Are you an early riser at Disney?

[momof2n2]

Sleep is for the weak! Seriously, I'm NOT a morning person--except when on vacation. Then it's hard to stay asleep. I want to do something fun.

Ok. I like this. Except I'm always a morning person. Lying around in bed is only something I do if I'm sick. Up-up-up & at-em!

Now, stating up LATE is harder for me unless I'm on vacation ... Or worked an evening shift. Zzzzzz

 

[paxsarah]

We normally get up at 6:30am-7am when we are at WDW. That's actually sleeping in for me because I'm a Baker for my job I have to get up at 4am. It's staying up past 9pm is my problem but I just take a quick nap in a show. Lol

 

[magrudersmakes3]

I'm an early riser, it's the staying up really late that gets me. I will use a 5 hour energy on vacation for the really late nights.

 

[khaleesi]

I would like to ask all of the early risers, how do you do this and stay up late? My husband is up at 5 every morning at home, but he is also snoring by 9 p.m.

I don't. I see no point in staying up late... it's dark out! I get out of bed at 5:45 for work every day and I'm usually awake before the alarm goes off.

I'm usually in bed between 10pm and 11pm.

 

[Praying Colonel]

I would like to ask all of the early risers, how do you do this and stay up late? My husband is up at 5 every morning at home, but he is also snoring by 9 p.m.

2 words: afternoon break.

 

[trekker93]

It is too hot during the day to stay at the parks so we go back to the room and take a nap.

 

[starsweeper]

I am not a morning person but with 4 young kids I'm up at 5:30-6:00am nearly everyday, including at WDW. We love pre-park open breakfast with the park to ourselves and getting in several rides before a mid-day break. We return around 5:00pm and stay late, then up early again for more fun!

 

[LisaTC]

I don't. I see no point in staying up late... it's dark out! I get out of bed at 5:45 for work every day and I'm usually awake before the alarm goes off. I'm usually in bed between 10pm and 11pm.

This! Get up early & don't stay up too late... Not a good sleeper, tho!

2 words: afternoon break.

This, too! Helps immensely!

 

[mousefan73]

My Kids were never early risers. I have friends whose Kids are up before them, no matter how late they are up. Not ours.

Seeing we have late evenings, my life would be miserable if I had to drag their bums out of bed early the next morning. They are 8 and 7.. Back in the early days it was easier as we would do morning, then an afternoon break ( NAP) and then a late evening. The Kids would catch up on sleep in the afternoons.. Well once older, they were tired and could nap ( us adults had no Problem sleeping) but all the Kids wanted to do was swim..

Plus I find it a time waste with the back and forth from Resort to parks with the break. So now we sleep in, swim, relax and head around 3pm to the parks. Granted we go off season so crowds arent that bad. It's funny as we are just entering MK for the first time and see masses of families leave exhausted with their Kids and we are just starting.

We arent Commando and dont have a plan where we have to ride that one ride 4 times or our vacation is ruined crowd ( sorry sarcasim here)... BTW: our demograhic is soo happy now with FP+, one risk back in the day was that FPs were all out, but now we can reserve later times.

OH, this trip we will do AK right at rope drop..OUr first day and ONLY because we will be jett laged and we will all be up around 5am anyways...

 

[madthemouse]

I am a early riser albeit on vacation or otherwise. That does not mean that others who are traveling with me are. So, getting to the parks early or at rope drop does not happen unless it is agreed upon or planned. What I enjoy doing is walking around Crescent Lake. Even if I'm not staying at one of those resorts. I will drive over just to walk around and watch the groundskeepers prepare the area for days activity.

Nothing better then sitting above Hurricane Hannah's enjoying a cup of java, music playing in the background and mist rising above the lake at day break. My moment to relax and enjoy. Then back to the resort. Wake those up who may still be checking the inside of their eyelids and off to start our day.

 

[leafE]

I'm an early riser at Disney-but not at home!

Even at Disney I can only do it for 3 or 4 days straight. Any longer then that and I schedule at least one day to sleep in.

 

[Jennasis]

We have always been crack o' dawn people at Disney. We're farmers anyway and are up daily at 6:30am feeding horses so it's not much of a stretch for us to get up and hit the parks early. Also, vacations are rare for us so we feellike we have to squeeze as much as we can into every day. there are times we've tried hanging in the pool and we start to get antsy...like we should be IN the parks doing something LOL!

Which is why we just bought DVC...so we can go more often and slow down!

 

[PSUGuy]

Mornings at Disney are something I look forward to. The majority of trips we stay at Boardwalk or S/D. We're up at 6 or so, I grab a coffee and a cigar and head over to the bench nearest Atlantic Dance and watch the sunrise. Wifey has her coffee and bagel and stares off into space on the balcony until I return, then it's off to a non-EMH park for a 9 am ropedrop. We go in March or lately Oct which is not good outdoors weather in Pa so these mornings are a big thing on our trips.

Bill From PA

 

[Glennie5]

We would fit in an "other" category. Some days we get up early and hit rope drop and some days we sleep in and go to the parks a bit later.

 

[RHMH]

I voted YES !!!!!

I only sleep about 2 to 3 hours a day during Disney Vacations. For some reason I get this burst of super charged energy as soon as I get to the resort.

Up at 4:00 AM, make coffee and take my lap top to the lobby and get on Dis, down load pic's, make more coffee, post daily TP and up load pic's.

Wake up DD around 6:00am and get her in the shower, make more coffee. Play all day and all night, get back to the resort after EMH is over and try to find something to snack on... Get my DD tucked in and work on TP and browse Dis... get to sleep around 1:30AM

Rinse & Repeat

 

[kelsma03]

My Kids were never early risers. I have friends whose Kids are up before them, no matter how late they are up. Not ours. Seeing we have late evenings, my life would be miserable if I had to drag their bums out of bed early the next morning. They are 8 and 7.. Back in the early days it was easier as we would do morning, then an afternoon break ( NAP) and then a late evening. The Kids would catch up on sleep in the afternoons.. Well once older, they were tired and could nap ( us adults had no Problem sleeping) but all the Kids wanted to do was swim.. Plus I find it a time waste with the back and forth from Resort to parks with the break. So now we sleep in, swim, relax and head around 3pm to the parks. Granted we go off season so crowds arent that bad. It's funny as we are just entering MK for the first time and see masses of families leave exhausted with their Kids and we are just starting. We arent Commando and dont have a plan where we have to ride that one ride 4 times or our vacation is ruined crowd ( sorry sarcasim here)... BTW: our demograhic is soo happy now with FP+, one risk back in the day was that FPs were all out, but now we can reserve later times. OH, this trip we will do AK right at rope drop..OUr first day and ONLY because we will be jett laged and we will all be up around 5am anyways...

I could have written this exact post. Last week we LOVED sleeping in, lazy mornings, relaxed breakfast, swimming then late afternoon and evenings at the parks. The FP+ is genius for families like us.

 

[Melora]

We're from the west coast so we get up EARLY for us but late for the early east coast risers.
During the summer if we wanted to get to the park at 8AM entry thats like 5 AM for us. Which means we had to get out of bed at 4AM our time. That's just not going to happen.
So we get there later (still early if we were on west coast time), take a day time break and stay until closing which isn't that late for us!

 

[nooneshome]

I'm another morning person so RD is not hard for me. My problem is being tired for all the night time activities.

 

[wallskm]

My kids wake up early regardless so we are rope drop people. Love getting so much done in the mornings!

 

[Micca]

I'm a recovering commando tourist. In the commando days I was the first in the family to get up, and get everybody else in the family up & around(usually before 6am).

Somewhere between trips 30-40, and joining DVC, the drive to make rope drop and stay through to park closing diminished. Now that I know there will "always be a next time"--and that it will be months, not years, I manage to sleep until somebody wakes ME up.