brettcw23
DIS Dad #722 Pittsburgh, PA
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2010
Welcome to the groupies brettcw23!!!!
I agree with Sleepy that VWL transportation is pretty good, but not quite as convenient as BWV/BC (walk to two parks) or BLT (walk/monorail to two parks). Still, we have always found the buses and boats to be about the same as most resorts as far as waiting times. I will say that getting to DAK can take a little time especially if the bus stops at Blizzard Beach.
As far as reading the entire thread...I really wouldn't recommend it. The group of 20 or so posters that have been on the thread (this is the 6th or 7th incarnation) for several years tend to spend a fair amount of time on personal asides. We are always happy to answer anyone's questions who posts on the thread, but you'd have to pick through the other stuff to find them. Better to just ask what interests you about WL/VWL and we will do our best to help.
Enjoy!
Corinne, Kati and I haven't done early in a long time. We take our time get to the park later in the morning do quite a few rides and maybe a FP, then do a late lunch at Yak & Yeti, do FP or other rides, shows and head back to the room right at closing or a little before. Works for us!
Brett, I agree with Corinne also, NO dumb questions. As others have said welcome pull up a chair, add a moosie to your signature and ask questions to your hearts content.
Thanks again for being so open with the advice and such. I def appreciate the advice to NOT read every post!
As I mentioned, we are super excited. The running joke among friends and co-workers is that if I'm not at Disney World, I'm planning for Disney World! I have an unquenchable Disney thirst and as Disney savvy as I am, I feel like a complete noob b\c we have never stayed at VWL. Everyone has made me feel better about transportation and I probably need to set my expectations and compare the situation to our stay at the All Star resorts and AKL-Kidani versus the resorts that are walking distance to the Parks.
The one thing that I am debating is when to bus and when to choose other options. Does it make sense to ferry over to CR for monorail access for EPCOT?
We are def Park hoppers and historically wrap up near our resorts. But again, I'm debating our routes. If we finish at EPCOT, are we better off going monorail to CR and boat to VWL?
We are going 10\10 Sat. - 10\17 Sat. We are still working on our plans. I'm not a big fan of the parks on the weekends due to crowds. Saturday is completely up int the air. Our flight gets in from Pittsburgh at around 9:40 am ET. So we'll prob dump our bags off and head to DTD.
We've had a good degree of success with AK on Sundays in the past, so we'll stick to that plan (probably).
The rest of the week will take place based on how our ADRs and MNSSHP tickets go.
Here are some ADRs that we're planning on:
- Sci-Fi (lunch)
- Garden Grill (for youngest's Bday celebration)
- Chef Mickey's (oldest DD's Bday celebration)
- A steak house...we haven't decided on which one yet. I was considering Yachtsman, but am less inclined since I'm generally a t-shirt and cargo shorts guy at WDW. We're willing to do a fine dining such as Artist Point b\c it's at WL and I can change for dinner and change back.
- Whispering Canyon - we've heard good things from friends and we showed some youtube videos to the kids and they seemed intrigued.
- Ohana - Thinking breakfast this time. We did dinner last trip and breakfast the time before.