Get prepared for your Disney World Visit

It'll soon be the summer holidays, Orlando will be a dream vacation destination. You wouldn't be able to comprehend the amount of visitors I have spoke to that have been to Disney World during the high season, whether that be summer, Easter or Christmas and just weren't prepared for the crowds. This usually leads to those folks having a disappointing trip. Here's some advice.

Back in the day, you had quiet times at WDW. You could guarantee that if you turned up in January the parks would be quiet. To a lesser extent this is still true, and I would still recommend avoiding all school and public holidays if at all possible. What Disney World and the other theme parks in the area now regularly doing is holding special events at the parks to draw in the visitors even during quieter times. For example Star Wars Weekends and Super Soap Weekends are huge crowd pullers. So, I'd say prepare for Disney World to be busy. If they're not then great, but if they are you'll already have the upper hand.

So what planning trips should you take on board?

The park maps are freely available online with information about each attraction. So find out what attractions your party want to ride before you go and visit these rides as a priority, fitting in the other attractions when you can.

I still find it unbelievable that people visit the Disney parks and don't make full use of Fastpass, Disney's virtual queuing system that gives you a time to return to the attraction and ride with a minimum wait. Make sure you use this. If you're unfortunate enough to not be able to get a Fastpass some attraction do have single rider lines, so if you are not bothered about who you sit with take advantage of this.

Above all, make sure you get to the park before the official opening time. Sometimes the parks open prior to this time so you can get a headstart on the other visitors. Beyond that, remember any plan isn't set in stone, so be flexible and have fun.

Robert is the editor at WDW Info. For Fastpass information visit Orlando Visiting.

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