Disney trip with one parents and two kids?

[disnut8]

Thanks for all the great advice! My 9 year old is a boy and my 6 year old is a girl so there will undoubtedly be times when there is some eye rolling regarding our princess visits. My son is a good sport though and I will be very clear with them beforehand that there will have to be some give and take on everyone's behalf. Will I feel odd or out of place at the dining venues? I will still attempt to make ADR's for the restaurants I am hoping to eat at...Boma, Sanaa, 1900 Park Fare, Be Our Guest and Akershus. I also really want to eat at Jiko. Should I bring the kids there or send them to the kids club while I have a solo dinner? I have never went out to a sit down restaurant on my own before so I'm not sure how I would feel about that!

I'd ask the kids after showing them the menus. If they can find something to eat at the non buffet places, then take them. I once did a mom and son trip to the Grand Canyon and I was determined to eat right there at a restaurant near the Canyon since we were staying there. It was going to be so special and I looked at the menu before we went and my son's favorite, raviolis were on there! Perfect! So we went, just the two of us. We were handed the menus and then my son saw it. Those raviolis were spinach raviolis! At that time in his life, he would not even look at a spinach much less eat it and wanted to leave. I suggested he order the dish and just pick out the spinach since I really wanted to do the meal. He sighed and did it and we both found out picking out spinach from the cheese in raviolis cannot be done so he sucked it up and ate everything. He still jokes about it but guess what? He eats spinach cooked in things now. The meal could have been a disaster but it's something we laugh about now and it started his changing taste in food and he now cooks for his family of four.

 

[WDGPCFR]

If you can afford the ticket I would say bring him along. He may not be able to go to the parks but I bet the kids would love to tell him their adventures at the end of the day. You could also spend time at the hotel pool together,he wont work all day.

 

[kamik86]

I second the person that said that Disney internet isn't the best. What does he need to be able to do for work? There are some items from work I could manage at disney, others there is no way (A full remote desktop into the computers back here would probably be so slow that it would be unmanageable, simply getting to email, IMs, and uploading/downloading documents works though).

Would your husband really have to work the full week? I know I have some weeks I couldn't take off because of meetings I would need to attend but could still manage a 20 hour week and still attend those meetings and handle any actions that needed to be done immediately. However there are other weeks where I'm swamped and I would be working 50+ hours if I was home, wouldn't want to be at Disney during that. I would at least want to be able to take the time off to have dinner with the family and walk around a bit.

 

[erineab]

He's coming! We booked our flights this week and thought it was worth the $215 ticket. He will likely only work 5ish hours a day, so will have lots of pool time/dinners out etc. with us. He's a project manager so mostly just has to be able to send/receive emails and take conference calls. Hopefully the wifi is adequate!