As we get ready to leave for WDW (4 days to go - yikes!) it occurs to us that it would be so awesome to have our 7 days of personal touring plans handy on our iPhones instead of printed out sheets of paper…
You probably already have something in the works but thought I’d throw it out there!
Yes, the Lines app will give you direct access to your plans… plus you will be able to re evaluate or re optimise once you are at the parks which will give you the most accurate and up to date wait times etc.
And per a new blog post from Len this morning, the app now notifies you when a ride closes during your time in the park, estimates when it will re-open, and adjusts your plan accordingly when you optimize:
So the other cool thing that you can do (to help out your fellow Disney GEEK) is update the posted wait times. So if you see that the posted is now different than what is in the app - you can update it. You can also note if a ride is closed so that others know.
Lines is a great app. However, accessing it naturally uses up some of your phone’s battery. So it has been suggested to take a screenshot of your TPs and save it as your phone’s wallpaper for quick reference. So in advance that’s what I did on our last trip in addition to occasionally using Lines. I got a little fancy with it since we have months to plan everything.
I do have to say we pretty much abandoned our plans fairly early. We used them a bit - but then just would “wing it” (please don’t toss me off the board). But the LINES app was great in the fact that it gave us more reasonable wait times to go off of.
I’m sorry - I knew when I was doing it - I was wrong. But it just came over me. I said “darn it to heck” I’m going to go on Space Mountain again and there isn’t anyone that can stop me. I don’t care if I’m 10 minutes late to my dining reservation - they will just have to wait for me. Next thing you know - we were “browsing” inside a store and trying on funny hats. I knew it was wrong - but we just had to try on Pirate gear that we knew we would never wear less the time we were in the Magic Kingdom.
I even one time though (it was just a thought - you can’t fault me for a thought) of walking up to a restaurant to “see if they may have a table”.
I have since “gotten it together” - but sometimes animal instincts just take over. This will be my last post - I promise. I’ll be turning myself in shortly.
I found the various fonts and pictures online, and I just used Microsoft Excel to prepare and format the list.
Then I converted the Excel sheet to a PDF to get rid of that “Page 1” watermark. Then I took a snipping of the PDF and saved it as an image and then saved that image to my Google Drive so that I could access it from my phone.
There may be an easier way to do this, but it’s what I came up with.
Yes. There is a lot of time in between booking and and taking a WDW trip.