princesslover
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2009
I'm trying to wrap my head around how best to plan for this. I could use some advice from anyone who has gone to CP with young kids and how you planned around it.
Here's our plan. My girls are 3 and 6. (My DD3 is having a birthday while we are there). We are going to be in Epcot early that day to have breakfast with with Princesses at Akershus at 8:10, so keep that in mind, meaning my kids are going to be up super early that day. We also have lunch ADR at Tutto Italia for 11:40.
I was thinking that after lunch, we'd go back to the resort (WL) to rest for the afternoon, then come back for a later CP, and then see IllumuNations.
OTOH, would it make sense to just stay there after lunch, and get in line for the 5:00 showing, which may be less crowed, and leave after that? I just read in another thread that the line forms pretty early. But if we do that, we'll likely have to leave right afterward because my kids will have been there all day at that point, and that means we'll miss IllumiNations. This is our first ever trip to Disney, and I'm not sure when we'll be coming back. I'd like to see both, but maybe that's just too much?
The crowd level is predicted at a 4 that day, so I'm hoping we'll be able to get into one of the CP's. Well, that is my hope.
So what should be my plan of attack? I've gotten so much good advice here, I really appreciate all who have taken the time to help me wade through all this!!!
Here's our plan. My girls are 3 and 6. (My DD3 is having a birthday while we are there). We are going to be in Epcot early that day to have breakfast with with Princesses at Akershus at 8:10, so keep that in mind, meaning my kids are going to be up super early that day. We also have lunch ADR at Tutto Italia for 11:40.
I was thinking that after lunch, we'd go back to the resort (WL) to rest for the afternoon, then come back for a later CP, and then see IllumuNations.
OTOH, would it make sense to just stay there after lunch, and get in line for the 5:00 showing, which may be less crowed, and leave after that? I just read in another thread that the line forms pretty early. But if we do that, we'll likely have to leave right afterward because my kids will have been there all day at that point, and that means we'll miss IllumiNations. This is our first ever trip to Disney, and I'm not sure when we'll be coming back. I'd like to see both, but maybe that's just too much?
The crowd level is predicted at a 4 that day, so I'm hoping we'll be able to get into one of the CP's. Well, that is my hope.
So what should be my plan of attack? I've gotten so much good advice here, I really appreciate all who have taken the time to help me wade through all this!!!