Please help with 1.5 day AK itinerary

[mrsincredible3]

We've decided to add a few hours on arrival day for AK. It will be me, dh, ds7 and Ds2 over a crowd level 8 week. We arrive at mco around noon, using dme, hope to arrive by 3:30 to ak which closes at 8pm. Ds2 usually goes to sleep 7:30-8pm but may rally a little later. We will have about four hours (I'm hoping) on arrival day and then another full day. I am trying to figure out how to split up the attractions. We will be utilizing rider swap with older ds on all rides except safari and triceratops spin. I am trying to minimize backtracking. Ds2 is changing his nap schedule but if he does nap it would be sometime in the 2-4 pm range. I will need something to do with ds while older ds rides all the big kid rides. How to split these up:

Safari
Pagani trail
Lion king show
Rafiki/train/affection sections
Maharajah trail
Kali Rapids (with rider swap)
Dinosaur with rs
Primeval whirl with rs
Expedition Everest total of three times with rs!!! (Once on arrival and twice on full day).
Discovery island trail
Oasis exhibits
Flights of wonder (might try to do in the afternoon while ds2 naps)
Finding nemo show (only with ds2, probably while ds7 is riding Kali)
The boneyard


Yeah so pretty much every attraction except the character meet and the wilderness explorers thing. I was thinking on arrival day just knock out the dinosaur area and then doing everything else on our remaining day? Also need to fit in a tusker house meal with characters at some point wherever it fits best. Any advice welcome. Thanks.

 

[SmithSmith]

So no it's tough to be a bug?

 

[SmithSmith]

This was hard. I'm not certain of what I put together because we don't travel when Animal Kingdom has extended hours and I've never done RS. So if others could help me by giving me their critiques, that would be great.

Arrival half day:
Oasis exhibits and Discovery Trail <-- start with an exhibit in case of any travel delays 4:00-5:00
Dinosaur with rs 5:00-5:30 (FP for 4:30-5:30)
Primeval whirl with rs 5:30-6:00 (FP for 5:30-6:30)
The boneyard 6:00-6:40 ? <-- maybe grab a quick bite during this time?
Expedition Everest total of three times with rs!!! (Once on arrival and twice on full day). 6:45-7:15 (FP for 6:30-7:30)
Kali Rapids (with rider swap) 7:20-7:50 <-- end with Kali in case you get soaked?
^ not sure if you wanted to fit in dinner?

Full day:
Safari 9:00-9:30
Pagani trail 9:30-10:00
Rafiki/train/affection sections 10:00-12:00
Tusker House 12:15-1:30
Lion king show 2:00-2:30 FP
Flights of wonder (might try to do in the afternoon while ds2 naps) 2:45-3:15 <-- not sure if this will be crowded
Small break (or extra time to meet birds after FoW) 3:20-3:40 ^Kali conveintly located between FoW & Nemo
Finding nemo show (only with ds2, probably while ds7 is riding Kali) 4:00-4:40 FP
Expedition Everest total of three times with rs!!! (Once on arrival and twice on full day) 4:50 (FP for 4:30-5:30)
Maharajah trail 5:30-6:00
Dinner 6:15-7:30
Expedition Everest <-- should be a short wait right before close 7:40-8:00

 

[mrsincredible3]

So no it's tough to be a bug?

No! The bug show and space mountain are the only no repeats from our last trip!

 

[mrsincredible3]

This was hard. I'm not certain of what I put together because we don't travel when Animal Kingdom has extended hours and I've never done RS. So if others could help me by giving me their critiques, that would be great.

Arrival half day:
Oasis exhibits and Discovery Trail <-- start with an exhibit in case of any travel delays 4:00-5:00
Dinosaur with rs 5:00-5:30 (FP for 4:30-5:30)
Primeval whirl with rs 5:30-6:00 (FP for 5:30-6:30)
The boneyard 6:00-6:40 ? <-- maybe grab a quick bite during this time?
Expedition Everest total of three times with rs!!! (Once on arrival and twice on full day). 6:45-7:15 (FP for 6:30-7:30)
Kali Rapids (with rider swap) 7:20-7:50 <-- end with Kali in case you get soaked?
^ not sure if you wanted to fit in dinner?

Full day:
Safari 9:00-9:30
Pagani trail 9:30-10:00
Rafiki/train/affection sections 10:00-12:00
Tusker House 12:15-1:30
Lion king show 2:00-2:30 FP
Flights of wonder (might try to do in the afternoon while ds2 naps) 2:45-3:15 <-- not sure if this will be crowded
Small break (or extra time to meet birds after FoW) 3:20-3:40 ^Kali conveintly located between FoW & Nemo
Finding nemo show (only with ds2, probably while ds7 is riding Kali) 4:00-4:40 FP
Expedition Everest total of three times with rs!!! (Once on arrival and twice on full day) 4:50 (FP for 4:30-5:30)
Maharajah trail 5:30-6:00
Dinner 6:15-7:30
Expedition Everest <-- should be a short wait right before close 7:40-8:00

Thanks! This is a good starting off point! This is similar to what I had come up with but with some improvements! Doing Kali on the way to nemo is smart, thanks. I think I would like to ride Everest standby first thing in the morning as full days for my kids was tough last trip. We did rope drop every day last year and by 3pm they were sort of done for the day. I can stretch them till dinner but they were totally done after dinner, we did zero evening entertainment. I was thinking of doing Everest with FP, flights of wonder and some of the trails after lunch while ds2 hopefully naps. Was t sure when to do the rafiki/train thing (that I would like to skip but ds7 is insistent we do this). Thanks for taking a crack at this

 

[SmithSmith]

Thanks! This is a good starting off point! This is similar to what I had come up with but with some improvements! Doing Kali on the way to nemo is smart, thanks. I think I would like to ride Everest standby first thing in the morning as full days for my kids was tough last trip. We did rope drop every day last year and by 3pm they were sort of done for the day. I can stretch them till dinner but they were totally done after dinner, we did zero evening entertainment. I was thinking of doing Everest with FP, flights of wonder and some of the trails after lunch while ds2 hopefully naps. Was t sure when to do the rafiki/train thing (that I would like to skip but ds7 is insistent we do this). Thanks for taking a crack at this

No problem. So by "full day" you meant you might need to be done by 3 or 5? If so, I have no idea how you're going to fit in Rafikis Planet watch/train thing because it eats up so much time. Hmm....

... But I think it could be done.

 

[SmithSmith]

Thanks! This is a good starting off point! This is similar to what I had come up with but with some improvements! Doing Kali on the way to nemo is smart, thanks. I think I would like to ride Everest standby first thing in the morning as full days for my kids was tough last trip. We did rope drop every day last year and by 3pm they were sort of done for the day. I can stretch them till dinner but they were totally done after dinner, we did zero evening entertainment. I was thinking of doing Everest with FP, flights of wonder and some of the trails after lunch while ds2 hopefully naps. Was t sure when to do the rafiki/train thing (that I would like to skip but ds7 is insistent we do this). Thanks for taking a crack at this

Now for something completely different:

Arrival half day:
Expedition Everest total of three times with rs!!! FP 3:30-4:00
Maharajah trail 4:00-4:30
Safari FP 4:30-5:00
Pagani trail 5:00-5:30
Lion king show 6:00 FP
Tusker House 7:00

Full day:
Expedition Everest total of three times with rs!!! RD 9:00-9:30
Primeval whirl with rs 9:30-10:00
Dinosaur with rs 10:00-10:30
The boneyard 10:30-11:00
Finding nemo show (only with ds2, probably while ds7 is riding Kali) 11:00-11:40
Lunch 11:40-12:40 <-- how long do you need for meals?
Expedition Everest total of three times with rs!!! FP 12:40-1:10
: If you take a shorter meal break you could fit in Kali here :
Flights of wonder (might try to do in the afternoon while ds2 naps) 1:45-2:15
Oasis exhibits and Discovery Trail <-- Nap time! 2:15-3:15
Rafiki/train/affection sections 3:15-5:00 <-- it'll be up to DS7 in case he's too pooped to do this