blaqjaq
Aussie Adventurer
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2010
Hi All
To be honest, not where to start here so I’ll start with a bit about us and then fire some Q’s, hopefully this thread will become a bit of a planning/reference tool over the next few months.
My wife and I are in our early 30’s and we have three kids, Madison 13, Sebastian 7 and Chloe 6 (Will be almost 1 when we travel). We are from Perth, Western Australia, which is the most isolated city in the world We are experienced travellers, have done Australia and Asia region extensively, we spent nearly 4 weeks in California (With a 1 week stay in NYC) in 2013, of that, we spent 5 nights at Paradise Pier Hotel and spent the whole 5 days between DL and CA, our two eldest children had a ball, Sebastian’s favorite ride was TOT (Aged 5 at the time). Last year we went to Hong Kong Disneyland with Sebastian only, spent 3 days there. So we are, as far as Australian’s go, reasonably experienced Disney folk. Given the kids are used to travelling I am confident they'll keep up with what is a fairly packed itinerary.
What I’m finding, is that planning a WDW trip is very different to planning a DL trip. I have FP+ to work out, ADR’s, DVC, on top of that, trying to work out which parks to visit and when, I’ve been doing a lot of research on Touring Plans which has helped.
So enough about us, I’ve got some Q’s
Planned Itinerary, in Brackets are expected crowds:
Monday 7th December: Early Entry MK (6/10), 2pm to Evening Epcot (2/10)
Tuesday 8th: Rope Drop MK (2/10), Full Day
Wednesday 9th: Rope Drop HS (4/10). Drop kids at hotel approx 3pm, Adults Only MK 4pm-midnight
Thursday 10th: Rope Drop MK (1/10), Drop kids at hotel approx 3pm, Adults Only Epcot 4pm-11.30pm
Friday 11th: Early Entry Animal Kingdom (2/10), Full Day
Saturday 12th: Early Entry HS (4/10), Full Day, Fantasmic! That evening
Sunday 13th: Check out of Grand Floridian, Check Into Hard Rock Universal, spend day at factory outlets shopping and drive to Kennedy Space Centre
Monday 14th: Universal Studios full day (3/10)
Tuesday 15th: Re Visit Universal for any missed or to re do Rides, Then check into Grand Floridian again, MK for the evening.
Wednesday 16th: Rope Drop Epcot, (3/10), Illuminations that night
Thursday 17th: Rope Drop Magic Kingdom (3/10), full day
Friday 18th: Last day in Orlando, possibly half a day at kids choice
Thanks heaps for your help, no doubt i’ll have plenty more once these ones are answered
To be honest, not where to start here so I’ll start with a bit about us and then fire some Q’s, hopefully this thread will become a bit of a planning/reference tool over the next few months.
My wife and I are in our early 30’s and we have three kids, Madison 13, Sebastian 7 and Chloe 6 (Will be almost 1 when we travel). We are from Perth, Western Australia, which is the most isolated city in the world We are experienced travellers, have done Australia and Asia region extensively, we spent nearly 4 weeks in California (With a 1 week stay in NYC) in 2013, of that, we spent 5 nights at Paradise Pier Hotel and spent the whole 5 days between DL and CA, our two eldest children had a ball, Sebastian’s favorite ride was TOT (Aged 5 at the time). Last year we went to Hong Kong Disneyland with Sebastian only, spent 3 days there. So we are, as far as Australian’s go, reasonably experienced Disney folk. Given the kids are used to travelling I am confident they'll keep up with what is a fairly packed itinerary.
What I’m finding, is that planning a WDW trip is very different to planning a DL trip. I have FP+ to work out, ADR’s, DVC, on top of that, trying to work out which parks to visit and when, I’ve been doing a lot of research on Touring Plans which has helped.
So enough about us, I’ve got some Q’s
- We are looking to book a Studio Room using rental DVC Points at the Grand Floridian, for the money, is this the best compromise between being close to the park, space in the room and quality of accommodation?
- Our Florida Itinerary is below, I really want to fit in either a Sea World or Lego Land day in there, but it seems to compromise our WDW stay too much, thoughts?
- Is our split of days to each park about right? Animal Kingdom doesn't interest us a lot so we’ve kept that to only one day, What are your thoughts? Anything we should do more or less of?
- We are planning two Adult Only nights (To correspond with the Extended Magic Hours) where we’ll have the kids babysat, Wednesday the 9th of December in Magic Kingdom and Thursday the 10th at Epcot. Which restaurants would you recommend as the two “Must do” premium dining restaurants (For dinner) for these parks?
- I would like to make another one or two ADR”s within our itinerary to have a sit down lunch with the kids rather than counter service type food. What are your recommendations for this?
Planned Itinerary, in Brackets are expected crowds:
Monday 7th December: Early Entry MK (6/10), 2pm to Evening Epcot (2/10)
Tuesday 8th: Rope Drop MK (2/10), Full Day
Wednesday 9th: Rope Drop HS (4/10). Drop kids at hotel approx 3pm, Adults Only MK 4pm-midnight
Thursday 10th: Rope Drop MK (1/10), Drop kids at hotel approx 3pm, Adults Only Epcot 4pm-11.30pm
Friday 11th: Early Entry Animal Kingdom (2/10), Full Day
Saturday 12th: Early Entry HS (4/10), Full Day, Fantasmic! That evening
Sunday 13th: Check out of Grand Floridian, Check Into Hard Rock Universal, spend day at factory outlets shopping and drive to Kennedy Space Centre
Monday 14th: Universal Studios full day (3/10)
Tuesday 15th: Re Visit Universal for any missed or to re do Rides, Then check into Grand Floridian again, MK for the evening.
Wednesday 16th: Rope Drop Epcot, (3/10), Illuminations that night
Thursday 17th: Rope Drop Magic Kingdom (3/10), full day
Friday 18th: Last day in Orlando, possibly half a day at kids choice
Thanks heaps for your help, no doubt i’ll have plenty more once these ones are answered
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