Depends on who I’m with.
My current travel buddy is a big entertainment fan like me. We were just there for 3 days and we ended up with 9 rides for her and 10 for me. She sat out on Matterhorn. We pretty much exclusively saw the Dapper Dans, the parade, Royal Theatre, and ate food. We woke up early each day so while it was a little more relaxed in the park it was still a go go go trip.
We usually try to set the expectations of each day the night before- when do we want to get there and what are some goals for the day?We aren’t usually rope droppers but some of the recent trips have had early dining (we usually don’t do dining but we brought someone with us in January who wanted to, and we decided to try Carnation this trip) which brought us into the park early. Once we’re in, we don’t leave until we’re done for the day. Our hotel is a close enough walk, probably about 10 mins but we will usually see a night time show each evening. This trip, it was both Wondrous and World of Color each night before heading back.
So most of our park days were over 12 hours long but they always fly right by!
We’ve met a lot of the current slew of characters but we have a few we always like to meet so we will stop if it’s a necessity. Usually we only ride things if it’s early morning/in between entertainment things at night or if something gets cancelled. We had a good chunk of rain this trip so that allowed us a few more things we might’ve missed. We also have a tradition to get lobster nachos and donuts once a trip so that’s usually a guarantee for one of our nights.
We are big into nostalgic so hitting things we hit on our first trip is always special to us- shboom in Carsland, Main Street vehicles, wondrous journeys, magic happens, lots of dapper dans, flag retreat, etc. ends up becoming the focal points of the trip and anything else is a bonus.