What we do with your plan.

Disney and Universal trips reward planning. Different parks have different access systems, line-skip products, and unwritten rules. Make the right call at 7 AM when your booking window opens and you'll save hours of standing in lines. Miss it, and you'll wonder where the day went.

You tell us about your trip — where you're staying, when you're going, the rides you can't miss, any special events you've booked. We turn that into a day-by-day plan: what to reserve first, what to rope-drop, what to save for after-hours, and what to skip. And once you're in the park, the plan adapts as you go.

During onboarding (and any time you visit Settings), you star the rides you'd hate to miss. Starred rides get a big push in the rankings — even a Major-tier ride you've starred can outrank an unstarred Headliner.

Translation: the plan we hand back is your plan, not a generic "here's what's popular" list. If your kid is obsessed with the Three Caballeros and you star it, that's what we'll recommend you book first at EPCOT.

At Walt Disney World, the biggest leverage you have over your trip is the moment your Lightning Lane booking window opens. Resort guests can pre-book Lightning Lane Multi Pass reservations seven days ahead of check-in; off-property guests get a three-day window. Bookings open at 7:00 AM Eastern Time on that first eligible day.

For popular rides, the difference between booking at 7:00:30 AM and 7:15 AM can be the difference between a 10-minute wait and an hour of standby. We show you the exact date and time your window opens, plus the booking order for each park day.

Multi Pass tiers matter. At tiered Disney parks, your advance set can include one Tier 1 pick and the remaining slots must come from Tier 2. Extra Tier 1 rides become day-of follow-ups after you tap into your first selection. At untiered parks, the choices are labeled Multi Pass and any three listed attractions can fill the advance slots.

We also distinguish between the two flavors of Lightning Lane: Multi Pass for up to three reservations across most attractions, and Single Pass — paid à la carte for a handful of the top-tier rides (Rise of the Resistance, TRON, Flight of Passage, Cosmic Rewind). Single Pass recommendations come with their own per-day timing guidance.

Universal Orlando works differently from Disney. There's no advance booking window — Express Pass is either a paid daily add-on or a perk included with certain hotel stays. The strategy implications of which hotel you pick are huge.

Three hotels include free unlimited Express Pass: Hard Rock, Portofino Bay, and Royal Pacific. Stay at any of these and the lines effectively disappear at Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure for your entire stay.

But here's the trap nearly everyone falls into: free Express only works at USF and Islands of Adventure — never at Epic Universe. The newest park has its own separately-priced Express Pass, and it's never included with any hotel. If you've booked a Premier hotel and assumed you're set for the whole resort, your Epic Universe day is going to be a rude awakening.

We track all of this. Tell us which hotel you're staying at, and we'll show you your real Express coverage for each park — separately for USF/IoA and for Epic Universe — with strategy adjustments that account for the difference.

Spending three days at Magic Kingdom isn't unusual. Without any extra thinking, we'd recommend the same headliner as your "first pick" on every one of those days — which isn't useful.

Instead, we rotate. Day 1's first pick becomes day 2's "you already covered this — re-ride only if waits are short." Day 2 features the next-best option. Day 3 the one after. Across three Magic Kingdom days, you'd see Peter Pan's Flight day 1, Big Thunder Mountain day 2, Tiana's Bayou Adventure day 3.

Prefer to re-ride your absolute favorites every single day? Turn rotation off in Settings. We'll go back to recommending the top pick regardless of repeats.

Travel day, flight day, mid-trip event — not every park day is a full park day. Tell us when you'll first be in the park or when you have to leave, and the strategy adapts.

• Late arrival (especially after 4 PM): rope-drop drops out entirely — you're not there at open. We keep the day compact and treat booked access, dining, and planned entertainment as the anchors.
• Early departure (especially before noon): rope-drop becomes critical. Paid Single Pass picks are de-emphasized until you verify a return window that lands before departure.
• Tight mid-day window (e.g., a wedding obligation): protect the window, reservations, and transfers before chasing every ranked recommendation.

Every attraction in our catalog has its known refurbishment dates. When your trip date falls inside a closure window, that ride simply doesn't appear in recommendations. The detail page shows the closure dates and the projected reopening so you can plan around it.

Reopening dates are always projections — Disney and Universal can and do shift them without notice. We'll keep our dates current, but the parks' own apps remain the source of truth on the day.

All the planning so far is preparation. The Today page is the in-park version: built for your phone, organized around what's next, designed to update in real time as your day unfolds.

Tap a ride to mark it Done (we'll ask whether you want to ride it again), Skip it, mark it Down (broken), or Postpone it. As you mark, the plan reshuffles. Ride VelociCoaster first thing and we'll move Spider-Man up next. Mark Hagrid's as down and we'll suggest the Forbidden Journey instead.

There's also an "Already booked" section where you can log Lightning Lane, Express Pass, or offered Virtual Queue reservations as you snag them. The plan respects what you've locked in, and warns when a return time or dining reservation collides with your arrival, departure, or planned events.