5th birthday

[revwooster]

Our September trip fell through. . . .but. . . . .we are considering surprising our daughter with a trip to Disney for her 5th birthday. In theory at least, we love the idea of waking her up and saying "happy Birthday....we're going to Disney world." (She loves surprises! We surprised her last year with a trip to Disney. We asked if next time she wanted to know or be surprised and she said "Surprise me!")

However. . . her birthday is March 4th. .. which puts us right after Mardi Gras and right at the beginning of spring break. . . The crowd predictors are all over the place. I think i saw 3-4, but I have also seen 7. We were at MK on a 6 last year and found it to be less than ideal (it was also unseasonably hot)... how concerned about the crowds should we be? (We are almost militant rope-droppers and head back to hotel after lunch)

We like the idea of her getting extra attention because it's her 5th birthday, but, can we go later and still count it as a birthday celebration? For example, could we go in May and still have her wear a birthday badge or would Disney frown on that?


Thanks for any thoughts
james

 

[la79al]

You can go whenever you want and have her wear the pin. We were in MK March 15th this year and I didn't find it horrible. We figured out how to use FP+ and took full advantage of that and the kids didn't even complain about lines.

 

[jeepnjudy]

Disney will gladly give her the Birthday button to wear anytime so go when it's best for you and your family!

 

[revwooster]

Thanks.

I think we are leaning towards May rather than March. We are afraid that March might be a bit too cold to use the pool. Our daughter would be disappointed if she didn't get to swim.

We are thinking early May. Hopefully, we can go early enough to beat the heat we got last time we went (may 2015, 100+ heat index....even CM were saying how hot it was), but avoid the Easter crowds.

We'll debate the birthday pin. I am not sure we should tell her in March that we go in May. Might be a bit long of a wait for her. I am not sure mama and I can bear to hear "when are we going?" Everyday for two months.....

 

[MouseMama11]

A couple years ago we went March 14-18 and crowds weren't bad at all compared to the summer. It was very warm, like 70s/low 80s so there is a very good chance you could use at least the main pool where ever you end up staying bc they're usually heated. I've also surprised mine the morning of and it was really hard LOL! Trying to pack in private and stuff without her figuring it out was tough but it was worth it when she was eating breakfast in her jammies on the couch and we asked her if she wanted to go to Disney World today and she was speechless (we got it on video too!).

If you were going to go in May though you could put a postcard "from Mickey" in her birthday card that says you're going in May and he's so excited to see her or something like that! And then have her make a paper chain so she can count down until you leave! That might help with the constant asking I've never been in May but we have been there the 1st week in June before and it was hot but crowds weren't too bad. More than March but we didn't have any problems or frustrations.

I think you're good either way

 

[margot31]

They will give a button. I went and celebrated my late "not so dirty 30" over a year later. I had my son 2 days prior to my 30th, and my husband got his 30th birthday and I wanted mine....so I had to wait a bit for mine. We went this last dec for mine and I got a button only cause I mentioned why I was going to disney and they put that in the notes when I called. I had to do things by phone since I was dealing with a military discount but it was in there. My husband made me wear my pin and I was told Happy Birthday.