touring plans?

I use them for pre-planning with crowd calendars and the show schedules, I use the Lines app sometimes. I do not use them in Park though.

I like to use them for planning which park I will probably be in each day - makes it easier to plan ADRs. We don't really need them for touring the parks - by now, we know which attractions to do first, and which ones just don't interest us.

Like Kristen and finngirl, I use touring plans for planning purposes, especially crowd predictions, but I no longer bring them into the parks. I've been often enough to know how to navigate each park, where to go first, where to eat, etc. However, if I were to visit WDW at a peak time of year (we're offseason tourists), I might pay more attention to a touring plan.

We only go in August (both teachers) so the crowds can be pretty heavy.

I alway print up a bazillion touring plans. Then I leave them behind and we do our thing. But I do think that reading all those plans gets my thinking in the right lines.

We enter each park with a definite plan for the first few minutes. I'm the fastpass runner. My husband and the kids hang back for the rope drop show, if there is one, or just in the crowd. I get all the tickets, and, as a single, get a bit closer to the front of the pack. Once we're allowed in, I get that first set of fastpasses and meet them all someplace. For example, in the Magic Kingdom last year, I got Peter Pan fastpasses, and met them at Big Thunder. We did Big Thunder and Splash Mountains, then used that Peter Pan Fastpass. Three big rides knocked off in the first 40 minutes or so.

From there, we pretty much continue the pattern. I'm the fastpass runner (I'm just a little type A ) and meet them all someplace. When they do the teacups, I get another set of fastpasses.... just watching that ride makes me dizzy.

So we don't stick to a strict touring plan, but I DO use their advice.

I've done that, Alice, been the designated FastPass runner. I can't handle most thrill rides, and the friends we frequently travel with can't walk as fast as I can, so while hubby and friends are riding, say, Expedition Everest, I'll hustle back to the Kilimanjaro Safari and get us all FastPasses.

Hi - Use them for planning and ADRs - once I get to the parks I know where to go first etc and all that good stuff

I look at some plans online, but we have never actually used them. They are certainly a guideline in my preplanning though. I also use the Lines app. Watch chat, there are always people trying to give away their leftover snacks and drinks.

We create personalized plans at touringplans .com for all our trips. I get my niece involved in the planning and then she carries the plan thru the parks and provides the directions for everyone. She is 8 and gives her a sense of ownership in our trip. We don't use rigidly and cancel some things and sub others as we go but they are great as an outline and provide some really good time estimates including approx. wait times.

I have printed several out for each day next week. Now, how well I adhere to the plans? Well, we will see. Unfortunately, every time I go to WDW it seems that no day is a good day for MK. We only go summers, Christmas, and spring break-I'm a teacher.
I have not traveled with a young child in many years, so just seeing what was offered for a young age helped me.