OP does your family enjoy being at WDW for Christmas?
We've decided to postpone our annual summer trip and go for Christmas 2010
My DH has wanted to do this for a few years now but I wanted to wait til the kids were a little older.
What do you enjoy doing on Christmas Day? Assuming you celebrate Christmas that is! Where did you have dinner that day?
Thanks for sharing!
PelletierBears,
We have been at WDW for New Year's a few times, but this was our first trip to be there for Christmas day. My husband works 7 days on - 7 days off, holiday or not. He has worked for Christmas for the past few years, and was on his days off for Christmas this year, we always wanted to be there for Christmas just one year, and this was the year.
We do celebrate Christmas and we thoroughly enjoyed it! My kids are 16 and 23 so Santa isn't a problem anymore. We knew that we wanted to be at Magic Kingdom first thing Christmas morning, MK opened at 7am for resort guests. Then when MK got too busy, we would move to Epcot. We didn't arrive to MK until about 9am, because of the rain. We went to Fantasyland first and the rides were walkons, including Peter Pan and Winnie the Pooh, this was 2 hours after park opening. We managed several other rides with short waits. We had counter service for both lunch (Columbia Harbour House) and dinner (Yakatori House - Epcot), didn't make ADRs. We left MK around 2pm, we met massive crowds pouring into the park as we were leaving. Later heard that MK was closed around 3pm. We finished off our day at Epcot for Illuminations, they had a beautiful Christmas finale.
We are Catholic and usually would go to church, but we didn't attend while at Disneyworld. They had religious services at the Contemporary Resort: Catholic masses at 8am and 10:15am, and Protestant Service at 9am. You were asked to use Disney transportation because of parking restrictions.
One of the most special moments of the trip for me was during the Osbourne Family Spectacle of Lights. -----
After gazing at all of the lights, we just stood around soaking in the atmosphere. The song Feliz Navidad came blaring over the speaker. I happened to look around at the crowd of people. Just about everyone was singing, dancing, smiling thoroughly enjoying the moment, while "snow" was falling from the sky. It was wonderful.
If you want to have an enjoyable trip at Christmas, be at the parks early, eat meals early or off hours, and when it gets crowded, do the shows and then soak in the atmosphere. We would do it again.
