10/1-10/8 itinerary- please help

[NH Mommy]

It will be myself, dh and dd2 staying at the Polynesian 10/1-10/8 (we have the free MYW dining package with 7 day non hopping passes). Any comments/suggestions welcome!

Saturday 10/1
arrive/grocery stop
am- check in
noon- cs lunch Captain Cook's
pm- 'Ohana
MK for Wishes/Spectromagic

Sunday 10/2
MK day
am- Cinderella's Royal Table (wish me luck!)
noon- cs in MK
pm- Kona

Monday 10/3
water park (leftover plus tickets) or DTD/am then MGM/pm
am- Kona /paying out of pocket
noon- cs in MGM
pm- Fantasmic pkg H&V /paying out of pocket

Tuesday 10/4
Epcot
am- in room
noon- cs in Epcot
pm- Olivia's or Chef Mickey's
dd might be too tired for illuminations

Wednesday 10/5
MK or not? EMH night
am- Crystal Place/ paying out of pocket
noon- cs in MK
pm- Concourse Steakhouse
Wishes/Spectromagic

Thursday 10/6
AK
am- in room
noon- cs in Ak
pm- Whispering Canyon Cafe

Friday 10/7
open day Mk or DTD
am- in room
noon- cs in MK or DTD
pm- Kona or 1900 Park Fare

Saturday 10/8
am- 'Ohana Character Meal /paying out of pocket
leave late morning for airport

I had a hard time picking the days to go to MK. Do more people go to MK in the morning when there is a EMH evening or MNSSHP? (We are not planning on going to MNSSHP.) Should we switch MK /Wed to Tues/ Epcot day?

We are taking breaks every day. After eating lunch we will go back to hotel for naps then swimming (except for MGM day).

Thanks!
NH Mommy

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

More people may go to the EMH park (when it's morning or night) because they might not have the park hopping ability. Personally we always went to a different park before going the evening EMH park but we might not be the norm. We're not going at all the day of MNSSHP.. unless we decide to go to the waterpark earlier that day- that way we don't use a park day on our tickets.

As for your itinerary- it seems like a LOT of eating and quite a bit of it out of pocket. Will you really eat that much? We did a 10 day (me, 1 child as adult, 2 children as children on dining plan) recently and we had more than enough to eat- in fact we had a bunch of CS and snack credits left over the last day and used them to eat on the flight home and came home with some snacks/drinks also! Do you normally eat 2 sitdown meals and 1 CS per day? If not, I don't think you'll want that much. One the days we had 2 TS planned we ate NOTHING else that day and barely could eat the second TS even though I planned them far apart- that's why we ended up with so many CS and snacks left over at the end of our trip. Just a thought... you may be different than us and eat 3 meals a day while there?

 

[NH Mommy]

Thank you BibbidyBobbidyBoo-
I am going to switch my Epcot and MK day to avoid the MK EMH.

I am glad you mentioned that I should not have so many ts meals. It was just dh and I on our last trip in 2001 and we ate just 3 ts meals the whole week with food court/cs the rest of the time. We don't eat huge meals 3x a day. With the dining plan there are so many choices, I guess I over did it with the planning. (Especially after looking at the food picture thread on the restaurant board! Yummy.)

 

[lillygator]

TS with a little one is wonderful though....something to keep in mind.

 

[NH Mommy]

Hi Lillygator-
I am thinking about keeping the ts dinners, CRT (dd loves 'Rella) and Crystal Place for my MK Tues. Starting the day off with Pooh and Tigger would be great fun.
Our plans might change once we get to the parks because I don't want to overwhelm dd, but I know we are going to have a great time no matter what!

 

[princesslulu]

does anyone know what's going on with the extra magic hours? I just look for September and there is not any listed! I don't know what to expect or how to plan for October!

 

[threeboysmom]

I noticed that you have 6 ts scheduled on the dining plan, and the rest you are paying out of pocket. If you're staying 7 nights, wouldn't you have 7 ts credits per person to use? Unless I'm missing something, I'd use the dining plan for one of those sit-down breakfasts rather than pay out-of-pocket.

Also, as someone else pointed out, that is a LOT of food. Will you REALLY eat a big breakfast, and then want lunch at noon??? Plus another big meal at dinner time??