Our Proven Disneyland Rope Drop Strategy to maximize your day
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2023
- If you're trying to get the most out of your day at Disneyland, the best way to start is at Rope Drop. And we've got the best ROPE DROP STRATEGY in the game that will help you conquer some of the toughest stand by wait times at Disneyland. We'll show where to be at rope drop, what time to get there, which attractions to hit and what order to hit them.
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We rope dropped following this advice. We did space mountain, matterhorn, thunder mountain, and then Indiana Jones. It was exactly like the video. We walked onto all the rides and when we came out of Indiana Jones the wait was up to 45 min. Thanks for the great video.
I love how everyone on the Main Street vehicle all yelled, "Fresh Baked!" Made me smile!
That is so cute😊
I missed, is there a time stamp?
@@weir_family at 18:37
@@eagleeyez1Thank you!
Love this. We rope dropped July 16th and our goal was ToonTown as we have never been to the new one. We rode all the rides and pretty much shared ToonTown with what seems like only a couple of families. By the time we got out of MMRR we stopped for an early lunch at Daisys Cafe and got our food within 8 minutes. We loved it! In total that day we were able to accomplish about 21 rides, parade and the fireworks. We left after fireworks tho cuz our feet were beat. 😂 Did this with four kiddos. They had a blast. We made sure to take plenty of water breaks and sit town for breaks as well.
You guys are amazing👏👏🏆🏆
I love that you rope drop Toontown. It's not what I would do but everyone is different and enjoys the park their own way.
Where did you wait to rope drop Toontown? That is my goal for our 2 year old.
@@Brenduhh0822I’m planning on rope dropping toon town and will be at the path that runs to the right hand side of castle between it and Matterhorn straight back past Alice to small world area and down into toon town
21 rides during July is an accomplishment! Well done! We were there last week and did 23 rides two days in a row. Much easier to do in January with less crowds.
Love that they play “Be our guest” after the announcement instead of Mickeys Mix Magic. Maybe for the 100th celebration…
i knew it was you! 33:23, you can see me walk across, i was wearing the disney 100 jersey with the disneyland backpack. i looked back and knew it was you recording. wanted to say hi but didn’t want to interrupt your video lol. love your videos, always makes me hyped before a disney trip:)🙏🏼
Been looking forward to this! Rope drop is definitely a must at least once! Thank you for taking us with you so bright and early. FRESH BAKED!! 💙💚
I love how accessible your videos are, David! You make the videos easy to navigate through and make it simpler for guests to navigate through the parks at rope drop! I miss Disneyland right now (I just got back from a trip August 4-6), but your videos made me feel like I was there again! Amazing video! Thank you for everything, David! 🤗👍🏻👍🏻
This was such a fun and informative video! I loved your joyful expressions while riding Big Thunder, and totally agree with what you said at the end about just doing whatever makes you happy. 😀
@freshbaked hope you never get tired of covering DL parks. Plan on watching for tips, tricks and updates until the day I depart the earth. As always thanks to you and your family for all you do for us fans 🎉
Every time I rope drop, I go straight to space mountain as you did. One time, after my first ride, there was no one in line to when we pulled in the boarding area. They let us do a second ride without getting off. Probably will never happen to me again but it was a great experience to have.
Sounds like a dream come true. When was that?
@@cheesehead52221 2019
Thank you for going so much and having such phenomenal insight into how things work in this park. I’ve met you twice and you’re humble kindness doesn’t go unnoticed. I’ve met a lot of huge A list celebrities and I get just as excited when I see you. You’ve helped this gal (going to the park since 1989) to learn soooo much more than I could have ever imagined. You’re simply THE best Disneyland vlogger, and I follow them all (Provost, Adam, Justin, Magical Journeys, etc) Love and appreciate you all for what you give us.
Nothing beats being there in person, but videos like this make me feel like I'm there with you! Appreciate it so much.
Agreed!
I've just recently discovered your RUclips page and LOVE it. My husband and I used to take our boys to Disneyland all the time when they were young and we were living in San Diego. Now we're in AZ and we just can't make it back there very often, but your videos make me feel like I'm actually there again and I can't thank you enough for taking the time to go and record as much as you do.
We were actually back there in July for our youngest son's 21st birthday and now my husband and I want to go back for just one day at Disneyland in early December when it's all decorated for Christmas - our favorite time of year! Your rope drop strategy is the best I've found that aligns with our favorite rides, too. I just wish I could learn to record my day the way you do!
Good morning David! That last piece of advice, do what makes you happy, is golden.
Thanks for a fun vlog! Have a wonderful day!
I took my brother & cousin to Disneyland & DCA yesterday & did the rope drop & thanks to all your helpful tips we got on all the big rides. Thank you! You da’ man! 🏆
We would love to see a rope drop strategy for Fantasy Land and everything kid related. Thanks David!
Same!
Start at Pan and work your way around counter clockwise. I do this Day 1 every time. Pan fills up pretty bad so hit it early. Sometimes Alice is second on the list but counter clockwise will take care of you.
You're the only disney youtuber I watch the full video your speaking skills are impeccable you get on the rides you're cool witj the other youtubers all around I can tell you're a genuine bloke and real disney fan
My husband and I are going in Oct by ourselves and this is exactly my plan. THANK YOU! I’m sending this video to him to prove there IS a method to the madness!😂❤❤❤
Great video. I'm bringing my kids first week of January.
Used to work there in 1977.
Can't wait to be home again.
You were right! You know the traffic flow. Staying just ahead of each line. Nicely done.
5:05 "Half-Baked!" 🤣🤣
Thanks for this video Fresh Baked. This reminds me of some older videos that you used to put to of best practices and such. Such a great video and there are so many GOLDEN nuggets in this video. Thanks again. Fresh Baked!!
I’m a die hard rope-dropper and I love this video so much!! Excellent job!!
Planning my first trip without family on a limited timeframe and this is so so helpful! Hope we see you there!
Such a great video! The smile of pure joy on BTM and to finish it with advice, to just do what makes you happy. 🙌🏽💙 Thank you for giving us a quality video!
Thank you so much for this! I have a trip planned in just under 2 months. I appreciate your knowledge & experience & explaining the "why" behind your strategies. I hope this makes our first few hours in the park magical!
This is the BEST rope drop video I’ve seen. Can’t wait to put this strategy into play!! Thank you!! Thank you!!
Great rope drop strategy, David. Super smart, maximize E ticket rides and be smart about it. Love this so much. Thank you!!!!
Thank you for making this. It gives me new perspective on ropedrop and prioritizing rides.
thank you for posting!! So fun that you are sharing your hobby and expertise with us :)
Great tips, used them last week and by 10h15 we had ridden 5 attractions. After Space mountain we saw that Matterhorn was closed so we went to star tours, then Big Thunder and Indiana Jones. After that Matterhorn was already openned so we ran for it. Your tips were gold, thanks a lot, I´m from Brazil and had only one day to do it so it really paid off.
My husband and I are going to Disneyland soon and we're just talking about what our strategy would be! Perfect timing for this video. We are definitely going to try this.
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We did exactly what you suggest and did early morning “ big “ rides and used our genie plus for the second ride of the day . Were really happy with that option .
We were just at Disneyland Aug 12, 13 and 16. We definitely tried your tips, David. August 12 (Saturday) was our first day at Disneyland and we followed your suggestions. Sadly, Matterhorn and Indy were down. But after Big Thunder mtn, we did Haunted Mansion, Rise and Smuggler's run with no long waits. Back to Matterhorn. All these were done before lunch. After quick lunch at Tropical hideaway, we did tiki room (to cool off) , Indy, Mickey and Minnie. By then, i was too hot and too tired to continue. Grab sandwiches at Earl's of Sandwiches and headed back to hotel to rest and cool off. Returned to DCA after 6:30. Much more pleasant and did Carsland rides and Incredicoaster with short wait. It was a great start of our 3 days at Disney. Love your videos and all your hard work in helping us plan this trip.
Such a great video. I’m only 15 minutes in and so far the best strategy video I’ve watched thus far. Preparing for Disneyland next month, they’ll open at 9 and I’m hoping to take as much advantage of time as I can. My kid is not too big on the trill rides but this is definitely helping me see what moves to make when we go. Thanks so very much and maybe we’ll see you there! We’ll be in all Goofy Movie Merch!
We are heading to Disneyland next week for our honeymoon and will be trying this strategy! Thanks, FreshBaked! :)
I have a bad back at the moment, and just watching the footage of the Matterhorn is giving me phantom twinges in my back 🤣 I love this video though, I'm looking forward to putting your advice into practice on my next trip!
This is by far one of my favourite videos - no one should question your experience and we are grateful for it
Hi. I wouldn't consider myself a big Disneyland fan but found your channel doing research for our first trip with kids 6 years ago. Been watching your videos off and on ever since. We just did our second trip and was so glad to have found this video a few days before...we followed your advice with 2 tweens on a Tuesday 8/22 and it worked out exactly the same. However IJ was more important to us than TM so we did them in reverse order. I think this was a good move because after only a 5 minute wait for IJ the queue was already weaving around outside when we left. TM was about a 10 minute wait afterwards. Rise was closed but happened to open when we were standing out in front of it at 9:30 AM and we bagged that one with a 5 minute wait as well. In the end our longest wait of the day was for Alice in Wonderland around 7PM which was 30 minutes. Funny how that works. Instead of waiting in lines we were able to use LL to do most of the big rides twice by not using it in the morning. My favorite line now is "rope dropping rope drop", which we did! We were on the corner of the second rope behind the first one which worked great as we could shoot out when they opened it and be right there with the people on the 1st rope speed walking to space mountain.
One of the most useful vlogs you’ll ever see!! Very useful for those of us who only visit once a year or less. Thanks!!!
Definitely trying this next time I go to the park! You got so much done! And even if you got breakfast to go, it’s be delivered fast and you could eat while on a queue!
Awesome Fresh Baked tips! Your 'have fun do what makes you happy' at the end of video, that's also a good tip-last trip we didn't get Genie + /rope dropped zero wait rides finding them by walking-by. We avoided 'checking the app' navigation til late morning. Felt like old school Disneyland experience. Thanks David!
What I love about Disney is that it seems like they give VLOGers no issues recording in the rides, Universal here in Orlando never let’s us.
Still love Universal, just wish they’d let us record in the rides.
I understand if it's the thrill rides but they prohibit filming on the slow dark rides as well 🤷.
it's better, I don't like to see the rides because it ruins the surprise when I actually get there.
@@estebanavelar4118 some people like to prepare themselves so they watch ride POVs especially if it's a thrill ride but I prefer to go blindly as well.
I went to disneyland for my bday on April 30th and your strategy was Perfect!! I couldnt believe how quickly I got on the rides. I didnt do space mountain but i did Star tours and went straight for the other mountains. A complete walk on, even Pirates, Indie, Snow white, even Smugglers run. Thank you so much for sharing. I got the three days so I got two more days
I liked this video! I think we'll try and implement this plan one of the days next time we're there. Thank you!
David sooo enjoyed this vlog, thank you! Have an awesome day. 😊
What a great video!! These are really good tips. I was actuality there on Sunday for my bday. At about 35 minutes in, I saw us walking behind you. I didn't see you then. You're stealthy! My plan was to be there at rope drop. My husband & I got to the gate at 7:30am, but had to wait an hour for our family to arrive. It still all worked out great.
Nicely done.. I am a serious rope dropper myself.. I come about 4-5 times a year on weekend trips. Depending who I’m with .. whole fam, grandson, just me and hubby or me and friends will usually determine our strategy. Lots of fun though 😊
Hi David! Thank you for the tips! I love watching your videos. They have been very helpful. I've been to Disney many times but have gone different ways during rope drop. I will be there with just my 12 year old daughter this time beginning of next month and will definitely try your recommendations. Hope to see you on the 3rd! Take care.
Hi David!
It was interesting to get your take on how to make the most of rope-drop.
I managed to get on Indiana Jones at rope drop without issues, which was a relief. My family and I went at the end of June, and the wait times for all of the rides were great. The longest wait was for Space Mtn at 75 min at around 11:00am.
Steve when he tells the fire truck to yell Fresh Baked😭💛 definitely my favorite part of the video!
Awesome video! Excited to put this to the test next time I’m in the park.
The Ropers! Thanks for the video, Fresh Baked :)
Love the video! My favorite rope drop day I ever had in DL was when I did just Fantasyland. I started with Alice and I was able to do SO many rides in that first hour.
I just found your channel and i am going on vacations this december and I really liked your advise this has really been helped and even more so because you explain everything and give us your advice I would really like to see more videos to really enjoy disney hope to bump into you and more videos with your tremendous advice
Another awesome and very informative video. Thank you David as always. 👍🏻
That was great!! Thanks Fresh Baked!
Thanks for the fresh tips! Will try them in October.
We were at park on August 1st with littles, the youngest just hit 40 inches. We were walking down Main Street at 8:05 and got off Rise at 9:00 then we hit Fantasyland. My biggest surprise was only a 25 minute wait for Runaway Railroad.
Another great, informative video! Mary Poppins is my favorite too, so much so that I named my fur baby Poppins, aka Poppy because she is practically perfect in every way ❤
We did this exactly as you did! We got 5 rides done between 8am and 10:15! It worked perfectly!
David thank you for such great advice. I will remember the rides you suggested and try it the next trip we make to Anaheim👏👏😊😊
My daughter hates all the coasters and my wife doesn't love them so rope drop for the fam is a bit more chill. We were last in the park in March (in the monsoon) and it was one of the first days for Runaway Railway standby and we used our rope drop very successfully for that attraction. It is now my favorite attraction! I often come back to the park solo late in the evening after everyone else is back at the hotel to get my Mountains handled.
Such a good video! I'm going for they first time only one day and this tips are going to be gooold
Great advice. Did a rope drop 05/30/24 following your video and it worked. Got SM, Matterhorn, BTM, and Raiders done by 9.38. Rise had hit 120 mins by then and never dropped below 65 so we didn't get on that. We did hit more rides after and were burned out by 4pm. One tip. There was so many people pushing and shoving to get closer to the rope. Don't bother stressing yourself out. Stay where you are and you'll still probably walk onto SM. We didn't race, we walked, and despite what looked like a thousand people in front of us, we strolled straight onto the ride with one 20 second stop. Getting set in advance for your next ride and knowing where it is and the best way to get there is key also if you don't know the park.
We saw you that morning standing at the rope! My son said “look it’s Dave with fresh baked” yelled at you glad you had a fun morning and thanks for the videos!
What a great strategy, David! I’m hoping this could still work second week of October. So excited to come back home!
REQUEST: can you do a specific drop video for families with Toddlers?
Extra special thanks you David, my kids are with you for the first three attractions.
Perfect timing as usual. Going next weekend!
Thank you David very helpful. I will use this advice when I am there on Saturday🙂
This was really fun to watch. Thank for the tips, we are headed to Disneyland today!!!
These are amazing tips! I’m going to Disneyland later this month for just a day and haven’t been in 11 years so I will definitely be following your suggestions to maximize my day. Thank you!
Not sure if you will ever see this comment but wanted to thank you for this brilliant video. 2 of my friends and I did the rope drop on May 5th. We were right in front at the rope at Tomorrowland when a cast member announced HyperSpace Mountain wasn’t going to open at 8.
We then looked at the app and realized Rise wasn’t going to open (2 of us had yet to ride Rise). Based on this video, we decided to hit Matterhorn first and follow the rest of your recs. Right until rope drop, we were hashing our different scenarios. We felt that with HSM and Rise down, it would impact the other rides like MH, BT and IJA. With HM and TBA out, some major rides were going to be available.
In short, your strategy worked superbly. We completed MH, BT, and IAJ by 9am. I was confident if HSM had been open, we would have completed all 4 by 9:30. After completing all 3 rides we marveled at how amazing that was. It felt like it opened up our day and took a lot of pressure off us to do those rides.
After a quick beignet snack, we decided to hit Rise. Right as we crossed into SWL, I checked the app and it said Rise was open and 25 minutes for Standby. We were at the entrance two minutes later. By the time we finished walking through all the sections and we got to the Rey room, 9 minutes had passed. We know we were incredibly lucky. Before, 9:30, we were able you check off 4 of the 6 must rides on our list. Seriously, thank you for these great videos, they helped make our trip successful and memorable.
Between this video and the information you collected on your 30 rides on Rise, we maximized our time from rope drop to closing. We got to ride HSM, MH, BT, IAJ, Rise, MMRR twice on Sunday. We even got to do most of Fantasyland from 11pm till closing.
My husband and I are Magic Key holders and travel from Alaska go to Disneyland multiple times a year. We enjoy your tips to make help things go smoothly.
My husband used to like thrill rides, but for the last few years he’s only able to do kid rides. It works out great for me, because I can use his Fast Pass on his genie plus as well as mine. It’s a win win!!👏👏
PS Yesterday was his birthday, and he was one year old when Haunted Mansion opened!
Great tips, my brother and I will be there next month and will defenately try them. Thanks a lot.
Dave, Great video! My family will be in the park this coming week!
Thank you for your excellent videos. We visited Disneyland in January, given that we live in New Zealand we can't just pop in any weekend we feel like it so we wanted to make the most of our time. Your guides really helped us with this. We followed your rope drop advice and it worked perfectly - a great start to our day!
Awesome thank you! I’d love to see a follow up for this showing how you’d tackle Day 2 in DL pre 10am.
If we were to follow this plan for Day 1 then have a slow, cruise rest of the day, which big rides would we do first day 2?
Thank you so much! Great video!
This is awesome for one day! I rope drop the west side of the park on Day 1, the east on Day 2.
Thanks for the expert advice as always!
Last two trips to DLand we rope dropped - Space Mountain each time - and both times it was closed. Obviously we made our way to Matterhorn - also closed. 🙂 Best takeaway was to always keep options and plans open and not get bogged down with what you can't control. Going again in November, and you better believe we're rope dropping Space again. 😀
Just moved away from SoCal and we miss Disneyland so much already. We are in Florida but 8 hours away from WDW. Love the videos!
Can’t wait to try this!
This is very helpful - thank you!
great video. informative and fun
Flawless rope drop!! 🎉
We visited DW in 2020. We were so excited for ROTR. It broke down twice while we were on it. We were escorted out through the employee break room. The staff was almost mean about no cameras allowed in the staff area, but I understand. The third time we had the pass to walk to the front of the line and it worked.
I loved this so much 😊 Expert navigating.
Interesting to see you had to wait a little on Big Thunder. It really depends on the day. We went about 2 weeks ago and we got in the park about 9 -ish and we walked onto Big Thunder twice. I'm always fascinated with the crowds and how random they are sometimes.
Really appreciate you mentioning the time throughout the video!
I haven’t been to Disneyland in five years, so I feel out of the loop
Runaway railway is also a decent rope drop after you finished space mountain and Matterhorn. You’ll just have to hit big thunder later in the day when it gets less busy
This strategy is 🔥🔥🔥 Wish I had followed this my entire Disney Trip. We tried to rope drop Rise once and it took longer than going in the middle of the day. We tried to rope drop Indiana Jones another day and it was closed.
Thank you so much for all this helpful information. I have never rope dropped and don’t know anything about it. 😊🤩😍
Love this!! Excellent Disneyland order of operations. Any tips on rope drop plan while Space Mountain is closed?
1/31/24 We rope dropped RotR (but were a bit late, so made it to the circle just at 8am), got to it, the ride was broken down (cast members said they did not know how long it would take to fix, might be 1 hour or could be 2 hours) so we went to Smuggler’s Run, waited 10/15 mins, then when we came out, RotR was up and running and had a 25 min wait time, we timed our line wait and we ended up waiting 8 mins before we got into the pre-show stuff, we were so thankful that happened to work out for us! Rope dropping space mountain next, thank you!
My sister wants to rope drop Rise, and I think I’ll send her this video. Thank you!
I always get to the Adventure land rope drop first. So I go right to Indy, Pirates, and Haunted mansion with no long wait issues. Also seeing how Indy closes daily it’s best to hit it first as later you may never gat to at all.