Critique Plan / First Visit

[neverlandsky]

Our first visit, our first family vacation ever, and base tickets. 2 Adults and 2 young adults. How does this look?

Day 1: Late afternoon arrival/early evening arrival. Rest/pool/dinner at resort/early to bed since we will be up since 1:45 am PST.

Day 2: EP (skipping Mission Space/Soarin' due to simulator motion sickness)
*Rope drop : Test Track
*FP + 1 : Test Track 9:35 am -10:35 am
*FP + 2 : Spaceship Earth 10:35 am - 11:35 am
*FP + 3 : Living with the Land 11:35 am - 12:35 pm
*Circle of Life / Journey into Imagination with Figment /ImageWorks / The "What If" Labs
Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival
Lunch: F&W Future World to France / Break / Dinner: F&W Morocco to Germany
*IllumiNations 9 pm

Day 3: DHS (skipping RNRC 1 young adult won't go upside down/ young adults are an absolute no for Frozen singalong)
*Rope Drop: The Twilight Tower of Terror
*FP+ 1 : Voyage of The Little Mermaid 9:40 am - 9:55 am
*Walt Disney Presents
*FP+ 2 : Toy Story Mania 11:25 am - 12:25 pm
*Lunch: Backlot Express
*Indiana Jones 1:15 pm
*FP + 3 : Star Tours 1:50 pm - 2:50 pm
*Muppets 3D / March of the 1st Order 3pm / Star Wars A Galaxy Far Far Away 3:30 pm / Star Wars Launch Bay / Beauty & The Beast 5 pm
*Dinner: ADR 6:10 pm Sci-Fi
*Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular 8 pm

Day 4: MK / MNSSHP
Very Late morning arrival
*FP + : Peter Pan 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
*FP + : Seven Dwarfs Mine Train 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
*ADR Late Lunch: Be Our Guest 2:15 pm already pre-ordered.
*FP + : Jungle Cruise 3:35 pm - 4:35 pm
*Tiki Room
*4th FP + ? BTMRR or Pirates. If not, focus on green rides Country Bears/People mover/etc.
*Snacks
*Hocus Pocus 8:45 pm
*Parade 9:15pm
*Hallowishes Fireworks 10:15pm
*Rides & trick or treat

Day 5: EP
Sleep-in
Lunch: F&W Mexico to China
*FP + : Frozen Ever After 11:40 am -12:40 pm
*FP + : The Seas with Nemo & Friends 12:40pm - 1:40pm
*FP + : Turtle Talk with Crush 1:40 pm - 2:40 pm
*Snacks
*Innoventions East & West
*Dinner: ADR O'hana 5:10 pm. Take monorail at 3:45 pm

Day 6: AK (Skipping Primeval Whirl and Kali River Rapids due to fear)
*Rope Drop: Na'vi River
*FP + : Avatar Flight of Passage 9:35 am -10:35 am
*Might have to rest after FOP due to motion sickness.
*FP + : Kilimanjaro Safaris 10:45 am -11:45 am
*Pangani Trail
*Jungle Trek
*Lunch
*Flights of Wonder 12:30 pm
*FP + : Expedition Everest 1:05 pm -2:05 pm
*4th FP + ? : Dinosaur, if not head to Dinosaur.
*Tough to be a Bug/Discovery Island/Oasis
*Dinner: ADR Beaches and Cream 5:40 pm
*Maybe 9pm ROL depending how everyone feels.

Day 7: MK
*EMH
*Rope Drop: Peter Pan/Fantasy Land Rides
*FP + : Seven Dwarfs Mine Train 8:15 am -9:15 am
*Snack: Sleep Hallow
*FP + : Space Mountain 9:15 am -10:15 am
*FP + : Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
*Lunch/snacks ?
Break or Stay until 4 pm depending how everyone feels.
*Dinner: ADR Disney Springs Homecomin' 6:10 pm

Day 8: Departure from resort 9 am.

If you made it this far. Thank you so much. No character meet & greets or HEA. Would you change anything? Again, Thank you so much!!!!

 

[sdomino11]

Congrats on your first trip! I have only one quick note. You mention skipping Mission Space due to motion sickness from simulators but you are planning on going on Star Tours. I get sick on Mission Space (and in cars and on planes and on boats!) AND Star Tours. So you might rethink your plans depending on your level of motion sickness. But I do not get motion sick on Soarin' at all. In fact, it's one of my favorite attractions.

Your last MK day might have your fps scheduled a little early. But if that's because you might leave the park after lunch then that makes sense.

Have fun!

 

[sharonabe]

Great job! You have done your homework and then some.

The only two things that jumped out at me were:
Day 5 Innoventions East and West. I don't think there's much of anything to do there anymore. You're leaving early anyway, so don't be disappointed if you miss it.

Day 7 You'll be doing some walking. Your 3 FP+ are on 3 points of a triangle, but hey, it's your last day. Go for it!

 

[ShadeDK]

I agree with the PP above - skipping Soarin due to motion sickness concerns but keeping Star Tours and FoP on the menu is probably not a good idea. Soarin is the easiest of those three. It'd be a bit like passing on 7DMT as too intense, and then scheduling BTMRR, Space Mtn and EE. Which, BTW, I saw you're skipping Primeval Whirl and Kali River due to fear (it's okay to skip PW - but mostly because it's awful) but do have BTMRR, Space Mtn and EE on tap. Kali (even with the waterfall) is easier than those other three. As a 1st time visitor, you'll get the feel for EE and BTMRR when you see them (for a good view of the latter, you can catch a glimpse from Tom Sawyer Island) - you won't know for Space Mountain until you're on the ride - and there's no chicken door at the top of the lift.

Addendum: Mission Space Green can still give you motion sickness if you're prone, but is doable if you can stomach Star Tours and FoP (just ignore the motion sickness bag caddy - those are more for the Orange version).

 

[neverlandsky]

We watched the youtube videos of Mission Space and Soarin' both me and young adult couldn't finish them due to getting sick just watching the POV videos. We've both done Star Tours at Disneyland many years ago and we were fine. Yet given that it's now a 3D experience, you're right, we need to build in a rest afterwards just in case. Thank you sdomino11!

Day 5: Maybe a 4th FP or any repeats. Thank you sharonabe for the insight with Innoventions. With Day 7: Definitely going to take advantage of the railroad.

 

[neverlandsky]

Primeval Whirl it seems a lot like Goofy's Flight School I think it's called. We did that once and got off and we all said OMG never again. With Kali River, it's more of a safety fear issue due to theme park accidents with a similar ride across the board. 2 in our party also don't want to get beyond soaked with theme park water. We know accidents can happen anywhere, yet this ride we're all extremely uneasy with. We've done BTMRR & Space Mountain at Disneyland many years ago so I think we're good there, yet spaced the two out just in case. Thank you ShadeDK!

 

[mamamelody2]

It is obvious from your plans that you've done your research!
Everything looks good. Enjoy your trip!

 

[JETSDAD]

I'd recommend not skipping the Frozen Sing Along. We went in to kill time (2 adults and 12 year old daughter who was annoyed that we made her go) and it ended up being a highlight of our day at HS. It's quite funny.