Disney World Lines (tp) App Reviews

I love touring plans, they have really helped us through the years. This app, however, isn’t helpful when it comes to the menus. The menu offerings are wrong and the prices are off too. Idk how often Disney changes their menus and prices, but I would hope that the app would be updated more often. We were walking all over blizzard beach looking for the rice bowls that don’t exist and I almost didn’t bring enough cash to Tusker house because the price was $9 per person off! Wait times for the rides were also about 10-15 minutes longer than this app said. In fact, the Disney posted wait time was much more accurate. So what good ? Well everything else is awesome and the site, book and app are always a huge part of trips. Thank you for creating them.

This is a fantastic app that, when used correctly, will save you hours and hours of time in all of the WDW parks. We have used these plans since 2004, waaaay before this app came on the scene (printed in the book The Unauthorized Guide to Walt Disney World, updated yearly and to which this app is a companion) and they are spot on. But with this app, it increased the efficiency of the plans exponentially because unlike the printed plans, the plans in the app can be customized to your liking. Not only that, but they can be optimized at any time (when adding/removing attractions, for example) and the plan will update based on your location in the park and time of day to give you the best possible plan. You can also add Fastpasses to your plan and it will factor that in and tell you whether or not a Fastpass is needed based upon their tried and true wait-time data. Plans and info can be entered in the app or on the website touringplans.com and are synced. There is an annual fee of about $15 which is peanuts compared to the amount of waiting this app will save you. Plus, if you get the book (on Amazon for less than $20, which I also HIGHLY recommend because it gives so much detailed info about Disney that even people who've been to the parks before many times do not know), you'll save about $5 on the annual fee. Trust me, you are planning on dropping some serious ka-ching at Mickey's house, these costs are pennies well spent. Between the book and this app, my wife and I feel like WDW experts. We have seen everything we love many times over no matter the crowd levels because of the time we save. I could go on and on, but you'll just have to get it and find out yourself what makes it so great. You'll be a believer, I promise you, and you'll be trying to "convert" others whenever you hear of their upcoming Disney plans.

I used the app on our last Disney trip and it worked like a charm. I really like that you can set it to minimize walking, wait times, or balance the two. It was just a really convenient way to plan out each day in advance and it helped us get everything done that we wanted to without a bunch of backtracking and wasting time deciding what to do next. Planning another trip in a couple of months and will definitely be using the app again.

Time! Hassle!! Waiting!! You name it. Just spent 8 nights at WDW, 4 park days and 1 MNSSHP evening. Touring plans helped me get ready before we went and while in the parks helped with those inevitable changes that have to be made. Great advice and such a great app! Made even better because the WDWApp was glitchy and hard to sign in on the whole trip. And is still “ experiencing issues”. Subscription worth every penny!

I wasn’t going to purchase touring plans because we were going to Disney World in September but I am very glad I did because Disney’s App is super slow to load. Your app is so much easier to use and I loaded my fast passes into my plan ahead of time Thank you for the great app

You have to use this App to make the best out of your Disney experience!!

This app was ok. Using it in the Parks I found it loaded easier than my Disney app, which was extremely glitchy. I didn’t think their times were any better than my Disney app, and sometimes were off-base. My biggest problem was using their park plans. A lot of them are centered around you having a fastpass for key rides at set times. Without those fastpasses, I found the plans unhelpful— especially since those key rides were the ones I wanted help with getting on.

I love Touring Plans. But this app needs an update. It’s still living in the ‘00s era, it’s time to get into the ‘10s era since we’re almost in the ‘20s! I love the website. Definitely worth the subscription.

My family of five just got back from out most magical Disney World trip ever and it all started with Lines 5 days before we left. They have a helpful tool that lets you submit a room request with them then they will fax it to your resort 5 days out from the start of your trip. In my request I had two things 1.) We were celebrating our youngest sons birthday and 2.) That it would be a fun surprise since we were staying at the Boardwalk to be upgraded from a standard room to a water view room. The rest was left up to TL to fax at the appropriate time for me and well, we got you upgrade!!!! I’ve been to Disney 8 times and never received anything like that!! Thanks so much guys!

very helpful app for our Disney trip. I wish there were a way to delete a “trip” we create in the app, and the ability to deselect a hotel that I added to a trip accidentally would be nice. Also, I have to enter my password every time I use the app. This gets old. Could you set it so that a password is only required every once in awhile (weekly maybe)? Even better, let the user use Touch ID/ Face ID to log in.

Having a plan makes a big difference in your Disney Day.At first my teenagers thought the plan was too restricted. But they soon saw the wisdom. It helped us avoid waiting in lines.

If you want a magical experience in Disney, this is the app for you! I’d been to WDW several times before, but never had a great time. Thanks to this app and TouringPlans.com, my most recent trip was absolutely magical. I knew how to avoid long lines, how to find the best restaurants, and was able to get advice on almost any topic related to trip planning through the chat and forum features.

I've used this company's app for Disneyland and Disney World. It's the first thing we get once we've booked the trip. This will save you a ton of time in line at the parks!

Touring Plans and the Lines app have really enhanced my Disney trip!

Seems a bit cumbersome and difficult to find what I’m looking for. Hopefully, it will work better as I get used to it.

Just used this app for two days in WDW Epcot. Used this mainly for the wait times in line for various attractions. It was extremely accurate, it was right on! Very nice app that helped our planning throughout the day.

Great app. My family has used it several times during our trips to Disney. Actually, I would not do Disney without it.

The recommendations/plans provided by this group are top notch and will help ensure a great vacation. The user experience/outdated application will frustrate and annoy you. A modern application with current design/interaction patters would be a wonderful addition.

I wasn’t sure what to expect. After months of planning I couldn’t believe the wait times that they were posting but sure enough they were spot on. We were able to add more attractions to our day because we were ahead of schedule. I will definitely be using this again.

This is the fourth time we have made a trip using the Unofficial Guide. Our vacation was so relaxing and fun while using the Lines app in the park as we followed our custom plan. This trip we visited all four Disney parks in Orlando during the last week of March. The crowd levels were at a level 7, 8, and 9 during our days in the parks yet we never waited more than 35 “park minutes” for anything. The majority of the attractions we waited less than 15 minutes!!!! We did get to Animal Kingdom before the park opened so we had to wait for rope drop but made it through Flight of Passage by 9:35 (with 9:00 park opening). I can’t praise this system of touring Disney enough! A bit of planning at home will make so much difference in your touring days at the park. My family was so amazed that we made it through all the attractions we wanted to see with breaks during the day and no long lines! The Unofficial Guide is our best friend for our Orlando vacations - you really get to enjoy your time seeing the attractions vs. standing in line all day. We give it a 5-Star rating!!!

This app worked for a brief moment, but as soon as I paid for the crowd calendar it stopped working. I rebooted my phone several times and it still did not work. WORTHLESS and I actually paid money for it!

Honesty, the price of an annual subscription is misleading. Looking at Disney prices, you are thinking how can something so cheap be worth it for planning an expensive vacation. Frankly, it is worth 10 times the money at least. We went in Oct of 2017. I planned for my family and for my in-laws to meet us at the parks for a few days. The planned worked perfectly! (So much do doing again in Oct 2019.) This is essential and it works!

This has completely helped lessen wait times and make our time more efficient! That said, during this spring break trip the estimated standby wait times were very low compared to the posted wait times as well as our actual wait times in most instances. We have never had that be a problem in the past. We still used the app and found the best places to be, and the order to see the attractions, but wait times were higher.

We just returned from our trip to DisneyWorld. I used the website and the app to plan our days at the parks. Despite the crowds, we were able to ride on most of our favorite rides without a long wait. I highly recommend this app!

Algorithms and statistics backing a easy to use interface make for a quality app to optimize your time in the parks. Good for beginners or pros!

The updated wait times and touring plans are very helpful. I wouldn’t want to go back to Disney World without using this.

I have used this app and the book for the past 10 years. I love it. We don’t have a choice of when when we visit and it is usually at the busiest times. We make the most of our trip by using the touring plans and all the fantastic tips. If you are going to a Disney Park and haven’t subscribed yet, Do it.

The best in the business bar none. Exceptional value. Worth every cent of the inexpensive subscription. Changed our last three Disney Trips in immeasurable ways. Thank you!

We used TouringPlans for our 2019 Spring Break trip. It was so helpful when planning ahead of time and making changes to our plans in real time. It’s amazing and worth every penny. Their Unofficial Guide is a great resource to start with and then continue your planning with the app.

We have gone twice with our little kids and we’re headed back in May again and we LOVE touring plans and WDW Lines as our go to help in planning our park day before and while we’re there!! I recommend it to everyone I know going!

This app is wonderful! Checking the wait times and having the Touring Plans recommendations of when to ride and when to wait is so helpful. When you use this app you have the information you need to have an enjoyable time in the parks. less waiting, more fun!

I can't imagine an app more useful and fun.

Disney is a beast and you have to have a plan or otherwise you will be miserable. I bought the two year membership, made my plans ahead of time to coordinate with dining reservations and fast passes. Once I was in the park, it was so easy to rearrange steps and optimize it to get the best wait times. The longest we waited in line was an hour and that was for Space Mountain which we had not fast pass for and broke down while we were in line, otherwise everything was 30 min or less. Do yourself a favor and buy the membership and get the app. It will make your trip so much better.

Rule number one for visiting any Disney Park is plan, plan, plan. This is a great tool to plan for a fun, time saving visit thus avoiding frustrations and heartaches sure to beset those that do not plan. The daily plans are awesome and provide plenty of flexibility to ensure your visit is what you want. I found the wait times to be far more accurate than the WDW app and provide a much better plan for our visits. Have used this app at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World and found it to be well worth the cost...a must for first time visits. Be sure and download it prior to going so you can build daily plans, learn a few tricks on the chat board, and get some familiarity with its capabilities. Overall, a great app!

I’ve been to Disney 4 times before and this is the first time I’ve used this app to help plan. The Reservation finder found 2 of the reservations I wanted - which to me paid for the app. I can’t wait to get into the parks and use the analysis options for the best day. I’m hooked and am telling all my Disney friends they NEED this app.

The app did not work like it supposed to. It would not use any of my fast passes. It kept removing them even after I checked the box telling it to used them. It kept changing the plan and telling me it is saving me time with wait time for pandora for 75 minutes instead of using my fast pass for it. I brought it 3 months before my Disney trip once I started using it and found out it does not work for me so I could not receive a refund. I would not recommend it

Could sure use an update to get this app out of the Windows 95 era. That being said it is wonderful and about the only app you need aside from MyDisneyExperience to plan your trip. Buy the premium access it has been a real time saver, and maybe if enough people buy it they can afford to put time and money into making it easier to find things and better looking.

Even as an experienced park goer, I love my Travel Plans account. Just having all of the information organized out in front helps with trip planning so much. If you’ve never been before it’s a great app to see what all of your options are and make the most of them.

Lots of functionality from 12 month out checklist to actual room location suggestions and auto room request. Has advanced dining alert if you are trying to get the hard to get one-and it has the best community to ask questions. You won’t be waiting in 2 hour long lines if you use this app and do your homework!

Lines app works great for knowing which park to avoid due to crowds. It saves you so much time knowing which ride has the least wait time. It has tons of other great features as well. Works great on iPhone

The app and website are great help for planning your Dis eh vacation. Easily worth the small price...

I’ve used Lines and/or the old school “touring plans” in the Unofficial Guides for every Disney vacation we’ve taken since 1996. I wouldn’t go without them.

We input our must do attractions at MK and we waited no longer than 20 minutes in a line ! And we were able to do 23 attractions !!!!!This gives you a touring plan to have a great day ! It updates ACTUAL ride times faster than the Disney app.

I found their wait times to be incorrect...kind of a bust in many cases

This app is a must have in conjunction with My Disney Experience. The app UI is very out dated and could use a nice redesign (alerts would be nice too).

If you follow a plan that was creates before entering the park, the lines app and system work great. There is a high level of accuracy for timing and routing to get the most done with the time available. But if you need to make changes during the day, the app is unresponsive and does not keep up. Some of the major flaws include the inability to anchor a desired attraction to a time of day or position in the ordering of the route. Also, if changes need to be made due to FP+ changes, down rides or meal times, the app simply cannot keep up. Definitely worthwhile as a planning tool but not something that can be relied on if there is any deviance required.

We saved so much time and learned so much using this app. Well worth the subscription.

The touring plans save you so much time they are almost indispensable for a Disney trip. So much so that it’s easy to overlook all the other excellent info and aids, including convenient hours summary and the crowd calendar. This should be a staple of every Disney park visitor!

Just finish our 7 day wedding anniversary at Disney. Im a former Disney cast member and I thought it was going to be easy to donit by myself. Then I heard about Touring Plans and decided to try it. Bought The unofficial guide book and it was super helpful. And this app is a great add on! Very accurate. We followed their plans and we had a great time. Almost waiting in line even when we did some little changes of our own. We woke early everyday, and we were done by 4pm. WAKE UP EARLY and arrive an hour before Animal Kingdom opens if you want to ride Flight of Passage at Pandora with inly a 20 minutes wait! These folks have a great network to keep waiting times accurate. It is a community of people sharing their experience. Again, numbers, math and nerds to save the day!

How anyone can give this app less than 5 stars is beyond me. This app is a must have for WDW planning. It’s incredible.

Planning for Disney is almost as fun as taking the trip! Love this app!

Have been a member for years. This app is the best way to help plan your trip

Using this app was not helpful in our trip. We did much better going with our own plan. The crowd levels were waaaaaayyy off.

This is easily the BEST investment you can make for your trip! Using the touring plans saves you hours of standing in line every single day in the parks- you walk on so many rides!! It also tells which Fastpasses are going to help you the most so you don’t waste them. I’ve been to Disney many times and can’t recommend this app enough.

This is by far the most valuable WDW planning tool I use. Len Testa and team are Disney planning legends.

Our go-to throughout the day! Highly recommend.

For over 25 years Of visiting WDW I have dreamed of having this technology in the palm of my hand! Thank you!!!!

Lines is by far the most reliable and accurate app for wait time and General info out there. But it does not offer iwatch support or I would have given it 5 stars

If you like to sleep late and walk around in the heat of the day and stand in really long lines, this app will probably still make you a little more comfortable on a Disney trip, but I don’t think we have much in common. On the other hand, if you like to be at the park at Rope Drop and maximize your touring when other tourists are “sleeping” because they are on “vacation”. If you like to spend more times actually on the most popular attractions instead of waiting in line for them and if you don’t mind a little backtracking or a few extra steps, this app is a lifesaver. I also love the menus and the reviews of the hotels, although admittedly I get those in advance of my trips from the printed Unofficial Guides. I make a game out of “optimizing” my Touring Plan when I leave an attraction to see if I can shave two or three minutes off of my schedule. For me, this is fun! For the rest of you, I still think you would be better armed with the knowledge of how long it takes to walk to a restaurant or an attraction as information is power and at Disney, time is money. I have read the Unofficial Guides for 24 years and I know I drink the Kool-aid when I say, just once, try the Dumbo-or-Die-in-a-Day plan. It will change your life. Five stars.

We love going to Disney, but I don’t think our trips would have been nearly as awesome without the insight from the touring plans subscription and advice found within this app (and website). This is by far the best Disney planning tool available!

This was our third trip to Disney using the Unofficial Guide. We follow the recommendations and we are always happy that we did. The book has saved us so much time and aggravation. We have thoroughly enjoyed our vacations and feel like we got the most out of each one. We highly recommend this book.

If you consider the relationship between amount of minutes in a Disney park and the price of admission, you would easily see that time is not only of the essence for most visitors, but that it is also a pre-paid premium commodity. With that in mind, this app is an essential for the best use of your hard-earned minutes in the park. I live locally (within eyesight of the MK fireworks), and my time in the parks could be more whimsical than most - but yet I still feel it imperative to have Testa and Co.’s planning tools, crowd data, and updated schedules on my person in anticipation of a visit to the parks as well as during our many visits each year. The subscription fee, when considered with the benefits of included time saving tools and information, is easily repaid in the time capital you gain from using the app and the website. Even more impressively, all of these features are responsibly presented in the form of a simple GUI that is easy enough to use (once you get the hang of it) and better for bandwidth on the Disney guest wireless network. While the app is certainly more utilitarian than aesthetic, any user will quickly appreciate its responsiveness when making those important last-minute decisions (like...Splash Mountain, then train or vice versa?) Many kudos to the team of touringplans for providing an invaluable service on an excellent platform.

I’m a Disney veteran and I still find it extremely helpful. I never make a trip to WDW without using the planning tools and reading the chats to learn more about changes and latest info. Use the app while in the parks. Don’t leave home or your hotel without it.

Hands down, this is the best app to use in the Disney parks! I love that you can create a plan with all of the rides, shoes, etc you want to do and it will tell you the best order to do it in! This app saves you time and money - we’ll worth the small fee they charge!!!

Loved using the website and app before our trip and really appreciated the flexibility to recalculate waits and itineraries as we went through the day. The posted wait times when looking at the app were spot on! Being able to recalculate gave us the flexibility we needed with a 2 and 4 year old. Thank you!!!

I use the website, videos and app and swear by all. I’m also loving the tool in development that finds dinner reservations. The app is the way to carry your knowledge and planning from the website into the parks and integrate the current line info with your plan for the day. If you are a beginner reading this review: yes, you need a plan and yes, it pays off to get up early.

We went on our first trip as a family to Disney in 2016. After five days of riding rides our wait time in line was minuscule. We optimized our plan a few times during the day and we were even able to fit in extra rides we didn’t even have in our original plan because it saved us so much time! We’re going again in September and already have our itineraries ready to go!

So much great information to help you plan the most magical of visits! This app is a must have for first time visitors as well as dyed in the wool Disney-holics.

I love Disney but hate the crowds. This app was a total game changer! Don’t even hesitate to purchase it. We used it nonstop for three days in three different parts. The constantly updated expected wait times will change your life...while you are at Disney.

I am a huge fan of your books but this was my first time using your app. Some feedback. It would be great to have an option to move an item to the bottom of a plan if an attraction is out of service for an hour or so. I didn’t want to remove it from the plan but the app kept putting it at the top. Also if I want to add an attraction on the fly, it puts it at the bottom. Would be great to have an option to move to top in one touch. Finally, for the few rides with single rider options, it would be great to show that on the plan- maybe giving an option to transmit to you which we used. Thank you for all your research!! -Julie

Lots of really helpful info in this app (with a subscription from their website). But the app looks like it was made for the original iPhone ten years ago! There are some much needed UI updates that could make using the app throughout the day in the Park much better.

My family and I were so grateful to have this app while at Disney. It took some work getting it ready for our trip but it was worth not waiting in lines with our small children. So worth the subscription.

This app was so helpful in the months leading up to our trip. Would definitely recommend using Touring Plans and visiting the chat to ask questions and learn! Our trip with 2 boys was enriched due to my research and Lines played a huge part. It is valuable to have Lines as a live tool in the park as well!

This is a great and very helpful app! Even just the chat feature would be worth downloading.

The app hasn’t had a UI refresh since pre-iOS7 days and looks terribly dated. I found that I wasn’t able to use the app while in the parks because the “Evaluate” option would always Re-order the plan, changing FastPass+ attraction to different times, and generally making a mess of things. After spending time in the weeks prior to our trip creating personalized plans, it was quite disappointing to not be able to use the app once we got to Disney. I subscribed to Touring Plans for our last few Disney Trips, but I won’t in the future, it just doesn’t work well enough to be worth it.

I have used Touring Plans for years. I live in Southern California and thought I was a skillful Disneyland veteran. Notwithstanding, the custom touring plans (a reasonably priced in-app purchase) did indeed “save time” - lots - which actually meant more rides (including some charming ones I usually skipped!), longer meals (the kind eaten while sitting down!), and generally more pleasant strolls and stops around the park. What a gift! It encouraged me to go with confidence to the Florida property armed with this app. In a word: Wow! The added planning tools saved me more than once - starting with not being a day late ordering fast passes. Thanks guys for my most uniquely useful app.

The app itself is not a total loss. The UI is somewhat intuitive. The plans though, are horrid. If you try to follow one, you’ll find that your wait times are not even close to what the app says.

This is my go-to app for all things Disney World. I especially enjoy the chat room - lots of good interaction with Disney aficionados. Highly recommend.

This was well worth the $15 we paid on the Touring Plans site. Though our plans changed several time through our trip (depending on fatigue level), this allowed us to make the best use of our time to see the things that were the most important to us. Highly recommended!

So meany awesome features! Another good one to add would be a way to save favorite restaurants/food carts to the map for each park. I might not know when I want to grab a quick snack, but it would be nice if my favorite places could be starred on the map so I could see which one was closest to my location in the park.

We were longtime devoted Lines users and subscribers to Touring Plans. We have found that both the Lines app and the crowd calendar have become pretty much useless and inaccurate. Wait times are rarely correct and the crowd calendars ability to predict crowds at the parks or resorts have become meaningless. Will no longer be renewing my subscription.

Probably the best app and service for someone planning a Disney World vacation.

Can’t say enough about how helpful this app is! Followed the customized touring plans so successfully my family thinks you actually never wait in line at WDW!

We used this app for a 3 day trip and we made plans for each park. It helped me plan the best days to visit, and we were able to ride everything we wanted to with minimal line time.

This app and the website are fantastic

After 15+ trips to WDW, I thought I’d seen it all. This app was phenomenal! Love the data-driven approach.

With almost 300 times submitted I have used this a lot. First time in 3 trips I have found times less than accurate. I will still use it but not going to fully rely on it. Example this am HS rocking roller coaster was reported expected 27 mins when joined line. We timed and waited 100 mins and missed a fast pass for tower of terror. Disney’s endorsed app my experience was more reliable.

If you are planning a trip to Disney, a Touring Plans subscription is worth every penny. Hands down, the most useful tool in our planning process!

I have used this app for our last two Disney World and last two Universal trips, and I’m currently using it to plan our WDW vacation for this year. This truly is a time saver. I tell all of my friends who are planning a Disney trip to definitely use this app. The amount of time saved using this FAR outweighs the cost of the app. Very easy to use. I love that I can log in from my tablet or computer to have a different view and make changes, and everything transfers over to the app immediately. Sooooo easy to make changes and get real time updates once inside the parks. If you use this service once, you will never ever go back to WDW or Universal without it ever again.

A great way to build multiple plan scenarios on the lead up to a trip. Quick and intuitive way to feel supported for a long trip.

This is a must have and compliments the Disney world app. Your plans are on it and can be optimised and adjusted. The only thing missing is the ability to map so that you know how to head over to the next place

While this app can be a bit confusing, it DOES cover a huge amount of info, and the board moderators and others are always great at answering questions. I like going on the actual web page from my laptop better; it is a bit easier to navigate. I am sure once I get used to the format though I will be able to get the same info.

A must have to get the most of your trip. Even experienced Disney freaks will benefit. I’ve used this app/ site 2 times over the last year. Excellent info and guidance. Thank you.

I love this app! It was great 6 years ago when we came as solo adults. It is even better with a 5 year old and 2 yr old. More accurate with wait times than the WDW app.

We went to Magic Kingdom on consecutive days that were both predicted to be 10 out of 10 crowd level days. Made touring plans that started at park opening at 8am, through about lunch time. Wait times were consistently much higher in reality than were predicted. We got through maybe a quarter of what we had planned. The Disney posted wait times were if anything more accurate than the touring plans real time data. The suggestions were really poor as well. Following the optimized plan, we wasted precious time early in the morning on attractions that never reached stratospheric wait times. For example, the optimized plan has us visit tinker bell in the town square first thing, but the wait for that later in the morning wasn’t as great as the wait for the attractions we were supposed to visit late morning. The second day I completely ditched the touring plan and we got a lot more done in the first 2 hours before the parks got really busy.

The UI could use some basic touch ups though

We loved the fact we could optimize the list of rides during the day, since we missed some rides. Also the information about the rides and the shows was great

Other than the fact that I am wildly jealous of what you guys do, I have few complaints. The plan I created significantly helped us navigate the park and minimize wait times. The one thing I noticed on wait times was that the time I posted was based on my start and finish, unless someone was tracking time begins me, it did not take into account the change in the line. The Disney Experience app wait times were slightly more accurate. By the way, where do I get an application to join the touring plans team? 😄

I am blown away by how brilliant this app is. It completely changed our experience and I believe it saved us *hours* of time in line. The few times that I decided to call an audible and do something that the app told me to do later I quickly realized that I’d made a bad call. That said, it is very flexible and you can use it for a completely regimented day or use it to change things on the fly and recalculate. My only advice would be to spend some time playing with it ahead of your trip, using a plan to add and subtract rides, dining, breaks, start and finish times, etc. Needless to say it’s worth every penny and then some. We used it for Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Universal Studios, and US Islands of Adventure. I did also use the official apps for each park to augment, particularly for mapping and ride descriptions.

The app was rarely accurate. We chose lines based on the app's projected wait time rather than the park's, and almost always the wait time was longer than the app's projection. As an example, big thunder posted a 45 minute wait. The app said more like 34 minutes. We waited almost an hour in line. The app updated twice while we were in line, the first time after we had been in line 20 minutes and the second time after we had been in line 40 minutes. Doesn't really do ya much good...

This app is amazing and will save you so much time!

An amazing app. Stunningly accurate and helpful. It’s especially helpful on days at the park and you need to make changes because a ride has shut down or you need to schedule something new.

We much prefer this app to the actual Disney app. The accuracy and ease of use while at the parks makes it a winner for us!

Easy to use and a great way to plan your WDW trip. It’s a must have with today’s current crowds at WDW. Will continue to use for the foreseeable future.

I love how friendly and helpful everyone in the community is. It makes me feel reassured when it comes to my touring plans. Although I’m still a novice, I hope this app makes it easier for my first WDW trip alone with my bf.

Worked well last year. Will be using this app for our trip again in June. Look at my you tube channel, Texas takes to see how it works out this year.

Knowing from prior experience how overwhelming planning a Disney trip is, I originally wanted to work with a Disney travel agent for our first trip with our 1yo and his 3yo friend, but alas we were too late in calling the agents (3 months). So I have spent days going through online sites and various apps. I bought the premium plan for this app. Overall I think the app is okay. The plans are doable. My biggest issue is that the user interface is not very friendly. Also it would be nice to have a one stop shop including food options, tour options, and special events like the flower and garden festival. I haven’t found my one stop shop app or website, I ended up manually making our plan using Apple numbers. I used a number of books including Birnbaum’s guide and the 2018 Walt Disney World Dining guide. I have tables for all of our travel reservations and a table for each day at the park. I might enter them into touring plan app just to create a map.

I used the app at WDW, Hollywood Studios, Universal Orlando and IA. I got better at using it and learned the ins and outs. I recommend having the WDW and Universal apps too. The app lines were not always perfect, especially when first entering WDW, but they were usually a good judge of time. I could not figure out how to refresh time without reshuffling the order, also my place in the park kept reverting back to 7 dwarfs. Overall it saved us time and kept us on plan. It’s clever and has good ways to put in dinner reservations, FastPass+. Still a few kinks, but overall I like it.

This app and the website are fantastic

New to lines and crowd accuracy and wait times not so accurate

Those who dislike WDW because of long lines and big crowds have only themselves to blame because they haven’t planned. This app (with corresponding subscription fee) take care of most of that for you!

I have been a member of this group/app since 2012 and have had nothing but a great experience. This app is not only informative it is also a social app. Love communicating with the other liners. Ask question or just say how your day is going. Everyone is always eager to give feed back or help. The main site is a lifesaver. Couldn’t tell you how many times I have used the reservation finder to either change my existing reservation or to try and obtain a hard to get reservation. Will end the review here before I start babbling.

I’m at Disney World right now and it’s really helpful.

Lines (and website Touringplans.com) have Nate Silvered the heck out of Disney. The recommendations and touring plans are incredibly helpful; the chat board even more so; and the dining reservation finder is the most magical secret weapon available for your Disney planning toolbox.

Get a subscription! There is an abundance of constantly updated info. Study up on crowds, resorts, attractions, and food. Get insider tips from park regulars on the chat feature. Make some touring plans. Have a much more magical vacation. Currently they are struggling with accurate crowd level predictions but that it because crowds are changing - blogs/social media advice and seasonal pricing are moving people away from summers and former peak times to fall and winter.

I had no idea the gem I stumbled on when I first signed up to have Touring Plans show me each room at my resort and then fax my room request. Touring plans also does schedule optimizing and attraction filtering. I punch in my kids ages and heights and it shows me what to go see and in what order and what my expected wait time is AND which rides to use my Fastpasses on. Which parks are the best based on crowds for which day. For a Disneyworld v***** it’s been like having a travel agent on my computer. They also have info on literally everything- honest direct info, not the vague pat answers the Disney sites give. So the app itself is good, but limited in its capabilities. Not surprising considering the back end data they are constantly pinging their server with. The very first thing you should do in your Disney planning, is sign up with Touring Plans.

I tell everyone about this wonderful planning tool. It’s an incredible gift if you’re wise enough to use it and dig through all the goodies. Good Luck with your next Disney trip, this will give you everything you need to succeed!

Touring plans faxed our room request for us and we got an amazing room with the exact view we wanted two rooms over from our request. The dining reservation finder found me our BOG dinner reservation. The updates on crowd levels are wonderful. Great job touring plans.

This app is essential. You provide your priorities and it crunches historical and current data to optimize your touring plan down to the minute to make sure you spend less time waiting in line at more time enjoying yourself. Critically important when there are crowds.

Every time I go to Disney World I renew my subscription. This is a lifesaver. A little bit of planning goes a long way.

Always use this for checking crowd levels and actual wait times at the parks

Overall this app and associated website were helpful in planning our trip. In the future I think I would use this app for the itinerary part of the planning, but take the crowd levels and expected wait times with a grain of salt. Unfortunately I think the projected park crowd level was way off for our trip (listing some as a 2 or 3 to see it actually end up being a 6). This in turn ended up making the projected wait times way off (character spot in Epcot projected at a 5 min wait ended up having a posted wait time of 50min and crowd inside to correspond). Even with the crowd/wait time issues the itinerary part was very useful to keep track of what we wanted to do next. My advice would be to not feel like you have to do your itinerary exactly as planned, and to adjust based on wait times (cross check in the actual Disney app) I would also like to see more of the character meet and greets included as options to pick as steps so they show in the itinerary (ie the ones without fastpass lines/wait times). I also did experience some glitchiness when trying to record wait times.

The lines app coupled with touring plans is an excellent source for touring Walt Disney World. It is a time maximizer for touring hands down and let's you enjoy the parks with a little less stress. The lines app is sort of clunky feeling and has virtually been the same for awhile. It really needs an update i mean come on 2 years and Naadda. Seems to work ok but we need to see a little more modern feel and interface and it needs more friendly integration with the web page. Also there are numerous meet and greets that would be nice to have added for us that like to see the charecters. Several are available but by no means are all listed. A tab on personal plan page with all charecters would mark this app better

Great app. We were able to plan our our trip and see everything we wanted to with minimum wait times. Could not have done on our own. The “reservation finder” snagged a Be Our Guest dinner reservation for us 6 days before our trip! Well worth the subscription fee! Update: 4 full days at Disney. One day at each park, 6 in group including kids 7, 10, and 13 and grandmother. This app worked to perfection. We did everything we wanted to and more. App provides great info to help you select attractions appropriate to your group, then plan day, accounting for fast passes and dining reservations, allowing you at adjust as you go if needed.

Over many years of using the Unofficial Guides and the Lines App since it came out, for me it has been consistently the best and most accurate for lines, reviews and planning. The room views alone on touringplans.com are worth the membership and app cost.

Do not try to Disney without this.

Best Disney Vacation app. The touring plans work. The line times are more accurate than the posted times. This is a must have.

New to the app but so far it’s been great! Real asset in planning my fall trip!

Appears to have trouble calculating our FP into the day plan with other attractions.

I spent one day at Magic Kingdom and one day at Epcot. I’m not finding this app useful at all. Surely I’m missing something with the other stellar reviews. The lines times were not even close to accurate at the Magic Kingdom.

We don’t even bother opening the My Disney Experience app for wait times. I maintain my touringplans subscription just for access to this. Much more accurate than any other source.

Can’t say enough good things about this app. Saved us for our first Disney world trip.

What would make this app super perfect is if it was a little more mobile responsive. Other than that it’s great, and is extremely accurate and current with information.

Disney and Universal are enormous properties with hundreds of things to do, see, ride, and eat. I believe firmly that if you don’t use this app to optimize your trip you haven’t gotten your money’s worth. If you’re in a relatively homogenous group age-wise, this app will let you do the entire Magic Kingdom in ONE DAY. Enough said.

I have been going to Disney my whole life, but never experienced it this smoothly and seamlessly. The app and advice from other users made this visit top notch!

I thought since we were going the second week of December we didn’t need the app and we could just wing it. WRONG! I will never go to Disney again without this app. Its predictions about crowds so you can plan which park to do and optimizing feature that helps you determine the order of rides to avoid the crowds make a huge difference. YOU NEED THIS APP TO HAVE THE BEST DISNEY EXPERIENCE!

This app was consistently wrong in crowd predictions and wait times during my trip.

Love being a part of this community: not a lot of complaining here, unlike other places. Lots of great suggestions from Disney Lifers. The App is often more correct than Disney’s posted times, except days when Disney has failed to adjust cast member staffing to meet actual guest attendance. Not much you can do about that, though.

I have used this app for years and it’s usually spot on but the crowd calendar (an important feature) isn’t very accurate. Our last visit was predicted to be a 5/10, but it was definitely a 10/10. I’ve been often enough to know what a 10 looks/feels like (major rides at MK had wait times of 90-200 minutes, bathrooms all had lines out the door with no toilet paper in some stalls, etc.).

Touring plans has some great tools. From tracking reported wait lines for rides, reservation finder to finding the best touring plan for each park you can’t go wrong! I would recommend their tools to anyone planning a trip to WDW.

Highly recommend and well worth the money if you learn to use its capabilities.

Works great, a must have for visiting Disney parks.

This is a great app for helping you out when your totally new to the World of Disney or a seasoned professional. It offers more than just wait time information. You do need to subscribe yearly though to experience the true benefits of this service. That’s the only caveat. It’s not really free.

Attending the parks without Lines is like going to a ball game and not knowing who’s playing or what sport you’re watching! Lines is a godsend. Their accuracy is astonishing. We never leave home without checking daily attendance. Why go and be disappointed with crowds. Try it, you’ll like it. 🔮

A new Disney mom here! I learned about this site and app only 3 weeks before our last minute trip. I wish I had learned about this last year because I would have started planning our trip earlier! However, the book and the subscription are STILL worth the money because there is so much information all neatly laid out. The crowd calendar, the detailed resort info, the touring plans, tips on how to get the dining reservations you want, so much info!! If you find planning a Disney trip intimidating, I highly suggest getting both the Unofficial Guide along with a year subscription to this app/site. You won’t regret it.

Really enjoy touring plans, have been a repeat customer for three years!

App isn't updating properly. Seems to be buggy. What waste of money. I'm currently on a ride that's listed as closed. I also see other rides not property posted times.

So far the website recovered from being down for almost two hours which was inconvenient but the fact that they fixed the problem was very positive.

I’ve used twice at WDW and once at Disneyland. Most of the time, the predictions are close. However at least a handful of times, it has been fantastically off. But wait times are updated often and I appreciate having a backup to the MD Experience app.

I wouldn’t dream of planning a WDW vacation without using Lines and Touring Plans. I’ve used them since 2004 and they have never let me down. From wait times, to crowd info, to Fast Pass+ suggestions, to snarky advice 😉, they give me what I need to know to shave hours off of our time standing in a queue.

Love the website and the app - the crowd tracker is awesome - and optimizing your day plan based on the crowd is even better - My only complaint was it was just a tiny bit cumbersome to put in fast passes and Dining reservations - pus it would not optimize one of my plans or me - but I couldn’t figure out why - kept saying I had a meal or rest time when a parade was to take place - but no parade was listed - eventually changed the time of my Dining to make it work - great idea - literally walks you through each park in the best sequence for the day - see how it works in the parks😄

I hear people talk all the time about how they hate going to Disney World because they don't like to stand line forever. Well, that's because they don't plan and well! And what is my favorite way to plan? Using Touringplans.com and they're app! I had used they're website back in 2011 for my last trip, but it's even better now! I love the ability to personalize the plans to fit my family's wishes and have it right at my fingertips with the app! I have a subscription for both Disney and Universal and have my plans all ready to go for next week! And I love how it will update as we complete parts of our plan according to circumstances in the park! Great app!!!

Can’t recommend enough!!!

I’m a planner and a data junkie. This app helped me focus my energy on enjoying the parks because I could research and plan before our trip (and then bring my plans with me). There are even features that I didn’t know about on our first short trip. Len pointed them out in a response to a question I had submitted (which he replied to quickly)! Thanks for helping me nerd out on plans and data while still allowing us to enjoy our vacation! I wonder if I can I link my Fitbit to the app too ;-) (How many steps can I get using this plan...LOL)

The waiting times and predictions were inaccurate. It said 44 mins for Flight of passage at 9 a.m. When it was 90 minutes. The app said to expect shorter lines but that never happened for Navi river journey. Didn’t find it very useful.

Crowd levels for parks are always more than they predict. Touring plans are terrible. When you optimize they will have you riding rides after the park has closed, etc. I won’t ever plan another trip around this useless information. I could probably guess and be as accurate as they are...

Used the app to follow our touring plan for Hollywood Studios. I know the book/app says a plan is more important than crowd level. I didn’t believe it until 10/8/18. Predicted crowd level was 7 but it was a 10. We had our plan and followed it. We were able to get in all the big attractions we wanted (Slinky, Toy Story Mania, Rock n Roller coaster, characters, etc) without waiting more than 25-35 minutes. I call that a success given how crowded it was.

I have used touring plans before and loved the app. I renewed because I’m planning our December wdw trip. I was billed 29.00 instead of 14.99. I also can’t log in to use the app. I’ve sent 2 emails over the past week and no one has bothered to contact me back. So basically I paid double to receive nothing and they won’t respond to my emails. I’m very disappointed for sure!

Used touring plans to request a room at BLT. I had reservations for lake view and requested using touring plans room request that they fax for you. I requested 8404 and it we got 8406!! It has an identical view!! So very happy! The reservation finder works Lomé a charm as well. Several reservations i requested have been found. Love this app!

This APP found three dinner reservations that I thought were going to be impossible to book! Definitely worth the money. Thank you so much.

The app is very useful. However it seems to have issues most of the time and I constantly get the cannot connect error. I am editing to one star, as I just returned from an 8 day trip and the app did not work one day of this trip. Not able to access wait times or touring plans I created. I am frustrated with this app especially as a paying subscriber for access to all the site features that are basically useless if the app does not work.

I’m a TouringPlans fan, although I think their accuracy has become a little less reliable lately as crowd levels become more unpredictable. On feature I’d like to see is the ability to plan split stays. Currently you have to create an entirely new trip even though you’re on the same vacation.

Disney World requires a lot of advanced planning these days. This app keep you organized for every step of your trip.

Used this app and the Universal Studios app. Very helpful to have all my trip info in one place.

Such a fantastic vacation planning tool. Covers every aspect! Highly recommend it AND their YouTube channel as well. Bravo!

Our trip is in April 2018. App as been such an awesome supplement to the book & website! Worth the price! I'll keep you posted my park experience after all the planning and update me star rating-giving them 5 I'd the goes well!!

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Get a subscription. Study up on crowds, resorts, attractions, and food. Get advice from park regulars on the chat feature. Make some touring plans. Have a much more magical vacation.

In theory, this works well. Most of the time. It also does random crazy things like tell you you can use a fast pass an hour before or 20 minutes after the time of your FP. Spoiler alert: you can’t! Don’t ask me how I know. :( It also made us miss the character greeting with the very character my little girl had been dressed up as and waiting to see, because the app apparently doesn’t tap into real-time schedule data from the WDW website, which we sadly found out had said our desired character greeting was scheduled to close five minutes before this app told us to go. So sad and frustrating. Lesson learnt: check the official WDW website for schedule information; DO NOT RELY ON THIS APP FOR ATTRACTION SCHEDULES! With those caveats, I will continue to use this app but never blindly rely on it as my sole insight into my planning.

Love this app! We use the official free My Disney Experience app but supplement it with this app for our custom itineraries and crow and line planning. Price is a pittance when compared to the cost of a WDW trip! We take the grandkids every other year to WDW always buy the unofficial guide and the app subscription!

Great app full of useful tools. In a lot of ways it's better than the official MDE Disney app for wait times. Utilitarian look but easy to navigate.

I’ve been using touringplans.com for 10 years and a dozen or so vacations. We spend very little time in lines thanks to this app. I’m a big fan of the books too.

Using this app in the parks significantly reduced our wait times! We were able to walk on to Space Mountain, Test Track, Kilimanjaro Safaris and so many more e-ticket attractions! The menu finder also helped us find new food offerings! Will be using the Disneyland version as well!

Love the touring plan concept so that you can prioritize in real time what you want to do. We have little kids, so at some point we threw up our hands and took it easy by the midafternoon. Then when we were ready to do attractions, we just reconfigured our touring plan and went right back into it. We were never standing in front of a map trying to figure out what to do. Just a couple of clicks and you are set. Love the app!

Weather was extremely unpredictable on our trip. This app made it easy to rearrange our plans without having to sacrifice any of the WDW rides/experiences. Couldn’t have done it all without TP!

This app is just so great! I am in the planning stage of our family of 4's first trip. I knew what rides we wanted to go on but I wasn't sure of the walking distance between those points. This app calculates those walking times for you! It even allows you to pick your walking rate from casual to speed walker. At the bottom of the page it has your map with your ride choices on it. This is very helpful to make sure you're not walking clear across the park multiple times. I can't wait until our trip and with this app I know it will run much smoother than if we didn't have it!!

It’s amazingly accurate the few times I’ve used it. It’s worth the money for sure.

I found the app good to make a plan, but crowds and waits were often longer than they predicted. First day at Epcot we were supposed to be able to do frozen and then have a 30 minute wait for test track. What a joke, waits were 70-85 minutes for test track and touring plans completely removed it from our plan because it was impossible. Today I was at MK with a supposed crowd level of 2- no way! Went to splash mountain in order of plan for a supposed 20 minute wait- it was 45 min posted, and we waited an hour. Wrecked the rest of the plan...

Garbage in -> garbage out. The wait times in the app are useless. Touring Plans claim that the posted wait times are wrong and to trust TP’s crowd-sourced data. Either the crowd can’t tell time, or TP is ignoring reports. Wait times are grossly underestimated. What a waste of a subscription. Oh and just try creating a custom plan for Animal Kingdom. It’s as productive as picking your nose with your elbows. Use Ridax instead.

Don’t do Disney w/o this app!

This app and its companion site have helped me to plan our Disney World trips each time. There are many time saving features and a whole lot of organizational tools to help you navigate the Disney system. Going to Disney can feel overwhelming but this app really help to cut down on that feeling. It will help you pick which park to go to, plan your trip, help with dining reservation tips, and even help you decide which ride to go in next while you’re at the park. I wouldn’t go to Disney without it!

I really wanted to like it. But this app severely underestimated line wait times (by half in many cases). I’m, as I write this, in a line that the app said would be 35 mins and I’ve been in it an hour with no end in sight. It is still early today but had the same experience a few days ago in MK. I followed the plan exactly. My suggestion to the creators is that it would be better overestimate than to underestimate line times. I would not have gotten in this line if i thought the wait would be 1.5 hours. But now I’ve been in it an hour I am stuck. I’d say getting the app is fine but build in “breaks” after every ride when creating you plan. 5-10 min breaks for unpopular rides and 20-30 min breaks for popular rides. If you move faster just delete the breaks and add in a meet and greet or shopping or quick ride.

I love the app, and with the cheap subscription you can do so much.

I pay for this service! Therefore I think that updates should constantly be pushed to the app. The updated UI is awesome and long overdue. I would love this app to be more of a hub for info while in the parks...is Fantasmic cancelled tonight? There should be somewhere to share that. The chat feature is cool and has a huge following, but it's people asking where they should eat for their trip in a year. I want to have a place to share "live" information about the parks for other people in the parks. I love this app though. It's easier to use than the Disney app for show schedules and is always accurate. Thank for all your work TP! Update: I wrote this several years ago and still true. Touring Plans, you NEED to give the endless people using it as a forum a place to talk about their UPCOMING trips so that the Chat can be about info happening in the Parks that day. Also, did the prices recently skyrocket??

This app/website is the absolute best tool you can use when planning and visiting Disney parks. I have used it both in Disney World and Universal Studios. Having a plan in place is a must when visiting these parks. This app/website is worth every penny for the amount of time and stress saved while on vacation. Not only does it help you build an in park touring plan, it will remind you when to book Dining, Fastpasses, etc. Plus you have access to a forum where you can ask other Disney travelers any questions you may have about your vacation. The folks at Touring Plans have collected at least a decade worth of data to bring users the most up to date information and touring plans possible. I use this to plan before my trip, then use while in the parks, updating it as I go for the optimal touring plan. I can’t recommend enough.

I used this to make my own plan and optimize along the way. I wish there was a way to check current wait times without having to switch screens each time, causing the app to reload. My battery drained quickly throughout the day.

I thought this app was great! I was on my own most of the time at Disney as my daughter was traveling with her team for a large competition at ESPN. This app may not be appreciated by a locals who can be choosy about when they go to the parks, but for me, it was helpful. The crowd levels were only mildly important for me because I was locked in to my dates. They only helped me decide which park to go to on any given day of my trip. Also, I was not trying to go on every single ride. I have a select few that I enjoy, so that helped also. This app helped to manage my time as I also needed to be at ESPN when my daughter was competing, helped me find what was available so I could get the most out of my visit, & kept me organized.

Not even there yet and I already know this is going to save the day!!!

I purchased the subscription plan with the company son I could make personalized plans and see them in the app. So far it seems really useful. I will try and update this after we use it in 2 weeks for our trip. Only thing that would be an awesome addition is a watch app that would vibrate to let you know to walk faster or when you are within your fast pass window.