Critique my itinerary

[TommyTutone]

The trip will consist of my wife, my 4-year old son, my mother, and myself. We will be traveling from Atlanta for our trip in mid-September.

Friday - Drive to Gainesville, FL
Saturday - Drive to Beach Club / check in / go to MGM / Fantasmic dinner package
Sunday - Magic Kingdom / character dinner at Crystal Palace
Monday - Animal Kingdom / dinner at Cape May
Tuesday - Epcot / Restaurant Marrakesh
Wednesday - Sea World / Luau
Thursday - Magic Kingdom / character dinner at Liberty Tree Tavern
Friday - Epcot / Illuminations cruise
Saturday - drive home

I used Tour Guide Mike to figure out what days should be the lightest each day and set it up so the final two days would be flexible since we at visited the parks at least once already earlier in the week.

In addition to the above, I plan a character breakfast at Cape May (any day) as well as the Meet and Greet at Epcot courtesy of the Disney Visa card.

Lunches will be flexible and we may just grab snacks (depending on the day) back at the hotel courtesy the concierge lounge.

Am I missing any obvious holes (we are not interested in the water parks)? We might try to visit Downtown Disney again, or at least hit up the boardwalk, especially JellyRolls if Granny is willing to babysit so Mama and Papa can sneak out at night.

Let me know what you think!

 

[ssdeverell]

I think your plan looks great! You seem to tour like we do - one park each day. We will be there around the same time as you, but staying at CSR. I am trying TGM for the first time this trip, so I hope to see even fewer crowds this year. We did two evening EMH last time, and it really added to the crowds. We live about 1 1/2 hours north of Atlanta. We are going to try for Ocala, though, for our stop down. You are also eating at several of the same restaurants we are or did last year. I hope you have a great trip!

 

[kfeuer]

Looks like fun, my only comment is that 7 park days in a row can be quite exhausting. I've done that kind of trip and ended up feeling like I needed a vacation to rest up from my vacation! Unless this is a once in a lifetime trip, I'd highly recommend some down-time midweek. I have 2 boys (5 and 2) and we've found that they get overwhelmed and cranky with too much stimulation too many days in a row. We always take a day off midweek to just hang out, swim, and go to Downtown Disney. On our last trip we actually took 2 days off by choice. We arrived on a Sunday, did 2 park days, took Wednesday off, did 2 park days, and spent our last day relaxing. On that last day we went to Cape May for the character breakfast, then stopped in the GF for a bit. The boys swam in the pool that afternoon, then that evening we went to the HDDR. It was a really nice day, and a nice way to end the trip.

 

[Tegra89]

Can you give me the link to Tour Guide Mike? I have seen it before but I can't remember what thread. Also is it expensive?

 

[TommyTutone]

Can you give me the link to Tour Guide Mike? I have seen it before but I can't remember what thread. Also is it expensive?

Cleverly enough, the link to Tour Guide Mike is tourguidemike.com.

Also, thanks all for the feedback so far. I anticipate the last two days are more of a 'relax' type days, and since my wife, my mother and I have been to the parks so frequently, we are not worried about hitting every ride. We are going mostly for the benefit of our new son.

Also, the reason why we are staying at BC is so that we can easily (well, except for MK) pop back to our room so he can take a nap/relax as need be. Our goal IS to have a relaxing vacation, just one where we have some sort of plans for each day.

 

[Tegra89]

Thanks so much for the link! I should have known it would be an easy one!