going to stress that no matter what it is
• 1:22:26
  that we're talking about, I feel like.
• 1:22:27
  But that way you're not guessing and you're not having to spend
• 1:22:31
  the time looking up weights every time or looking up return
• 1:22:33
  times every time. You just know exactly what
• 1:22:35
  you're going to book and can go one to the next, to the next, to
• 1:22:38
  the next and be fine. I mean my family, when we do
• 1:22:41
  Epcot we almost always get every attraction and and have at least
• 1:22:44
  two to three hours in World Showcase, usually with an
• 1:22:47
  afternoon break. I'm very good at Genie Plus
• 1:22:49
  though. That being said, so I don't
• 1:22:52
  typically have issues getting Genie Plus to work for me.
• 1:22:56
  Yeah, so that is something to consider, but you should have no
• 1:23:00
  problem with that for sure. And I feel like Epcot, unless
• 1:23:05
  you're gonna take extensive time with the festival and you want
• 1:23:08
  to do every single thing there is to do, and I've caught it
• 1:23:10
  cuts pretty much a one day part. You know, maybe someday if they
• 1:23:14
  open more things and takedown all the walls and there's more
• 1:23:17
  to see, it might take a little longer.
• 1:23:19
  But I think it's a it's a pretty easy park to knock out in a day.
• 1:23:23
  You're not going to need to unless you just really want to
• 1:23:25
  go at a relaxed pace and see everything you know.
• 1:23:28
  Yeah, I was gonna say, unless you're someone who wants to do
• 1:23:30
  all of the shows and see all of the street performers and meet
• 1:23:33
  all the characters, then you're definitely gonna need 2 days.
• 1:23:35
  And I will say that Epcot has some really great characters.
• 1:23:38
  Someone was asking about Alice earlier.
• 1:23:40
  Alice, I believe only meets at Epcot.
• 1:23:42
  I don't think Alice has a meet at Magic Disneyland.
• 1:23:46
  What I've seen so walks by fantasy land waves to me every
• 1:23:50
  single time I'm there. She's like.
• 1:23:52
  Yeah. So that would be what I would
• 1:23:53
  say as far as that goes. I did have a question before we
• 1:23:56
  hop to the Without Genie Plus just asked, is there a specific
• 1:23:59
  place I'm wanting to eat that I have to order online.
• 1:24:02
  So there is nowhere in that you have to order online or mobile
• 1:24:08
  order. There are places that accept it,
• 1:24:10
  and I do recommend that you do that because that will save you
• 1:24:14
  a lot of time waiting in line, but there is nowhere that you.
• 1:24:17
  That you aren't able to just walk up and order at a window or
• 1:24:20
  wait line and order at a window. There's a couple places that you
• 1:24:24
  can't mobile order and you have to wait in line to get stuff too
• 1:24:27
  because there's a lot of like third party restaurants within
• 1:24:31
  there. So just keep that in mind that
• 1:24:33
  just because it doesn't show up on your mobile order list
• 1:24:35
  doesn't mean that there's not this option available.
• 1:24:37
  So especially around World Showcase, like the crepes in
• 1:24:40
  France are a good example of that.
• 1:24:42
  I feel like the pizza in Italy might also be on that list.
• 1:24:46
  I think you're free for sure, and there's a lot, lot of them
• 1:24:50
  around the World Showcase. Yeah, and like all the festival
• 1:24:52
  booths are not going to give you a mobile order option.
• 1:24:54
  So there's I wouldn't rely on that mobile order list.
• 1:24:58
  I would rely more on the general map on your My Disney experience
• 1:25:02
  and pulling up the food list from there just asked where
• 1:25:06
  would Alice be in Epcot? Alice meets right by the Garden
• 1:25:10
  area in the UK. Pavilion.
• 1:25:12
  Yeah, where they? Rotates with Mary Poppins there.
• 1:25:16
  Yeah, like I think during the Garden Festival, they've got the
• 1:25:19
  Flower Garden Festival. It's right in the entrance to
• 1:25:21
  like the tea garden area, kind of off to the side.
• 1:25:25
  So she's not blocking the path, but.
• 1:25:26
  Yeah, there's a little like garden Hut building right there
• 1:25:31
  that they like stand. I don't know what else to call
• 1:25:33
  it, but there's. A little building right there
• 1:25:38
  across from that space that they kind of stand in front of to
• 1:25:42
  meet typically and sometimes they will stand in the like
• 1:25:44
  little. Archway.
• 1:25:46
  The arch. Yeah, that's true.
• 1:25:48
  Little maze area. But that space is where, like I
• 1:25:51
  said, Alice and Mary Poppins, I know for sure rotate through
• 1:25:54
  that space. So if you're looking for Alice,
• 1:25:56
  that's where you'll find her. So let's talk about without
• 1:25:58
  Genie Plus for Epcot again. It looks very similar in a lot
• 1:26:03
  of ways. You're going to want to arrive
• 1:26:05
  30 to 40 minutes before park open.
• 1:26:07
  You're still going to have those two options for your rope drop.
• 1:26:10
  So again, you can also still book the 7:00 AM virtual queue
• 1:26:13
  for Cosmic Rewind if that's something that you want to do.
• 1:26:16
  If you enter at the front of the park, go to Frozen first.
• 1:26:19
  If you enter an international gateway, you're going to want to
• 1:26:21
  go to Remy first. The only thing that I would say
• 1:26:23
  is if for some reason. Like if you're at the front of
• 1:26:27
  the park and Frozen is not on your list, but Remy's on your
• 1:26:29
  list, then go rope drop Remy. You know, you got to kind of use
• 1:26:33
  use your senses when it comes to that because there are some
• 1:26:37
  people that are just like, I don't need to ride Frozen, but I
• 1:26:39
  really love Remy. But if you're at the front of
• 1:26:41
  the park, just rope drop it. Understand that you're probably
• 1:26:43
  have a little bit of a longer wait if you're coming from the
• 1:26:46
  opposite location just because of the general flow of where the
• 1:26:49
  crowds go. But.
• 1:26:51
  Again, that would be The only exception to that.
• 1:26:54
  And I will mention also being able to ride both Frozen and
• 1:26:57
  Remy without a long wait can be difficult on busy park days.
• 1:27:01
  You can still do it. It's completely doable.
• 1:27:04
  You're still going to be able to get through the majority of the
• 1:27:06
  day. Even if you do spend an extra
• 1:27:08
  hour in the morning doing that. They're both on your list.
• 1:27:11
  We're going to be able to do them both.
• 1:27:12
  That second ride you may have to wait 45 minutes to an hour to to
• 1:27:17
  do. That's the typical morning wait
• 1:27:19
  time. Lower crowds.
• 1:27:21
  You're going to get lower wait times, you know all that.
• 1:27:24
  But the earlier you arrive and the quicker you can get your
• 1:27:26
  first ride done, the better chance you have it, making it to
• 1:27:29
  the second line without having as long of a wait.
• 1:27:32
  But again, you're still going to probably wait.
• 1:27:35
  So I'm going to kind of run through like the entire list of
• 1:27:38
  attractions and I'm not really putting in here like stop here
• 1:27:41
  for lunch, stop here for dinner, because it's very, very
• 1:27:45
  dependent on what the crowds are doing, what the wait times look
• 1:27:47
  like and what's on your particular list.
• 1:27:51
  So the order that I would do the rides is frozen, Remy, what we
• 1:27:56
  just talked about that whole thing depending and then test
• 1:28:00
  track. Keep in mind Test track does
• 1:28:01
  have a single rider line and it is a very good single rider
• 1:28:05
  line. So if you are solo or you're the
• 1:28:07
  only one in your group that wants to ride it, do the single
• 1:28:09
  rider line because it is a very good single rider line.
• 1:28:13
  So keep that in mind and then from there I would do.
• 1:28:17
  Even either Mission Space or Soren, after you get off test
• 1:28:20
  track, you're closer to Mission Space.
• 1:28:22
  So again, Epcot is really easy to crisscross and go back and
• 1:28:26
  forth if you're not focused on that, so plan accordingly.
• 1:28:30
  If Mission Space is not on your list, then head over to Soren.
• 1:28:33
  Vice versa, Spaceship Earth. Keep an eye on because this line
• 1:28:38
  will get unnecessarily long. Because it is just the front.
• 1:28:42
  It's at the front of the park and everyone walks in the Epcot
• 1:28:45
  and goes, look, spaceship, let's go ride it.
• 1:28:49
  Don't. Just don't do it.
• 1:28:52
  If it was like in the corner of the park, like that would never
• 1:28:54
  happen. Exactly, exactly.
• 1:28:56
  So just keep an eye on that one, because once you're in the park,
• 1:29:01
  in the park, it's kind of out of the way to come back out of the
• 1:29:05
  park to go to Spaceship Earth. So just.
• 1:29:07
  Keep an eye on the wait time and do it where it makes sense.
• 1:29:09
  So keep that in mind as well when you're looking at that.
• 1:29:12
  The Seas with Nemo and Friends and Turtle Talk would be kind of
• 1:29:16
  after that. And then from there Figment
• 1:29:19
  Living with the Land and then three cabaleros.
• 1:29:22
  And if you want to put in the Disney Pixar Short Film Festival
• 1:29:25
  or character meet and greets and shows, just kind of put them on
• 1:29:27
  at the end. My guess would be in a fairly
• 1:29:33
  busy crowd. But because chances are you're
• 1:29:37
  not gonna do every single item on that list.
• 1:29:39
  Most of that can get done before dinner, even without using Genie
• 1:29:43
  Plus. Yeah, so keep that in mind.
• 1:29:47
  The other thing that I didn't really mention that I just want
• 1:29:49
  to briefly mention is if you are utilizing.
• 1:29:52
  Early park entry and that extra half hour, your morning is going
• 1:29:57
  to be a lot more smooth because you're going to be in the parks
• 1:29:59
  before those crowds get too busy.
• 1:30:01
  So if you're someone who does want to do Remy and Frozen and
• 1:30:04
  you are staying on property, you got to get there for that half
• 1:30:08
  hour before to make sure that you can get to both.
• 1:30:10
  That will up your chances of being able to get to both and
• 1:30:12
  not having to wait 45 minutes to an hour for the second one.
• 1:30:16
  Yeah, no, 100% agree and then in.
• 1:30:19
  Food options again, same as before.
• 1:30:23
  And same as kind of in the evening hit.
• 1:30:24
  Anything that you weren't able to, And just keep in mind that
• 1:30:27
  park closes right at fireworks. Yep, all the all the things.
• 1:30:32
  I think that's it. I think that's it.
• 1:30:34
  I think we made it through and I think again Epcot is is a lot
• 1:30:38
  easier to manage than Magic Kingdom just by the way that
• 1:30:43
  it's created. Because you got to think about
• 1:30:45
  Epcot is really kind of like 2 parks in one.
• 1:30:47
  It's all of the attractions and everything and then it's World
• 1:30:49
  Showcase and World Showcase is such a great.
• 1:30:52
  Attraction within itself, to utilize and to visit and to
• 1:30:56
  experience that. Like it's totally worth it to
• 1:30:59
  have that non ride time there, eat it through.
• 1:31:03
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• 1:31:07
  we're going to post on our podcast very soon and on our
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• 1:31:13
  Resorts strategy. So if anybody who's asked about
• 1:31:16
  how to do Disneyland or California Adventure strategy
• 1:31:19
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• 1:31:22
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• 1:31:23
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• 1:31:26
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• 1:32:08
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• 1:32:10
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• 1:32:13
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• 1:32:33
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• 1:32:48
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• 1:32:52
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• 1:32:54
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• 1:33:00
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