Plan Disney, Your Way – The Ultimate Theme Park Vacation Planner

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Visual planning

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Pick a park. Explore real places. Build your route one stop at a time.

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Guided planning

Build your day, one decision at a time.

No giant questionnaire. Start with the basics and let the planner guide you through the day at your pace.

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Game plan

Choose a game plan.

Start with a ready-made plan built around your needs.

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Each one is a whole day already built. Or plan your own on the map above.

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Your dates

Tell Trixie your dates.

Pick the day you arrive and how many days you have. Every day is set out with Disney’s own hours, its ticketed nights and what is closed there.

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When are you coming? Tell me, and I’ll set out every day.

Nothing is saved until you save it on the planner.

Real placesEvery marker sits where the ride actually is.
Any yearSlide the year, or press play, and watch the resort change.
The Time Machine

Pick a year. See what stood there.

Slide the year and watch the resort rebuild itself: the survey planes’ own photographs since 2006, and the satellite’s back to 1972.

Trixie the Time Traveler

Join Trixie, 1971 to the future ↓Five ways the resort has changed since your last visit.

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Its whole story shows here.

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Who paid for it, year by yearDisney’s own printed guide maps, and the sponsor on each one.
Park hours and quiet days

Disney World park hours this week, and which day is which.

Disney’s own calendar for all four parks: opening and closing, early entry for Disney hotel guests, the party nights that close a park early to day tickets, and the nights a park stays open late. Which day suits which avatar is underneath.

Your list

Build the day you want.

Search anything Disney lists and add it. Every “+ Add” on this page lands in your list, which follows you as the button in the corner. Print it, copy it, or send someone the link.

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Your trip

The days you just built.

Everything on your list, laid out a park at a time. Each day is measured against that park's own opening hours, and what needs booking is listed underneath with Disney's page for it.

The Matcher

What the party actually agrees on.

Send everyone the same page. Each of them picks their own list and presses Share my list, which puts their choices in a link. Paste those links in here and the overlap comes out: what all of you want, what most of you want, and the one thing one person asked for and never said again. Nothing is sent anywhere and nobody needs an account — the lists travel in the links and are counted in this browser.

Share your experience

File a field report.

You have been. Nobody else on this page has. Rate what you did, say what you really waited, and the next family reading this gets a better day than you did — which is the entire point of the house. It is your day, line by line, not a blank form.

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Past, present, future

What is coming, and what is going.

One question asked in two directions: what Disney has announced and put on the calendar, and what stood in these places before.

The planners

Shorter lines. Better deals. A day worth what it cost.

Ten books, on sale soon: the trip, a park, the grandkids, wheels, Disney Springs, and one your family fills in.

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Elsewhere on this site

More to explore

The site's other guides, maps and labs.

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Explore Disney World

A page for every one of the 610 things to do, eat and see at Walt Disney World: what it is, today’s times, what is nearest on foot and what visitors say.

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Walt Saw It, Disney Built It: six places that shaped Disney parks

Six places where an idea met Walt Disney or his planners, from Tivoli Gardens to a Florida airstrip, and what Disney built afterward.

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S.E.A. at Walt Disney World: the Society of Explorers and Adventurers

S.E.A., the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, at Walt Disney World: who belongs, where to find it, what to look for and what Disney says.

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Hidden Mickeys at Walt Disney World: where to look, park by park

Every Hidden Mickey we know of at Walt Disney World, 391 of them on the park maps: what to look for, where, and a place to mark each one found.

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Disney World Treasure Trails: six walking trails, 42 finds

Six walking trails across Walt Disney World, 42 finds: Hidden Mickeys, S.E.A., throwbacks, what stood here, where it happened and the Main Street windows.

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Disney for the Rich! Walt Disney World, and what Disney will tell you it costs

What money actually buys at Walt Disney World, in Disney’s own words and nobody else’s: the figures it publishes, the things it names and will not price, and the one everybody asks about that is at another resort.

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Disney on the Cheap

What a meal actually costs at Walt Disney World: a main dish and a drink at 227 counters, and a children’s meal at 128, from Disney’s own menus, read 2026-10-26.

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Disney World on YouTube

The newest videos from nine YouTube channels that cover the parks.

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Disney Adults

Walt Disney World for grown-ups on a trip without children, a door for each decade from 21 to 70 and up: bars, tours, signature dining, shows, spas, golf and rides you can take in a wheelchair.

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Orlando Nightlife 21+: Dancing, Karaoke & Live Music

Orlando nightlife for 21+ on a Disney day off: clubs, karaoke, dueling pianos and rooftops, hour by hour from 5 PM to after 2 AM, with every door rule.

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The Walt Disney World Time Machine: 1971 to Today on the Map

Slide through every year of Walt Disney World since 1971 on a real satellite frame: what opened, what closed, and what stands today where something else once stood.

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Disney World today

Every morning: each park’s hours, the shows with a time, what is closed, and what changed on the parks’ own sites.

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Disney World news

What Disney and Universal announce, day by day, each linked to the announcement itself.

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Disney World questions, answered every morning

Each park’s hours today and ahead, its shows with a time, and what is closed, in the parks’ own words, one page a question.

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Disney World guides, in Disney’s own words

15 guides: for each park a rainy day, little ones, height requirements and a first visit land by land, every line from the parks’ own listings and pages.

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What Can My Child Ride at Disney World? Every Height, Every Park

Set your child’s height and see every Walt Disney World ride they can ride today, park by park, with each height as Disney lists it.

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Pressed Pennies at Walt Disney World: Every Coin Press on the Map

All 121 coin press machines Disney lists at Walt Disney World, numbered on each park’s map, with where each one stands. Mark every pressed penny as you go.

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Disney World Crowds by Day: How Busy Each Park Was

How busy each Walt Disney World park was, day by day and by weekday, from Disney’s posted waits read every ten minutes, and the rides that are shortest first thing.

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Ears to the Ground at Walt Disney World

What several recent visitor videos about Walt Disney World say in common, topic by topic, in the newest video's own words: 52 tips from 212 videos of the last 60 days, every video named and dated. Visitors' words, never Disney's.

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TrixiePlanner

One profile, sixteen planners, a trip stack: park days, hopping, food, resort days, arrivals, rain and heat, Lightning Lane, splitting the party, shopping, festivals, kids, low-energy days, transportation, events, days without a ticket, and rebuilding a day.