Saturday, April 10, 2010

The last of Disney, I promise.

My tips:

#1.  RideMax.  Hands down the best $30 spent on our whole trip.  This is a computer program you can download....somehow it knows the crowd level of every Disney park for every single day of the year.  So, you input your Disney days and it will tell you which park to go to on which day.  AND furthermore, you input which rides you want to ride and how many times you want on each ride...and it will tell you the order and times to go to each ride so that there won't be a wait.  Honestly and truly, we didn't wait more than 5 minutes for any ride.  Even when the "big rides" had standby wait times of 2 hours, we could walk right on.  DO IT.

#2.  AAA.  A friend told me to join AAA so that we could park in the Diamond parking lots, which are THE front row of parking.  This is especially nice when you realize how vast and expansive the Disney parking lots are.  So, even though we had already booked our trip through Disney, I joined AAA and then called them to ask about the Diamond parking.  They had Disney transfer our reservations to be AAA reservations...which meant we got the Diamond parking, a whole slew of coupons, AND Disney refunded us $300 on our trip.  Nice.

#3.  Arrive early.  Seriously, be waiting at the gate when the park opens.  You'll get more done in the first 2 hours than the whole rest of the day before the crowds start pouring in...(and it's cooler!)

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