How to: Google Calendar

I have just added a "How to" for Google Calendar and MouseCal. In this article, I describe how I used MouseCal and Google Calendar to generate a custom calendar for a recent trip that I took to Disney World. This calendar came in very handy for planning our daily visits. With the calendar, we were able to seen which park had morning and evening Extra Magic Hours. This allowed us to try a strategy that I had heard recently on a Disney-related podcast. The strategy is to go to the park that had evening Extra Magic Hours the night before. The thinking is that many of the resort guests would make use of the extra hours the night before and therefore not visit this same park the next morning. I don't know how well this strategy worked, but I don't feel that it was a bad strategy at least.

I also plan to use this calendar technique for future trips. For instance, this can be helpful in planning dining ADRs. You can request an ADR at a park that you are planning to use Extra Magic Hours in, making the best use of your time by not wasting travel time from the restaurant to the park on that day.