Critique my vacation plans!

[Miss Frankie J]

Hello everyone! I wanted a critique of my plans as of right now to help me figure out if I’m on the right path as far as laying everything out.

We are an adult party of 2, me and my boyfriend and we are driving down from New York. We are doing a split stay onsite then offsite. We start off at BC from September 9th - 14th, check into our offsite villa September 14th - 18th.

Our focus this trip is Food. Specifically food and wine, so some rides and attractions are not a must for us. We were thinking of a 6 or 7 day ticket. Our favorite parks are AK and EP and our least favorite MK and HS. My problem that I am having is I dont know what to put where, so I need help!
So without further ado, here is what I have so far!


Sunday 9/9
Check into beach club around 3 - 4
Epcot for a late dinner (table service suggestions?)
OR
Dinner at Ale and compass? Boardwalk?

Monday 9/10
Epcot from open till 3:45
Ohana dinner at 5:15
Return to resort after dinner

Tuesday 9/11
Animal Kingdom Morning
Hop to Epcot in the evening

Wednesday 9/12
Resort day
Disney springs in the evening
Dinner at Raglan Road at 6:30
Enjoy late night Disney springs

OR

Epcot after 11am
Animal kingdom from 3 or 4 to closing
Tiffins dinner at 6:30
Maybe see Rivers of light/Tree awakenings


Thursday 9/13
Epcot after 11am
Animal kingdom from 3 or 4 to closing
Tiffins dinner at 6:30
Maybe see Rivers of light/Tree awakenings

Or

Resort day
Disney springs in the evening
Dinner at Raglan Road at 6:30
Enjoy late night Disney springs


Friday 9/14
Check out of beach club at 11am
Head to epcot for more food and wine,
Leave around 4 to check into offsite villa
California grill Dinner at 7:45

Or

Check out of beach club at 11am
Head to epcot for more food and wine,
Leave around 4 to check into offsite villa
Relax and enjoy Offsite Villa resort

Saturday 9/15
Morning enjoy villa resort
Magic Kingdom evening
Skipper canteen dinner at 6:10
Stay to watch happily ever after

Or

Hollywood Studios Morning
California Grill dinner at 5:55


Sunday 9/16
Hollywood Studios afternoon

Or

Magic Kingdom Morning


Monday 9/17
Last resort day, relax
Disney springs for lunch at Homecoming


as you can see my plans aren't close to being finalized. My main concern is prioritizing AK during my onsite stay to have the best chances to get FOP FP+ and EP for food and wine. I cannot really move my ohana and California grill reservations since we started planning late and I barely got those ones. any feedback and encouragement is welcomed!


Thanks for reading all that! (and if this is in the wrong forum I apologize)

 

[Jadyreen1282]

Looks great. Have fun!

 

[cassie58]

Just to comment on AK for FoP FP - I would keep that on Thursday, as best chance for 60 day FP on your 5th day, and try for that one first when your week opens.

 

[vicb]

If you have not seen Rivers of Light you should def try. My family really enjoyed it but I know others disparage it. Tree of Life Awakenings you can catch on the fly, we did on our way back from Pandora to Bugs Life, we just stopped and watched, it was cute, pretty.

Party of two adults I would suggest looking to see if you can fit Trader Sams at the Poly into your plans, we had a blast there. We rode the monorail over from MK.

Make sure you watch the fireworks from the deck the night of your Cali Grill dinner. If you eat too early you can go back upstairs later by showing your receipt. That view is worth the effort.

 

[Miss Frankie J]

Just to comment on AK for FoP FP - I would keep that on Thursday, as best chance for 60 day FP on your 5th day, and try for that one first when your week opens.

I will do that! Thanks for the tip!

 

[Miss Frankie J]

If you have not seen Rivers of Light you should def try. My family really enjoyed it but I know others disparage it. Tree of Life Awakenings you can catch on the fly, we did on our way back from Pandora to Bugs Life, we just stopped and watched, it was cute, pretty.

Party of two adults I would suggest looking to see if you can fit Trader Sams at the Poly into your plans, we had a blast there. We rode the monorail over from MK.

Make sure you watch the fireworks from the deck the night of your Cali Grill dinner. If you eat too early you can go back upstairs later by showing your receipt. That view is worth the effort.

I was thinking of possibly seeing if we could check out traders Sam on the day we go to ohana, if that’s too tight I was hoping maybe a different day. I don’t know how packed it will be after dinner... (plus a massive dinner at that )

Currently I have two reservations for Cailfornia grill. One on Friday at 7:35 (on a mnsshp night) and another on saturday at 5:55 (a regular HEA night) and I don’t know which to keep at the moment.

Friday I was thinking we check out leave our bags at guest services or the car. Leave the car at BC and walk to Epcot via international gateway and enjoy Epcot till we need to leave to check into our offsite villa 10 mins away. We can just go back through IG pick up our bags/car and drive 10 mins to our villa and check in. Then we can change, shower and head off to California grill dinner.

Or we go to a park Saturday morning, and leave to drive to our villa offsite to change and head to dinner at California grill.

I’m not sure which I should do, my boyfriend feels like Friday will be too packed and tight, and Saturday I feel like we would need to shower and change after the park we go to and might be a hassle since we moved offsite at that point....

Both have ups and downs help!