Any thought on our May itinerary???

[MATTERHORN]

Okay, Family of five.. Me, DH, DD 5, DD 2 (turns three on trip!!) and DS (will be almost 7 months at time of travel) for the second week of May! Flying from Las Vegas on Red Eye.

A little background: We have been to Disneyland with babies many times at 2 months, 4 months, etc. so we are pretty up to date on all the baby stuff. We will have our double stroller with us, and a baby bjorn. I don't have any running off problems, and they are very mild mannered and not prone to tantrums either. We also do not really take afternoon naps, our kids are champion stroller nappers and we aren't rigidly scheduled. They go to bed between 11 and midnight (sometimes later) and nap when/if they want to. This is our schedule at home and they will easily be able to do Evening EMH until midnight or 1 without any problems at all. They will be the ones having the time of their lives at midnight, we have serious night owls!

Staying first three nights at POP, last 4 night BWV.

Thursday:

Arrive MCO at 6 am - Magical Express to POP
Grab quick breakfast at food court
Animal Kingdom at opening
Lunch at Tusker house with voucher (do they still do this?)
Back to Pop at 2 pm, check in- nap if needed. (Not sure how much they will sleep on the plane!)
Back to AK around 5pm for EMH till 8pm.
Back to POP, Dinner to room from food court

Friday:

Up early, food court breakfast
Bus to Epcot by 9am
Biergarten lunch (DH's request, do kids like this? the food?)
Back to POP around 3pm - Change/Repack supplies diaper bag
Dinner at Food Court before heading back to Epcot from 6 -12
Illuminations at 9pm (best place to view????)

Saturday: (I know our kids are young for this but we don't want to skip it as we love Water Parks and since there are none in Vegas now - Wet N Wild has closed, we have to visit atleast one. Both our 5 year old and almost three year olds can swim)

Blizzard Beach @ 9am
Lunch at Lottawotta Lodge (any comments, anyplace better there?)
Back to hotel around 4pm Change/re-pack
DTD around 7 pm with Dinner at Earl of Sandwich

------(This is the only night we would be able to see Spectromagic since it is not running the two days I have planned for MK. Is it worth it to skip DTD and go to the park this night to see it at 9? Or should we just skip it this time? It seems similar to the Main Street Electrical Parade in DL, which we have seen many times. Any thoughts?)



Sunday: (Start of 4 days of Dining Plan upon check in to BWV)

Breakfast at POP food Court
Have baggage sent to BWV (How do I do this?)
Head to MK at 9am
Lunch at Pecos Bills
Parade at 3pm, leave after back to BWV to check in/unpack
Dinner at 1900 Park Fare at 7pm (Do girls dress up for this one?)
Back to MK for Evening EMH till 1am - catch fireworks at 9pm


Monday:

Sleep in
Breakfast at Chef Mickey's at 10am (Should we do dinner instead?)
Over to MGM by noon
shows/rides
Dinner at Toy Story Pizza Planet (Anyplace better to use our counter service for the day?)
Evening EMH till midnight

Tuesday:

Breakfast at BW Bakery
Epcot for EMH at 8am
Lunch at Le Cellier
Dinner at Lotus Blossom Cafe
Leave around 7, back to BWV to swimand explore!

Wednesday:

Breakfast at BW Bakery again
Tour the monorail resorts
Head to AK around noon
Lunch at FLame tree BBQ
Jammin Jungle Parade at 4pm
Stay till close at 8pm
Dinner at Ohana and watch fireworks / Water Pageant

Thursday:

Check baggage to hold until later
Head to MK
Lunch at Casey's
Catch anything we still want to do there
Dinner (Either El Pirata or Cosmic Ray's, which one is recommended?)
Back to BW to catch ME to MCO at 6pm


Well that's it, what do you think? I know it looks like a lot, any other ideas to make the most of our dining plan days? I don't like Seafood so those restaurants don't interest me. This won't be our only trip, just trying to get the basics in, especially what we don't have at DL like Country Bears or Philharmagic. We have been on Soarin many many times, so we won't have to wait for some of the bigger ones. Also have been told many times that Fantasmic is better out west and since we have seen that many times too, I don't know if I should spend time on it there. Thanks if you got this far!

Andrea

 

[Robindianne]

I read your itinerary and it sounds like a nice pace, especially the way you included a bit of down time in the middle of the day. Also the parades will be restful. We are going May 4 to 14. I've got some PSes but haven't scheduled parades and should. What's good at BW bakery for breakfast?

Have fun!

 

[CastMemberDWA]

Just keep in mind when at Animal kingdom that all the animals return to their "night houses" (barns) near sunset. So be sure to check the sunset times. I don't want you to think that you can come back for a night safari only to find that the last trip was 45 minutes prior to sunset.

 

[MATTERHORN]

Robindianne - Well my friends own DVC at BWV and they swear by chocolate croissants and the chocolate and vanilla donut rings sound good too! Are you staying there also? We will be there over some of the same dates, our trip is May 11-18.


CastmemberDWA, thanks for the tip. So I have to remember to do the Safari during the day, right? I'll just save the rides for the evening. Is there anything else that is better to see during the day? Thanks


Andrea

 

[Robindianne]

Robindianne - Well my friends own DVC at BWV and they swear by chocolate croissants and the chocolate and vanilla donut rings sound good too! Are you staying there also? We will be there over some of the same dates, our trip is May 11-18.


CastmemberDWA, thanks for the tip. So I have to remember to do the Safari during the day, right? I'll just save the rides for the evening. Is there anything else that is better to see during the day? Thanks


Andrea

Yummy! We'll have to try them. Hoping to do the SOG overflow into POR but if not, might just cough up the dough and just pay for it cause we love POR. We haven't made that res yet. Have air and PSes and one tour. Wahoooooooooo for May!