A planner for the trip
before the trip.
Shape your trip, build your dining wishlist, and walk into the 60-day booking morning with a plan — not a panic. Florida Planned is a focused operations tool for UK families visiting Walt Disney World — and the Universal day, beach day, or airboat stop you're fitting around it.
Day 3 · Wed
21 Oct
Magic Kingdom08:3009:00– 22:00
+ 4 more
Day 4 · Thu
22 Oct
EPCOT14:00 – 21:00
+ 2 more
Day 5 · Fri
23 Oct
Universal Studios11:00 –17:00
Plan the whole trip free. Pay £14 only when you're ready to unlock booking morning.
Main Street, Magic Kingdom
Plan your whole trip by talking to Flo.
Flo is the planning companion built into Florida Planned — calm, quick, and quietly expert, like a friend who's done this a hundred times. Bring her an itinerary and she'll map it onto your canvas free; unlock a trip and she builds the whole thing with you, day by day, in conversation.
Let her run the planner
Describe the trip the way you'd brief a friend and Flo lays out the days, dining and rides across the whole stay — then reshapes it when you change your mind. She suggests, never lectures, and never books behind your back. New, rolling out to unlocked trips.
See what the unlock includes →Free · her free sideOr just bring her an itinerary
Already drafted a plan in ChatGPT — or anywhere? Paste it in and Flo reads it and maps every day, park, meal and ride straight onto the canvas. No template to fill in, no card needed.
Meet Flo →A 2019 spreadsheet that wouldn't quit.
Florida Planned started life as Disney_Meal_Planning.xlsx — a tab per trip, a sheet per day, formulas for dining credits, conditional formatting for booking-window dates.
Andrew built it; his wife Karen has tested every version since, trip after trip. Years of UK-family Walt Disney World trips later, the spreadsheet had grown legs — it knew which signature restaurants were worth the credit, modelled which days needed to be lighter for jet-lagged children, tracked confirmation numbers. On booking morning it was the thing we re-planned on live, three times over, as first-choice tables sold out and other families fought for the same slots. It worked, but it lived in one file that only its author could drive.
When friends started asking for a copy, it was clear the thing had to become software, not a file passed around. The existing tools — TouringPlans, Mouse Hub — are American, broad, and built for repeat visitors who already know what they're doing. UK first-timers needed something narrower, sharper, and aware that booking morning lands at 11am on a Tuesday in May.
Florida Planned is that spreadsheet, rebuilt as software, carrying the editorial voice of a UK couple who have done this trip fourteen times. Built solo, in evenings, for the families who would otherwise be stuck in the panic at 10:58am UK time.
A first WDW trip is mostly admin you didn't sign up for.
Spreadsheets in the family group chat. Conflicting blog advice. Wake up at 11am UK time, refresh My Disney Experience, hope Cinderella's Royal Table loads. We've all been there. The tools that exist are American, expensive, and built for repeat visitors.
And multi-day shape matters: the first day is for jet lag, not 35,000 steps. Anchor a rest day after arrival. Front-load the Magic Kingdom morning. Park-hop only when it pays. The plan happens weeks before the bookings, not on booking morning itself.
60-day booking morning is at 11am UK time.
Dining bookings open exactly 60 days ahead at 11am UK time — Florida is five hours behind, so it's 6am there. UK families are sat at their desks with a window of about four minutes before the signature restaurants — Disney's premium two-credit venues like Cinderella's Royal Table and Le Cellier — book out.
A dining plan needs credit choreography. Out-of-pocket needs different sums.
Disney bundles a different dining plan with each resort tier, and the maths doesn't transfer between them. Florida Planned tracks the sums automatically — credits if you're on a plan, dollar spend if you're not.
| Resort tier | Plan included | What it covers per person, per night |
|---|---|---|
| ValuePop Century, All-Star | Limited counter-service |
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| ModeratePort Orleans, Caribbean Beach | Quick-Service Plan |
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| Deluxe & DVC VillaGrand Floridian, Polynesian, Boardwalk | Table-Service Plan |
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| Any tier | Deluxe Dining (paid upgrade) |
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| Any tier | No plan — pay as you go | No credits. Pay menu prices in dollars; the canvas tracks running spend in pounds. |
It's a UK-to-central-Florida trip,
not just a Disney trip.
Most UK families don't fly 4,500 miles for one resort. Florida Planned plans the days around the parks too — a Universal day, a beach day at Clearwater or Anna Maria, an airboat trip in Kissimmee, a Kennedy Space Center day on the drive back, the outlet mall on the last morning. Drop a non-Disney day on the canvas, give it a label, the rest of the trip shape adjusts around it.
Built for a cheeky week, 14-nights, 21-night DVC stretches, and multi-stop holidays with a few days at a beach resort.
Four moves, weeks of planning compressed.
Create your trip
Dates, party, package operator, dining plan tier. Two minutes. We work out your booking windows from here.
Build your wishlist
Pick restaurants and Lightning Lanes with priority. Star the must-dos, queue the rest — ready for the canvas in step 3.
Shape the days
Set the rhythm — park days, rest days, hopper days. Drag or tap wishlist items onto a day and the suggester finds the best slot.
Work the booking window
On the morning your 60-day window opens, your priority list is ready. Click. Book. Tick. Move on.
One surface for the whole trip.
Day cards expand in place. Drag a restaurant onto Day 4, the suggester finds the slot. No second route, no spreadsheet to print. The trip lives on one page and stays there.
- Expand in place. Tap a day, the timeline grows. Siblings stay visible above and below.
- The park rail. Colour is the park, height is the time you spend there. Read a fortnight in one glance.
- Light-touch suggester. Matches restaurants to days by park + meal period + slot. Opinion-light by design.
- Mobile is the same. Tap to expand becomes tap-to-add-at-time. Same architecture, smaller viewport.
Day 1 · Mon
19 Oct
Land MCO 16:20 · check in
Day 2 · Tue
20 Oct
Day 3 · Wed
21 Oct
+ 5 more
Day 4 · Thu
22 Oct
Day 5 · Fri
23 Oct
The plan travels with you.
The canvas you built on a laptop is the canvas you open in the queue. Reading a day and editing one are separate now, so a glance stays a glance — and the wishlist knows what still fits before the park closes.
Day 4 · Thu
22 Oct
Hollywood Studios · EPCOT
Read a day
The day opens inside the card. No new screen, no lost place in the fortnight.
Editing day 4
Thu 22 Oct
EPCOT closes at 21:00, but your park time here runs to 22:00.
Parks on this day
Edit a day
Editing is its own full screen with one way out. Conflicts sit at the top, in plain English.
Day 8 · Thu
29 Oct
Add to Thu 29 Oct
Magic Kingdom · closes 18:00 to day guests
Doesn't fit — add anyway?
Add from the wishlist
The sheet counts what actually fits that day — and says plainly why the rest doesn't.
Built for the way UK families actually plan.
Flo, your planning companionUnlock · £14
Describe the trip you want and Flo builds it with you — adding and reshaping days, dining and rides across the whole stay. Calm, quick and opinion-light: she suggests, never lectures, and never books anything for you. New, rolling out to unlocked trips.
Bring Flo an itineraryFree
Flo's free side: paste a ChatGPT itinerary — or any plan you already have — and she reads it and maps every day, park, meal and ride straight onto the canvas. Free for everyone, no card. Meet Flo →
Day-by-day canvas
Visual trip planner with park days, hopper days, rest days, arrival and departure. Drag-and-drop with optimistic updates.
Booking morning surfaceUnlock · £14
Priority-ordered restaurant list ready for 11am UK time — the moment Florida's 6am booking window opens. Countdown timer. Status ticks as you book.
Dining-plan credit tracker (and out-of-pocket spend tracker)Unlock · £14
Quick-service, table-service and signature credits across the trip — for the Quick-Service Plan, Table-Service Plan, and the paid Deluxe upgrade. Catches under- and over-spend before it happens. Mark a meal as out-of-pocket and the credit count adjusts; switch back and it goes the other way. Pay-out-of-pocket families get the same surface as a running-spend tracker instead.
Restaurant catalogue
Filter by park, meal period, credit cost, character meal, signature. Editorial notes from real visits, not marketing copy.
Light-touch suggester
Suggests the slot, never the day. You decide whether Day 1 is light or heroic — the tool doesn't lecture.
Printable summary
One-page export per day for the resort fridge. Park, dining, transport, who needs which Lightning Lane.
What a booking morning is worth.
A table-service credit has no fixed value. Used well, it covers a $60–70 meal at a restaurant that fills its tables sixty days out. Left to chance, it is a hotel counter burger — or it lapses unused.
For a family of four across a two-week trip, that gap is around $1,500 of table-service dining (roughly £1,200) — secured in the hour your booking window opens, or left on the table.
Plan for free. Unlock booking morning.
Build the whole trip for nothing — including importing an itinerary you already have. One payment unlocks every premium feature — led by Flo, the planning companion that builds your trip from a chat, plus booking morning and dining-plan tracking. A WDW holiday for a family of four runs north of £8,000, so the planner is rounding.
Free
- Build your trip — any length
- Import a plan you already have — one free per trip
- Day-by-day canvas, drag and drop
- Wishlist, suggester, full catalogue
- No card, no sign-up wall
Unlock one trip
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Flo — plan your trip in conversation
- Booking-morning surface + countdown
- Dining-plan credit tracker
- Printable summary · access +30 days after return
The questions everyone asks first.
Are you affiliated with Disney?
No. Florida Planned is an independent UK product. It uses your own My Disney Experience account to make bookings — we never touch your Disney credentials. Disney, Walt Disney World, Lightning Lane, and the Disney Dining Plan are trademarks of The Walt Disney Company. Used here for descriptive purposes only.
Can Flo build my trip, or do I start from scratch?
Both, plus a middle option. With a trip unlocked, Flo — our planning companion — builds and reshapes your whole trip from what you tell her: “a calmer week two, a character breakfast midweek.” If you've already drafted a plan (in ChatGPT or anywhere), bring it to her free and land straight on the canvas. Or start with a blank canvas and build day by day. However you begin, everything stays fully editable — Flo suggests, she never books for you.
Does this book my restaurants for me?
No. Disney requires you to book through My Disney Experience directly. What we do is sequence your priorities, time the booking morning, and give you a single screen showing exactly what to click and in what order. You still do the booking; we just make sure you're not winging it at 11am UK time.
I'm a repeat visitor with my own system. Is this for me?
Maybe. If you've got a planning rhythm that works, Florida Planned won't replace it. We're sharpest for first- and second-time UK families on a Disney resort package, but the canvas works for any UK trip to central Florida — including the Universal day or the beach day you're fitting in around the parks. Repeat-visitor pricing (clone-and-replan for next year's trip) is something we'll revisit once v1 is live.
What if I'm not on the Disney Dining Plan?
The canvas works fine without one. Out-of-pocket dining is its own planning problem — currency conversion, picking where the menu prices justify a £200+ dinner, knowing which counter-service stops are actually decent value. The catalogue gives editorial notes on every restaurant from someone who's eaten there. The canvas runs your spend per day and across the trip in GBP. If you're on a plan and want to pay out of pocket for some meals (saving credits for higher-value dinners), the canvas tracks that split.
Do I pay in pounds or dollars?
Pounds. Trip prices are shown in GBP, with USD shown alongside for things you'll pay at Disney directly (meals not on DDP, merchandise, tips). We don't convert your Disney spend — we just make it visible.
How long do I have access?
From purchase until 30 days after your return date. The trip data stays on file even after access expires; you can buy access again to re-open it if you decide to go back.
Can I get a refund?
Yes — you have 14 days, no questions asked. The clock starts the first time you use a paid feature (Flo, booking morning, the credit tracker or the printable summaries), not the day you pay. Planning is free, so using the canvas doesn't start it either.
Is Florida Planned available yet?
Yes — the app is open now, so you can start planning your trip today. The catalogue and editorial notes keep growing trip by trip, so expect it to get richer over time.
Walk in with a plan.
The 60-day window opens on a fixed date. Today is the right day to start shaping the trip. Everything else falls out of that.