What's your typical DL day like?

Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82

We usually just go with the flow and do the rides depending on the crowds and the weather. I will admit though (with my head in my hands, forever shameful)....that I had never used a Fastpass until our last trip. It's not like I didn't know they exsisted...I just didn't like being on a schedule. I was content to ride things at my leisure. I MISSED OUT. We got passes for Indy and Thunder on a whim last time and realized what we had been missing. Fools, we were.

 

Originally Posted By malik-mcmillian

Well when me and my cousin usually go we go and shop at world of disney first and get all of the characters on main street and then we go to breakfAst at Goofy's Kitchen and then we come back and go to mickeys toon town and then we go to fantasyland then frontier and by that time it's time for the parade to begin and after that we usualy take a break and then we go to Adventureland then make our way to New Orleans Square then we go to dinner and then we watch the fire works then fantasmic and end our day with Tomorrow land because ot looks great at night time

 

Originally Posted By 8 ilovemickey 8

We usually get there early. Ride Space Mountain and get a fastpass. Ride Buzz. Ride Peter Pan and Alice. Fastpass Indiana and ride if it's not too long. Ride Thunder. Ride Pirates and HM. Fast Pass Splash Mountain and ride if it's not too long. Go to DCA ride Soarin, TOT, and Screamin. Go back to the hotel...naptime. Head back into the park usually grab clam chowder in a bread bowl. Then enjoy walking past the hour waits with our fastpasses. I've collected 24 fastpasses in one day and it makes the night very fun!

 

Originally Posted By peachypitts

We try and go on an early entry day and hit Space Mountain first. Then the Fantasyland rides. When the fast pass machines open we get one immediately for Space Mountain again and keep it for later in the day. Always keeping an eye on whey the window opens for another fast pass, we get one next for Splash Mountain and keep it for later in the day also. Next Big Thunder Mountain, we ride it then usually another window has opened for the next fast pass and we get one for Big Thunder. It sounds like a lot of work, but we collect a lot of fast passes all morning long and then in the afternoon/evening we just cruise into the fast pass line. They never care if it is past the entry time, and its great to see the wait time 2 hrs for Splash Mountain and no more fast passes are available, but we have a lot for our group to use the whole afternoon. Works great. I'm sure that one day Disney will start charging for fast pass tickets, somewhat like Unviersal has for their VIP tickets. For now we have it all figured out and we never wait in lines anymore.

 

Originally Posted By myinnerpeterpan

What is your typical DL day like? Well I can sum it up for everyone with just one word...MAGICAL!

 

Originally Posted By seasidegang

How many fastpasses can you collect at one time? I thought you could only have 2 out at a time? Am I missing something???

 

Originally Posted By berol

You can have lots, cuz they don't care if you're late.

 

Originally Posted By lil_kim2005

My typical day at DL usually always starts out the same, at least for just the morning when the lines are short, then we go with the flow later on.

It basically starts out the same way familyguy described:

"WE usually get there for rope drop, (early entry when available) and head straight over to Indiana Jones to grab a fast pass and then quicklyover to Splash, then to HM, then to Pirates, and then we'll hit the fast Pass line for Indiana. ... By that time it's usually time to head over to DCA for rope drop over there where we go directly to..."

except once at DCA we do Soarin', ToT fastpasses/GRR fastpasses, Monsters Inc., then just kind of let it go from there. Usually this won't go past 11 a.m.


Sometimes we'll do things differently, like say we've decided we haven't been on the Fantasyland rides in a while (aside from Matterhorn and occasionally IASW/Mad Tea Party, we're not the Fantasyland types - I'm one of 4 teenage girls and our 10-year-old cousin), we'll do our day completely different, considering we've been going to Disneyland since we were babies.


BUT this year we are ALL getting APs!!! Me and my brilliant ideas! I persuaded my whole family to get them and actually pointed out that in the long run, Deluxe APs are cheaper than the tickets we buy every summer/every other winter. So things are probably going to change now as we may not even go to Disneyland unless it's early morning or late at night from now on.

 

Originally Posted By DlandJB

Mostly it is shopping and eating and people watching -- but we go several times a month. We'll go on rides if time permits. If we have a whole day and the park isn't crowded and we got their early I head for Peter Pan first, then we try to do Space Mountain and Indy. Always Pirates, since it is an easy on. HM in the evening. But really, mostly shopping, eating and people watching.

When Nemo opens -- we are going to spend a lot of time in that line.

 

Originally Posted By 8 ilovemickey 8

You can get a new fastpass every 2 hours or when the one you hold reaches its time. And you don't have to go back during that hour. And DCA is connected to Disneyland.