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Every so often, something crosses our team’s desk that reminds us exactly who we are as a company. Today it was a notebook page. A literal, hand-drawn, three-pen schematic titled “Disney Room Setup,” produced by one of our very own team members before a Disney World trip, and shared with the rest of us completely unprompted, like it was normal to draw a floor plan with assigned drawer zones for a five-night hotel stay, and to us, it is! We have questions. We have so many questions. Let’s go through it.

The Blueprint

At first glance, this looks like it could be evidence in a very low-stakes heist film. On closer inspection, it is in fact a complete room management system, hand-labeled in blue ink with pink and black annotations layered on top like a second draft of a crime scene. There is a “SHOES” area. There is a designated zone for “STROLLER — HANG PARK BAG.” There are double-headed arrows next to the word “LUGGAGE,” which we can only assume represents where the bags were stored.

This is the part of the drawing that separates the amateurs from the professionals. This isn’t just “put snacks in fridge.” This is a fully zoned distribution center. There’s a line for “protein powder,” a line for “coffee: mugs,” and then — and we cannot stress this enough — individually assigned water bottle and food territory for Mike, Nikki, and the kids, like a hotel mini-fridge is a shared apartment and everyone needs to know whose oat milk is whose. There’s a “drink caddy.” There’s an arrow labeled “cleaning under” pointing at a snack basket, which either means “clean underneath this” or is a note to self that no one is allowed to eat here without wiping down first. Honestly, it could go either way. And then, off to the side, in its own little arrow: the word “tree.” Our team member shared that she did, in fact, bring her own Christmas tree to decorate the room for the holiday season.

The Bathroom: Also Somehow a Command Center

Just when you think the fridge zone was the peak of the operation, we arrive at the sink. Sponge. Soap. Extra water “under.” Toiletries. Toothbrushes. And, in a stroke of what can only be described as strategic parenting genius, a note reading “potty under sink.” We don’t know which is more impressive: that there is a labeled location for a portable potty. Laundry basket, present and labeled. Kids’ hanging clothes, present and labeled. This is not a hotel room. This is a pop-up outpost of a very small, very well-run daycare.

The Stroller: Deployed With the Precision of a Small Military Operation

And now, the crown jewel: not one, but two fully inventoried park bags, each drawn separately with leader lines pointing to every single item inside. Backpack One contains: rain coat, picnic blanket, water bottles, meds, wipes, to-gos, a battery pack, and — tucked in right at the bottom, sharing real estate with the battery pack, as if they are equally mission-critical — an autograph book. A child’s meltdown will be solved by whichever of those two items is reached first, and we respect that both scenarios were planned for.

Backpack Two is the “we are prepared for weather, several seasons, and possibly a small apocalypse” bag: mifolds, rain cover, blankets, coats, gloves, hats, and a full change of clothes. There is also a labeled “under” compartment on the stroller itself, plus a cupholder helpfully marked “open snacks + drinks,” which we assume exists specifically so that a snack can be produced within four seconds of being requested.

We work with someone who treated a hotel room like a logistics assignment and drew a full facilities map for it, complete with fridge zoning, potty coordinates, and an unexplained tree. This is not a red flag. This is the DisneyFoodBlog team in its natural habitat. We do not apologize. For Disney tips and news, you can trust DFB, because we truly LOVE Disney.

What is something you do when planning a Disney trip that might be a little “unhinged”? Tell us in the comments below!