Afternoon "rest" strategies? (8 & 10 yr old)

[DRDISNEYMD]

These are all wonderfully helpful ideas & suggestions! Thank you so much. I think a lot will depend on weather (rain/heat), crowd level, how much sleep we all have gotten in the nights leading up to each park, etc. Our boys generally do have a ton of energy, but going from rope drop to Wishes and then taking WDW transpo back to AKL is a LONG day no matter how you slice it.

Re: HS, again we will try to get there for rope drop to try to get into Jedi training (on SWW, yikes!), and I'm really torn as to whether to push it to try to make it to Fantasmic. Normally I'd just play it by ear, but I'm wavering between the Mama Melrose package and 50s Prime Time (far prefer to eat at the latter, but the package is tempting... unless we are too exhausted for Fantasmic). Decisions, decisions... all four months in advance!

Thanks again - love my growing list!

~I used to try to force breaks or naps and it never worked out for us. Everyone is just too amped up to force nap time. So, we just tend to "slow down" after lunch -- sometimes we return to our resort to shower and hang out by the pool until it's time to get ready for dinner.

~Sometimes after lunch, we just hang out at our resort or opt to have lunch at a different resort and hang out there a little before we freshen up for dinner. And, sometimes we don't leave the park at all and just go with the flow, until it's time to get ready for our evening ADR! Then we head back to the parks until the end of the night!

~Personally, you really don't have to leave the parks at all, if you don't want to. There are plenty places in park to just chill out! Have fun!

 

[Imhere]

Really? I keep hearing different things; I have in my notes (from three different sources):
Magic Kingdom: 12 miles, 15-20 mins on bus
Unofficial guide says: 36 is typical, 51 on a bad day

Google maps says it's 6 miles.

See, I'm not reading a guide, I have stayed there twice.

If it is going to take 51 minutes to get from AKL to MK, then it's going to take forever to get anywhere on the property because there are obviously major traffic delays.

I bet I've made the trip from AKL to MK no less than a dozen times and it has never taken 36 minutes, nevermind 51.

 

[Suellen]

Google maps says it's 6 miles.

See, I'm not reading a guide, I have stayed there twice.

If it is going to take 51 minutes to get from AKL to MK, then it's going to take forever to get anywhere on the property because there are obviously major traffic delays.

I bet I've made the trip from AKL to MK no less than a dozen times and it has never taken 36 minutes, nevermind 51.

It is 6 miles from MK to AKL on Google Maps, that is from the parking pay plaza. If you map from Bay Lake Towers (close to TTC) to AKL you will get a better picture. I'd say the timing is between 15-20 minutes depending on traffic.

However! My guess on the 36 - 51 minutes (and just a guess) averages from MK to the bus area, wait for the bus, loading the bus and then the ride. Plus if you are in the back of the park when you decide to leave....?? It generally takes us about 45 - 60 minutes to get from leaving the park to getting home... of course we have to take the monorail and then walk to the car... but we live about as far as AKL is from MK.

 

[davedmaine]

Forget about all that nonsense of going back to your resort to take a nap. You're on vacation and nobody is going to want to sleep at 2 pm.

 

[Deanie1]

I think the guidebooks take into account the longest possible wait to arrive at that park. It would be the time it might take had you just missed the last bus by a few seconds.