Planning
Tools, not articles
Seven instruments built on the records we keep ourselves — prices with the date we saw them, wait times from two independent feeds, and every ride’s height and access requirement. All free, none of them need an account, and every answer is a link you can send to whoever you are travelling with.
When should you go?
Every month ranked on twelve years of our own weather records and Disney’s published rate-season calendar. Weight it toward comfort or toward price and the order changes with you.
87 dated rate bands across 3 resort tiers
Rank the months →What order to do a park in
Which rides are genuinely shorter if you arrive for opening, which are no shorter at all, and which never need planning around — from our own five-minute queue record.
Measured, not modelled
Plan a park day →What will it cost?
An itemised estimate for your party and dates — room, tickets, Lightning Lane and food. Every line carries the day we checked the figure and a link to where it came from.
36,029 dated prices across 293 things
Price a trip →How much to save each month
Your trip priced and split by when Disney wants the money — the $200 deposit, the balance 30 days before you arrive — with the monthly figure, and the gift card discount that trims it.
Disney’s own payment terms
Work it out →Where to meet characters
Every meet-and-greet Disney lists at the four parks, with the average posted line from our own five-minute record beside Queue-Times’ 2025–26 figure, the party-only meets and the character meals.
Our own wait record
Find the characters →Which park on which day
Your first day and how many days you have: which park to do each day, from Disney’s own published hours, Early Entry, night shows and the party nights when Magic Kingdom closes at 6pm.
Disney’s own park calendar
Plan the days →Lightning Lane prices, day by day
Multi Pass, Premier Pass and every Single Pass ride at all four parks for each day of the next month, from Disney’s own booking data, with the cheapest and dearest days and the weekday pattern.
Disney’s own booking data
See the prices →Fireworks, night by night
Happily Ever After, Luminous and Fantasmic! on every night Disney has published, with the start times as they change through the season and the party nights with no Magic Kingdom fireworks.
Disney’s own show schedule
See the nights →What can toddlers do?
Every ride a child of any height can go on, with Disney’s own warnings for each — dark, drops, spinning — the rides Disney leaves off its preschool list, and the rules for under-3s.
Disney’s own tags, ride by ride
See the rides →The best rides, ranked
Seven 2026 rankings of every Walt Disney World ride, combined on one scale — with where they disagree, the best at each park, the best for small children and the fastest rides.
Seven published rankings, one scale
See the ranking →How much are tickets?
Every ticket length from one day to ten, the whole price and the price per day with tax, what a Park Hopper adds, how long each lasts, where to buy — and the 2027 increases.
Two price trackers, cross-checked
Compare tickets →What do my dates cost?
Pick a start date and ticket length and see Disney’s own price for your party, before and after tax, the cheapest start in the same fortnight and every month’s cheapest day.
Disney’s calendar, recorded daily
Price your dates →When can I book dining?
Enter your dates and see when each 60-day window opens — resort guests book the whole stay at once — plus which restaurants go in minutes, which are walk-up only and the cancellation fee.
Disney’s own rules, every restaurant
Find your date →Is the dining plan worth it?
What the 2026 and 2027 plans cost, what each credit has to buy to break even, and what one table-service credit actually buys at every restaurant on the plan — worked out from Disney’s own menu prices, not estimated.
Priced against Disney’s own menus
Check the maths →Which resort?
Filter by who it has to sleep and what you want to spend, priced in the rate season you are actually going rather than an average of all four.
19 of 41 sleep five or more
Find a resort →What can we do?
Every ride filtered by the things that decide whether your family can go on it — height, wheelchair access, air conditioning, rider switch, single rider.
54 of 99 can be ridden without leaving a wheelchair
Filter the rides →What can they ride?
Put in a child’s height and see what they can go on today — and exactly how many more rides open up at the next inch.
78 of 99 rides have no height minimum at all
Check a height →What’s shut when you’re there?
Every attraction, show and restaurant Disney has flagged closed — with the reopening date where Disney has published one, and an honest blank where it has not. Read from Disney’s own schedule data, not typed from press releases.
24 closed, 4 with a published reopening
See what’s closed →When to do what
The booking windows that actually matter, counted back from your arrival date — dining at sixty days, Lightning Lane at seven, and what is worth setting an alarm for.
Every deadline, in order
See the timeline →
Why these give different answers to everyone else’s
Every calculator in this category gives you a number. None of them tells you where a figure came from or when anybody last looked at it — which, on a page about spending several thousand dollars, is the thing that decides whether the answer is any use.
Ours are built on a price record that has been kept forward from the day the site started, with observations going back to 2019-01-23. Every line of every estimate says which source it came from and the day we recorded it, and the whole record is open — including the parts where two sources disagree, which we publish rather than resolve quietly.
They also work without JavaScript, and the answer lives in the URL. That means a filtered list or a costed trip is a link — bookmark it, or send it to the person you are going with.