Anyone else have a serious moment of lamentation over just how many folks really are identicle to the Foole's at WDW?

I don't understand how people can plan a trip involving so much money without actually planning any part of the trip!

I see that everytime I visit the park but one memory stands out in my mind.

There was this couple with two children around 6 and 8, standing there was the father looking at a map and I hear him go,

"Let's do all the rides here(they were at MK), pop over to Epcot and end the evening at MGM. We should be able to do all that today."

I actually felt pity for those children. :( :crying:

I hate trip planning. I think it takes a lot of the fun out of travel.

This means that sometimes things don't go well, but that is part of the excitement of things. Lani ends up doing some planning for our WDW trips but if it were just me we'd just show up and play it by ear.

Heck, I've had smaller trips where I didn't even know where I was going when I left home, just when I would be back.

As someone who plans meticulously for everything (especially disney trips), that story was painful to read. :) But it is an excellent lesson!

We do a bare minimum of planning. What day at which park. What we want to do at each park. Then, after the requisite first days at each park, we then decide which parks we want to see again, based on what we missed or liked the first time around. At that point, we often split up based on what the kids want, should they differ.
We also go at low season, so there isn't a madness about it all.

No planning for DL but I planned like a mad chickie for WDW. It's just too huge to NOT plan.

DL is a fly by the seat of your pants kind of place for us, since it's more like home than....well .....home.